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If God is not love but only knowledge, then it is difficult or impossible to see how human free will and divine predestination can both be true. But if God is love, there is a way.
Makes it very clear that the Catholic Church has always taught that God created the universe out of nothing.
Gives a fairly detailed history of how Fr Georges Lemaitre first developed the Big Bang theory based on Einstein's formulas.
Great article on the background to the myth of the Catholic Church's belief in a flat earth and major leaders who perpetuate this falsehood.
A fairly comprehensive article about the history of the Flat Earth Theory.
Detailed exploration of the Galileo affair. A great introduction to the details.
This detailed article debunks each of the particular points about the Galileo affair.
A great article that explains very well that there is no conflict between science and religion.
A set of articles that helps correct the legacy of the Enlightenment in modern historical research.
This wiki provides articulate and logical proofs for God's existence based on recent scientific and philosophical research.
This deeper article explores the evidence for the existence of God based on contemporary physics.
The recent spate of neuroscientific and psychological literature claiming to show that free will is an illusion provides a case in point. Philosopher Alfred Mele’s new book, Free: Why Science Hasn’t Disproved Free Will (Oxford, 2015), is a brief, lucid, and decisive refutation of these arguments. Mele demonstrates that scientific evidence comes nowhere close to undermining free will, and that the reasoning leading some scientists to claim otherwise is amazingly sloppy.
A great introduction to the five precepts of the Church (CCC 2041-3).
Scripture study needs a renewal and this article maps out the renewal that Pope Benedict XVI has called for with clarity.