Source: Personhood Alliance via personhood.orgReprinted with permission. The most current information on unethical and ethical COVID-19 vaccine candidates can be found here. The Personhood Alliance’s official position on vaccine ethics is a culmination of 2 months of committee work, which included affiliate representatives from eight states, both Catholic and evangelical, and […]
Source: Discovery Institute via discovery.orgReprinted with permission. KERI D. INGRAHAM SEPTEMBER 28, 2020 EDUCATION REFORM, TEACHING Little progress has been made in closing the achievement gap despite endless initiatives among school districts across the country. The achievement gap refers to the statistically significant difference between average test score data among students from differing […]
Source: Iona Institute via YouTube The Catholic Church receives a lot of criticism (some of it deserved), but it also does a lot of good every minute of every day as this new video from The Iona Institute explains. Please watch and share! Header image: Carlos Daniel via cathopic.com
Source: Bishop Robert Barron on YouTube Friends, there’s a great temptation for us to turn the Lord into a distant spiritual entity or a difficult moral taskmaster. We incorrectly believe that we have to crawl our way to the divine by our own heroism, merit, and effort. But this is […]
Fr. James Brent, O.P. discusses what we as humans can expect in the next life after our time in purgatory, and enjoy the fullness of the ‘beatific vision’. What will our bodies be like. How will we look. These and more questions, Fr. Brent answers based on the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Ever since my book What the Saints Never Said was published, people have asked me, “What is your least favorite apocryphal saint quote?” Some people expect me to answer with the classic faux Franciscan quote “Preach the Gospel, use words if necessary,” which is irritating because it reduces evangelism to “random acts […]
Source: Bishop Robert Barron via YouTube Friends, at the Regional Congress 2.0 Teach event, I presented on the importance of not dumbing down the faith as we engage in religious education. Young people enjoy asking about and discussing the big questions, from God’s existence, to how to be a good […]
Rules and governing restrictions are used every day in countless ways to refine that which is crude and unmeasured into something refined and more capable. We recognize this principle in countless ways in our daily lives except for one critical area: which is sex. We say, in this instance, we don’t need any thing that governs our behaviour except the absolute minimum. So, as long as you can find another willing adult, have at ‘er.
Source: Word on Fire Institute via YouTube Just in time for Halloween, Word on Fire CEO Fr. Steve Grunow joins Fellow of Popular Culture Andrew Petiprin to talk about the horror genre, including offering his insights into some of the most popular horror films and stories. In this interview: – […]
Source: Fr. Mark Goring via YouTube Fr. Mark Goring discusses the ‘Great Reset’ once considered a ‘conspiracy theory’ is now being openly promoted via mainstream media. The World Economic Forum, along with other ‘elites’ want to design a ‘New World Order’ – a man-made ‘paradise on earth’ but without God. […]
Quote: “Allow me to address you at this hour in which the fate of the whole world is being threatened by a global conspiracy against God and humanity. I write to you as an Archbishop, as a Successor of the Apostles, as the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America. I am writing to you in the midst of the silence of both civil and religious authorities. May you accept these words of mine as the “voice of one crying out in the desert” (Jn 1:23)”.
Source: Fr. Mark Goring, CC via YouTube Fr. Mark Goring, CC book recommendation for the month of November is ‘Searching for and Maintaining Peace’ by Father Jacques Philippe. Fr. Mark states that in his opinion it is the best book on the subject of keeping your ‘peace’. We need to […]