god

The history of the Church has, in some sense, been shaped by wars over words.
When we speak of God who is one being yet has three persons, of Christ who has the same substance as the Father and the…

The universe is about 13.82 billion years old. Although it is well within the error range of earlier estimates, this new number means that the universe is slightly older than cosmologists previously thought. The new age comes as a result…

Why Is God Absent?

by Stephen Beale on February 21, 2013 · 3 comments

The winds were roaring, the trees were creaking, and Hurricane Gloria was wreaking havoc with the backyard of my family home in rural Massachusetts.
 
Finally, one ash tree yielded to the winds and the four-story wooden behemoth came crashing…

Hope is related to trust; trust is related to faith; faith is related to confidence.

HUMAN FAITH. Countless times every day we place our faith and trust in persons, companies, institutions, and even ideas. In very simple and constant ways…

God and the Problem of Beauty

by Stephen Beale February 5, 2013

The beauty of nature must be an enigma to an atheist.
 
Science can explain how a ballet dancer is able to move her body, how the planets circle the sun, why the ocean tides ebb and flow, and how…

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“So Help Me God”

by Gary S. Smith January 18, 2013

On Monday the United States will celebrate one of its great festivals of civil religion as Barack Obama is inaugurated for a second time. Although nothing in the Constitution mandates it (the only things the Constitution specifies are the date…

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7 Questions With Fr. Mark Toups: Question 2

by CE Editor November 24, 2012

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Give Thanks for the Blessings of God

by Ken Connor November 23, 2012

Thanksgiving is traditionally a time where the people of the United States turn their eyes toward heaven and give thanks for the many blessings which have been bestowed on us by Almighty God.  Although we tend to associate the modern…

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Is Man by Nature in Relation to the Infinite?

by Robert R. Reilly September 5, 2012

The headline above has been posed as a question. However, at the Rimini Meeting in Italy, from which I have just returned, it was put forth in a statement as the main theme of a week-long event (August 19-25) that…

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A Man Who Doesn’t Understand Nothing

by Edward Feser June 21, 2012

A critic might reasonably question the arguments for a divine first cause of the cosmos.But to ask “What caused God?” misses the whole reason classical philosophers thought his existence necessary in the first place. So when physicist Lawrence Krauss begins…

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