In a recent newsletter, (Letter #50, 2010/09/24, see Inside the Vatican magazine), Dr. Robert Moynihan, a journalist covering the ‘Vatican beat’, discusses a recent meeting in Vienna of high-level church officials from the Catholic and Orthodox churches. At least some of those officials are also theologians. It would seem good that there are serious movements … [Read more…]
I wouldn’t wish to complete the sentence in the title because I think the obvious completions are too pessimistic, yet, there is little room left to claim that human beings place a generally high value on freedom. Or that they can even recognize it. It might be the case that a desire for freedom, the … [Read more…]
Analogies can be taken too far and too literally, yet I wonder if we can apply to the human social organism, ultimately the Body of Christ, the example of a long-ago and primitive immune system ‘spinning off’ a neurological system. As I understand this particular line of speculation in evolutionary biology, and it was years … [Read more…]
So goes the claim in an antiphon somewhere in the “Christian Book of Prayer” (one-volume version of the liturgy of hours, Catholic version). Man was made to glorify God. This statement points to a great truth for sure, but we have to understand that all truths, even the greatest of truths revealed by God are … [Read more…]
I haven’t read Stephen Hawking’s most recent book where he’s said to argue that a Creator-God is unnecessary nor have I read more than summaries of the efforts of certain Christian theologians to shoot down those arguments. I’ve read that Hawking argues gravity fills the need for such a God, but that’s irrelevant to the … [Read more…]
I’m making another novel, The Open Independence of the Sea , available for download, free for personal use and distribution. The license is Version 3.0 of the Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license as written and published by Creative Commons Corporation. This license can be found at the Creative Commons website . I also append a copy … [Read more…]