Religion and Morality

Religion deals with the most important questions of life: why we exist, how we should live and what happens when we die. Here is why no one can afford to ignore it.

The secular case against religion is familiar. The case for it — for Catholicism specifically — is less often heard. Here it is.

Human beings build cities, write symphonies and ask about God. No animal does anything like it. Here is why our intelligence and will point to a spiritual soul, and why every human society has been religious.

What makes an action good or bad? Drawing on Aristotle and St Thomas Aquinas, here is how morality connects with human happiness, why grace raises it to a supernatural level, and why a good life is the best bargain there is.

If there is no God, is anything truly right or wrong? The moral argument for God — explained for anyone who has ever felt that some things are really, objectively evil.

The question every atheist asks — and the Catholic answer is more nuanced than either side usually admits.