
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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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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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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NASA Briefs on Discovery of Seven Planets Orbiting Red Dwarf
Yesterday, NASA held a news briefing on the discovery of seven new planets, at least three of which are in the habitable zone.
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The Transcendentals – Part I (Indication of the Interior Sense of God: Introduction to #4-8)
We all have a remarkably similar experience of the sacred and good power, as well as a remarkably similar experience of the evil powers who are against it.
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The Transcendentals – Part II (Indication of the Interior Sense of God: Introduction to #4-8)
As St. Augustine noted in his Confessions – God has created us for perfect truth, love, goodness, beauty, and home, and only He can fulfill these desires within us.
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The Awareness of the Sacred in the World (Indication of the Interior Sense of God: #2)
The second of eight indications that mankind has an interior sense of God, is a certain awareness of sacredness in the world.
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The Numinous Experience (Indication of the Interior Sense of God: #1)
The Numinous Experience is the first of eight indications of the interior sense that each and every human being has of God. What is the Numinous Experience?
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The Human Desire for God (Indication of the Interior Sense of God)
Around the world there is a consistent awareness of and belief in a deity which stands at the foundation of the world’s religions.
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God and Modern Physics—A 12-Part Series
Fr. Spitzer begins his series of videos with this fundamental question: "What Can Science Teach us about Creation and Design?"
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