There has recently been something of a to-do within the Catholic blogosphere involving the early August anniversaries of the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the close of the Second World War. Some commentators have called to mind…

“Let us make man in our image,” God says in the book of Genesis (1:26), using a curious plural that seems out of place in the scriptures of a monotheistic faith. Indeed every other reference in the early Creation story…

After finishing his biography of Saint Francis of Assisi, G. K. Chesterton realized that a full picture of Catholicism would require pairing Francis with his fellow friar Thomas Aquinas; neither saint alone could capture the complete picture of the Faith.…

The Vatican announced last week that it would be contributing to stem-cell research, offering almost $3 million to a worldwide team of researchers at the University of Maryland, Italy’s University of Salerno, Bambino Gesu hospital, and the Italian national health…

In his epic philosophical history of the world, The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton claims that there have been at least five times in the history of the Church when the Faith, to human eyes, should have died, and in…

When science is so often used in the modern age to attack religious faith, it is not unexpected that some believers may be tempted to disparage scientific study. Over the years I’ve encountered many well-meaning fellow Catholics who, upon seeing…

In case you haven’t heard the news, researchers in Texas have recently declared that, based on their analysis of human genes, about eight percent of the human genome comes from viruses. Almost a tenth of your own DNA, then, comes…