Theology

Diversity is thought to be our greatest strength in mainstream American society. However, it is detrimental to the different kinds of social group identities. Group identities make it difficult to completely severe associations with a value system such as a religion. Here we analyze the division within Catholic circles in terms of values and beliefs, inevitably forming two opposing camps that generally align with either conservatism or liberalism, in order to determine what is "Catholic".

Jeremy argues in this article against Protestantism using philosophy. Protestantism teaches Sola Scriptura, which is an irrational belief and hence why Protestantism can be rejected.

In this article the author examines the Church's teachings on transgenderism and same-sex unions as taught in Pope Francis' Amoris Laetitia. Within the document, Pope Francis rejects the core idea of transgenderism and any moral liceity to same-sex unions.

This article examines one claim of pro-abortion advocates, namely that unborn children are aggressors. Such a view is an injustice, for unborn children can never be aggressors, and as such, those who promote such a view in actuality promote injustice and totalitarianism.

The series On Marijuana is broken up into five parts. Part I discusses the Church's teachings based on the Catechism and Church: Drugs and Drug Addiction on drugs in general and why it is immoral to use drugs outside of medicinal purposes. Furthermore, the Church argues that there is distinction between soft and hard drugs, from which it follows that marijuana is considered by the Church to be a hard or dangerous drug like cocaine, heroin, crack, and etc.

Part II focuses on the health effects of marijuana drawing from many medical studies, good and ill. Many of the medical claims about marijuana are in fact false.

Part III is dedicated to understanding the distinction between drugs and alcohol. It briefly considers some of the medical differences and then develops a Biblical theology of drugs and alcohol. Theologically, it does not make sense to equate both substances. Alcohol represents life, especially life in Christ whereas drugs is akin to drunkenness which is associated with sin and death.

Part IV explores Joseph Ratzinger's theology of drugs. Ratzinger argues that the drug phenomenon arose out of a spiritual void originating from the philosophical error which equated objectivity with the facticity of the world. Quantity, properties, and the laws of nature exhaust the world of objectivity. This means that religion and morality belong to what is subjective and a matter of private opinion. Drugs are hence an escape from this brutalized world of facts.

Part V investigates the question whether one can use drugs to induce mystical experience. The article answers negatively to the question based on the philosophies of Martin Buber and Rudolph Otto, arguing that religious experience in essence is an I-You encounter between man and the eternal You who is wholly Other.

This article analyzes the theological implications behind the popular notion of time travel, arguing time travel into the past is impossible because it implies that God is mutable.

Among the objections of radical traditionalists against the “Novus Ordo” Church are the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary. They reject these mysteries, promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 2002, because of the apparent break from tradition. In this essay we address some of the controversies.