Before the weekend break, in my post
earlier, I mentioned that the distinction between atheism and theism is probably the most ancient and serious distinction that has been around. The question of when and why religion began appearing on the earth is something that has always intrigued me. Did the arrival of the practice of religion predate therevelation of God
From the Cardinal Newman Society:
The Faithful Catholic College Boom
It’s springtime for faithful Catholic colleges in America, the National Catholic Register is reporting, with an emphasis on those featured in The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College.
For a variety
If you saw my post about Fulton Sheen, you would have heard him read the following passage from Nietzsche, which I am sure many of you are familiar with:
THE MADMAN—-Have you not heard of that madman who lit
Please watch the greatest Fulton Sheen episode, in my opinion, ever created, divisit in tres partes:
I was thinking this morning after reading in Aquinas his treatment of teleology, or in other words, directed/oriented/consistent/purpose filled behavior, I found it perpexing that he ends his sentence with “unless by chance: “Respondeo dicendum quod omne agens
My emphasis in bold.
LIBERTAS
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIIION THE NATURE OFHUMAN LIBERTY
To the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, andBishops of the Catholic World in Grace andCommunion with the Apostolic See.
Liberty, the highest of natural
Damien Thompson at the Daily Telegraph sets the record straight. As always, my comments are in blue, emphasis in bold:
“…But the crucial point is that the sharpest young opinion-formers are atheists. This is a development that
Readers, please welcome the newest ad campaign on the Chicago Transit system!
Does this look familiar?
All ideologies naturally proselytize themselves…why should they not? They are truth claims about the world outside. Unless you
As has been partially defined in our posts on faith in science (One and Two), faith is essentially non-rational but evidence based (defined not in the restricted sense given by empiricists but also including the type of faith you may have
A few weeks ago, Edward Feser had an excellent analysis of reductionism in general through a response to Alex Rosenberg. This point is very important to the Battle for the Core of the World because so much of Christianity was founded upon