The True, the Good, and the Beautiful. I often tell my religion class that these three transcendentals are a trinity of avenues into the one, true Church. Some converts make their way into the Church having been drawn thither by … Continue reading
The True, the Good, and the Beautiful. I often tell my religion class that these three transcendentals are a trinity of avenues into the one, true Church. Some converts make their way into the Church having been drawn thither by … Continue reading
In an informative piece at CNA, Nicolás de Cárdenas writes of upcoming canonizations of martyrs from the Spanish Civil War and the religious persecution that preceded it. In the piece — Another 4,000 20th-century martyrs in Spain will be beatified … Continue reading
When Donald Trump and other prominent Republicans following him articulated an essentially states-rights’ position on the matter of abortion, many Catholics defended him on the basis of the principle of subsidiarity, which is an important concept in law. Others defended … Continue reading
Three days ago, the U.K. newspaper, The Telegraph, published a story on the dating of the Shroud of Turin using Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering (WAXS) technology. This dating technique produced an age of approximately 2,000 years, fitting the relic into the … Continue reading
When I was teenager, I witnessed some of the tragicomedy of Donald Trump’s divorce from his “first wife,” Ivana, on television. It was a sickening affair, and the media just loved it; but so did the public. It is to … Continue reading
Frank Wright has an excellent piece at Life Site about the absurd new aid package for Israel, whose war crimes in Gaza continue to mount. Below is a bullet-point summary of the article, followed by a post from the X … Continue reading
A gleeful announcement to the world about the birth of his first son turned into a strange “X-frenzy” when former-actor-turned-farmer, Brandon “Bug” Hall, engaged with some detractors on the social media platform. Newsweek magazine took an interest and wrote up … Continue reading
It has long been the position of Catholicism.org that Medjugorje is a false apparition and we make no bones about saying it openly: see Medjugorje: Another View, No Problem With Heresy, the Devil Provides Wonders at Medjugorje, Message From Medjugorje: … Continue reading
The grave violation of just war doctrine — the hacking pagers of Hezbollah fighters and detonating them remotely — was appropriately condemned by His Beatitude, the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (statement quoted below). In a particularly … Continue reading
A few days after his controversial comments in Singapore, where he called every religion, “a path to God,” Pope Francis gave a video address to a group of young people gathered for the Mediterranean Meeting (MED24) in the Albanian capital … Continue reading
Pope Francis is quoted as saying this at an inter-religious meeting of young people in Singapore: Every religion is a way to arrive at God. There are different languages to arrive at God but God is God for all. But … Continue reading
A couple of days ago, we posted this news item on the site: Candace Owens: Shmuley Boteach Calls Racial Supremacist Rabbi His ‘Mentor.’ It engendered some obnoxious comments that called the Catholic lady a hateful person, and anti-semite, etc. Someone … Continue reading
Yesterday, we posted a dreary news story on our site: Teacher Burnout Blamed on Student Behavior as Number of Qualified Teachers Dwindles. In the time that intervened between reading that story and now, my attention was drawn by one of … Continue reading
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