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Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D.5 min read

Quantum Logic: Last Days and the Resurrection of the Dead

As Catholics, we believe that we will be resurrected and judged on the Last Day. Could quantum logic offer a scientific basis for that belief?
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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S.5 min read

Is It Possible to Change Your Reality?

Is it possible to change your reality? Here's how to keep your resolutions and cultivate fertile ground for changes that will last.
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Ascension Media9 min read

St. Ignatius on Overcoming Desolation

St. Ignatius of Loyola offers a series of “rules,” or principles, which can help us work against this depressing and downward movement of desolation.
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Carol Lynn Miller3 min read

What Does it Mean to ‘Exist?’ Aquinas Weighs-In

Among his widely influential teachings, St. Thomas Aquinas addressed the very core and starting point of reality, i.e., what does it mean to exist?
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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S.2 min read

A Portrait of William Perry, Scientist and Poet

A Portrait of William Perry, Scientist and Poet
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Ascension Media7 min read

Reasons to Be Confident about the Historical Jesus

Through philosophical presuppositions, historical methodology, and the Gospels, we find a reason to believe in and evidence for the “historical” Jesus.
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Carol Lynn Miller4 min read

Bearing Witness in a Secular Age

James K.A. Smith asks the question, “What does it mean to live in a secular society?” and points out the importance of defining the term, “secular.”
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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S.4 min read

2018 Ends with Historic First—and 2019 Gets Off to a Spectacular Start

2018 ended with a historic first and 2019 gets off to a spectacular start with space explorationfFirsts, eclipses, and a super blood wolf moon.
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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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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S.5 min read

What the Magi Saw

Explanations for the star abound, conjectures run the debates, and the historical data is a tangle. What is it that the Magi actually saw in the sky?
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Dr. Robert Kurland, Ph.D.4 min read

Does Quantum Mechanics Speak to Catholic Teaching III: The Measurement Problem

Quantum Mechanics is a beautiful and mathematically elegant theory, but there is a major flaw in its connection with the real world: the measurement probem.
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Maggie Ciskanik, M.S.3 min read

The Best New Year's Resolution

New Year’s resolutions dominate thoughts and conversations this time of year, but there is one thing that requires commitment but not willpower: gratitude.
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