Divine Mercy?
Divine mercy is understood only in light of divine justice. God's mercy is necessary and priceless. Yet, after losing two generations to terrible catechesis, how many even know they need mercy? ... Read More
Podcasts
This category includes some videocasts, radio shows, and cable television shows of Beneath the Surface.
Find more videos here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Veritas3737/videos
More radio podcasts can found here: http://breadboxmedia.podbean.com/category/beneath-the-surface/,
as well as here: https://archive.org/details/@veritas777
Is IVF Moral?
In-Vitro Fertilization has been in the news lately due to an Alabama Supreme Court ruling. Can one be Pro-IVF and Pro-Life?... Read More
The 3 Models of Man
Of the three popular concepts of the human being worldwide, two lead to confusion and unhappiness and only one is the foundation for flourishing and fulfillment.... Read More
Neuralink and the Problem of the Soul
Some of the questions we tackle, beneath the surface:
- Does Neuralink have the potential to alter human nature?
- What do technological innovations such as this say about the human soul?
- Does the soul have a special relationship with the brain, different than it does with the other bodily organs?
- Doesn't this contradict Aquinas' teaching and the doctrine of the Church that says the soul is the form of the body?... Read More
The Pro-Life Movement’s Fatal Flaw
To destroy a condemned building you attack the pillars on which it rests. The same principle should apply to abortion. Mocking the God of Life, our culture of death rests on an undivided triunity of grave sin. And here's the fatal flaw of the pro-life movement, and why the slaughter of innocents continues: You will never end abortion by focusing on abortion.... Read More
Argument for Atheism Confirms God
There's a hidden irony in the most popular argument for atheism.... Read More
Our Epidemic of Loneliness
The breakdown of the family from the sexual revolution has decimated traditional family and community life. It's a plague of post-Chrstian times that must be addressed.
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How Did We Get Here? The Devil-ution of Society
Ever wonder how we've arrived in an age of insanity, seemingly out of nowhere? It's time to go beneath the surface on its cause and foundation.... Read More
‘Gay’ and ‘Couple’ — Words are important
The Church must never capitulate to the language and false categories of the 'progressive' Left.... Read More
Christmas in the Mosaic of Jesus’ Human Life
Christmas is a milestone in the human life of Jesus, but not its beginning. Taking on a human nature, God shows us the entirety of the human lifecycle. The baby Jesus, who is the second Person of God taking on a human nature, is but one point in the maturity of the great mosaic of Jesus' human life.... Read More
Divine, Deceitful, or Delusional
Combining logic with history, the great Incarnation manifested at Christmas is reasonable to even non-Christians.... Read More
What if God Was One of Us?
A question to be pondered, during Advent and Christmas seasons.... Read More
On Aquinas’ 4th Proof for God’s Existence
What do we mean by something is good, true, or beautiful? How can we make such objective statements? What does this point to?... Read More
Aquinas’ 2nd Rational Proof for God’s Existence: Causality
Knowing 'who' God is takes supernatural faith; but knowing 'that' God is takes only reason. This Mm summarizes Aquinas' 2nd proof for the existence of God, which displays the logical necessity of having a First, uncaused Cause.... Read More
Knowing God through Reason Alone
Modernity's false dichotomy between science and faith has had a dehumanizing effect. Human reason is the bridge and arbiter between knowledge of the heart and knowledge through the senses.... Read More
Call it what it is – A Culture of Murder
Ohio is the last of a string of states deliberately choosing to establish the legal choice kill what they KNOW to be living innocent human beings. What else can you call a nation that enshrines killing the innocent?... Read More
Why Purgatory?
The reasonableness of Purgatory can be understood by distinnguishing between the guilt accrued by sin and the lngering effects it has on our being.... Read More
Time to Celebrate Your Lifeday!
Every year people celebrate their birthday. It's great to be born, but what is more profound and awe-inspiring than coming into being — going from non-existence to existence, never again to not exist?... Read More
The Tragic Divorce of Faith and Reason
The world has suffered greatly since the tragic divorce between faith and reason. A great reconciliation is necessary!... Read More
Think with Your Mind, Not Your Emotions
It's SO important to act upon what you know rather than what you feel.... Read More
Murano Minute: Time to Stand on Principle
It's both scientifically and morally illogical to be pro-life-ish. Either human life begins at conception or it does not. Either abortion is murder or it is not. There is no "ish" with abortion.... Read More
From Feminized Man to Macho Man?
Without Heaven's compass to navigate life, post-Eden man tends go from one extreme to the other. Without Christ the anchor, you men are falling into two deformed extremes.... Read More
Can Pets Go to Heaven?
A discussion on animals and the afterlife... Read More
What Does It Mean to Forgive?
Are we to forgive people who aren't sorry? Does forgiveness necessarily mean reconciliation? And what does it mean to forgive? David Gordon joins Paul Murano to explore this mystery — beneath the surface.... Read More