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5 Credible Near Death Experience Stories (Peer-Reviewed)
When it comes to near death experience stories, there are many unscientific writings based on the writers’ own agendas rather than actual evidence. However, there is also a growing body of legitimate research around near death experience (NDE) reports, and...
Fr. Spitzer on How to Pray for Your Enemies and Forgive
Jesus enjoins us to pray for our enemies and forgive one another from the heart; He tells us to forgive seventy times seven times (Mt. 18: 21-22) and to ask the Father to “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us” (Mt. 6:12). It will...
Do We Need Suffering and What Is Its Purpose?
In suffering, we all agree on one point—we don't like it. But there are many disagreements on how to avoid suffering, and what to do when it inevitably catches up with us. The inevitability of suffering We think of suffering as harmful (whether physical or emotional)...
Perseverance, Ingenuity, and the Mission to Mars
For readers who love to gaze heavenward, the moon and the red planet Mars will put on a show over the weekend. Visible low in the eastern sky late in the evening, the waning gibbous moon and Mars will hold court. If early morning is a more likely moment for...
Prayer for Interior Transformation: the Examen
In this episode of Father Spitzer’s Universe, Fr. Spitzer proposes that those seeking interior transformation should turn to the Examen Prayer. He also briefly goes over another path to transformation and enlightenment: Lectio Divina (with the recommendation of Dr....
Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin: Two Men and a Theory
Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were contemporaries, but did they know of each other’s work? There is clear evidence that Mendel read “The Origin of Species,'' and mounting evidence that Darwin had heard of Mendel’s work. The respective places of these two men in the...
The Metaphysics of JFK
Many years ago, a Jehovah’s Witness couple knocked on our door. They asked to come in and speak with my wife and me, so I invited them in. (Unless I have an emergency or another serious obligation, I always try to speak with people who are sharing their...
John Lennox: ‘Exposing My Faith to Questioning Has Only Made it Stronger’
Professor John Lennox is an Oxford University Professor of Mathematics and renowned speaker on science, religion, and philosophy. In the video below, Lennox shares how he's spent most of his life befriending people who don't share his worldview, finding out what their...
What is Time? Part V: Quantum Time
“...The concept of time within present physical theories—by which we mean Newtonian physics, special relativity, and general relativity—is an approximation within a quite different conceptual framework that is associated with a quite different theory.” -J....
Gregor Mendel: Priest, Teacher, Abbot, and Avid Beekeeper
The name of Gregor Mendel is inescapably linked to “genetics.” Known as the “father of genetics,” what is less known is that he raised bees, recorded meteorological data, and tracked the appearance of sunspots! Mendel was also a priest, a teacher, and an abbot. Early...