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A Rift Between Worlds (Potency and Act, Part 1)

So much television sci-fi is about the dangers attendant upon a Tear in the Fabric of Reality, or a Tear in the Universe, or a Rift Between Worlds, because scriptwriters need their fictional dangers to...

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Aristotle versus the Rift (Potency and Act, Part 2)

So – to continue with the journey/destination analogy in the previous post – Aristotle saw that all beings, at any given moment, have arrived at one destination or another, and he saw that that...

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A Catechumen’s Test – Have I Left Anything Out?

So, a friend of mine is to be baptised in a couple of weeks, and I’m godmother! Naturally, I have to check that he’s learned his stuff before I let him in the big day, so I’ve prepared a test which...

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A Catechumen’s Test – the Answers

Well, my friend is now my brother in Christ, and has made his third Communion, which is a very happy-making thing to see. His baptism brought a tear to my eye and was proof that great show is not...

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Animals Have Souls, But They Can’t Receive Grace. Here’s Why. (Potency and...

One way to move beyond woe is to think about things other than woe – so, today, not a post about burnout or grief, but about philosophy. In this post, I mentioned that there are different kinds of...

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Nature and Person

Jokes abound about how agonising it is to have to preach on Trinity Sunday. One priest told the story of a friend of his, who slaved over his sermon, only to overhear one elderly woman saying to...

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If Philosophy had a World Cup

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In Thanksgiving for Converts

Every cradle Catholic loves a conversion story, because conversion stories contain all the best elements of adventure and romance. There’s discovery and detection, the obstacles to be overcome,...

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Linkage

Because I should be writing job applications right now: Here’s the transcript of a debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston about the existence of God. The Do Re Mi you learned from...

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Interesting Questions I’ve Been Asked

Questions about the faith arrive in all kinds of ways. Bitter experience has taught me that if a guy asks me out for coffee, it’s not because he’s thinking I might be the future mother of his children,...

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Agnostic Questions and My Answers

An agnostic friend prompted me with some of the questions below. Thinking them over, I asked myself more questions from her viewpoint. This is her/my interview of me/myself: Q: How much of you belongs...

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Let’s be Non-Binary

I’m not talking about gender! (I’m also not talking about Early Music – I’m not a great fan of mixed-voice and tend to say that, as far as chant goes, the more binary it is, the better.) I’m talking...

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We are the Culture

Those who have never been seriously hurt by their religious communities will think of apostasy in terms of truth and non-truth. Your religion is true, and that is the only thing that matters, so the...

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Great News for Murderers! Science Disproves Free Will!

You can probably deduce my mood from this post’s title. To those who believe in free will, I apologise for my tone and add that I do not claim to be a saint. To those who do not believe in free will,...

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