Source: William Kilpatrick via turningpointproject.com Reprinted with permission Part one of a two-part series A 2023 Gallup poll found that the percentage of Americans who identify as spiritual rather than religious has increased. And among Democrats, more people now describe themselves as spiritual (41%) than as religious (37%). However, according to a […]
Source: William Kilpatrick via turningpointproject.com Reprinted with permission The second of a two-part series. Until recently, Protestants were more likely than Catholics to succumb to the Gnostic temptation I described in a recent column. In a 2008 article for Modern Reformation, Philip J. Lee described how both Mainline and “born again” Protestants were […]
Source: Brian Holdsworth via YouTube.com Support the channel by visiting: https://brianholdsworth.locals.com/ or https://brianholdsworth.ca/support Researches are describing our emerging social climate as an epidemic of loneliness. Even the WHO is taking an interest, saying that it’s contributing to increased dementia, heart disease, and strokes. Gen Z appears to be hardest hit, […]
Source: The Centre for Bioethics and Culture Network via YouTube.com. The infertility industry in the United States has grown to a multi-billion dollar business. What is its main commodity? Human eggs. Young women all over the world are solicited by ads—via college campus bulletin boards, social media, online classifieds—offering up […]
Source: Wesley J. Smith via humanize.today Reprinted with permission. The “international world order” is increasingly radical in its environmental engagement and anti-human in the policies it promotes. In the great cause of “saving the planet,” scientific precepts and empirical analyses are being cast aside in favor of a neo-earth religious […]
Source: ThinkingWest via YouTube.com Benedict of Nursia created a “guidebook” on monasticism. His rules led to the widespread proliferation of scientific study, formalized education, and hospitality for the sick/injured which developed into institutions that are still fundamental to society today. Check out our X account: / thinkingwest Join this channel to […]
Source: Robert Shedinger via evolutionnews.org Reprinted with permission. Evoution News & Science Today: Editor’s note: We are delighted to present an excerpt from the new book by Dr. Shedinger, Darwin’s Bluff: The Mystery of the Book Darwin Never Finished. This article is adapted from Chapter 3. Aside from proposing a naturalistic […]
Source: Bishop Robert Barron via YouTube.com. Friends, we come to the great Feast of Corpus Christi—the Body and Blood of Christ. This year, as the Church in the US is going through a lengthy Eucharistic Revival, it’s good for us once again to turn to this greatest of sacraments. What […]
Premiered on 11 May 2024 Bishop Barron’s Sunday SermonsFriends, today we come to the wonderful Feast of the Ascension of the Lord. Like the disciples in our first reading, we often want to ask the Lord, “When is all of this going to come to fruition? What’s it all about? […]
Source: William Kilpatrick (Nov.8 2023) via turningpointproject.com Reprinted with permission On Saturday, November 4th a massive crowd estimated at 100,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. to rally for Palestine and demand a cease-fire in the Israeli-Hamas war. The event featured numerous speakers—mostly young Muslim women and men—almost all of whom […]
Source: Fr. Mark Goring, CC via YouTube.com Fr. Mark Goring on human sexuality and the scriptural view of marriage. Header image: Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
Source: David Clayton via thewayofbeauty.org Reprinted with permission. When Margarita and I visit Oxford, we regularly attend Mass at the Oxford Oratory. I was excited, therefore, when a friend and parishioner at the Oxford Oratory drew my attention to this spectacular development in its ongoing restoration project. The white paint […]