Create Your Own Reality? Pale Blue Dot Part 3
Have all the incredible discoveries of science led us only to discover our inability to really know anything about reality?
How Did Life Begin?
How were the constituent molecules obtained from primitive chemicals in the early earth, and how were they assembled into the building blocks of life?
Bishop Barron Speaks on Religion at Google
Bishop Barron Speaks on Religion at Google
Is Religion Just a Reassuring Fable? More from the Pale Blue Dot
Carl Sagan claims that religion is a “reassuring fable” meant to make us feel better about our insignificance in the universe - but that isn't the whole story. An analysis of major world religions ind
Contemplative Prayer Leading to Spiritual and Moral Conversion
Amidst the hustle and bustle of daily life, finding time to engage in contemplative prayer can feel like wishful thinking, but this prayer is essential for spiritual growth. In this article, Fr. Spitz
Quieting the Mind: The Path to Prayer
How do we quiet the mind to better hear the Holy Spirit, especially when we are suffering? In order to have a quiet mind for a fulfilling prayer life, we must trust God, and in order to trust God we m
Two Steps to Escaping Your Personal Hell: Self-Definition and Seeking the Good News
The desire to be admired, to be a “winner”, is a natural desire in the search for happiness, but as a solitary purpose it drives us to absurd limits. Fr. Spitzer describes this problem as “getting cau
Hard-Wired for Faith: The Religious Experience and the Brain
Studies about religion and the brain tend to cause more controversy than they resolve, but recent studies have pointed to some clear conclusions.
6 FREE Resources for Religious Conversion
For May, the Pope has asked the faithful around the world to pray for evangelization, something we usually consider the task of missionaries and that guy handing out bibles on the street. But evangeli
Can Computers Have a Soul?
A necessary condition for computers or robots to have a soul is that they be self-aware, be conscious. If this is not possible, then there would be no way we could think that devices with “artificial
Religion, Intelligence, and the Pale Blue Dot
This snapshot of the earth as a miniscule pale blue dot, made famous by Carl Sagan, was used to demonstrate his belief that man’s significance was reduced, obscured by the vast and impersonal universe
Six Categories of Cultural Discourse: How to Understand, Communicate, and Gain Consensus in Social Ethics
Six Categories of Cultural Discourse: How to Understand, Communicate, and Gain Consensus in Social Ethics