ⓜ Believing in things…
And then I wrote… in 2014, the national Catholic newspaper Our Sunday Visitor invited me to submit a few words about science and faith… as anyone who reads these pages knows, it’s hard to shut me up on the topic! This covers familiar ground; but it does it in a way that I hope was very accessible to a popular audience… “What do I do, if science tells me one thing but religion tells me another thing? Which do I believe?” There’s a false assumption at the center of that question – because neither science nor religion are about in “believing” in “things”. Our religious belief is not in a “thing,” but in a Person – indeed, Three Persons. Our faith is in the Father, Son, and Spirit as described and identified in the Creed, and in the Church that leads us to those Persons. The words of the Creed are important precisely because they identify one very specific God: … Continue reading →