One of the most common charges against faith in our modern culture is that it contradicts reason, or that beliefs we hold are unreasonable. Nothing could be further from the truth. Faith does not contradict reason, it builds upon and perfects it. It takes what we can know through our limited human reason and enables us to understand the truths about God and ourselves on a completely new level. We see this with Mary during the Annunciation. It seems “unreasonable” that she could be
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