Questions from the Unsettled Mind
Jeffrey Tiel
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S1E76 How Many Baptisms are There?
The Church has taught from the beginning that there is only one baptism, namely that baptism in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit that Jesus tasked his apostles with…
S1E75 When are the Last Days?
Imagine if you knew that Jesus was coming back to judge the world and bring in his kingdom in exactly 17 months. What would you do? You might quit your job and cash out your retirement. No sense…
S1E74 Are Unforgivable Sins Real?
The notion that there might be a sin or sins that are absolutely unforgivable, even by a bishop, is pretty terrifying. Given what the Church teaches about the sacrament of confession and…
S1E73 How Did We Get Here? The Evolution of Transgender Ideology
Many Catholics are puzzled by the embrace of incoherent ideas and straightforwardly bizarre practices advanced by the cultural elites in contemporary American society. How can young men claiming to…
S1E72 Can I Change My Gender?
Let’s begin our exploration of the way in which human nature is essentially expressed through gender by taking a look at the current lay of the land on sex, sexual preference, and gender. What, in…
S1E71 What did Mary Know?
Imagine entering a quiet church, looking about to ensure no one else is there, then walking up the center aisle toward the altar, bowing, and sitting in one of the first couple of pews on the right. …
S1E70 Why Does Mary Matter?
Other than the Pope, no person rankles Protestants more than Mary, the mother of Jesus. Protestants see what looks like hysterical Marian worship in many videos of third world Catholic masses, hear…
S1E69 How do we Face the Challenge of Infertility?
I’m writing this question at the outset of Advent, which might seem an odd time with the season’s emphasis on the birth of Jesus to instead write about marital infertility. However, the Christmas…
S1E68 What if we are not Alone?
As Congress continues to be briefed by numerous whistleblowers concerning a significant program to recover and reverse engineer extraterrestrial UFO technology, we appear to be ever-closer to what…
S1E67 How do I Know if I should become a Priest?
Because the choice of the priesthood or the consecration of a nun (just two examples of the non-marital vocation) is unnatural insofar as it requires non-marriage as part of its discipline, it’s…
S1E66 How can we Tell if God Answers our Prayers?
Let’s begin our exploration of this question by remembering that all of the created world is a divine gift. Thus, we should be thankful for everything regardless of whether God did a second miracle…
S1E65 Could God be Evil?
This question haunted me for a very long time during my slow philosophical education into the Faith. I could clearly see why God had to be all-knowing and all-powerful if he were infinite, but why…
S1E64 Who is This Jesus?
After Jesus rose from the dead, the Church started thinking about everything Jesus had said, what he had done, what God had said about him, and what the Hebrew Bible (our Old Testament) had…
S1E63 Is it Ever Ok to Lie?
The answer to this question is “no, never” or “yes, and a lot more often than you might think,” depending on exactly what we mean by a “lie.” The problem is complicated by the multiple ways people…
S1E62 How can We Know God?
Knowing God is understandably a major problem for creatures like ourselves. We are the bottom rung of rational creatures, heavily linked to our physicality that narrows the extension of our minds. …
S1E61 Is Judging Always Wrong?
The term “judge” seems to connote different things in different contexts. Legally, we think of the judge as the person who oversees the judicial process, ensuring that the law is followed. We tend to…
S1E60 What is the Immaculate Conception?
Since not all of you are Roman Catholic Christians, the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the mother of Jesus, may be less well known to you. It is different from the Virgin Birth of…
S1E59 Do We Seriously Want to Meet God?
One of the more surprising stories in the Old Testament book of Exodus receiveslittle attention, perhaps because the story is so short. But Moses is up onMount Sinai receiving the Law, and God tells…
S1E58 Do You Have a Goddess Within?
My wife and I recently found ourselves at a dinner/musical performance where a young female singer began her set with a question to the audience: “How many of you have ever met a goddess?” We were…
S1E57 Can We Derive Norms from Nature?
A British empiricist philosopher named David Hume is famous for his skeptical arguments attacking the notion of a natural morality. Hume claimed that no moral (“ought”) claims could be derived from…
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