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 ...

Taking Pascal’s Wager: Faith, Evidence, and the Abundant Life by Michael Rota, a Catholic philosophy professor, is an interesting consideration of whether one should choose to live a Christian life.

In his letter of July 25, “If abortion supporters are wrong, what are the consequences?” Michael Folse raises the famous wager posited by the 17th-century mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal ...

Q. For a mathematical argument for believing in God, one of the best is Blaise Pascal's famous 17th century "Wager." Recount this dicey heavenly proposition by the father of probability theory. A. As ...

Blaise Pascal really was a gambler—at least when he was young. His highly devout parents, according to Antoine Compagnon in his short book “A Summer With Pascal,” were a bit worried when their ...