Resources for Catholic High School Religion and Philosophy

Articles for High School Students

Morality/Conscience

• The 10 Commandments: A Concise Summary for High School Students
• You Are What You Will
• The Virtue of Prudence
• Teenage Magnanimity and the Beautiful
• The Virtue of Temperance
• The Virtue of Fortitude
• An Examination of Conscience for Teenagers
• Tattoos and the Illusion of Permanency
• A Clarification on the Meaning of Conscience
• Conscience
• The Secret to Looking Beautiful
• Girls Be Wary!
• A Word on Premarital Sex
• What in the World is Love?
• Sexual Activity in Perspective
• Marriage: A Way to Heaven
• Burley’s Principle of Moral Integration
• Fundamental Points on the Relationship between Rights and Obligations
• Some Thoughts on Utilitarianism and the Good as Such
• What is negative is positive when talking about sin
• Love and the Levels of Happiness
• Some Thoughts on Modesty
• The Seven Capital Sins and What We Can Do About Them
• Is a developmentally disabled child inferior to a non-disabled child?
• Euthanasia and the Sanctity of Life Ethic
• Lying: The Antithesis of Prayer
• On the Meaning and Importance of Integrity
• The Indissoluble Nature of Marriage
• Humility and the Limits of Human Intelligence
• The Ethics of Baby Making
• On the Moral Difference Between Contraception and NFP
• Sex and the Sacred
• Gender and the Divine Icon
• The Benevolence Behind the Moral Law
• Sex, Marriage, and LGBTQ: A Response to Questions by Prospective Teachers
• A Concise Moral Catechesis
• The Greatest Evil
• Some Thoughts on Human Life, War, and the Possibility of Peace
• Contraception and the Conjugal Significance of the Sexual Act
• Advice for Newly Married Couples
• Some Thoughts on Father James Martin’s Building a Bridge
• Inclusivity: What it Is and What it Isn’t

The Church/Sacraments

• A Concise Account of Why Women Are Not Ordained
• Points on the Petrine Authority
• The Sacraments: Signs and Channels of Grace
• Human Limitations and the Need for a Papacy
• Some Fundamental Principles of Catholic Theology

Prayer/Spirituality

• Why do we have to go to Mass on Sunday?
• The Beatitudes: A Concise Summary
• Thoughts on the Value of Silence
• Faith
• Delightful Unworthiness
• Preparing for Eternal Life
• Anger Against God
• Living on the Plane of Faith
• Faith and the Basic Instincts of the Saint
• Disordered Passion
• Conversion

Christ

• Christ Lives!
• A Muslim and a Christian on the Road to Emmaus
• The Divine Exchange
• Why God Became Man
• The Search for Eden
• Christ: The Narrow Gate
• Do Not Seek Heaven on Earth
• All Glory and Honour are His
• Theology of Apology

Biblical Resources

• Commentary on Creation (Genesis 1 & 2)
• Commentary on the Fall of Man (Genesis 3)
• Commentary on John, Chapter 1

The Existence of God

• A Brief Commentary on the God of the gaps and Design
• A Modal Support of Leibniz 2018 (Online version)
• Why the Universe Does Not Come From Nothing

Philosophy

• Introduction to Philosophy for Young People
• What is wrong with Reductionism?
• Chance and Spontaneity
• Reductionism in Biology
• A Note on the False Dichotomy between Head and Heart
• Why Scientism is False
• Narcissism and the Dynamics of Evil
• Some Thoughts on the Nature of the State
• Cultural Marxism and Some Logical Basics
• Some Thoughts on Consciousness and Neurochemistry
• Modes of Religious Expression
• Some Thoughts on the Religious Sense
• Thoughts on the Trastevere
• The Logic of Ideological Narratives
• Orders of Ignorance
• Moral Relativism and the Beautiful
• Thoughts on Faith as Our Default Position
• The Radiance of Personhood and the Splendour of Chastity
• The Science of Ethics and Connatural Knowledge
• A Note on the Difference between Man and Brute
• Man’s Religious Nature
• Does the Universe Have a Purpose?
• On the Nature of the Embryo
• Thoughts on White Privilege
• The Residual Fallacy
• Leibniz’s Modal Proof of God’s Existence
• Some Thoughts on Knowledge and the Logic of Conspiracy

For Teachers

• Teaching Open Level Religion
• The Privilege and Eminence of Teaching
• Bringing a Joyful Spirit into the Classroom
• These Students are not as Smart as Last Year’s
• The Simplicity and Complexities of Love
• Natural Law for Catholic Educators. Part I
• Natural Law for Catholic Educators. Part II
• Natural Law for Catholic Educators. Part III
• Natural Law for Catholic Educators. Part IV

Resources on Natural Law for Teachers

• Natural_law_ppt
• Exercises on Human Goods and Answers
• Exercises on Secondary Precepts and Answers on Secondary Precepts
• Excercises on the Elements of the Human Act and Answers
• Exercises on Double Effect and Answers
• Peter Simpson on Grisez, Aristotle and Human Goods