Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 6 > Unit 5
Lesson 29: Reasons to Believe: The Question of Suffering
God allows suffering to occur in the world, but His intention is to transform it into love.
Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 6 > Unit 7
Lesson 37: Reasons to Believe: Why Do We Need a Church?
The teaching authority of the Church helps to settle disputes and alleviate potential conflict and confusion with the Body of Christ.
Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 7 > Unit 5
Lesson 26: Reasons to Believe: The Holy Eucharist in Our Lives
The Church teaches us the scriptural basis, matter, form, minister, and effects of the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Eucharistic miracles are rare external signs of Jesus’ Real Presence in the Eucharist.
Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 7 > Unit 7
Lesson 32: Reasons to Believe: The Benefits of Marriage
Marriage forms an unbreakable bond of love between the husband and the wife, which requires self-giving, sacrificial love in imitation of Christ, who offers spouses the virtues and graces needed to endure and promote joy, peace, and mercy
Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 7 > Unit 8
Lesson 40: Reasons to Believe: Mary and the Saints
The Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints serve as models of prayer, and we can ask them to pray for us.
Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 8 > Unit 1
Lesson 1: Reasons to Believe: God’s Image and Near–Death Experiences
Scientific studies on near-death experiences (NDEs) and terminal lucidity provide evidence that human consciousness goes on after clinical death.
Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 8 > Unit 4
Lesson 25: Reasons to Believe: Is the Shroud of Turin a Forgery?
The empirical evidence presented by the Shroud of Turin strongly supports the accuracy of the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ Crucifixion and Resurrection.
Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 8 > Unit 5
Lesson 27: Reasons to Believe: Freedom and Choice
Man is the only one of God’s creatures made in His image and likeness, giving him free will and the capacity to love.
Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 8 > Unit 6
Lesson 35: Reasons to Believe: Temptation and Sin
Satan and the multitude of evil spirits at his disposal are real, and they prowl about the world seeking the ruin of our souls.
Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 8 > Unit 8
Lesson 46: Reasons to Believe: Friendship and Protecting against Lust
Romantic relationships must be built upon a healthy friendship rather than emotions alone in order to thrive long-term and have a foundation in the desire for the other’s good.
Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 6 > Unit 1
Lesson 3: Reasons to Believe: Emmanuel, God with Us
Jesus’ claim to be God is supported by historical evidence, apostolic preaching, miraculous signs—especially His Resurrection—and the testimony of early witnesses had everything to lose and nothing to gain by bearing false witness to the Resurrection of Christ.
Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 6 > Unit 2
Lesson 12: Reasons to Believe: Evidence for God’s Existence
The universe is so fine-tuned in such a way to favor and support life that it is virtually impossible that it was random chance, providing strong evidence for the existence of a Creator.
Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 6 > Unit 3
Lesson 19: Reasons to Believe: Philosophical Proofs for God’s Existence
Philosophy is the love of wisdom and can be used to come to reasonable knowledge of God.
Spirit of Truth, School Edition > Grade 6 > Unit 4
Lesson 24: Reasons to Believe: Questions Raised by God’s Existence
Science and the Bible are two different sources for understanding creation. As long as certain truths about creation are maintained, Catholics are free to believe that evolution is a scientifically valid theory for the development of species.
