Is Time Linear or Cyclical?

Is Time Linear or Cyclical?

Full Question My professor says Catholics believe that time is both circular and linear. How does that work? Answer It seems that your professor is mistaken. The Church’s definitive teaching about the new heaven and new Earth that Christ inaugurates at the end of time...
Are there such things as coincidence?

Are there such things as coincidence?

Full Question Are there such things as coincidences? Answer The answer to this question is both yes and no, but in different respects. Relative to our human perspective, things do happen by chance. St. Thomas Aquinas noted, “In this world some things seem to happen by...
Were Adam and Eve Real People?

Were Adam and Eve Real People?

Full Question What is the Catholic Church’s teaching on the belief that Adam and Eve were merely symbols and not literally our first parents? Answer Pope Pius XII addressed this question in his 1950 encyclical Humani Generis. He identifies this belief as a...