with John DeRosa
Show Notes Quick Tip Give more compliments in conversations with people potentially hostile to the faith. When you give compliments, the following can happen: You reduce negative emotions. The person is less likely to straw man your position or fling insults. Your ideas get a fairer hearing. Civility...
Show Notes Quick Tip Catholic Christians should be “un-offendable.” When someone makes a claim about us, it’s either true or false. If it’s false, we shouldn’t be offended since it’s just an erroneous statement. If it’s true, then we should decide whether or not we need to act...
Show Notes Quick Tip Take notes on what you read, especially when reading Kindle eBooks. You can take the notes digitally and when you’re done with a book, export a PDF with your highlights and notes to the email connected with your Amazon account. Show Outline Here’s the...
Show Notes CORE #05 – Good Reasons to Believe in God (Part 3) Quick Tip Create an apologetics folder on your computer with 4 big categories: God, Jesus, the Church, and Testimony. Use this folder to organize articles, blog posts, and important videos on topics related to apologetics....
In the midst of the horrendous sex-abuse scandals, Archbishop Carlo Vigano (former nuncio i.e. papal ambassador to the United States), published an 11-page letter accusing Pope Francis himself of grave wrongdoing and calling for his resignation. The Pope has declined to comment on the claims. This has ignited...
Many have written on the sexual abuse scandal at length. Here are some brief thoughts of my own. Tragic I’m sure you’ve all seen how the sexual abuse scandal is once again ripping through the Church. It’s a sad, blood-boiling reality on a lot of different levels. First, all of...
Fr. James Brent O.P. does an excellent job of summarizing, explaining, and defending a contingency argument found in Aquinas’ Summa Contra Gentiles, Book two, chapter 15. Here’s the text of Aquinas: Again, everything that can be and not-be has a cause; for considered in itself it is indifferent...
Your friend reveals he’s an atheist. How do you approach the discussion? In a previous post, I explain the #1 tactic in conversations on tough topics is to ask questions rather than make statements. It’s also important to prepare for these discussions. So, what questions should you ask...
How can one still be religious in this age of science? The main reason: because scientism is false. Scientism is the belief that only science provides us with knowledge. Or to phrase it another way: science is the only way of arriving at the truth about reality. I’ve tackled this objection briefly...
I had the privilege of listening to two Thomistic lectures on the problem of evil from two sharp, female philosophers. Lecture #1 – Dr. Gloria Frost First, Dr. Gloria Frost delivered a lecture entitled The Goodness of God and the Evil in Our World: Aquinas on the Problem of Evil. Pay extra attention to Dr....
