A friend of mine went through a breakup recently, and when I asked what happened, he told me that—among some concerns about how compatible they are (e.g., sense of humour, etc)—she said that she was looking for someone who would inspire her to love the Lord in everything that they do. I’ll translate for any…

Last last year, my spiritual director recommended I read God’s Voice Within written by Fr Mark Thibodeaux SJ. I practically devoured it, and since then I have been adamant in saying that this is the book I wish I’d read earlier in the year because, for me, 2022 was a year of discernment in epic…

Continued from The Ouroboros & Philosophy (I) & Reason Enough (II) What good reasons did I have for accepting Christianity in the first place? Of course, I have more than one reason, but I’ll start with this: Christianity is the faith of many martyrs. A Faith of Martyrs What initially piqued my interest in Christianity was…

Continued from The Ouroboros & Philosophy (I) There is something awfully wrong in this train of thought, isn’t there? How could reason undermine itself with any integrity? It seems that it can’t: to reason that reason itself is unreasonable is absurd, thus we have no reason to believe it although reason itself may tell us…

There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped. GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy Why did I study philosophy? Many people have asked me this, usually accompanied with a follow-up question like, “What are you planning to do with that?” Usually when people ask me the latter, they do…