Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XII
Ultimately, all the awful things now impacting our lives will be swallowed up by time. We can instead set our minds on God, Whom time cannot mar.
Ultimately, all the awful things now impacting our lives will be swallowed up by time. We can instead set our minds on God, Whom time cannot mar.
The Final Report of Study Group 9 of the Synod on Synodality is a jaw-drooping attack on Scripture and everything that the Church has ever taught concerning sodomy.
Why do we pay attention to atheists when they condescend to tell us the truth about God, which is that He does not exist? Or anything at all touching on matters of the spirit, when they make no provision for it in their system?
How many souls are there for whom salvation is less than a half-minute away! If only, that is, they allow themselves to be awakened from the sleep of sin long enough to be surprised by grace.
There will never be a time, therefore, when even the best and the brightest bulbs among us shall know all that there is to know concerning God.
The ‘God question’ grips every person inescapably, for none so much, ironically, as the proclaimed atheist.
It is not only seemly but profoundly human for a grown man to weep in solidarity with our suffering savior, who wept in solidarity with our human suffering.
The loss of everything we love to the ultimate arbiter of life – death – is ultimately what makes the Good News good.
The Platonic world of Forms was shattered by God, bursting down through the clouds to enter into the womb of a young Jewish girl!
Between the omnipotence of God, who holds all creation in being, and the impotence of men, who possess no claim whatsoever on being, there remains an impassible barrier which no creature may presume to breach.
Paul tells us in his letter to the Romans that we clearly know God through His creation, so how is it that so many can’t do just that?
Lent is coming upon us quickly this year! Will we sit still long enough to slow it down, or just let another one pass us by?
There is no folly quite like a man who asserts his independence while standing in a world he neither created nor comprehends, and whose inevitable departure is more mysterious than his humble arrival.
Every Christian, great and small, across two millennia, in every tribe and nation, has heard the warn-out taunt about believing in fairy tales.
Modern scientific atheism (A.K.A. scientism) is just a dogmatic assertion that dismisses God, meaning, and purpose, reducing the universe to a mindless chaos of accidental stuff.
The reality of Emmanuel, God with us, demands a response from both those who believe and those who don’t.
Most Christians, including Paul, would say the Resurrection is the basis of our entire faith, but without creation, there can be no Incarnation or Resurrection.
While scientific inquiry and advances have changed the world we live in, it does not have the power to penetrate even a centimeter into the primary question of God.
True union with God comes not by escaping time but by coursing through it with Christ, its creator and consummator.
France really is the purest distillate of what postmodern man actually looks like. It is not a pretty sight.