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.
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.
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.
Dr. Robert Kurland’s “God’s Periodic Table… & Evolution”
Dr. Robert Kurland responds to claims that the Catholic Church's teaching on evolution cannot be compatible with the findings of modern science.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Science and the Shroud of Turin [Spitzer Scholarly Article]
The Shroud of Turin is a burial shroud that apparently covered a man who suffered the wounds of crucifixion in a way very similar to Jesus of Nazareth.
Why Would a Loving God Allow Suffering?
Considering the arguments for God's redemption of suffering, one might ask the question, why would God have allowed suffering to occur in the first place?