Steven R. Hemler


Steven R. Hemler is President of the Catholic Apologetics Institute of North America (CAINA) and author of a trilogy of published apologetics 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.


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 30 years. 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 40 years and have three adult children. They live in Culpeper, Virginia. For more information, go to:


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Latest Articles By Steven R. Hemler
Why Was Christ's Passion Necessary?
Why Was Christ's Passion Necessary?
Why was it necessary for Christ to die on the cross for our sins? Why couldn’t God just be merciful and simply forgive our sins without Jesus enduring such a torturous and brutal death?
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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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How Can We Know Jesus is Truly the Son of God?
How Can We Know Jesus is Truly the Son of God?
A central belief of Christianity is that Jesus is divine, the Son of God. But how do we know Jesus himself made that claim and how can we know if it’s true?
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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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Is There Scientific Evidence that Life has an Intelligent Cause?
Is There Scientific Evidence that Life has an Intelligent Cause?
In my previous article “Did God Establish Evolution?” we discussed how Michelangelo was the primary and intelligent cause of the Pieta who guided his chisel, which was merely a secondary and natural cause of this statue.
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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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What is the Catholic Understanding of Genesis and Evolution?
What is the Catholic Understanding of Genesis and Evolution?
The Catechism of the Catholic Church (#337) states, “Scripture presents the work of the Creator symbolically as a succession of six days of divine ‘work,’ concluded by the ‘rest’ of the seventh day.”
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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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Is There Evidence That God Exists?
Is There Evidence That God Exists?
Whether God exists is a fundamental question in life and one we often seek to answer personally and in conversations with those we love. Many people find objective evidence of God’s existence in what’s been called “The 3 Cs”: cosmos, consciousness, and conscience.
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What are the Stages of Faith Development?
What are the Stages of Faith Development?
I believe the four stages of Christian faith development, described by Rev. John H. Westerhoff in his book Will Our Children Have Faith, are quite enlightening and true. As we go through life, we may expand into (add-on) the needs and elements of the later stages, but only after the needs of the earlier stages are met. The stages of faith are like rings of a tree.
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