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
