"Living by faith includes the call to something higher than cowardly self-preservation." -- J.R.R. Tolkien

“You are not who they say you are, so let me remind you who you are.” -- Pope John Paul ii

INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

"Western culture" roots in the intersection of Greek philosophy and the Judeo-Christian faith. Christianity assimilated Greek philosophy, or Greek rationality, to develop a theology based on

INTRODUCTION O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

There is a famous story in which there are two factories on either side of a river. One factory takes big rocks and turns them into a fine powder. The fine powder is then shipped across the river to the

Aeterni Patris To the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, and Bishops of the Catholic World in Grace and Communion With the Apostolic See. The only-begotten Son of the Eternal Father, who came on earth

Introduction O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

Prayer to Our Lady, Queen of Peace

“The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.” -- G.K. Chesterton (The Everlasting Man)

"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." -- G.H. Hardy

Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? (1 Corinthians 1: 20)

It's hard to explain the technicalities of the calculus of variations to a non-mathematician. Still, an overview of the subject is accessible to most people. Traditionally, a story is used to introduce

But Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God." Amen I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, "Arise, and hurl thyself into the sea," and does not waver in his heart,

Loving Mother of the Redeemer, Gate of heaven, star of the sea, assist your people who have fallen yet strive to rise again. To the wonderment of nature you bore your creator, yet remained a virgin as

Recently I told a friend that I sometimes talk to God. My friend had the most curious response. He said I do not talk to God. When I talk to God, I am, according to my friend, really talking to myself.