Near the gates of Jerusalem it was reported that Jesus raised a man from the dead to the astonishment and fear of all who were present. His name was Lazarus. When the Temple scribes and priests heard the pandemonium of the crowds they knew they had to confront Jesus whom they feared might be another… Read More Lazarus Called Forth
To be a Roman Catholic one must believe in miracles. This in itself has been a stumbling block to many. And yet the believer knows that one need only find the earth beneath one’s feet and all other genuine miracles become mere footnotes. The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, originally a student of the intractable rationalist, Bertrand… Read More Wittgenstein and Existence.
— from the very opening of De Ente et Essentia — On Being and Essence, in the Prologue: The Latin is often given as: Parvus error in principio magnus est in fine. “a small error in the beginning becomes an enormous error in the end…” “Thomas Aquinas, in his brief work entitled De Ente et… Read More All Errors Great and Small
“For the scientist who has lived by faith in the power of his reason, the story ends like a bad dream” —Robert Jastrow, American NASA astronomer, physicist and cosmologist. “Around every circle another circle can be drawn, under every deep another deep opens” —Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Someone said, “A little philosophy and science will take… Read More The Mystery That Dwarfs
Modern or post-modern man (i.e., the human person, m/f) is characterized by an attachment to ambiguity and relativity. Truth, the very notion of it, is suspect in our time. As a human being, I am obliged to truly encounter my world, my times. It has engaged me. Nearly 73 years old, I have tried to… Read More The Light and Life of Being
“May the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of all the Saints, whatever good you do and whatever evil you endure, be for you a remedy for sin, an increase of grace, and the reward of eternal life. Go in peace”. — Traditional priestly prayer used with… Read More May the Passion of Our Lord Be For You A Remedy
Full length presentation below the powerful first, brief, video. “A fascinating new look at the biblical, historical, and scientific evidence for Creation and the Flood. Learn from more than a dozen scientists and scholars as they explore the world around us in light of Genesis. St. Alphonsus Liguori: “It is a certain rule, received in… Read More Is Genesis History?
“… the balance is fully realized in Christ” “Imagine the universe as a “perpetual symphony”—a vast, harmonious order where each being, from the tiniest atom to the grandest star, plays its unique role in a cosmic masterpiece. Garrigou-Lagrange describes this divine symphony as intentional and directed by God, the ultimate Symphony Director, whose wisdom guides… Read More Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange on The Symphony of the Universe
“Let Us Make Good Use of Time“. By Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D. Time passes and does not return. God has assigned to each of us a definite time in which to fulfill His divine plan for our soul; we have this time and shall have no more. Time ill spent is lost… Read More Time Passes and Does Not Return
The story is told of an archaeologist scholar who specialized in the earliest era of Christianity. He decided to take some students to visit ancient monasteries near the Sinai in Egypt. He was no believer. Upon arriving at one such site after a long journey he knocked on the entrance door hoping to be allowed… Read More The Scholar and the Abbot
“The word “God” exists. Thus we return to the beginning, to the simple fact that in the universe of words with which we build our world and without which even the so-called facts do not exist for us, the word “God”, too, occurs. Even for the atheists, even for those who say: God is dead,… Read More Karl Rahner* on the Word “God”
Apropos of everything: Because Martin Heidegger forsook his early roots in Thomistic [objective] Christian philosophy, the unapologetic Nazi who enjoyed philosophy was forced to create a new and eccentric philosophical superstructure [undecipherable and irrelevant to most human beings] to dodge the consequent existential void. It was necessary because his system toppled the Holy Trinity in… Read More Being and Bunk.
The works of the controversial French Jesuit were formally censured by the Vatican in 1962. Edward Pentin | April 8, 2025 | National Catholic Register VATICAN CITY — The 70th anniversary of the death on April 10 of Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the controversial French Jesuit whose works the Vatican formally censured in 1962, has given… Read More Teilhard de Chardin’s Ideas Find Resonance Inside the Vatican 70 Years After His Death
When Scripture’s creation-based, anthropocentric revelation is rejected, and an evolutionary animal continuum (from amoeba to man) is presupposed as the only reality, then human beings begin taking their cues for behavior from the animal-insect world. This rationalization has reached tragically absurd levels today as witness postmodernist writer Steven Shaviro’s longing for the sexual autonomy of… Read More From Creation and Family to the Petri Dish
Is A Personal* God Improbable? Or is it we who are improbable? Atheism has traditionally scoffed at belief in a God who is Personal or SupraPersonal. I’ve always found their position to be a counterintuitive curiosity. One of the reasons why is that I find myself, a personal being, to exist. I am here. You… Read More I Am Therefore I Think
And soon everyone in the medical professions —and way beyond— will be required to sign on to the ideology which in truth takes direct aim at the heart of Creation, the family, law, education and human identity itself. Christine Niles reports, “Dr. John Money: pedophile founder of gender ideology. Dr. John Money coined the phrases… Read More Our Medical Schools Are Being Transformed
Along with Harvard’s Paul Tillich there is scarcely a Catholic philospher (of the Left especially) who does not consider the Catholic apostate Martin Heidegger a brilliant philosopher whose teachings in no small way show us the way out of the restraints of biblical literalism and philosophical realism (in other words, the Christian revelation of God… Read More Heidegger in Ruins
By Dietrich von Hildebrand. “Enamored of our present epoch, blind to all its characteristic dangers, intoxicated with everything modern, there are many Catholics who no longer ask whether something is true, or whether it is good and beautiful, or whether it has an intrinsic value: they ask only whether it is up-to-date, suitable to “modern… Read More Truth: conformity of an idea or proposition to reality.
“… several years after my Bat Mitzvah, I started to ask myself deeper questions: What is the real purpose of our human existence? What really happens when we die? And God, why do YOU feel so far away? I felt like I received a fantastic introduction to God, but I was still, somehow, craving more: I wanted a… Read More Why Recognizing Jesus as the Messiah Is the Culmination of My Jewish Faith
Truth does not change with the changes in political parties, current philosophies or trends. ” a thing cannot be and not be at the same time”— St. Thomas (Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 1, chap. 84) “…reason’s first principle is the principle of contradiction. He who denies this principle affirms a self-destructive sentence. To deny this principle… Read More Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange on Reason and The Law of Non-Contradiction.
‘In him we live and move and have our being’…‘For we are indeed his offspring.’ — Acts 17:28. A Breviary of Philosophy from the Works of St. Thomas Aquinas by Thomist philosopher Josef Pieper. The Creature is vanity in so far as it comes from nothingness, but not in so far as it is an… Read More St. Thomas On Being and Nothingness.
Dr. James Tour, Dr. Hugh Ross “There are over 30 space-time theorems in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Not all space-time theorems are supportive of the biblical cosmic beginning that includes the beginning of space and time. However, the few theorems that are not rule out the possibility of physical life ever existing in the universe.… Read More On the Origins of the Universe
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” — Bhagavad Gita, Robert Oppenheimer “Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness.” — JFK, American University, 1963 “The dropping of the… Read More Oppenheimer and The End of Time.
Aldous Huxley stated plainly, “I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption [SH: note that desire preceded investigation]. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with… Read More Huxley’s Faith and Confession
Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire “In the arid wasteland that is academic writing, amid the wider desert that is modern secular thought, R. J. Snell’s book on acedia is an oasis of flowers and fruit and fresh water. Professor Snell reminds us that man must never be made subordinate to work, nor even to the empty… Read More Acedia and Its Discontents
Prof. William Reveille, The Irish TimesThu Jun 17 2004 Under the Microscope/Prof William Reville: Ask any French person to name the 10 most important of their compatriots ever and it is a sure bet that Louis Pasteur will figure prominently on the list. Pasteur led an amazingly productive scientific life, making pioneering discoveries in medicine… Read More Pasteur proves life only comes from life. Law of biogenesis.
