by Magis Center | Jun 10, 2020 | Church Teaching, Culture, Latest, News
On a recent episode of Father Spitzer’s Universe, Father discussed the availability of a Covid-19 vaccine and the ethics of producing and utilizing a vaccine that has been developed using fetal cells from aborted babies. On April 17th, four USCCB committee chairmen...
by John Clark | May 26, 2020 | Astronomy, Church Teaching, Latest
Four hundred years after the trial, the mere mention of the name “Galileo” is often considered a powerful one-word refutation against the Catholic Church. Why? Because, according to the popular telling of the “Galileo Affair,” it was Galileo who: 1) proved...
by Stephen Phelan | May 8, 2020 | Church Teaching, Culture, Guest Blogs, Latest
We’re all in this together. This saying, now everywhere on social media, serves as a perfectly workable definition of the Catholic social doctrine principle of solidarity. Forced into social distancing by a common threat, the sense of unity and concern for the common...
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by Magis Center | Mar 16, 2020 | Church Teaching, Jesus and the Church, Latest
In the video below, a Fr. Spitzer’s Universe viewer writes the following email: “Dear Father Spitzer, We raised our daughter Catholic. She eventually married a good Christian non-Catholic man and no longer attends mass. She says that all religions are...
by Maggie Ciskanik, M.S. | Jan 6, 2020 | Church Teaching, Human Intelligence vs. Artificial and Animal Intelligence, Latest
“Ox and ass before him bow, for he is in the manger now. Christ is born today!” -In Dulci Jubilo St. Francis of Assisi is credited with creating the first nativity scene or creche. It is said that reflecting on his own trip to Bethlehem, St. Francis wanted to capture...
by Magis Center | Dec 6, 2019 | Church Teaching, Culture, Latest, Virtue & Freedom
The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines anger as a desire for revenge. However, prior to the time of Jesus, anger was not interpreted as necessarily negative. Some stoic philosophers (e.g., Galen and Seneca) viewed anger as a weakness—and even a kind of...
