Dan Brown, Ron Howard, and the Catholic League
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009I see the Catholic League is after Dan Brown and Ron Howard again. I can appreciate an organization that publishes a booklet that calmly tells an interested person where Angels and Demons gets doctrine wrong; that’s a prime teaching moment. But a booklet entitled: “Angels and Demons: More Demonic Than Angelic“? Well, that’s just embarrassing. [...]
Sunday Afternoon: Galileo, Part 2
Sunday, January 18th, 2009This is a continuation from last week’s post: Galileo, Part 1. In Galileo’s time (again, we are talking about the last 1500′s and early 1600′s), science as we know it was still new. It was still common for pure logic and reason alone to be used to discover things about the universe. Galileo was one [...]
Sunday Afternoon: Galileo, Part 1
Sunday, January 11th, 2009What really happened? Galileo has been brought up so many times in conversations I’ve had with people about religion and science that I figured it was long past time that I looked into exactly what happened. What I’ve found is that the Catholic Church was definitely in the wrong, but that it was politics (not [...]
Sunday Afternoon: Catholic in an LDS Culture
Sunday, December 21st, 2008I live in a town that is dominated by LDS culture, which is a distinct American subculture all its own. Music, books, daily interactions – in some ways, living here is like living in a different country. My wife and children are LDS. I don’t make any apologies for that, but I also don’t recommend [...]
Sunday Afternoon: What I Can and Can’t Do
Sunday, December 14th, 2008It’s the end of the year, which is an easy time to get reflective about life’s direction, so please bear with me while I do so. I’m generally very happy with this blog. I’ve been able to do some things with it that I hoped to do, while other parts of it just aren’t coming [...]
Sunday Afternoon: Science Fiction and Religion
Sunday, December 7th, 2008There is some new discussion on Science Fiction and Religion that started with John Scalzi’s column at AMC, and continuing with Gabriel McKee’s post at SF Gospel in which he says that he disagrees with Scalzi in his title, then agrees with him. Scalzi got this exactly right: It’s an interesting topic because in our [...]
Sunday Afternoon: Ravi Zacharias
Sunday, November 30th, 2008When I was in high school, I decided I didn’t believe in God. I’m not sure why, looking back – I had no bad experiences at church (I was raised Catholic) – I just didn’t really feel anything. I just didn’t see the point. This atheistic state of mind lasted through my college years, but [...]
Sunday Afternoon: The Pontifical Academy on the Sciences
Sunday, November 9th, 2008Last week, the Vatican hosted a plenary assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. The subject was “Scientific Insight Into the Evolution of the Universe and of Life”. First thing, what is the Pontifical Academy of Sciences? It is an independent entity within the Holy See. New members are “elected by the body of Academicians [...]
Sunday Afternoon: Prayer Before Election
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008Lord God, as the election approaches, we seek to better understand the issues and concerns that confront our city, state, and country, and how the Gospel compels us to respond as faithful citizens in our community. We ask now for eyes that are free from blindness so that we might see each other as brothers [...]
Review: The Fathers by Pope Benedict XVI
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008The Fathers by Pope Benedict XVI Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor Published: 2008 The material in this book, says the first footnote, is taken from Pope Benedict XVI’s general audiences from March 7, 2007 through February 27, 2008. There are 26 short chapters, each a talk given at one of those audiences, and each about an [...]
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