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Recently, Pope Leo XIV visited the famous Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona to celebrate the completion of its central tower . Last year, the Catholic Church advanced Antoni Gaudí, the architect of Sagrada Familia, on the road to official sainthood. After more than twenty years of research into Gaudí's life and work, the Church became satisfied that the architect had led a holy life worthy of…
Some books sit on a shelf. Others move in with you.
Summertime has a way of slowing the world down. The days lengthen, the evenings linger, and even the most driven among us feel an invitation to exhale. Families scatter to beaches and cabins, and work rhythms loosen. But the season’s invitation to rest isn’t limited to vacations; it echoes in other corners of life as well.
There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a dinner table when a fourteen-year-old comes home from biology class and asks, point-blank, whether the story of Adam and Eve is something the family actually believes or something they simply say. Most parents know that silence. It isn't doubt, exactly—it's the sound of not having an answer ready, and sensing that the moment matters more than…
In a recent post for the Magis Blog, Magis Executive Director John Coffey wrote about 5 critical gaps in modern religious education . Among these, number 4 was “The Absence of Beauty and the Transcendent.” According to Coffey, the truths of the church “stick” more easily when they are accompanied by beauty—their fellow Transcendental . Together the 3 Transcendentals , Truth, Beauty and Goodness,…
Zeus’s brother Poseidon might be able to shake the solid earth into city-destroying quakes and whip oceans in waves higher than hills; Hephaestus might make mountains burst with fire and flame; Zeus might fill the sky with thunder-booming clouds and scorch the world with cracks of lightning, but such displays were less than the whirling of gnats when set against those terrible forces of Time,…
A patient on my caseload used to spend an hour per day trying to grasp and release the handle on a coffee mug.
Today’s Catholic educators are facing a challenge unlike any previous generation.
ÇSince its founding in 1972, the Templeton Prize has been awarded to religious leaders, scientists , opinion leaders, theologians, and philosophers. Sir John Templeton initially wanted to honor religious leaders whose lives affirmed the significance of human spirituality. Its first honoree was Mother (now St.) Teresa of Calcutta . Early on, the Prize expanded to include those whose scientific,…
By its very nature, science cannot prove the existence of God. Are there good reasons, however, to infer the existence of God from human culture ? Many scholars think so.
