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December 2025

December 21, 2025

Can We Talk About God?

“Can you find out the depths of God? Or find out the perfection of the...

June 2025

June 22, 2025

How Old Is The World?

If religion is at war with science, then one battlefield where this perceived war is...

March 2025

March 09, 2025

Can Philosophy Enhance Our Understanding of Catholicism?

Can philosophy improve religion and help us to understand God, or should philosophy and religion...

January 2025

January 12, 2025

What Role Does Catholicism Play in Shakespeare’s Works?

"Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith." - William...

September 2024

September 29, 2024

Do All Religions Lead to God? Examining Pope Francis’ Claim

Pope Francis is well acquainted with controversy. Most recently, he raised some eyebrows with his...

March 2024

March 24, 2024

A Personal God?

Two propositions must be considered foundational for Catholic theology: the existence of God and the...

February 2024

February 25, 2024

The Perennial Logos

It has been said that humans are rational beings whose nature it is to know...

February 04, 2024

The Liturgy As Ritual

It is no exaggeration to claim that human beings are religious animals. Any exhaustive study...

October 2023

October 15, 2023

Religious Orders Within Catholicism

Within the Catholic Church, there are some two-thousand-five hundred religious orders. The existence of these...

August 2023

August 27, 2023

Do We Really Want God?

In his prologue to metaphysics, Aristotle wrote that all men, by nature, seek to know....

July 2023

July 23, 2023

Of Crutches And Opioids

Is religion the refuge of the weak? Friedrich Nietzsche thought so. Is faith a crutch...

April 2023

April 02, 2023

Some Thoughts On Thoughts And Prayers

In the wake of tragedy, one often hears, “our thoughts and prayers are with the...

February 2023

February 05, 2023

Is Faith Reasonable?

Some wit once wrote that faith is believing something one knows isn’t true. Of course,...

December 2022

December 25, 2022

Reincarnation

One of the most unique and prevalent beliefs among the world’s religions is the belief...

October 2022

October 23, 2022

Would Your God Consider Himself A Catholic?

This paper seeks to answer the question, “Is God a Catholic”? It seems possible to...

August 2022

August 31, 2022

Of Angels

“The name angel belongs to his office, not to his nature. You ask what is...

August 28, 2022

Kenosis

“Though he was in the form of God, he did not regard equality with God...

August 17, 2022

On Miracles

Is there anything more symbolic of religion than miracles? The concept of God intervening in...

August 14, 2022

Christology

Catholicism is not about doctrine or philosophy or even about the Bible. At its core,...

July 2022

July 27, 2022

The Seven Deadly Sins

Sin and virtue are, of course, of great importance to Catholicism. In this work, I...

July 17, 2022

The Synoptic Gospels

Like the books of the Old Testament, which can be categorized according to various criteria...

July 10, 2022

Sacred Mountains

A simple conjuring up of God often entails the sense that God is above. Our...

June 2022

June 29, 2022

What Do Catholics Believe?

Everyone has beliefs. The atheist or skeptic might prefer to call them presuppositions or axioms,...

June 26, 2022

The Works of Mercy

"If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry,...

June 22, 2022

The Myth That Happened

Is Christianity built upon a myth? One of the enduring claims of atheists and skeptics...

June 15, 2022

I Believe (The Nicene Creed)

In my previous paper, I commenced a series on the Creeds of the Catholic Church....

June 08, 2022

The Holy Trinity

"There is but one unbegotten Being, God, even the Father; and one only-begotten Son, God,...

June 05, 2022

Spiritual, But Not Religious?

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I...

June 01, 2022

Beauty, Art, and Image in Catholic Thought

The beauty of the Catholic faith has inspired and created some of the greatest works...

May 2022

May 25, 2022

Only the Blind See

“For we walk by faith, not by sight.” - 2 Corinthians 5:7. The words...