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January 2024

January 21, 2024
If it is true that theology is the study of the nature of God, that...
January 14, 2024
Perhaps the most famous work of the English artist John Martin is Satan Expelled from...
January 07, 2024
Did God abandon Jesus on the Cross? For those who profess that Jesus is God,...

December 2023

December 31, 2023
One need not spend much time in discourse with atheists before one encounters the claim...
December 24, 2023
Tis the season when atheists and secularists of every stripe break out the not-so-time-honored claim...
December 17, 2023
The Church Fathers recognized a unique connection among prayer, faith, and how one lived. One...
December 10, 2023
For most people, the idea of being judged, whether by our boss, strangers, or even...
December 03, 2023
From its earliest formulations, Catholic theology has attributed the traits of immutability and impassibility to...

November 2023

November 26, 2023
The words of the Greek philosopher Protagoras can sum up the biblical and Catholic perspectives...
November 19, 2023
I do not think it an understatement to argue that temptation is a necessary (though...
November 12, 2023
Among the world’s religions, Catholicism is unique for its profession in that God became a...
November 05, 2023
Among the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church, the Eucharist stands as “The fount and...

October 2023

October 29, 2023
The Immaculate Conception is one of the most controversial doctrines of the Church. Rejected by...
October 22, 2023
It has been said that humor is the coming together of two incongruous things. In...
October 15, 2023
Within the Catholic Church, there are some two-thousand-five hundred religious orders. The existence of these...
October 08, 2023
"In His will, our peace." - Dante Alighieri. Perhaps one of life's most paradoxical aspects...
October 01, 2023
It is estimated that the word fear appears over five hundred times in the Bible....

September 2023

September 24, 2023
Theological virtues are those virtues that are infused into the soul by God. Among the...
September 17, 2023
“The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church,” Tertullian famously remarked. Tertullian recognized...
September 10, 2023
One of the consequences of the Enlightenment was an effort to reduce religion to a...
September 03, 2023
"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." - Ernest Hemmingway.  Are people...

August 2023

August 27, 2023
In his prologue to metaphysics, Aristotle wrote that all men, by nature, seek to know....
August 20, 2023
“The graces of My mercy are drawn by means of one vessel only, and that...
August 13, 2023
Benjamin Franklin once observed that death and taxes are the only two certainties in this...
August 06, 2023
The Bible contradicts itself. So is the claim of many atheists and agnostics. While most...

July 2023

July 30, 2023
The process of studying a particular thing often entails analysis. To correctly analyze a thing,...
July 23, 2023
Is religion the refuge of the weak? Friedrich Nietzsche thought so. Is faith a crutch...
July 16, 2023
“The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Heart of Jesus just as it...
July 09, 2023
“Man alone is called to share, by knowledge and love, in God’s own life ....
July 02, 2023
“God forgives somehow; we have yet to learn the same.” - Mary Chapin Carpenter. A...
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