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Must-watch for all Christians: Faith in the Public Life

March 3, 2010 · 2 comments

Archbishop Chaput speaks and answers questions at Houston Baptist University. What a great light in the Church. It’s a bit long, but totally worth your time. And very good whether you are Catholic, Baptist or anything else.

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Quote: Reason’s last step (love it)

March 2, 2010 · 0 comments

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Blaise Pascal was a scientific genius. He was pretty smart about other stuff, too.

“Reason’s last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.” – Blaise Pascal

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Cardinal Schonborn on the dialogue of Reason

“Faith is not for those with no reason. Faith is to strengthen reason…to enlighten our intelligence.” – Cardinal Schonborn
Picked this up from St. Michael Society:

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In Pursuit of Truth: The Vatican and astronomy

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The Catholic Church teaches a beautiful and absolute synergy between faith and reason.  In fact, we believe that we can know with certainty at least the existence of God solely from reason and the natural world.
CCC 32:
The world: starting from movement, becoming, contingency, and the world’s order and beauty, one can come to a knowledge [...]

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The Day the Sun Spun in the sky: A review of The 13th Day

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The 13th Day is the latest and most well done account of the miracle at Fatima and its surrounding story. It was just released this week.  I mentioned this movie and posted its trailer a few weeks ago here.  But since then I was blessed enough to receive a pre-release copy of the DVD [...]

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The Miracle Seen by 70,000 at Fatima

There’s a new movie out documenting the miracle at Fatima.  It’s called The 13th Day. This is one of those miracles that should have any non-believers seriously scratching their heads.  And if they were truly searching, I’d think they’d be spending an awful lot of time considering gracing the doors of a Catholic Church next [...]

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Quote: By it I see everything else

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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” -C.S. Lewis
Some things you simply have to try out first before you can fully appreciate them or understand them. St. Augustine echos the same sentiment:

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Never enough time? Maybe it’s not more time that you need.

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“Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.” – Peter Kreeft
I had to read this one a few times to make sure I was understanding it properly. At first I was thinking, “yep, my lack of time leads to lack of prayer. I just don’t make enough time for prayer [...]

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Video: The Oneness of Truth, Contingency, and the Radical Humanism of Aquinas

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Where is Thomas Aquinas when you need him?  It’s amazing how many of the challenges we face today are just the same old challenges we humans find ourselves struggling with over and over again.  Not only within our individual lives, but throughout our human history as a whole.
What is the relationship between faith and science?  [...]

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Fr. Barron on Senator Edward Kennedy

Fr. Barron gives some good historical perspective on Senator Ted Kennedy – his life, death, and Catholicism.

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Catholics on Faith and Works Clarified

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What is necessary for salvation?  Is it “faith and works” as Catholics teach?  Or is it “faith alone” as many Protestants teach?  Or do they mean the same thing?  They might.  Sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t.  Let’s try to clarify at the chance of a tiny ecumenical revival.
Here is the kind of belief [...]

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Are you Saved? Are you sure?

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Are you saved?  Are you absolutely sure that you are going to heaven?  Is it possible to know for sure?  Can you lose salvation?
Are we saved by faith alone?  Or do our works have anything to do with it?  What does the bible say about this?
Former Protestant minister turned Catholic apologist, Tim Staples, clears the [...]

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Quote: Be humble and never be disturbed

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“Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus.” – Mother Teresa
I know I struggle with this a lot. Any time I get “disturbed” it is most often a lack of humility on my [...]

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What are the three Theological Virtues?

Last week I mentioned the four cardinal virtues.  Today we will talk about the three theological virtues.
If you’ve ever wanted to systematically break down the key things to focus on in order to live a good, moral life and to commune with God, the four cardinal virtues and three theological virtues are where to [...]

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Video: Corapi’s Conversion

From Millionaire, to drug addict, to Catholic Priest – Fr. Corapi’s story is as compelling as they come. Here’s a really short account of it along with some good words on confession.

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Quote of the Day: Raising your heart to God

A nice thought from Bishop Emmanuel de Gibergues on continually, and unceasingly, raising our hearts to God throughout the ordinary tasks of our day.

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