In an apostolic letter released on June 19, 2023, Pope Francis praised the “brilliant and inquisitive mind” of the influential French philosopher Blaise Pascal, born on that date 400 years ago. In ...

In his 2005 book Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger asks: “Is faith truly an attitude worthy of a modern adult?” This question is not new. It has been around at ...

The wager only scratches the surface of his relevance to a post-Christian era. It is a common lament that we live in a post-Christian era. This fact raises challenges to our witness to the world. Most ...

After his return to Catholicism, Blaise Pascal proposed a famous wager in his masterwork Pensées (Thoughts), taking a mere paragraph to do it. Since the existence of God cannot be proven, Pascal took ...

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