Will and Truth
Today, more and more people speak as if truth is something they can will for themselves rather than something that is real, independent of ourselves. Then, through various…
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Does God Have Free Will?
CS Lewis in his influential book The Problem of Pain makes an argument that explains the presence of evil in the world as a consequence of free will.…
Refuting New Abortion Arguments
In the last few decades, I believe that we have been winning the culture war on abortion. When I first started teaching, I would say that the majority…
To Recharge, Make Time to Pray
To be human is to have limited strength and endurance. Sometimes what we need to do exceeds those limits. Is there anything that can be done? Well, what…
The Long Defeat and Final Victory
JRR Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings once wrote: “I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect ‘history’…
Love the Person, Not Your Story of Them
St. Teresa of Calcutta once said “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Throughout the Gospels, Christ warns us so much against judging others.…
Procrastination
We are all procrastinators, some more than others. To procrastinate means to put off doing something, to do it later instead of now. Procrastination can be dangerous when…
The Corpse Groom: Adam and Christ
The story of Adam and Eve is one of the most familiar stories in all of Scripture. God makes man and woman and places them in the Garden…
Faith in Science
This article is a follow up to the one I wrote last month about Faith and Science. As I wrote there, while modern people have a strange notion…
Made to Be Gift – The Theology of the Body
One of the hallmarks of Pope St. John Paul II’s spiritual teachings was his “Theology of the Body.” When looking at how the modern world had lost the…