New Links

1. Archbishops Behind the Cathedral
http://www.manilacathedral.org/archbishops/behind.htm

2. Religious Life
http://www.fisheaters.com/religiouslife.html

3. The Rule of St Augustine
http://www.fisheaters.com/ruleofstaugustine.html

Chapter I: Purpose and Basis of Common Life
Chapter II: Prayer
Chapter III: Moderation and Self Denial
Chapter IV: Safeguarding Chastity,and Fraternal Correction
Chapter V: The Care of Community Goods and Treatment of the Sick
Chapter VI: Asking Pardon and Forgiving Offenses
Chapter VII: Governance and Obedience
Chapter VIII: Observance of the Rule

On Miracles

On Miracle, I mean, on 'Intervention'

There's always an explanation for everything. It's just sometimes we are not ready to understand. An analogy that reinforces this thinking is the topic tackled in the 2nd chapter of A CASE FOR FAITH by Lee Strobel.

In that chapter, Lee Strobel tackles the very issue of science vs faith/miracle, and that one violates the other. In science, an object falls because of gravity and mass. There is gravitational force. No objections. We all agree.

Another scientific explanation why things fall is due to density. Less dense objects float over denser objects. A rubber band floats on water. A 'heavy' objects falls or sinks because it's denser (or its density is greater) than the densite of water. (Are you following?).

Now imagine an object suspended on air. Is that a miracle that one wants to believe? No! It can not be. It violates the law of gravity. It's against science. Surely, it's easy to dismiss. No, no one can float on WATER either -- unless he is God (someone will quickly say).

But it is not impossible that something will not fall. How? Someone/something 'intervenes' like if you a throw a stone, the possibilities are someone catches it on its way down (a person perhaps), or it lands on the roof of a vehicle, or flying object (a bird, a plane, etc) bumps into it and either hits it to delay its fall.

The thing is, SOMETHING intervenes.

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Some books that I've not finished reading (or keep reading) since last year

1. CASE FOR FAITH by Lee Strobel
2. CASE FOR CHRIST (same author)
3. THE FAITH EXPLAINED by Leo Trese
This is the only book I keep reading since college, especially during Lenten season.

Miracles and Nature

" Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only to that which is known to us in nature."

-- St. Augustine

God Allows U-Turns

God Allows U-Turns

http://www.godallowsuturns.com

Journeys Along God's Path

Journeys Along God's Path: Free Bible Study
http://www.wbschool.org/ads/google/index.php

Canon Law

Canon Law Websites

Q. Can you tell me whether there is a website for researching canon law?
-- Henry Bouchard, via email

The text of the Code of Canon Law is available online in English at several sites, including the Vatican website: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_INDEX.HTM

This site also has extremely useful concordances, word lists and statistics about the frequency with which words appear in the text; words in the text are linked to their respective concordances.

Canon lawyer Edward Peters, JD, JCD, who holds the Edmund Cardinal Szoka Chair at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan, has a very helpful website and weblog for those interested in canon law, click here

- Paul Thigpen, Ph.D.