under the patronage of St Joseph and St Dominic

By the rivers of Babylon there we sat and wept, remembering Zion;
on the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps. . . Ps 136

Creation

I. The Majesty of Creation

We know God through His effects.  Those effects are multitude; their intricacy a constant source of wonder.  For those whose minds are not stultified by secular humanism, the world as Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, is charged with the grandeur of God. more

II. Creation Rediscovered

Gerard Keane in his work Creation Rediscovered, and Hugh Owen of the Kolbe Center, have done admirable work in exposing the errors in the evolutionary thesis.  I differ from them on one essential point, their approach to the Church's teaching on creation.  I set out here the differences between us and the reasons why I differ from them.  more

III. St Augustine & St Thomas on Creation

This is my analysis of the teachings of St Augustine and of St Thomas Aquinas on the interpretation of Genesis 1. The dilemma between creation instantaneously (in the beginning of time), and creation over the six days, is solved by St Thomas. Moreover, his teaching taken with the Church's rulings on interpretation solves the second dilemma, that between revelation and modern science. more

IV. The Schismatic Tendency in ‘Creation Science’

'Creation Science', the naive assertion that the universe was created only 6,000 years ago, is a Protestant thing.  Its adoption by Catholics presents real dangers to their faith. more

V. Decoding David Attenborough

No one has done more to bring home to us the wonders of the natural world than Sir David Attenborough. The clarity of his films has not, however, been matched with clarity in intellectual analysis of what they show. One must forever be disentangling from the realities portrayed, his simplistic views. This paper is designed to assist the viewer in the task. more

VI. Cause of the Beautiful

If there is beauty in the world, there must necessarily be a cause of it. more

VII. Design in Nature