Man’s natural desire to know follows from his possession of an intellectual soul. The intellect was made for knowledge and seeks it. Indeed, man’s final end is knowledge.
In this next set of articles in our wider series vindicating the claims of the Catholic Church, we will trace the rise of scholastic philosophy, its devastating decline, its revival under the direction of the Holy See, and, finally, its status in the Church today.
Archbishop Héctor Aguer reflects on the legacies of two Argentine Catholics, philosopher Carlos Sacheri and Father Carlos Mugica, both of whom were killed in 1974 by radical revolutionaries.
In his third way, St. Thomas Aquinas argues that because a contingent being is not a sufficient reason for its own existence, it cannot ultimately be a sufficient reason for the existence of other things.
In this article we will explore a second path by which we can attain certainty about the existence of God: St. Thomas Aquinas's argument from 'efficient causality.'
Even today, when the Church seems to be eclipsed by the actions of evil men, we can identify where she is, and where she is not; and by submitting to her magisterium, and receiving her sacraments, we can be transformed and made ready for eternal life.
The 'synodal form' of theology no longer looks to the infallible magisterium of the Catholic Church as its source and authoritative guide but rather to 'the ability to listen, dialogue, discern and integrate the multiplicity and variety of instances and inputs.'
'The recent provocation and arrogance by the World Bank Group on [the] subject of the homosexuals' reflects a 'shallowness in philosophy, ideology and strategy, that interferes with the global efforts to generate consensus for the good,' charged Uganda president Yoweri Museveni.
The sheer number of people who have apparently had encounters with demons disguised as extraterrestrials shows the extent to which the satanic forces have succeeded in giving credibility to Raellianism and other New Age beliefs that contradict the doctrines of Christianity.
On today's episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, I explain what Yuval Noah Harari of the World Economic Forum means when he calls some human beings 'useless.'