The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
Posted in Catholic, Christianity, Religion, Theology on May 30th, 2008
I’m on Dr. Ambrosio’s email list, and today’s mailing included an article on Faith vs. Works. Dr. Ambrosio happens to be a member of my parish, and used to be a professor at the University of Dallas, but now he’s primarily a conference speaker, and he has his website which is full of good articles [...]
Posted in Christianity, Religion, Theology on May 10th, 2008
I’m studying for my Patristic and Byzantine Theology final, and I’m rereading First Principles written by Origen between 220 and 230. Here is a passage I have marked as “The Rule of Faith”.
When we find many who think they hold the doctrine of Christ, some of them differing in their beliefs from the Christians of [...]
Posted in Christianity, History, Religion on May 2nd, 2008
I made a claim in a previous post that Christianity was responsible for the development of hospitals, which seemed to be called into question by a comment I received. I also today got a free subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica for use on my weblog that allows me to link to articles. I thought I would [...]
Posted in Catholic, History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science, Theology on Apr 27th, 2008
It’s been several months now since the latest encyclical letter from Pope Benedict was issued. This was the first encyclical that I read all the way through, and it is very good. The theme is that we need hope, and that ultimate hope can only be found in Christ. That’s nothing new for anyone who [...]
Happy Easter everyone! Since I posted yesterday about Holy Saturday, I felt like I should at least post something for Easter. This is the Exultet, a hymn dating back at least to the 7th century, which is always sung in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil, the night before Easter [...]
Today is Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday, when Jesus was executed, and Easter Sunday, when Jesus rose from the dead. This is the day that Jesus spent in the tomb. In the Catholic Office of Readings for today, there is an ancient homily for Holy Saturday which is very inspiring, and I think [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Religion on Feb 20th, 2008
John DePoe is a doctoral student in Philosophy whose blog posts I’ve enjoyed for quite a while. Some of his stuff is beyond me, but I thought his post on Friendly Atheism to be interesting, and possibly helpful to some of my readers.
Posted in Philosophy, Religion on Feb 16th, 2008
Here is a 3 minute video of Dr. William Lane Craig responding to a typical argument for atheism. Dr. Craig is a logic machine. He has the ability to cut through the cloud of rhetoric with a laser beam of logic, and explain his case step-by-step so that his argument seems irrefutable.
Stizzyocayce tagged me to do the following:
Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people.
I think the closest book was the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I was consulting recently for an email conversation. It was towards my left, [...]
Merry Christmas everyone. For your Christmas reading pleasure, I invite you to read this great little article by Mark Shea regarding the common conception that the practice of celebrating of Christmas on December 25th is of pagan origin. I will not say anymore; just read it for yourselves.