Science & Religion

An offering for your reading pleasure, or maybe for your sleepless nights, as an aide to hasten the slumbers!  My MA thesis, entitled A Critique of Nancey Murphy's Non-Reductive Physicalist Account of the Human Person and the Abandonment of the Human Soul.  … [Read more...] about The Abandonment of the Soul

This article by John M. Haas, PhD, STL, KM, originally appeared in the Summer 2011 edition of the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly published by the National Catholic Bioethics Center. It's also available at this site.   … [Read more...] about Catholic Teaching regarding the Legitimacy of Neurological Criteria for the Determination of Death

by R Jeffrey Grace One of the most vexing issues facing ministers in the Church is the pastoral impact of the debates raging in our media and schools over the implications of evolution for those of us who believe that God created "the heavens and the earth" which includes human kind. At the heart of this vexation lies a very critical and fundamental issue: The nature of … [Read more...] about Science & Faith

By R. Jeffrey Grace In order to understand why the cosmological revolution in early modern Europe was first met with resistance by the Catholic Church we can take a closer look at the most famous example of this resistance: the confrontation with Galileo over the heliocentric view of the universe. To place it all into context, recall that the accepted view of the world … [Read more...] about The Church and the Cosmological Revolution

by R. Jeffrey Grace As I argued in my article The Church and the Cosmological Revolution, the opposition by the Catholic Church to Galileo and the cosmological revolution in general, was due to a pastoral concern.  To summarize my argument, the news that the Earth was NOT the center of the universe shattered the common understanding of how everything was put together. … [Read more...] about The Monkey Business of Religion