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by bcadmin | Mar 14, 2022 | 2022, Abortion, C.S. Lewis' Reflection on the Psalms, Cardinal Newman “I will trust Him, child sacrifice (i.e., Columns, Guernica by Pablo Picasso, gulags, laogai, Liturgy of the Hours, News, psalter, Robert Royal, Royal's "Psalms in Time of War", sex trafficking, slavery, St. Augustine's "mysterium inquitatis", St. John Henry Newman, The Catholic Thing, theodicy, War in Ukraine?, whatever I am", Why does God permit suffering? | 0 |
Robert Royal: Psalms are disturbing and comforting. They are about you and me. About the world that desperately now needs to wake to wisdom.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 3, 2021 | Best of Week, Featured, News, podcast, Podcasts, suffering, theodicy | 0 |
Today, Michael welcomes back Dr. Paul Chaloux, who appeared on our previous episode “A Catholic Answer to Suffering.” Today, Dr. Chaloux addresses some of the points he made in his popular article, “40 Years Later: Revisiting When Bad Things Happen to Good People.” While the book When Bad Things Happen to Good People has sold millions of copies […]
by bcadmin | Aug 23, 2021 | Evil, Faith at Home, News, Prayers go unanswered, theodicy | 0 |
When I was 11 years old, wrestling with my brother’s recent death, the new parish priest came bounding into our religion class one afternoon. He announced that he would take our questions (submitted anonymously) to answer in his next homily.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 15, 2021 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Prayer, prodigal son, Sophia Excerpts, theodicy | 0 |
Most people lament the world-wide suffering caused by COVID-19: the loss of lives and livelihoods, the curtailing of freedom and the periodic shortages of necessities like toilet paper. They mourn the loss of access to their loved ones now forcibly held in nursing homes and assisted living apartments across America and the world and they […]
by bcadmin | Jan 12, 2021 | Already/Not Yet, Christian apologists, News, The problem of evil, The problem of good, theodicy | 0 |
A particularly thorny dilemma for Christian apologists over the centuries has been the challenge of “theodicy” — or providing a justification for how an all-powerful, all-loving God can co-exist with the very real and palpable evil we see in the world.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 28, 2020 | Books and Art, Coronavirus, Culture, Featured, Mass, News, Sophia Excerpts, theodicy | 0 |
“The Lentiest Lent we’ve ever Lented.” Those words make up my favorite meme, which gained great traction on social media during the first few months of 2020. Even those who aren’t Catholic or Christian found themselves relating to this catchy phrase. Thanks to the coronavirus, we’ve all been put through some version of our own […]
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