Holdsworth

A new Pew Research Center Survey was published this week that says that only 1 third of Catholics believe the Church’s teaching about the real presence of Jesus in Holy Communion.

If sins are wrong and God made us and the universe according to a certain intelligibility whereby his mind and intention is revealed to us through nature, why did he make some sins feel so good?

We shouldn’t have to raid the pantry of other creeds to have a fully fleshed out system of thought

If we all have the desire to do the right thing, but aren’t necessarily always willing to, does that mean that our desires to do the right thing translate into high moral inventory?

We’re avoiding the difficult yet necessary duty of conforming ourselves to what God requires of us and, instead, trying to conform our religion to our pre-existing preferences.

At every turn of scandal, authorities, including the Pope, continue to tell us that these are symptoms of clericalism.

If we’re just sitting around assuming that we are destined for reward when we’re not, the best thing we can encounter is a bit of that old fashioned cynicism.

Notre Dame, and other buildings like it, are left over from an age that believed something fundamentally different about art and design.

Notre Dame, and other buildings like it, are left over from an age that believed something fundamentally different about art and design.

There’s this narrative out there that says that science arose in Christian Europe in spite of the antagonism of the religious authorities against reason. It portrays the scientific revolution as the inevitable triumph of reason over superstition.