Well, this talk is on, can faith and reason agree to disagree?

I think you probably know the answer already.

But let's unpack that topic and begin with a little bit of a preface here.

Probably of all the moral issues, philosophical issues,

this is the most burning issue, especially today

in our post-Christian culture.

There is an urgency to appeal to the mind and to show that many of these burning issues,

whether it's marriage, whether it's the definition of the human person, whether it's openness to life,

whether it involves the evolution of the human person, could he have evolved versus was he

created instantaneously by God?

We can't just appeal to a supernatural authority for the simple reason that the greater part of the population doesn't even know that there is a supernatural

authority.

And I would say we all need to be able to articulate these burning issues, but I would say the

late person in the middle of the world has even a greater necessity to be on top of her game or his game because I preach or speak to good people like you.

I'm kind of spoiled. By the time they get into the chapel or the church, they've

been already worked on by late people who've had dialogues and conversations. So my part is a lot

easier than yours. You're in the trenches of the world, of family life, of the workplace, of festivities on the sports

field, where these issues keep arising. They have to arise because they touch on what is

intimate to the human person and to human relation, children, marriage, suffering, life, death, etc.

First, we have to begin by realizing that does it really matter whether I can articulate these issues and show why

they are reason, that there is an objective truth. Does it really matter? Yes, it does.

I recall, I have a very young lady here who went to the Willows, so she just jogged a memory.

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