Stephen Hawking’s book, The Grand Design, summarizes the argument that the universe could have been created out of nothing and is held in a balance to keep it from collapsing back into nothing. No God is required at all to explain these phenomena.
Read More→As a management consultant, former White House Staff member, religious writer, and “cradle Catholic,” the behavior of today’s organized religions is a little baffling because it is so self-defeating. The semi-official position of the Catholic Church appears to be to help and hide predatory clerical child abusers.
Read More→Five years ago, Bill Byron, the Jesuit former President of Catholic University and pastor of Holy Trinity in Georgetown (I was on the parish council) wrote a book entitled The Power of Principles (Ethics for the New Corporate Culture), where he laid out his analysis of ethical crises in American corporations and where he occasionally quoted me.
Read More→Can the Cardinals fix the modern Catholic Church? No. Should the Pope “take the 5th?” Probably. Why does the Catholic Church seem to have an increasingly serious problem in controlling itself? The answer is in the question (hint: the word “control”) and is based upon the “cardinal rules.”
Read More→So, I’m having my glass of Guinness and thinking of all things green (the color of Ireland as well as the color of hope) when I make the strange connection between Saint Patrick and the Texas School Board.
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