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Update on All One in Christ
Recently I was interviewed by Steve and Becky Greene on The Catholic Conversation about my book All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory. You can listen to the...
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Augustine on divine punishment of the good alongside the wicked
Many today labor under the delusion that the reality of suffering is a difficulty for Christianity – as if Christian doctrine would lead us to expect little or no suffering, so that its adherents...
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Davies on classical theism and divine freedom
I’ve long regarded Brian Davies’ An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion as the best introduction to that field on the market. A fourth edition appeared not too long ago, and I’ve been meaning...
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Is God’s existence a “hypothesis”?
Over at Twitter I’ve caused some annoyance by objecting to the phrase “the God hypothesis.” The context was a discussion of Stephen Meyer’s book Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific...
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When do popes teach infallibly?
It is well-known that the Catholic Church teaches that popes are infallible when they speak ex cathedra or exercise their extraordinary magisterium. What that means is that if a pope formally presents...
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Why did the Incarnation occur precisely when it did?
Why did the second Person of the Trinity become man two thousand years ago – rather than at the beginning of the human race, or near the end of the world, or at some other point in history? The...
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On the death of Pope Benedict XVI
I’m not sure when I first became aware of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was later to become Pope Benedict XVI. During my high school years in the early 80s, I had only a vague awareness of the...
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The wages of gin
My review of Jane Peyton’s The Philosophy of Gin appears in the Christmas 2022 issue of The Lamp magazine.
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Koons on Aristotle and quantum mechanics
My review of Robert Koons’s excellent new book Is St. Thomas’s Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete? appears at Public Discourse.
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More about All One in Christ
The latest on my book All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory: I was interviewed about the book by Carl Olson on the Ignatius Press Podcast. I was interviewed by Cy...
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Benedict XVI, Cardinal Pell, and criticism of Pope Francis
In the wake of the deaths of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Cardinal George Pell, it has emerged that each of them raised serious criticisms of aspects of Pope Francis’s teaching and governance of the...
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Cartwright on theory and experiment in science
Nancy Cartwright’s A Philosopher Looks at Science is a new treatment of some of the longstanding themes of her work. It is written in her characteristically agreeable style and full of insights. The...
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Quantum mechanics and the laws of thought
It isn’t news that much pop philosophy nonsense is peddled in the name of quantum mechanics. Perhaps the best-known example is the claim that quantum mechanics refutes one or more of the traditional...
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Avicenna on non-contradiction
We’ve been talking about the law of non-contradiction (LNC), which says that the statements p and not-p cannot both be true. (In symbolic notation: ~ (p• ~p) ) We briefly noted Aristotle’s view that...
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An anonymous saint?
When we think of saints, we often associate them with mighty spiritual feats – dramatic martyrdoms, the production of works of great theological learning or spiritual insight, the founding of religious...
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Talking about All One in Christ
The latest on my book All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory: Recently I was interviewed for the EDIFY Podcast on the topic “The Truth about Critical Race Theory.”...
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The Faith Once for All Delivered
Coming soon, the important new anthology The Faith Once for All Delivered: Doctrinal Authority in Catholic Theology, edited by Fr. Kevin Flannery. Contributors include Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke...
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Pope Francis contra life imprisonment
The white supremacist Buffalo shooter who murdered ten people has been sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. According to scripture, natural law theory, and traditional...
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Catholicism, CRT, and the spirit of the age
Recently I was interviewed by the Catholic Herald’s Katherine Bennett about Critical Race Theory and the need for Catholics not to let themselves be intimidated by the progressive spirit of the age....
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Open thread combox
Here’s the latest open thread, by popular demand. Actually, it was one guy, but I’ll bet there at least twice as many as that who are interested. From quantum logic to Quantumania, MacArthur at...
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