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Author: Michael HichbornPresident: Lepanto InsitituteReprinted with permission My 14-year-old daughter is a member of a local homeschool co-op, and this year the co-op hired a biology teacher to teach it to the high school kids. Everything about the class was fine until this week, when the parents all got an […]
Source: Tree of Life via BibleProject on YouTube In the opening pages of the Bible, God gives humanity a gift that they quickly forfeit—eternal life that comes by eating from the tree of life. In this video, we explore the meaning of this powerful image and how sacred trees play […]
Source: crisismagazine.comReprinted with permission Author: Anthony EsolenImage: amgreatness.com Text-to-Speech audio version. Voiced by Amazon Polly As the plague in Europe had its occasional years of acute virulence, so in the United States the election season is upon us again. And as the plague arrived in 1348 and would not be eliminated […]
Source: via healingtheculture on YouTube In this 2-part video, Healing the Culture president Camille Pauley evaluates the use of direct and indirect abortion in cases where pregnancy puts the mother’s life in danger. Header image: via healingtheculture on YouTube
Source: catholicgentleman.netAuthor: Peter C. Kleponis, Ph.D.Reprinted with permission. Tom was noticeably upset as he described his frustration with pornography use. It seemed that every day at work he would end up going online and viewing pornography. No matter what he tried, he always seemed to fall into the same pattern. […]
Source: Tom C on YouTubeN.B. Audio only. Duration 5:50:53 hours Complete Audio Book of Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis You can find this Audio Book is separated into individual chapters on my “I AM Abled” channel also. Link here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZQU… Brief biography of C. S. Lewis via TruthAccordingToScripture.org Born […]
Source: Catholicism Pure & Simple on catholicismpureReprinted with permission Posted on February 14, 2020 by Catholicism Pure & Simple Saint Valentine, officially known as Saint Valentine of Rome, is a third-century Roman saint widely celebrated on February 14 and commonly associated with “courtly love.” Although not much of St. Valentine’s life is reliably […]
Source: Mary’s Meals on YouTube As of 2017 we are feeding 1.2 million children every school day. Watch the most recent version of Child 31: https://youtu.be/62vtyz2E3os Donate to Mary’s Meals: https://www.marysmeals.org Hear the voices of Child 31: https://www.child31film.com Child 31 is a powerful documentary film which tells the story of […]
Source: The Catholic GentlemanUsed with permission. Will you make it through this article? You have been re-programmed in the media-saturated age of consumerism and internet galloping to skim this article. You’re here to grab enough of it to sense a completion after reading, perhaps gaining a sense of gained knowledge, […]
Source: The Council of Trent on YouTube Trent examines the pro-choice arguments of Oliver Thorn over at Philosophy Tube, especially his criticism of Ben Shapiro using Judith Jarvis Thomson’s famous “Violinist” thought experiment. To support videos like this visit: www.trenthornpodcast.com Header image: Philosophy Tube on YouTube
Source: Breaking in the Habit on YouTube Everyone’s heard the story of how Galileo was wrongly condemned by the Church for proposing scientific claims that contradicted the Bible. The problem with this story is that it was mostly made up in the 1800s and the Catholic Church, while not always […]
Source: Brian Holdsworth on YouTube Music written and generously provided by Paul Jernberg. Find out more about his work as a composer here: https://pauljernberg.com Galileo, as we all know, was an astronomer who put forward an idea known as heliocentrism which is the idea that the Earth rotates around the […]