Zombies — an undead fictional being created through the reanimation of a human corpse — are all the rage today in popular culture. Many have heard of the top-rated TV show The Walking Dead (the second most-popular TV show in the world) des … [Read more...]
Evolution vs. Intelligent Design
June 18, 2019 by David Barton
Ever since, in late 2005, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones ruled that the school district of Dover, Pennsylvania, could not mandate material about intelligent design in its science curriculum on evolution (declaring it unconstitutional to … [Read more...]
Father John Navone, S.J.
His obituary plus two of his articles.
January 30, 2017 by David Vincent Meconi
Fr. John "Jack" Navone, S.J., died on Christmas Day 2016. He was one of our regular contributors, and will be missed by all of us at HPR, and those who faithfully followed his thoughtful essays. May he rest in peace! We are including two … [Read more...]
Time to Abandon the Genesis Story?
July 10, 2014 by Dennis Bonnette, PhD
Legitimate science can never assert that Adam and Eve are impossible. It might claim that they are improbable, but never impossible. God’s omnipotence can always make short work of long odds. Is the Genesis story of a literal Adam and Ev … [Read more...]
The Latest Book Reviews
September 23, 2013 by David Vincent Meconi
Early Fall Reading For September 2013 Reviews for the following books: SPOUSAL PRAYER: A Way to Marital Happiness. by Deacon Jim Keating, Ph.D., (Institute for Priestly Formation,Omaha, NE ) 54 pp. PB $6.95; and THE PARISH AS A SCHOOL O … [Read more...]
Science and Faith
May 10, 2012 by R. Jeffrey Grace
The theologian today must resist the impulse to denounce a scientific theory because it conflicts with his theological model. The scientist has to resist claiming that a finding of science invalidates a tenet of faith or doctrine. An … [Read more...]
Presuppositions of Darwinism
Editorial, October 2011
October 6, 2011 by Fr. Kenneth Baker, SJ
In his textbook, Philosophical Psychology (FSSP, Elmhurst, PA 1999), Prof. D.Q. McInerny lists and evaluates the six presuppositions of Darwinist evolution. The first presupposition is that life came to be, the way it is on earth, through n … [Read more...]
Every agent acts for an end
Editorial, June 2009
June 1, 2009 by Fr. Kenneth Baker, SJ
It is a basic principle of reality that every agent acts for an end. Every moving thing is going somewhere—for example, every car on a busy highway is going to some destination. Sunday drivers are on the road to enjoy the s … [Read more...]
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