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  1. The Synod On The Family - A Mother's Perspective
    When the synod entitled “Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the context of Evangelisation” was announced by Pope Francis back in 2013, I thought it sounded like a very good idea. The rich truths of the teachings of the Church on marriage and the family are now comprehensively supported by a wealth of sociological evidence. Indeed, if we read the website of the Family Education Trust (which does not make its appeal to any text or creed) we find, under the heading “The Importance of the Famil...
  2. Science and Modern Threats to the Human Person
    Dylan James FAITH Magazine March-April 2007 What is a Person?Jesus was once asked, "Who is my neighbour?" (Lk 10:29). Modern versions of this same question arise today in bioethics. If we create a human-animal hybrid, will it be an animal we can experiment on, or, will it be 'my neighbour'? How might we know? Similarly, what about a comatose patient, or the collection of cells that makes up the early embryo? This article will summarise...
  3. The News Tonight – Beauty Saves the World this Christmas!
     The News Tonight – Beauty Saves the World this Christmas!A poem by Sarah de Nordwall
  4. Christianity and Science: Confronting Challenges to Faith and Reason in the History of Philosophy and Theology
    Joseph Laracy FAITH Magazine September – October 2011Joseph Laracy offers a succinct and very helpful overview of the development of post-Reformation philosophy, which through modernism and post-modernism affirms presuppositions which, a priori, make the harmony of science and religion impossible.In the process he brings out well how the concepts of "formal and final causes ... are making a serious return" through some modern...
  5. Time to Proclaim the Primacy of Jesus Christ in Creation
    Editorial FAITH Magazine November-December 2009'The Christian picture of the world is this, that the world in its details is the product of a long process of evolution but that at the most profound level it comes from the Logos. Thus it carries rationality within itself." (Pope Benedict XVI, as Cardinal Ratzinger, God and the World: A Conversation with Peter Seewald. Ignatius 2002 p. 139)
  6. The Methodology of Aristotle's Metaphysics and the Problem of Modern Atheism
    Kevin Flannery SJ FAITH Magazine November – December 2010One of the remarkable features of Aristotle's Metaphysics is the absence of any attempt to set out principles, definitions, arguments, and conclusions according to the structure of an Aristotelian science. This is striking because he calls what he is doing in that work 'science' (episteme) and, according to his own Posterior analytics, a science ought to be so arranged. Also...
  7. The Moral World Before Christianity
    Before Our Lord Jesus Christ preached the Good News of the Gospel among men, the world was submerged in a prolonged and terrible night, in which moral licentiousness, egoism, cruelty, inhumanity and oppression reigned, as history illustrates.From this picture, it cannot be surmised that all Romans, Greeks, and "barbarians" were profligates. There were minorities at variance with that situation, and they were prepared to receive the...
  8. The Church and the New World Order
    Editorial FAITH Magazine November-December 2007A Global CrisisIt is always a truism to observe that we live in troubled times. Every era thinks of itself as troubled. Neither is it anything new to say that we are living in a time of crisis. Every age faces crises of one kind or another. Yet it also true that as life on earth progresses, the scale of the troubles and the depth of the crises intensify.
  9. Jesus Christ: The Master Key to Hope in the Age of Science
    Edward Holloway FAITH Magazine November-December 2009The joy, the inspired enthusiasm, with which the first Christians proclaimed the Incarnation of Christ and the tidings of great joy that it held for all the peoples is known to us as a matter of history, but it has become a fact of past history rather than modern history. Today, when Christian civilisation hangs in tatters, when the Catholic Faith of the nations has been rent with heresies...
  10. The Primacy of Christ in the Light of Modern Dilemmas
    We human beings are created by God and for God. We are created with a spiritual soul as well as a body, and so material things alone are not enough to satisfy us: we yearn for what is truly spiritual. As human beings we have a natural desire for God: we are naturally religious. We yearn for God to reveal himself to us. We yearn for communion with him, to share our deepest existence with him, and for him to share himself with us. And if that...
  11. Book Review: The Christian revolution that made our world
    The Christian revolution that made our world Dominion: The making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland, Little, Brown, 594pp, £25.00reviewed by Richard Whinder This is an important book: a work by a bestselling author which attempts an objective overview of the history of Christianity and its influence on the Western world. It represents a considerable achievement, and it deserves to be read. Almost everyone will find something new in these pages, while committed Christians will find their fait...
  12. Jesus Christ and the Human Heart
    Kevin Douglas FAITH Magazine January – February 2011Fr Kevin Douglas is assistant priest in Livingston. Here he convincingly defends the existence of the human soul — a task strangely neglected by most Catholic thinkers today, yet in such urgent need of updating. Fr Douglas develops the approach used by Faith movement.Jesus Christ is the answer to the deepest yearnings of the human heart. This is a bold claim. We find it...