NASA brings together 24 theologians to discuss alien contact…
We might be preparing to set up a colony on Mars and go even beyond, but the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wants to know if humans will be okay if we come across alien life out there. So, it set up a year-long program to bring together 24 theologists to discuss the impact […]
Want to be happier? Science says buying a little time leads to significantly greater life satisfaction…
In 1930, the influential economist John Maynard Keynes assessed how technological and economic advances had reduced the number of hours the average person worked. He predicted that within two generations, most people would work only three hours a day.
Just another manic transday…
Time for an update. There’s always something going on in this area, but today’s highlights might be particularly helpful in making the nonsense clear … as nonsense. First, let’s return to Lia Thomas, male member of the UPenn women’s swim team. I first wrote about this a couple of weeks ago…
Here’s the reason fire trucks and ambulances have chains hanging from the bottom…
Getting stuck behind a service vehicle like a fire truck, school bus, or ambulance can give you time to think. If you have a car that sits low enough to the ground, you might be able to catch a glimpse of chains hanging from underneath the truck. Why are they there?
No pulse: How doctors reinvented the human heart…
Meeko the calf stood nuzzling a pile of hay. He didn’t seem to have much appetite, and he looked a little bored. Every now and then, he glanced up, as though wondering why so many people with clipboards were standing around watching him.
Archbishop Aquila opens parishes, launches emergency fund for victims of Colorado wildfires
Smoke from the 2021 Boulder County fire over Superior, Colo., Dec. 30, 2021. / Tristantech via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) Denver, Colo., Dec 31, 2021 / 14:06 pm (CNA). Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver announced on Friday the establishment of an emergency fund to assist victims of the most destructive fires in Colorado’s history. Local […]
Like your calendar? Thank the Catholic Church…
On the night of October 4, 1582, the citizens of Spain and its colonies, Portugal, Poland, and most of Italy went to bed and woke up ten days later. The peculiar event was not some medieval miracle but was, in fact, an effort by the Church to bring about a badly needed change to time. […]
This Sunday, follow the star (not the ‘experts’)…
This Sunday the Church in the United States celebrates the Epiphany of the Lord, which is all about how God reveals himself to those who honestly seek him — and eludes those who don’t. The Gospel and readings present examples of seekers of truth so that we will ask, “Which one am I?” Compare three […]
At Christmas, families are the guardians of tradition…
Nothing makes us aware more poignantly that our permanent home is not on this earth than the Catholic traditions that surround our major feast days. No matter where our earthly home is, it is our Catholic traditions that remain permanent despite the ever flowing Heraclitian world of flux through which we travel as strangers and […]
Christmas in the Rear -View Mirror
A traditional Christmas market in Europe Happily, the Church does not so readily drop the curtain and dismantle the stage on Christmas.