Steven R. Hemler
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Steven R. Hemler


Steven R. Hemler is President of the Catholic Apologetics Institute of North America (CAINA) and author of three apologetics books published by TAN Books: (1) The Reality of God: The Layman’s Guide to Scientific Evidence for the Creator, (2) Search No More: The Keys to Truth and Happiness, and (3) Catholic Stories of Faith and Hope: How God Brings Good Out of Suffering.


He is also author of a new book, The Busy Parent’s Guide to the Catholic Faith: Short Answers to the Big Questions, published by Scepter Publishers.


Steve has a Master of Pastoral Studies degree from Loyola University of Chicago, as well as Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Civil/Structural Engineering from Virginia Tech. He has been actively involved in adolescent and adult religious education for over 40 years, including developing and teaching online courses for Catholic International University’ s Certificate in Apologetics.


After a 33-year professional engineering career, including 13 years in the Middle East, Steve took early retirement in 2011 to follow a calling to serve God and the Church full time. Steve and his wife Linda have been married for over 45 years and have three adult children, as well as four precious grandchildren. They live in Culpeper, Virginia. For more information, go to:


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Latest Articles By Steven R. Hemler

Why Go To Mass?

Why Go To Mass?

Not every Mass is going to be a great and deeply moving experience. Lifelong Catholics may have grown so used to the ritual that they aimlessly go through the motions and find their minds often wander. So, why bother going to Mass? Here is a list of the “Top 10” reasons for regularly attending and actively participating at Mass:
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Why be a Practicing Christian?

Why be a Practicing Christian?

Are you happy? We’re not talking about outwardly, but deep inside. Do you mostly have happy thoughts rolling around in your head? Or, do you have a nagging unhappiness, uncertainty, doubt, a feeling of not really belonging, a sense that you don’t really know what you should be doing with your life...
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How Do We Attain Eternal Salvation to Heaven?

How Do We Attain Eternal Salvation to Heaven?

A very important part of this life is believing and acting as necessary to attain heavenly salvation. For what good does it do to attain success and happiness in this world, if we are eternally lost? Our temporal life is merely a preparation and prerequisite for our eternal life.
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Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead?

Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead?

The gospel or “good news” proclaimed since the beginning of Christianity is essentially the news of Jesus Christ’s Resurrection. This “good news” is that a man who claimed to be the Son of God and the Savior of the world has indeed risen from the dead.
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Purgatory: What's It All About?

Purgatory: What's It All About?

God respects the free will of people on earth. We can consciously choose what to do and how to do it. But since the beginning of time people have used their free will to choose sin. It is the misuse of human free will that leads to moral evil, like greed, envy, lust, lying, gossip, anger, pride, etc., in our world.
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What are God's Purposes for Human Sexuality?

What are God's Purposes for Human Sexuality?

As it says in the book of Genesis, God made humans in his own image and "male and female he created them." So, we should ask what is God's divine plan and purpose for our sexuality. Of course, the most obvious purpose is procreation. Humans are made male and female in order to conceive and bear children, and thus to "be fruitful and multiply."
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Does The Catholic Church Accept Evolution?

Does The Catholic Church Accept Evolution?

To summarize my series of articles on evolution, let’s ask: Does the Catholic Church accept the validity of the theory of evolution. The answer to this question is both yes and no. While there has been no binding statement of faith issued by the magisterium on this question, several popes and cardinals have addressed the subject. And, their teachings have several common themes.
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Did God Establish Evolution?

Did God Establish Evolution?

In contrast with evolutionary naturalism, evolutionary creation is another way to understand the development of life on earth. Evolutionary creation is the idea that God ordained and sustained the gradual evolution of life. This approach is a reasonable and well-supported balance between faith and science.
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Did Evolution Occur Without God?

Did Evolution Occur Without God?

The prevailing worldview within the scientific and academic communities is that the material world of nature, which can be observed, measured and quantified by science, encompasses the whole of reality. This philosophical conviction that nature is “all there is” is called materialism or naturalism.
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Is the Genesis Story of Creation True?

Is the Genesis Story of Creation True?

Some people believe the creation story in Genesis is literally and historically true. They believe the universe was created only several thousand years ago, in six, 24-hour “days.” However, there is another way to read this story. The story of creation found in Genesis could be a literary form similar to the parables of Jesus.
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Our Five Transcendental Desires Reveal God Exists

Our Five Transcendental Desires Reveal God Exists

The presence of our enhanced human consciousness not only differentiates humans from animals, it also aids in making the case for the existence of God. That’s because through our human consciousness we desire five transcendental experiences, none of which are necessary for survival.
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