Why Media Keeps Getting Faith Wrong—And What Needs to Change

Last updated on: July 9, 2025 at 6:40 pm By David Schloss

A recent online event titled “Rethinking Faith in Media: A Conversation,” hosted by the Faith & Media Initiative (FAMI), spotlighted the growing conversation around how faith is portrayed in media and entertainment. FAMI, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting accurate representation of all faith traditions in media, used the gathering as a platform to raise critical questions: Is there a significant disparity between what believers and non-believers mean by faith? How is faith actually practiced, and how is it depicted... Read more

Why Did Jesus Have to Die? Understanding the Cross

Last updated on: July 8, 2025 at 11:05 am By David Schloss

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On The Death Of God A common criticism or misunderstanding of Catholicism centers on the death of Christ. Specifically, two issues must be addressed. First, if Jesus was/is God, and God is eternal, how could Jesus have died? The second issue involves assessing blame for Jesus’s death. After all, if Jesus was a righteous man, and it is wrong for a righteous man to be put to death, then it follows that He should not have been crucified. Under such circumstances,... Read more

Can Morality Exist Without God?

Last updated on: July 3, 2025 at 11:56 am By David Schloss

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Apart From Me Christ’s use of parables and analogies plays a significant role in His teaching and preaching style. Their use is, for the most part, an effort to impart knowledge of a transcendent God to finite humans. One such analogy occurs in John’s Gospel: “Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. I am... Read more

How Old Is The World?

Last updated on: June 22, 2025 at 10:27 am By David Schloss

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If religion is at war with science, then one battlefield where this perceived war is being waged is the age of the world. The use of the word ‘war’ is, of course, metaphorical and is no small amount of hyperbole. Still, there is an area of conflict between science and biblical religion regarding the world’s age. In this essay, I will examine the positions of both science and biblical religion concerning the age of the world and offer a Catholic... Read more

Can God Be Seen?

Last updated on: June 15, 2025 at 11:42 am By David Schloss

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The Bible can be complicated at times and even appear to contradict itself. One such area of apparent contradiction centers on whether human beings can “see” God. Some verses seem to suggest that God cannot be seen, while others claim He can (and has been) seen by human beings. This essay will examine this problem and suggest that the apparent conflict can be resolved by distinguishing between two forms of seeing. In the first instance, seeing can refer to encountering... Read more

Did Jesus Possess The Beatific Vision?

Last updated on: June 8, 2025 at 11:37 am By David Schloss

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Because of his transcendence, God cannot be seen as he is, unless he himself opens up his mystery to man’s immediate contemplation and gives him the capacity for it. The Church calls this contemplation of God in his heavenly glory “the beatific vision” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 1028). The belief that God became a human being is foundational to understanding how our salvation was made possible and is a core belief of the Catholic faith. It is also... Read more

The Evolution Of Papal Authority

Last updated on: June 1, 2025 at 11:34 am By David Schloss

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In light of the election of a new Pope, I thought it timely to examine one of the more controversial and misunderstood aspects of Catholicism: the existence and role of the Pope. Specifically, I want to examine the evolution of papal authority and its impact on the Catholic Church throughout history. Why A Pope? A succinct answer for why Catholicism has a Pope is that God decreed the papacy. Two Bible verses can support the belief that God created the... Read more

Do We Need A Conscience?

Last updated on: May 25, 2025 at 12:28 pm By David Schloss

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What does it mean to be moral, and what is the role of the conscience in being a “good” person? These are some of the questions that moral theology addresses. In this paper, I will examine Catholic moral theology, the Catholic concept of the conscience, and the three pillars upon which morality rests. Moral Theology Moral theology is the branch of Catholic theology that focuses on the human response to divine revelation. More specifically, moral theology is concerned with human... Read more

Why do Catholics Believe In The Biblical God?

Last updated on: May 18, 2025 at 2:14 pm By David Schloss

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“I contend we are both atheists; I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” – Stephen F. Roberts. The above quote by writer Stephen Roberts is intended to imply that atheists and Christians have both rejected the thousands of gods recorded throughout history; only atheism adds the God of the Bible to the list of rejected gods. This is a... Read more

Reconciling the Old and New Testaments: One Bible, One God

Last updated on: May 12, 2025 at 11:35 am By David Schloss

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Reconciling The Biblical Canons To read the Bible correctly requires a certain amount of nuance. What do I mean by correctly? I mean that each book of the Bible has to be categorized appropriately. In turn, this entails that any examination of the text must consider the genre of the particular book, the historical context, who the author was, who the intended audience was, and the purpose of the text. Additional problems arise when one seeks to harmonize the Old... Read more