The Reconverted Catholic

Today (03/17), at Mass, one of the hymns contained the following verses: “You (God) are the Artist and the Potter; we are the Canvas and the Clay.” This line draws from Scripture passages such as Isaiah 64:7, Jeremiah 18:2-6, and Romans 9:20-21. And while these passages refer to God shaping and molding those who do…

Reading On Free Will and On Free Choice is a wonderful reminder of how the early Church Fathers tackled and impressively worked through philosophical and theological arguments that have been redressed today as New Atheist talking points — which, through modern eyes, seemed to be portrayed as revolutionary, as if, well, nobody had already surgically dissected and well refuted…

During a typical debate or apologetics-oriented conversation, whoever makes a positive claim — say, what is good is good because God says so — must then prove why the claim is true. And while a statement such as ‘what is good is good because God says so’ teeters on begging the question / circular reasoning,…

By Cee Vee Often referred to as the ‘teleological argument’, or argument from design, Thomas Aquinas’ Fifth Way sets itself apart from Aquinas’ other four proofs for the existence of God. While the other four proofs have their own merits by showing God as a necessary, unmoved mover, uncaused cause outside of time, space, and…

Introduction Since its institution in the early first century AD, the Eucharistic liturgy has been the bedrock gathering and highest form of worship for Catholic Christians. Featuring six liturgical rites — five among the Eastern Catholic Churches and one Roman rite for Western Catholics — the twenty-four churches total, in communion with the Pope, all…