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What Causes Depression? Surprising Answer Linked to the Spiritual Life
We tend to think of depression in purely natural terms, a condition that can be treated solely with medication or counseling or both. This is often true, but there may be more factors at work. Since we believe the person is both body and soul, it is possible to have...
Of Stonehenge and Solstices
The Summer Solstice, June 21, brings many thousands of people to southern England to witness the sunrise at Stonehenge. With towering 30 foot-25 ton trilithons arranged in and around a circle of smaller blue stones, this ancient monument appears to have been built in...
The Greatest Danger Facing America Today According to Bishop Barron
Bishop Barron continues to be a powerful witness for the Catholic perspective. Over the years we’ve featured his writings and videos in our blog and on our social media properties. Most recently we posted about his presentation at Google headquarters. Today we want to...
Why Science Works: A Philosopher’s Guide
As a one-time practicing physicist, I never bothered about why science works. It was only after retiring that I began to wonder about the philosophical ground on which science rests. Delving into texts, I found there were two main camps of philosophers of science:...
Create Your Own Reality? Pale Blue Dot Part 3
If our perceptions of the world aren't real, there can be no science. Recently I received an invitation to buy a book titled, Mind to Matter: The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality. Now the premise of the book is that you can learn to...
What Catholics Think about Suicide
In April, popular DJ and producer Avicii died at the age of 28, and it was recently revealed that the cause of death was suicide. Earlier this week, successful fashion designer and businesswoman Kate Spade also took her own life. And just yesterday, talented TV...
How Did Life Begin?
“An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.” ― Francis...
How to Share Our Call to the Transcendent in a Materialist Culture
The call to transform the culture is ever alive and new. As part of our calling to the transcendent (more than just the material world) we must share it. We must unleash the culture from the slavery of putting what the world offers on a pedestal. We were made for more...
Bishop Barron Speaks on Religion at Google
Bishop Robert Barron recently gave a talk to the Catholics working at Google’s headquarters titled, “Religion and the Opening Up of the Mind.” In this talk, Bishop Barron discussed how religion, instead of making one closed-minded, “is meant to open up the mind and...
Is Religion Just a Reassuring Fable? More from the Pale Blue Dot
Data from the Pew Research Center (2012) indicates that 84% of the world’s population still describes itself as “religious”. However, there are multiple atheist bloggers and websites with some thoughtful (and some not so thoughtful) questions for believers. Let’s...
