Editor’s note:Part 1 of this essay was published on November 29, 2023. V. The Omega point has given rise to two other cosmic theogonies that are worth reviewing here: first, a loose family of ideas […]
“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of […]
On June 19, 2023, Pope Francis marked the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician and philosopher who remains one of the most important thinkers in the Western tradition. In […]
A portrait of Blaise Pascal from a miniature that dates to the 1700s. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA
Rome Newsroom, Jun 21, 2023 / 09:15 am (CNA).
On the 400th anniversary of the birth of Blaise Pascal, the Vatican Library displayed first editions… […]
Remove modern cultural sentimental accretions from the Catholic faith, and a muscular Church Militant emerges from the Catholic tradition. We are in an epic, life-long battle for the salvation of souls. Hence, military metaphors are […]
Blaise Pascal said, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” The great seventeenth-century philosopher thought that most of us, most of the time, distract ourselves from what […]
“The wager,” says Thomas S. Hibbs, author of a new book on Pascal’s philosophy and faith, “demands a kind of self-transformation of one’s passions, a […]
The full text of a scheduled address by the late archbishop emeritus of Bologna, in which he provocatively states, “Everything that makes up what we call […]
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