Catholic Guidelines for Science Part I
The Church Should Not Judge Scientific Merit Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.–Pope St. John Paul II, “Letter to Rev. George Coyne,S.J., Director of the Vatican Observatory.” This […]
This is the fifth article in a new nine-part series entitled “Evidence for Agnostics.” New articles in the series will be published each Monday. What realities form the possibility and the basis for the sciences, even the more theoretical reaches of scientific research? Well, that it is a fair question. A question most agnostics have […]
Astronomers study a universe long after it came into operation. The fact that they are willing to study it presupposes that the universe is amenable to being studied. This is to say that they have faith that the microcosm of man’s mind is attuned to the macrocosm of the outside world, that the universe can […]
It is fully accepted that junk food tastes good but isn’t good. Its bodily effects may teeter into immorality when we consider how it harms our health, and how preserving our health for the sake of others is no small matter. Fat fathers (and I’m not lightweight here) deal with that nagging realization that if […]
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