The SecondSightblogdotnet is a mutual exploration into the reconciliation between science and faith.
Over the centuries there have been tussles between scientific discoveries and the teaching of the Catholic Church. Sometimes this is because scientists have got ahead of themselves; sometimes it is because the Church has clung too long to traditional understandings, and failed to discriminate between the essentials and the inessentials.
But truth is indivisible, and scientific fact and the truths of faith are ultimately reconcilable – although we may not always understand how.
Today this reconciliation has never been more important. Materialists often chide us for what they regard as mere superstition, and claim that we are trying to influence society with our unproved beliefs.
And so the Secondsightblogdotnet (formerly Second Sight Blog) was born.
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Quentin
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Reference the Catholic Herald 29th april 2011; How is Jesus present?
I find the issue of the Real Presence is helped by modern technology. Our TV’s – our mobile phones – are all about presence; – both audible & visible – and even inter-active. One person’s “presence” can be multiplied thousands of times according the number of TVs switched on. True, not actual physical bodily presence, but in all other respects, very much a personal presence. If technology can produce these forms of presence, transcending distance; then we should not have too much difficulty in accepting the “divine technology” – not circumscribed by time or space – of the Eucharistic presence; which is not so much a matter of Christ being summoned down to the Eucharistic altar, as the Eucharistic species of bread and wine being drawn up to Christ to manifest the guarantee of His personal presence. Heresy????
Major thankies for the blog. Really Great.