Thursday, January 26, 2017

Why I’m Catholic: Sola Scriptura Isn’t Historical, Part IV






Why I’m Catholic: Sola Scriptura Isn’t Historical, Part IV: In three posts (here, here, and here) I’ve presented three lines of argument, three pieces of evidence, that I think make it hard to believe that Christians living in the decades and centuries following the death of the apostles thought in terms of sola scriptura. I don’t present these as logical “proofs” but as evidences …

The Faith of St. Thomas Aquinas











The Faith of St. Thomas Aquinas: In the liturgical year, the Church sets aside this day for the great Doctor of the Church, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Over the centuries, the Church has venerated him as a magnificent saint, theologian, and even as the “Angelic Doctor.” In Fides et Ratio (On Faith and Reason), Pope John Paul II says that a “special …

Don’t Give in to Discouragement: Finding Hope in the Trials of Life




Don’t Give in to Discouragement: Finding Hope in the Trials of Life: Note: The following article is from a chapter in Dom van Zeller’s Suffering: The Catholic Answer, available from Sophia Institute Press. It is reprinted with permission. Psychologists tell us that one of the chief evils of our age, an evil apparently less evident in earlier ages, is that of easy defeat. Be this as it may, most people …

Rationalism and Empiricism continued 9(10) PL101

Rationalism versus Empircism 8(10) PL101


An Introduction To Rationalism


Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Why Hegel knew there would be days like these

The Hidden Meaning of Life According to The Little Prince















The Hidden Meaning of Life According to The Little Prince: And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. A new film based on St. Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classic The Little Prince recently made its premier. I haven’t seen it yet but it looks …

Mother Teresa: Patron of the Lonelyhearts

Mother Teresa: Patron of the Lonelyhearts: On September 4th the world witnessed a Holy Mass said by Pope Francis as Mother Teresa was elevated to sainthood. She is now known to the faithful as St. Teresa of Calcutta. While Mother Teresa was rightly celebrated for her care of the poor in the blighted areas of India, her letters and journals revealed …

Duty to Search for Truth 3(10)


Pluto Global Color Map

Pluto Global Color Map: This new, detailed global mosaic color map of Pluto is based on a series of three color filter images obtained by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera aboard New Horizons during the NASA spacecraft’s close flyby of Pluto in July 2015.