1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (796+ words) "To continue living forever'endlessly'appears more like a curse than a gift." Here's a take-home question for you. Are you at home in the world? I mean, entirely and completely at home? Are you, to put it in a boringly pedantic…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (301+ words) How many apologies does one need to offer for past offenses like slavery in order for the offense to be expunged? Second, when does the Catholic Church get to receive apologies? How about from the Italian government for the ancient…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago  (641+ words) Defenders of the SSPX commit a category error when they invoke a state of emergency (or grave necessity) to justify disobedience. With no less gravity, the Superior General of the SSPX is more precise with his description of the crisis....

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (431+ words) Ultimately, all the awful things now impacting our lives will be swallowed up by time. We can instead set our minds on God, Whom time cannot mar. There are no accidents with God. No serendipities will fall from the sky…...

4+ week, 5+ hour ago  (44+ words) Why do we pay attention to atheists when they condescend to tell us the truth about God, which is that He does not exist? Or anything at all touching on matters of the spirit, when they make no provision for…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (33+ words) Theistic evolution has become a quasi-official Catholic position these days. But today's guest exposes the fundamental flaws in this worldview and how it contradicts both the Catholic Faith and scientific findings....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (994+ words) Modern empiricism has impoverished "science" by dismissing metaphysics as pseudoscience, yet every scientific endeavor relies on foundational assumptions that cannot be proven or tested. When I began to see Regis Martin's "Why Being Rather Than Nothingness?" series showing up among…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (462+ words) Without an interior life of love, prayer, sacrifice, and repentance, even sound doctrine can't stop the moral collapse and spiritual bankruptcy in the Church. I have just finished reading an excellent symposium written by contemporary Catholic Scholastic Theologians. Each, in…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (497+ words) The 'God question' grips every person inescapably, for none so much, ironically, as the proclaimed atheist. "I felt and feel," writes Chesterton, And if there is no God, where then do we locate the cosmos? Can it even be without…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (491+ words) The Platonic world of Forms was shattered by God, bursting down through the clouds to enter into the womb of a young Jewish girl! What a cheap date Plato must have been! Imagine inviting someone like that home for the…...