Religious obligations, while not an end, are not optional
You can't build a beautiful skyscraper without a foundation. The spiritual life begins with religious obligation – to God and neighbor.... Read More
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What’s Wrong with IVF – In a Nutshell
Want to know what's morally wrong with IVF with a minimal amount of words?... Read More
The Irrationality of the Cultural Catholic
When God called out to Adam, "Where are you" in Gn 3:9, Adam & Eve could no longer comfortably hide from God. In the unnatural comfort zones we create for ourselves hiding from God, we create our own gods who see us as a "good person", despite not fulfilling our religious and moral obligations.... Read More
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
12 Quick Points to Ponder on the Redemption of Man
1) Man’s sins are an infinite offense against the infinite and perfect goodness of God; an injustice that causes a profound rupture between God and man. Since disunion with God is Hell, mankind by sinning chose its eternal destiny. 2) To be reconciled with God, the offender (mankind represented in Adam) must pay the price […]... Read More
Creation and Evolution: Where Faith and Science Merge
Divine Revelation tells us that God created, and to a certain extent what He created; but did not intend to tell us exactly how or when. That’s for the realm of science and history respectively. With regard to man, the inspired text of Genesis 2:7 can be interpreted as an instantaeous act of God, or […]... Read More
Conceptual Truths Point to God
Conceptual truths of math, science, logic and philosphy are immaterial and objective. We not invent them, but discover them by the intellect. They’re a reality independent of human minds and human creativity. Since conceptual truths, like the law of non-contradiction and the equation 2+2=4, have always been true before our existence, and will always be […]... Read More
God and His Secondary Causes
Rational inconsistencies fascinate me. . The ancient world had a simple grasp of the universe that saw all phenomena as direct signs from God or the gods. . While almost all modern Christians willingly give credence to the notion that in the order of nature, God as first Cause uses secondary causes to bring about […]... Read More
Argument for Atheism Confirms God
There's a hidden irony in the most popular argument for atheism.... 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
What if God Was One of Us?
Let’s play an imagination game. Let’s imagine that the invisible almighty Creator of the universe, who infinitely transcends the created order of time, space and matter, decided to become part of His creation. Like an author who writes Himself into his own novel, or an artist who paints himself into his own masterpiece, let’s imagine […]... 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
Why Not Just Pray Directly to God?
One of the most common errors about Catholicism that invariably pops up among non-Catholic Christians is often found in question form: . Why don’t Catholics just pray directly to God? . In short, Catholic DO pray directly to God. We just recognize the Church is a family. In the order of grace God is Father, […]... Read More
God and Vasectomies
A celebrity woman (whose name doesn’t matter), recently finding out she was pregnant with her fourth child, was quoted in the news as saying, “As you know, I had been telling [my husband] it was probably time to get a vasectomy because I felt like we were done. But I just feel like God always […]... Read More
Unhappiness
The biggest cause of unhappiness is self-loathing. It is the default state for those who know not the mercy of God.... Read More
Truth & Justice or Compassion & Mercy?
What's more important, truth and justice or compassion and mercy?... Read More
Is Heaven ‘Up?’, part 2
By popular demand - more pondering on the question of why, especially in our space age, we refer to heaven as 'up'; and why we refer to God, who is everywhere, also as 'up'.... Read More
Murano Minute: Is heaven ‘up’?
Is God and heaven "up"? In our space age, what exactly does this mean? Isn't God everywhere? Let's explore, for a minute (or two).... Read More
54th Anniversary: Most Important Document of Our Times
July 25, 1968 Today is the 53rd anniversary of Humanae Vitae, the Church’s official response to the invention of the birth control pill. It gave a personalist touch to her constant unbroken 2000 yr. teaching on the moral status of contraception; which had been confirmed 38 yrs. earlier in Pius XI’s Casti Connubii. It was […]... Read More
