The Joy of the Truth

The rhythm of argumentation that St. Thomas Aquinas used in his Summa Theologica was to explain the opposition to his position completely and accurately (oftentimes even better than the people holding the opposite position could explain it...

As do many Catholic families, my wife and I are struggling a bit about whether or not to involve our children in the Santa Clause tradition. Our oldest daughter will be three in February, so she is just getting old enough to start hearing people say,...

I just had a humbling, eye-opening experience. My family delivered gifts for Project Angel Tree, an evangelical program that helps prison inmates purchase Christmas gifts for their children. As an evangelical program, they asked us to use the...

Since the writings of Aristotle (and probably before), humankind has assumed that human nature was an objective reality, and that certain things were good for us as human beings and other things were not good for us. This assumption extended to human...

Yesterday I gave a half-hour presentation on the Church's teaching on homosexuality to a gathering of our parish's youth group members. This is one subject that I almost always expect disagreement on -- either from those who think the Church is...