Any Ideas on a Catholic Research Paper?

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Hello all,
I have been grappling with coming up with a research paper topic over the past several weeks. I want it to be related to Catholicism. Something rich and deep in theology and/or apologetics. i want it to be drawing on the texts of previous great philosophers and people such as Thomas Aquinas. I welcome any and all ideas to write a rich research paper on.
I wanted to talk about Catholicism being the central and the true Church… that all other denominations come from the Catholic church itself but I am not drawn to writing 10 pages on it. I have struggled through writing a page on it. I don’t think I can write this much on a topic that doesn’t seem to draw my attention. I thought about writing a research paper based off of the 5 greatest questions of life (Does God exist/Who am I/What is the meaning of life/What is moral and immoral/What happens after death?) I got the idea from one of Bishop Barron’s videos on it, as you might have seen. But I don’t have a clear thesis or statement to what the paper could be about as a whole.

I welcome any and all ideas!! Thank you anyone for helping.
Blessings ❤️
 
Writing a paper on the 5 ways or other arguments could easily take up plenty of text. Distinguishing between hierarchical and linear causation, act vs potency, refutations of existential inertia, etc. You could draw on Aquinas, Aristotle, Edward Feser is a good resource, and other scholastics that wrote after him.
 
So this is looking at the simplest observations of the material world. (Quinquae Viae) But it only begins to prove God as a being. There seems to be so much more in order to make it to describing and proving the existence of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Or describing Him, not simply as a being, but a God of love and mercy? Do you know of any documents, or philosophers, or theologians to draw on and possibly reach this end?
Or, a way to reach an end from drawing only on the simplistic observations…(motion, cause, possibility and necessity, perfection, intelligence, hierarchical and linear causation, act vs potency, and refutations of existential inertia).

Does this make sense?
 
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