The famous and anti-spiritual Richard Dawkins is still on the campaign trail for secularism following two “Reason Rallies”, one in DC and the other in Australia. Along the way he decided he would take a debate against
So maybe it wasn’t an official endorsement but here’s part of Pope Benedict XVI’s Easter Vigil homily on 07 April 2012, where he hammers home an essential point:
Photo from Daylife
I thought I would share a few relevant quotes this morning:
“If people are scandalized at the Truth, it is better to allow the birth of scandal, than to abandon the Truth.”
Pope Saint Gregory I,
All is relative…relatively objective that is. Whether things are small or large doesn't matter because these are descriptors. They words that we invented. Things are the size that they are despite whether we can wrap our heads around them with
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:
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
The importance of presenting a clear understanding of the relationship between faith and reason is becoming ever more important as there is more confusion, skepticism about knowledge and scientism than every before. The Holy Father is aware of