Contents Page….. God Exists So What? Introduction 9 (to help you get your bearings before you dive in) Chapter 1 The fall (a chance...
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Wealth and responsibility
We see elements of the rich man in ourselves. Our riches do blind us. We instinctively feel that the well-paid job which has come our way is ours by right, we have earned it with our studies and our work, and we fully deserve all that we get. The western society in which we live,...
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What’s love got to do with it?
The modern Christian, instead of simply acquiescing to a society full of often inappropriate sexual stimuli, needs to direct wider discussions as to what love is. What is the nature of friendship, of self-love, and its relationship with desirous love for another person? What are the essential ties between sexuality and one’s spiritual, physical, and...
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Could we be have been so lucky? Maybe we should thank God?
A report in today’s issue of Popular Mechanics suggests that intelligent life cannot really exist anywhere else. It refers to a recent study from the Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute, in which scientists studied the likelihood of key times for evolution of life on Earth and conclude that it would be virtually impossible for...
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Real social justice
‘Among the chief distinguishing marks of all Christian social teaching include an awareness of the dignity of all human beings in the eyes of God; the importance of seeing our neighbour when we look at ourselves; the need to distribute wealth so that it does not blind us to the reality of our humanity, and...
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Science or religion? – that is the wrong question
The findings of all sciences over the past century have, if anything, restored for deeper consideration the Catholic – Christian worldview of Creation. ‘An alternative conclusion from science, that this is a universe, perhaps one of an infinite number of universes, existing in infinite time, and governed by uncaring quantum mechanical laws, is one which...
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Do extraterrestrials exist?
The continued discoveries by astronomers of planets and moons in our solar system and of their features led to scientists believing that we shared our solar system with other un-earthly creatures. A front-page story in the New York Times in 1911 proclaimed ‘Martians build two immense canals in two years – Vast Engineering Works Accomplished...
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What did Newman think of his contemporary Darwin?
Some people think that Catholicism had issues with evolution. Well Charles Darwin and John Henry Newman were contemporaries…… ‘Evolution is still presented today as if it were a major setback for all of Christianity, as evolution appears to contradict the message of the Bible about Creation. However, John Henry Newman, a Catholic convert, and later...