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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

February 9, 2010 · 0 comments

“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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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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Video: How can a good God send someone to Hell?

Ever wondered how an all-loving God could allow people to go to Hell? Does Hell really exist? Is it all that bad? How does it work?
Fr. Barron clearly articulates some great insights that help us understand this horrible, yet necessary, reality of Hell:

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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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Quote of the Day: The riddles of God

“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man” – G. K. Chesterton

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Do you have one foot in and one foot out?

It’s sad that most of us only halfway live our faith.
In many instances this means we take only half the teachings of the Church. Or we only live our faith out half the time. That’s typical. And I suppose it means we’re halfway there in a sense – but not really.
But there [...]

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Can Catholics Believe in Evolution?

“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about [...]

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Quote of the day: Believing to understand

“Unless you believe, you shall not understand” – Isaiah 7:9
Most things we have to understand first before we believe them. But there are some things that we must believe first in order to then understand them.
This hits on why faith is so important. Faith is what allows us to reach beyond ourselves. [...]

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Quote of the Day: The modern mind and authority

“The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with “I think I heard somewhere, or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might [...]

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Quote of the Day: Science and Religion

Here’s another great quote to build on top of the quote of the day from yesterday.
“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.” – Pope John Paul II

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Oh the Joy of the Winter Solstice!

In case you haven’t heard, Atheists are out sharing their “Winter Solstice” joy with everyone again this year.  And now the Governor of Washington is letting them do so by allowing an anti-religion sign (celebrating the winter solstice) to be displayed next to the Nativity scene this Christmas season.
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Quote of the Day: Faith and Reason are like two wings

“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth – in a word, to know himself – so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the [...]

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