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Does God Exist?
What is God?
Some bad reasons for belief.
The problem of pain.
Some bad ideas of God.
Proving that God is.
The Anthropic Principle
Why be a Catholic Christian?
The pedophile priest scandal
The clash between Christianity and Science
God is Love
The possibility of a "Personal Relationship" with God
Self Sacrificial Love
Response to Personal Sinfulness
The Fundamental Tenets of Christianity
A personal Christianity
The drawbacks of organized religion
What is the Point of the Church?
Faith in Christ or Faith in the Church?
What is the role of the Church supposed to be?
Some possible roles for the organized Church
Some possible reasons for church attendance
Problems with authority
Right and Wrong use of Excommunication
Holy Communion has a sociological dimension
The pros and cons of hierarchy
Dogmatism in the Church
The role of doctrine in the Church's Life
The four methods of knowing
Galileo's challenge of Authority
Science and Religion: Two attitudes to Truth
Susan's Response
Truth does not change
The task of the Church
What is the basis of Knowledge?
What is truth?
What is reality?
What is certainty?
Proof and Disproof
The Scientific Method
Recollection
Knowledge of the good
Education in virtue
Why Be Good?
Are Good and Evil morally equivalent?
Is Law equivalent to Good and Chaos to Evil?
What is Good?
What is Evil?
What is the rational basis for kindness?
Conclusion
The Doctrine of "The Trinity".
The language of the doctrine.
The heart of the doctrine: "God is Love".
Substance, being and person.
The "filioque".
A gay perspective.
The doctrine of "The Incarnation".
What was the psychological experience of the Christ?
Chalcedonian Orthodoxy
Alternatives to Chalcedonian Orthodoxy
Monophysitism
What was the point of "The Incarnation"?
Rehabilitation: Jesus the Prophet
Recapitulation: Jesus the King
Redemption: Jesus the Priest
Was the Incarnation strictly necessary?
Associated Christological Doctrines.
The Virgin Birth of the Christ.
The Celibacy of the Christ.
The Last Supper of the Christ.
The Passion of the Christ.
The Resurrection of the Christ.
The Ascension of the Christ.
The Sacred Heart of the Christ.
Friendship
The contemporary view: friendship is unimportant.
Marriage and Friendship.
The Bible and Friendship.
The Church and Friendship.
Jesus needs Friends!
Catholic Common Ground.
The "Common Ground Constitution".
Atmosphere of suspicion and acrimony.
Banal liturgy.
Accountability to Tradition.
Principles of Dialogue.
The inaugural press conference statement.
An Apologia for Catholic Common Ground.
Final follow-up speech.
Death-bed plea.
Digging Into Common Ground
The criticism of Cardinals Law and Hickey
Lessons from Ecumenism
Faith and Reason
Secular Rationalism
Fideism
Two Catholic Responses
Faith and Knowledge
The Church
Models of the Church
Function of the Church
Authority within the Church
Introduction: Words of Power
What is the pupose of authority in the Church?
Priestly Authority
Kingly Authority
Prophetic Authority
The Three-fold Ordained Ministery
The laity: Baptism and Confirmation.
The evil of clericalism.
Priesthood and sexuality.
Priesthood and gender.
Apostolic succession: some ecumenical thoughts.
The Credibility of the Catholic Magisterium
What is Traditionalism?
Tradition and Scripture.
Tradition and Liturgy.
Traditionalism and Conservatism.
Tradition and the Development of Doctrine.
Tradition and the Magisterium.
Tradition and the Laity.
Tradition and the Papacy.
Tradition and the Local Church.
Tradition and Common Sense.
The difficult dialogue between Traditionalism and Conservatism
Traditionalism and Radicalism are the same!
Creeds of the First Six Oecumenical Councils
The Nicene Creed
The Athanasian Creed
The Chalcedonian Creed
The Anathemas of the Second Council of Constantinople
The Creed of the Third Council of Constantinople
Review of all the Oecumenical Councils
The Early Councils
The Great Schism
The Council of Florence
The Council of Trent
The Council of Jerusalem
The Council of the Vatican
The Definition of Doctrine
The Development of Doctrine
Evolution and Development
Magisterial Infallibility
Modifying the Traditional response
Unum Sanctum
The Extraordinary Magisterium
The Ordinary Magisterium
Quantum Mechanics
Experiments and Definitions
Who is the observer?
A cause for epistemological despair?
Faith and Certainty
Process
The Petrine Office
The Witness of the Fathers
Peter was personally - on account of his faith - constituted the foundation of the Church's Unity
The Papal Claims : first tack
An Orthodox response
A Catholic counter-response
An Orthodox review of the discussion
A Catholic response: further proposals for a settlement
Some Orthodox counter proposals : Healing the Spiritual pneumonia in the Body of Christ
Contrasting perspectives
Lumen Gentium
ARCIC
Primacy and Jurisdiction
The Local Church and the Church Catholic
Prerequisites for Reunification
Creeping Infallibility : Ad Tuandum Fidem.
Reception of Doctrine by the Laity.
Infallibility of the Ordinary Magisterium.
Sacred Scripture : Are there errors in the Word of God?
Setting the context
Defining the problem
How was the canon of Sacred Scripture established?
How is Sacred Scripture inspired?
How is Sacred Scripture inerrant?
Why is the Church so keen on Scriptural Inerrancy?
Inspiration as process
Individual Issues
Service and Freedom
Plato
The Torah
The Gospel
Islam
Science and Christian Belief
Heaven and Hell
Creationism
Marxism
Vitalism
Evolution
Abortion
Paranormal Phenomena
Causality
Objectivity
Space Time and Eternity
Locality and Connectivity
Grids and Gauges
Minkowskian SpaceTime
Particles and Antiparticles
The Lorentz Transformation
Bits and Pieces
Wave Packets and Solitons
Collapse of the Wavepacket
Solitons and Substantial Forms
Mind and Matter
Impact, Force and Potential
The Jewish basis of Catholicism
What was/is the historic role of the Hebrew People?
What is the present status of the Mosaic Covenant?
Jesus is the Messiah.
The Catholic Covenant.
Calvary, the Mass and the Aaronic Liturgy.
The Rational Oblation of the Mass.
St Paul on Law and Grace.
The Oecumenical Council of Florence on Circumcision.
How does the Gospel fulfil and/or replace the Mosaic Covenant?
Should all Hebrews become Catholics?
What is the status of practising Jews who do not become Catholics?
Should Hebrews who become Catholics repudiate the Mosaic Law?
What has Catholicism to learn from Judaism?
What is Platonism?
What is so good about Platonism?
Platonism features in Scripture.
Why did Platonism go out of style?
How has Aristotelianism contributed to the decline of Society and the Church?
Radical Orthodoxy
Plato's Works
What is Life?
My definition: Constancy in Flux.
Solitons.
The Ant Hill and the State.
The Problem with Life is Death.
The Living God.
Eternal Life.
Consciousness.
Mind and Matter.
Spirit and Identity.
Mind and consciousness are not the same!
The Human Person
I am What I am
What I am is not Who I am
What is Free Will?
Causality and determinism: they are not the same!
My explanation of Free Will.
Aristotelian and platonic moralities compared.
Episteme and Doxa: "certain knowledge" or "true belief"?
If it feels good, it might well be right!
God has no free will.
Jansenism
Pascal on Grace
Appendix I : The Debate between Molinists and Thomists
Appendix II : Catholic Calvinism
T
otal depravity.
U
nconditional election.
L
imited atonement.
I
rresistible grace.
P
erseverance of the saints.
Salvation.
Purgatory.
What is Grace? Not a spiritual fuel!
What is the difference between Sufficient and Efficient Grace?
Pre-destination
, various accounts:
Pelagian
Augustinian
Jesuit
Calvinist
Dominican
My own attempt at a solution
The fall of Lucifer: the key to the problem?
Hell & Damnation
Crime and Punishment
The Hound of Heaven
The Particular Judgement
Why Eternal Punishment?
The teaching of Jesus about Hell
The teaching of St Paul about Hell
Commented extracts from the Catholic Encyclopaedia
Original Sin, The Fall and Adam and Eve.
The Doctrine of Justification
The Protestant Position
A Catholic Critique
Catholic Teaching
The Catholic-Lutheran declaration on Justification.
Baptism
The Witness of Scripture
The Witness of the Fathers
The Sacrament of Confirmation
Baptism of Desire
The Sacrament of Penance
Contrition
Non-sacramental Confession
The history of the Sacrament
The mis-use of the Sacrament by the hierarchy
Doctrinal and disciplinary summary
Contemporary difficulties
Practical advice
The Eucharist
Scriptural Testimony
Patristic Testimony
Theological Analysis
The Eucharist as Communion
The Eucharist as Expiation
The Eucharist as Worship
Liturgical Analysis
The Words of Institution
The Epiklesis
The Shape of the Liturgy
The Roman Canon
The Anaphora of Addai and Mari
Philosophical Analysis
Transubstantiation
Transsignification and Transfinalization
Ecumenism
The liberal ecumenical agenda.
Grass roots ecumenism.
Honesty: the true basis for ecumenism.
Humility and realism incumbent on the leadership of the Catholic Church.
Apostolic Succession
Mary Mother of God
The Witness of the New Testament
The Protoevangelium
Implications of the Incarnation
Answers to Objections
The brethren of Jesus
The Rights of Wrong
Traditional Teaching
Modern Teaching
What is conscience?
What is the competency of conscience?
What is the relationship between conscience and the Magisterium?
How should the hierarchy treat those at variance with the Magisterium?
How should the Church advise the Catholic State to treat non-Catholics?
Pius IXth's Encyclical Quanta Cura
Lamentabili Sane
Pius Xth's Anti-Modernistical Oath
The Pontifical Biblical Commission
Salvation Outside the Catholic Church
The Official Teaching of the Church before 1963
The Official Teaching of the Church after 1963
Usury
The Testimony of the Fathers
The Encyclical "Vix Pervenit"
Change in Teaching
Slavery
Roman Teaching Prior to the Twentieth Century
The Second Vatican Council and its aftermath.
Galileo and Heliocentric Cosmology
Anti-Semitic Church teaching
Contraception
What is sex?
The Only Purpose of Sexual Intercourse is Procreation.
Every emission of semen should be intentionally procreative.
Sexual Intercourse During Menstruation.
Reversal of traditional teaching.
Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage
What is marriage?
What is divorce?
What is adultery?
The Indissolubility of Marriage
Polygamy
Justice and Compassion
Contemporary Implications
Appendix I: The history of divorce and remarriage
Appendix II: The teaching of Casti Conubii
Supposed Heresies of John Paul II
Ecclesiology and Ecumenism
Inter-Faith Dialogue
Human Dignity, Freedom of Conscience and Religion
Universalism
Liberalism
The New Mass
The New Rite is not all bad.
It was nevertheless a break with Tradition.
The English version makes the situation much worse.
The New Rite is a Pastoral Disaster.
The Society of St Pius Xth.
The Way Forward.
A Methodist Perspective
The Anglican Use
Teleology
What is Love?
The Virtue of Selfishness.
Is God Good or is Good God?
Law and Justice are not the same!
There is no such thing as victimless sin.
Causality and Finality.
Intrinsic, Absolute and Objective are not the same!
Justice and the claims of Society.
Human Nature: does it exist?
Natural Law: a physicist's perspective.
Pleasure, Purpose and Fulfilment.
Homosexuality and Scripture
Sodom and Gomorrah.
Leviticus
:
a
much
more detailed account
St Paul's lists of sins
:
a
much
more detailed account
:
another view
Romans Ch 1.
:
a
much
more detailed account
David and Jonathan.
Ruth and Naomi.
The Centurion of Great Faith.
Jesus, John and Lazarus.
Love, Sex and Friendship.
Homosexuality and Tradition
Tradition and Scripture.
Tradition and the Magisterium.
Tradition and the Laity.
Sts. Augustine and Chrysostom.
The Liturgical Tradition.
Sts. Polyeuct and Nearchus
Sts. Sergius and Bacchus.
St. Aelred of Rievaulx.
St. Thomas Aquinas.
13th Century Intolerance.
Homosexuality and the official teaching of the modern Church.
Infallibility.
Popes and Councils.
The Ordinary Magisterium.
Infallible Ethical Teaching.
Why do I resist?
The Mind of the Church:
Love and Sex
Hope for the Future
A Fantasy Encyclical
What is Homosexuality?
Homophobic Bullying
What fraction of the population is homosexual?
Homophobic bullying or Homophobia?
Origins of homophobia
The Law
Manifestations of homophobia
How Common is Homophobic Bullying?
Effects of Homophobia
Recommendations: How to combat Homophobia
Celebrating Diversity
Two wrong reasons to celebrate diversity.
The rational basis for valuing diversity.
Who and What is to be Celebrated?
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