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The mission of the Magis Center is to create content that helps people find higher purpose in life, an awareness of their transcendent dignity, a sense of the transcendent providential power who guides them, and a determination to live ethically responsible lives. To that end, the Magis Center produces and distributes media that provides contemporary commentary on timeless topics.

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Doctors Can't Explain Why this Texas Girl’s Tumor Disappeared

In June 2018, Roxli Doss was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG. Now it's disappeared.
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Can You Spare 90 Minutes Per Week This Advent Season to Help Save a Young Person’s Faith?

Discover the large and growing body of scientific, medical, and historical evidence for the Catholic Faith with the Credible Catholic modules this Advent.
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Bishop Barron Speaks on Religion at Google

Bishop Barron Speaks on Religion at Google
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Resisting Temptation Through Ignatian Spirituality: Moral Conversion Series #5

One of the best ways to resist temptation and grow in moral conversion is St. Ignatius' Examen prayer, a short daily exercise (around 10 minutes) that aims at freedom from sin through moral conversion
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Becoming Your "Higher Self": Moral Conversion Series #4

If through the regular practice of virtue one builds up the higher self, then in times of temptation one will feel an aversion towards sin instead of an inclination to it. This will help us increase i
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The 12 Capacities of Man's Transphysical Soul

Our soul allows for twelve capacities that are inaccessible to artificial and animal consciousness. It also gives us the capacity to survive bodily death.
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An Initial Conclusion about “the Soul” (IV. God’s Presence to Our Consciousness)

The presence within is not only wholly Other, but also a personal, empathetic, and loving being that desires to bring us to the fullness of life through itself.
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Lecture One From 20 Lecture Series – Evidence For The Historical Jesus

In this lecture, Fr. Spitzer examines the evidence for the historical individual, Jesus Christ.
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Lecture One From 30 Lecture Series – Evidence For God From Physics

In this video lecture, Fr. Spitzer introduces the evidence from contemporary science for the existence of God.
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Desolation Checklist: Love One Another as I Have Loved You

This article will shed light on the deepest manifestations of love and why love is our reason for being, our highest dignity, and our eternal destiny.
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The Stages of Christian Mysticism: A Summary (Spitzer Scholarly Article)

The three major stages of mystical life are described in detail by ancient monastic authors as well as contemporary mystics and scholars of mystical life.
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Newman and the Divine Origin of Conscience - Part 1 (III.B God’s Presence to Our Consciousness)

Newman argues that there is a God, because there is a moral obligation. When he analyses his conscience, he finds it involves the idea of a Father and a Judge.
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