A recent move to a new server had a few hiccups, but it seems the Adventus blogs are back on track! Thanks for your patience!

A new page has been added to the list of available pages in our right-hand sidebar: it contains a set of audio files derived from a talk I gave on the sacrament of confession some time ago. I hope it will be useful!

Just what does the Catholic Church think of the theory of evolution? To be honest, it depends on which theory of evolution we mean. More than that, it depends on what we believe about the explanatory power of the theory. There are some who seem to treat the “theory of evolution” more […]

Click on the image to be taken to the website of the National Catholic Bioethics Centre, where you can find a lot of resources regarding the position of the Church on bioethics issues.

A reader wrote in to let us know of the following:

Father Tom, would you be able to put a link on Adventus and 2000 Stories to the Alpha Canada Website ?
An important Quebec-wide Alpha bilingual conference will be offered at Becket (and the adjoining school) Friday August 15 and Saturday August 16, 2008. Monseigneur Gilles […]

From a faithful reader:
Since Easter is the celebration of the Crucifixion & Resurrection of Christ which took place during Passover why do we not celebrate it at the same time as the celebration of Passover? When did the change take place and why?
First, a bit of background. The feast of Passover, in the Jewish […]

A friend writes:
I have a question that I hope you can answer for me or maybe give me some direction on. How do you keep focused when praying. I know this may sound odd, but I often experience my mind drifting from one thought to another while saying my nightly prayers. The harder I try […]

Despite the many evils that circulate on the Internet, I firmly believe that it can also be a powerful tool for good. The Kiva website is an example of what I mean.
Kiva is an example of micro-financial lending, in which participants like you and me don’t *give* money so much as *lend* it to […]

The big headline across the new lately is the dramatic rise in global food prices. This issue touches me in a special way, because in college I once did a paper studying starvation economics, i.e. how “standard” economics changes when food availability reaches critical levels. It isn’t pretty, and experience shows that one […]

Just so Adventus readers know, I’m off on retreat for a week. I’ll be back to continue our lively debates on April 1. Happy Easter, and God bless!