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Foolproof against Nothingness
1+ hour, 56+ min ago (852+ words) Michael Pakaluk on Thursday, July 16, 2026 Last Sunday, at the small parish in the mountain village where I was on vacation, they sang – remarkably – all nine stanzas of Isaac Watts’s famous hymn, “O God Our Help in Ages Past.” It was…...
True Self-Knowledge
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (207+ words) St. Bonaventure on Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Negligence, passion, and malice are the three root causes of sin. When we realize, dear Mother, that our sins and imperfections originate from one or other of these three causes, we enter on the way…...
The danger of “just be yourself”
4+ week, 2+ hour ago (69+ words) David Hahn, The Catholic Herald on Thursday, June 18, 2026 Self-knowledge without truth is merely self-deception. Without the truth of what I am, “being myself” ceases to be liberating and becomes limiting. Jesus Sees Something in You – Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon A…...
The Perennial Question: “Who Is Man?”
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (720+ words) John M. Grondelski on Friday, May 22, 2026 Modern philosophy flatters itself by claiming it was responsible for the “turn to the subject,” i.e., the human (and, usually, a very subjective understanding of the human). But focus on the human is hardly…...
‘Big Bang Theory’ and the myth of the modern atheist
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (68+ words) Bradley Shumaker, National Catholic Register on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 The character of Sheldon Cooper presents disbelief in God as the inevitable product of intelligence and scientific progress, but history — and even modern science itself — tell a very different story. Consecrating the…...
God and Man at MIT
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (99+ words) The pamphleteers are hard to miss. They stand in front of the big doors of Lobby 7, MIT’s main entrance, waving, preaching, and flagging down passersby with all the urgency The post God and Man at MIT appeared first on The…...
The Nine Billion Names of God
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (249+ words) Francis X. Maier on Friday, March 27, 2026 Thus, when it comes to questions of why, science won’t – because it can’t – answer the Big One: Why is there anything instead of nothing? Here’s the irony. Intellectual vanity is good news for a gifted…...
Confronting the Ideology of Inevitability
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (94+ words) Protestant dispensationalism holds that the promises made to Israel remain apart from the Church, awaiting fulfillment in a rebuilt Temple, ushering in the Second Coming. Dispensationalism promotes a dangerously detailed The post Confronting the Ideology of Inevitability appeared first on…...
“Lived experience” and moral tradition: rivals or partners?
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (124+ words) The Catholic Thing Bishop Barron on the Woman at the Well: a master class in evangelization. Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome Hildegard of Bingen: ‘Columba Aspexit’ (the dove looked in), sung by Catherine King “Lived experience” and moral tradition: rivals…...
Faith and science aren't enemies (and young people need to hear it)
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (136+ words) Faith and science aren’t enemies (and young people need to hear it) The Catholic Thing Bishop Barron on the Woman at the Well: a master class in evangelization. Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome Hildegard of Bingen: ‘Columba Aspexit’ (the dove…...