Fr. Christian Mathis | April 30, 2011
Last night I received a short message from a friend commenting on this new blog and I have been reflecting upon it ever since. “I enjoyed that. It makes me wish I still believed in God,” he wrote. “Me too,” I thought to myself. The first thing one sees when entering the church where I [...]
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Fr. Christian Mathis | July 6, 2009
I believe so that I may understand. This is the saying of St. Anselm of Canterbury that is explored in Pope John Paul II’s encyclical, Fides et Ratio. John Paul reminds us that …there is a profound and indissoluble unity between the knowledge of reason and the knowledge of faith. The world and all that [...]
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Fr. Christian Mathis | September 5, 2008
Last night I received a short message from a friend commenting on this new blog and I have been reflecting upon it ever since. “I enjoyed that. It makes me wish I still believed in God,” he wrote. “Me too,” I thought to myself. The first thing one sees when entering the church where I [...]
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