Source: Bishop Robert Barron via YouTube.com Friends, our first reading for this Sunday is about a battle between Israel and the Amalekites. To many of us today, this appears to be either an irrelevancy of history or an outrageous story about God sanctioning genocide. But Origen of Alexandria helps us […]
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Transhumanists Claim AI Will Turn Humans into Gods
Source: Discovery Science via YouTube.com In this bonus interview for the series Science Uprising, mathematician John Lennox discusses the threats and benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), especially the claim by transhumanists that AI will create a race of god-like super-humans. Lennox compares the transhumanist claims to his Christian understanding of […]
Going Beyond the Culture Wars
Source: Fr. Gavan Jennings via mercatornet.comUsed with permission. How Western culture has been moulded by faith. In this terrific book, Dubliner Fr Paul O’Callaghan, a lecturer in the school of theology in the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, presents a succinct and insightful analysis of a daunting […]
Notes From The Dutch Spiritual Underground
Source: David Clayton vis thewayofbeauty.org. Reprinted with permission. How the Cursing Psalms Helped Schoolchildren During the Occupation of World War Two Recently I had an enjoyable conversation with a director of music at a protestant seminary about about the singing of the psalms. He grew up in a Dutch Reformed […]
Fr. Leon Pereira Homily (at Medjugorje)
Source: MarytvMedjugorje via YouTube. A homily from Fr. Leon Pereira in Medjugorje, in which he discusses how the Devil is anatomically ‘challenged’ – how he can’t give life, but only imitates it, can only take what is already created and deforms it. He goes on to say how in modern […]
British Inquest concludes that social media contributed to the death of a London teenager.
Source: Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition A British Coroners Inquest into the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell concluded that social media content had contributed to her death. A British Medical Journal (BMJ) article by Clare Dyer stated: Coroner Andrew Walker ruled that the harmful material had contributed to 14 year […]
Assisted Suicide Is Not About Autonomy; It Is A Symptom of Systems Which Deny Autonomy To Sick And Disabled People
Source: Reprinted with permission by Alex Schadenberg, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. This article was first published as a guest blog by the disability rights group Not Dead Yet on August 8, 2022 By Kathleen Nicole O’Neal On June 16, 2022, a forty-four-year-old Italian citizen named Federico Carboni became the first patient in the history […]
Honest Dating Advice for Catholics
Source: ThatCatholicGirl via YouTube ThatCatholicGirl discusses ” Courtship and Catholicism, and how dating has been so subverted in our society”. Header image: ThatCatholicGirl via YouTube Single Catholics, Dating AdviceBrian Holdsworth reflects on the dating scene for committed Catholics.
Who would The Ten Million be today? (UK)
Source: Right To Life UK via youtube.com On 23 September 2022, at 11:41am, thousands of people across the United Kingdom stopped for a minute of silence to commemorate the ten million lives that have been lost to abortion in England, Wales and Scotland since the Abortion Act was introduced in […]
Everything You Need to Know about Freemasonary
Source: John-Henry Westen Show via Rumble.com John-Henry reads from Raymund Maria’s series of LifeSite articles on Freemasonry to demonstrate the basis for Catholic concerns about the Freemasons and explain why the Church has long condemned participation in the group. To help LifeSite continue sharing videos on important and vital topics, […]
Loving Theory Instead of Literature
Source: Lee Trepanier via thepublicdiscourse.com. Originally appeared in The Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ, and is reprinted with permission. After reading Terry Eagleton’s new book, Critical Revolutionaries, the message is quite clear for those who love literature: avoid graduate school, find others who share your passion, […]
The abyss beyond genocide: eradication of humanity itself
Source: Jason Morgan via mercatornet.com. Reprinted with permission The word “genocide” is rooted in the Shoah. A Polish Jew named Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) first used it in 1944 as a way to describe the systematic murder of European Jewry by the National Socialists. Lemkin’s concept of the slaughter of a […]