28 09, 2019

Science and Religion Part 1: Epistemology

By |2019-09-28T08:01:20+00:00September 28th, 2019|Theology|

Epistemology is the study of how a knower can know things.  It is a study of both the learner (the subject) and the learned topic (the object.) Epistemology is both subjective and objective.  Science, on the other hand, is simply concerned with the learned topic, or the object, and hence we say that the goal of science is to be purely objective via data presented.  Scientia is Latin for "knowledge."  Science is the mind's conformity to reality, not to an agenda.  This also presupposes that the mind, via the five senses, can actually grasp objective truth.  Properly speaking, there is no room for a political agenda or even relativism in true [...]

17 08, 2019

Why the Restoration of the Catholic Church Must Be Marian

By |2019-08-17T15:48:23+00:00August 17th, 2019|Theology|

Part I: A Night on the AmbulanceN.B. You can skip Part I if you do not want my real-life account of EMS from 20 years ago that got me thinking about the mystical body of Christ’s “anatomy.” The theology of this blog post is found exclusively in Part II: An Analogy In the Mystical Body.  But Part I here does describe an epic fail in my life... While pre-med at Boston College, I worked as an EMT at night. Upon graduation, I returned back to Denver and went to paramedic school while discerning if I should continue in medicine or if I was in fact called to the Holy Priesthood. [...]

18 07, 2018

A Formation Commensurate to Baptism

By |2019-04-04T20:34:58+00:00July 18th, 2018|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

Any species of animal must have a formation commensurate to its nature.  We are humans with a human nature, but we are called to participate in the Divine Nature through baptism.  How can our formation equal the grace already transmitted in the sacraments?   Two ways:  1)To live according to the spirit, not the flesh (Romans 8) and 2) To go to the mother who singularly formed the human nature of the God-man.

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