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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: 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: blckbx via YouTube.com ‘Facing the Beast’ is the title of the new book by American writer and journalist Naomi Wolf, a book about ‘trust, courage, and resistance in a new dark time’. Program maker Flavio Pasquino invited her to Edam to talk about, among other things, the creation of […]
Source: Wesley J. Smith, Humanize.today (Discovery Institute) Reprinted with permission. Earlier this month, I noted that a U.K. columnist was pushing euthanasia for the elderly as a way of saving national resources. I suggested that normalizing euthanasia leads to such crass beliefs, furthering our slide toward a perceived “duty to die” on […]
“All the aspirations which the prayer of other religions expresses are fulfilled in the reality of Christianity beyond all measure.” This ecclesial document was written in 1989 by the then-Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Ratzinger, who would later become Pope Benedict XVI. Ratzinger was […]
Source: Robert Shedinger via Evolution News Reprinted with permission Methodological naturalism is truly today a defining characteristic of science. Given this, are there any good reasons to make a meaningful distinction between methodological naturalism and metaphysical naturalism, as some still try to do? Since scientists can be religious believers, we […]
Source: Anthony Esolen via The Catholic Thing. Reprinted with permission. One of my neighbors is a pleasant and apparently hard-working young man with a child by a marriage that smashed on the rocks. He has nothing good to say about his ex-wife, so he says nothing at all, though you […]
Source: HLI via YouTube.com Same Sex Relationships & Identity issues -Episode 3 (Theme 3 ). Lisa is joined by James Parker and Patrick McCrystal as they delve into the roots of the Transgender phenomenon and shed the light of the Gospel on the issue. Header image: HLI via YouTube.com
Source: Kevin Schmiesing via thepublicdiscourse.com Reprinted with permission. If sexual attraction is one powerful force that God built into the world to counteract the individual’s inclination to self-absorption, then the combination of technological and cultural assaults on this urge doesn’t threaten only the formation of families, the basic unit of […]