The Joy of the Truth

Catholic voters who chose Barak Obama as president must really be kicking themselves (one would hope). While the president has done some good things so far, the death toll continues to mount. This morning President Obama overturned President Bush’s ban on using federal funding for research into embryonic stem cell research.

Once again, the great orator couches his decision in terms that make the opposition unreasonable and self-serving, stating… Continue reading

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If science takes over the role of religion in our culture, the modern Gothic horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft would become one of the new religion’s mystics. Unfortunately, his visions reveal the darkside of the naturalist doctrine. Life without a loving, engaging God would truly be a horror. Continue reading

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The false assumption that science and religion are incompatible has led to the attempt to create a “church” in which science replaces religion. The fact is that in the Catholic intellectual tradition, science and religion have never been separate, let alone incompatible. Continue reading

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