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Why Us?

Why Us?

There is something about human beings that is above and beyond the animal instincts that program them to live in their environment. We don’t just live in nature, we control it and direct it to our own purposes, and we look for deeper fulfillment than Nature alone can give. There is something about us that somehow reflects the Mind behind creation itself.

This is the soul, which does not come from the evolution of matter but is directly created by God. However, this need not be seen as contradicting or overriding the laws of nature once we understand that "matter" is inherently related to the power of mind which organises it, and "mind" is the power that controls and directs matter. For life before man, the control and direction is provided through the whole environment of the earth and the universe under the Mind of God. But when the unfolding evolution of living things reached the peak and the limit of purely material control under God's creative law, the next step, which was always in the plan of God for creation, called for the creation of an individual mind with the spiritual power of self-control. This was the first human being, a living person  who is both body and soul. This is why we each human being has an infinite dignity because they are made in  the image and likeness of God.

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Why God?

Why God?

Science doesn't disprove God, in fact it points to God as the Mind behind the cosmos. Science shows that the human mind can investigate and interpret the material world according to patterns...

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Why Sin?

Why Sin?

Having spiritual souls means that we have free will. We are not bound to do what is good for us by instinct. This also means that we can refuse to do what is good. God did not make us this way as...

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Why Suffering?

Why Suffering?
God wants ultimate happiness for all people and he wills only what is for their good. But the world is no longer as God made it. We inherit from our first parents a wounded nature and a broken world. The Church teaches that "God permitted such painful upheavals as the angels' fall and ma...
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Why The Bible?

Why The Bible?

As spiritual beings we need a spiritual environment to live and grow in, and it is God himself who is our true environment. (“In Him we live and move and have our being” Acts 17:28)....

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Why Mary?

Why Mary?

Without Mary we would not have Jesus, so she is central to the saving plan of God. Before the world began Jesus is predestined to unite heaven and earth as God made man. Mary is chosen and...

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Why The Church?

Why The Church?

The first Christians said that the world was created for the sake of the Church, because the word "church" means the people God calls and gathers together in Jesus Christ to praise him...

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Why The Pope?

Why The Pope?

Jesus is the Wisdom of God in Person who became man to teach us the full truth and show us the only way to be fully alive with God for ever. He said "I am The Way, The Truth and The...

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Edward Holloway - Our Founder

Edward Holloway - Our Founder

Fr Edward Holloway (1918-99) was a Catholic priest who developed a remarkable theology and philosophy which presented Catholic teaching in a synthesis with the modern scientific evolutionary...

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