Church History
Is the Church Anti-Science?
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012With spring now in full bloom and the wonder and beauty of God’s creation unfurling before our eyes, the words of the Psalmist come to mind: “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have established; what is man that you are mindful of him, [...]
Aristotle, Meet Aquinas
Monday, January 28th, 2008Today is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, who is not only my confirmation patron but also my hero. My wife commissioned a lovely portrait of him that hangs in our living room. Aquinas has been victimized in some ways by his success; his writings became so influential in the time between Trent and Vatican [...]
A Return to History
Monday, January 21st, 2008The Church faces great intellectual challenges in every age. In the early Church, the main problem was in dealing with philosophical problems like Gnosticism, which held that the material world is evil and that it was absurd for God to become man and to consist of three persons. The Church happily submitted to such philosophical [...]
The Advent of Christmas
Monday, December 3rd, 2007The reason we celebrate Christmas at all should be obvious: The birth of Christ in the “fullness of time” of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the most significant event in human history. Despite secularist efforts to change how we reckon time, even our calendar is divided by what occurred “Before Christ” and after Christ, “in the [...]