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Augustine of Hippo: A Saint for the 21st century

August 28, 2025 Jerry Salyer 25

Thanks to the myth of there being a perpetual war between science and religion, even broad-minded unbelievers are liable to think the faithful are trying to effect damage control when we emphasize that the Bible […]

Books

Fr. Spitzer’s new book exposes common secular fallacies about faith and science

January 23, 2024 Jerry Salyer 31

“The idea of a universal Mind, or Logos, would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of theory.”– Sir Arthur Eddington Years ago, I taught a high school history of science […]

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“The heart has its reasons…”: On the fourth centenary of Pascal’s birth

October 5, 2023 Russell Shaw 6

“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of […]

The Dispatch

Restoring faith in reason amid skepticism, doubt, and fake news

November 10, 2022 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 4

Catholics are rightly fond of quoting Pope John Paul II’s opening line in his encyclical Fides et Ratio: “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of […]

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Society of Catholic Scientists conference to focus on what it means to be human

May 28, 2019 Stephen Barr 5

There is a widespread impression that science and faith don’t go together. Recent studies, in fact, have shown that this is the most common reason given by young people who abandon their faith. The idea, […]

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The return to reason requires hard work, rigorous thought—and faith

November 24, 2017 Thomas M. Doran 2

Today, we are deluged with information, voices, images, and pitches. It’s not a matter of tuning out, but one of fine tuning our minds to […]

The Dispatch

There is a serpent, and not just in Essex

September 24, 2017 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin 3

For all its beautiful prose and good storytelling, Sarah Perry’s novel The Essex Serpent ultimately falters, offering an incomplete view of Christianity and a portrait of friendship […]

Columns

These are dark days for dogma

August 12, 2017 James V. Schall, S.J. 38

“Man can be defined as an animal that makes dogmas. As he piles doctrine on doctrine and conclusion on conclusion in the formation of some tremendous scheme of philosophy and religion, he is, in the […]

Sojourns with Schall

On the temptation and fallacy of “on-going revelation”

July 24, 2017 James V. Schall, S.J. 17

“A new edition of the symbol (Creed) becomes necessary in order to set aside the errors that may arise. Consequently, to publish a new edition of the symbol belongs to that authority to which it […]

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