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Source: Margarita Mooney Suarez via comment.org. This article originally appeared on October 15th, 2021 in Comment, a publication ofCARDUS: www.cardus.ca. When I took a wrong turn while driving with students in Rhode Island in the summer of 2019, we found ourselves driving over a bridge clouded in fog, seemingly going […]
Source: David Clayton via thewayofbeauty.org. Staggeringly beautiful Catholic sacred art and church architectural forms carved into the rock in an ancient salt mine in Poland by miners. Thank you to Phil Burgess for bringing to my attention these staggering pictures of a salt mine in the town of Wieliczka, near […]
Source: Carlos Beltramo, Ph.D. via PRI European Office. Reprinted with permission. PDF download. WARSAW, Poland — The Catholic Faith is flourishing in Poland. Right now, in Advent, throngs of children bearing candles process at 6:00 a.m. into the dark church before Mass begins. The pews are crowded and parents tell […]
Source: The Kolbe Centre for the Study of Creation via YouTube.com. Definition of Science: “The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment”. https://www.kolbecenter.org – “Today we are often told that molecules turned into men […]
Source: 60 Minutes via YouTube.com Bill Whitaker reports on the unexplained healings that have occurred at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in the south of France, and the team of world-renowned doctors and researchers who investigate the claims of cures. #60Minutes #Religion #news Quote from 60 Minutes’ YouTube […]
Source: Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek via thecatholicthing.org. Reprinted with permission. Since the 1960s, progressive Catholics have promoted a new morality to replace older, normative approaches that they believe foster guilt and exclusion. Prominent cardinals and bishops have embraced this “New Paradigm” and are using the international synodal process to spread […]
Source: John Stonesstreet & Kasey Leander via Breakpoint.org Copyright2022 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission. Recently, an impressive development in embryology was reported by the Israeli Weizmann Institute of Science. Using only stem cells, without the presence of sperm, eggs, or even a womb, researchers successfully created […]
Source: Carl R. Trueman via thepublicdiscourse.com The idea that the self is something plastic—that, we believe, we can shape in any way we wish—is the West’s reigning idea of selfhood. This idea especially shapes our thinking about our sexual natures. The sexually autonomous view of the self gained widespread prominence […]
Source: Deacon Lawrence via thewayofbeauty.org Reprinted with permission. I often think that one of the most overlooked periods of sacred art is the early 1900s. Christian artists of that period had a deep respect for tradition but were nit afraid to adapt traditional forms to contemporary needs. If anything their […]
Source: The Catholic Gentleman via YouTube.com Today John and Sam are joined by the man who recovered our Instagram page from a hacker in India. We discuss the situation this hacker put us in, privacy concerns in the digital space, and how to protect yourself and your identity. We also […]
Source: Katarina Carranco via pop.org Over geological time, the earth’s climate has varied from tropical (think dinosaurs) to ice age (think woolly mammoths) and back again. We’re currently living in an interglacial period, and if another ice age descends upon us, as it well may, there is nothing we can […]
Source: The John Henry Westen Show via rumble.com A new compilation of forensic analysis and anecdotal evidence now being exposed suggest that the original Sr. Lucy of Fatima was replaced by a double — that is to say an imposter — by the Shadow Church. Header image: The John Henry […]