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Why Does Hell Exist?
“The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer...
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How Wisdom Is Superior to Knowledge
Wisdom and knowledge are not the same. One can have much wisdom and be short of knowledge. On the other hand, one can have much knowledge and hardly any wisdom to speak of. Sooner...
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Briefly Testing Aristotle’s Golden Mean
“Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.” Aristotle
Scripture is full of exhortations to avoid all kinds of excesses. The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC)...
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The Agony of Abraham
First Argument
When skeptics complain bitterly about the so-called “Judaeo-Christian mythology,” one of their most frequent objection is to the incomprehensible cruelty of God as depicted in the story of Abraham and Isaac. What kind...
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That All May Be One
“I pray that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that...
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The Myth of “Hitler’s Pope”
Now and then we hear someone who is not well educated in history complain that Hitler was a Catholic and that the Vatican was complicit in helping the Nazis to murder millions of Jews.
It's...
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The Uselessness of Utopias
(The term 'utopia' was coined by the great statesman and martyr, Thomas More, in his 1516 book by the same name. It literally means 'no place', but comes to mean a 'perfect place', often...
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Life Beyond the Sting of Death
There is surprisingly little in the Old Testament about the immortality of the soul. The later books talk about it, but the early books are more silent, and the Sadducee Jews neglected, if not...
