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I was reading Jerry Walls’ lovely piece on purgatory for class. Thinking about it has made me realize that given that all who are in heaven...

Over the past two hundred years or so, one new tension point arose for the relationship between Christianity and science due to scientific p...

It is widely taken in the Thomistic tradition that: Different people in heaven have the beatific vision to different degrees, correspondin...

This post is aimed primarily at Catholic readers, and especially Catholic readers given to a certain mode of scrupulosity (a disorder where ...

[I am now thinking that the main point of this post may be mistaken for the reasons I state my in 11:58 AM October 5, 2020 comment. Nonethel...

The standard Catholic view of tubal pregnancy is that it is permissible to remove the tube with the child. The idea seems to be that the dan...

I gave a Thomistic Institute talk on the Real Presence today. Here are the slides and here is the audio. I am particularly pleased with my...

The Catholic Church teaches that it is wrong for us to intentionally reproduce by any means other than marital intercourse (though things ca...

Catholic teaching says that there is (at least barring special divine dispensation) exactly one permissible way for human beings to directly...

The doctrines of incarnation, resurrection and real presence certainly require us to believe ordinary language existence claims about bodies...

If Catholic teaching on the Eucharist is true, then there is a time t such that an accident of bread exists-at- t and no substance of whic...

Does gravely immoral activity by the clergy detract from the holiness of the Church as it is on earth, the Church militant? It su...

Gary Gutting has an interesting opinion piece where he argues that the Bishops don't have the right to define the teachings of the Cath...

It has hit me (and no doubt I am not the first) that the Lord/liar/lunatic argument can be adapted to the Catholic Church. The C...

Here is a fascinating post by my colleague Frank Beckwith.  I can certainly theoretically see the danger, though I am not sure that as empi...

In the second story of the first day of the Decameron , we have the story of how Giannotto tried to convince a Jewish friend named Abr...

There are two approaches to Christianity (and perhaps to other religions). One is with a "metaphysicalizing impulse (MI)...

Sometimes the Christian may feel depressed over present errors and distortions, supported by intellectual and cultural elites, def...

Sometimes, Christians worry whether they might not have lost their faith. Here is a line of thought that might be comforting, though i...

Occasionally, the rhetorical question is asked of inerrantists: "What's the use of having an inerrant text, if your interpret...