Other Earths: The Birth of a Popular (but Not Scientific) Idea
LEFT: Nicolas de Largillière, “Portrait of Fontenelle,” 18th century. RIGHT: Frontispiece to Fontenelle’s 1686 ‘Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds.’ PART II: When thinkers like Fontenelle popularized the idea of a Plurality of Worlds in the 17th century, it grew to be widely supported by astronomers — but science offered nothing to support it, and […]
The Sun Is a Star; Not All Stars Are Suns
LEFT: Anonymous, “Portrait of Agnes Mary Clerke.” RIGHT: Starry Sky. PART III: Well more than a century ago, science again started to directly challenge the idea of a Plurality of Worlds by demonstrating that stars are not all other suns
The Earth Is a Planet; Not All Planets Are Earths
LEFT: Bernard Vaillant, “Portrait of Christiaan Huygens,” 1686. RIGHT: Sizes of planets and sun, from the 1698 ‘Cosmotheoros’ of Christiaan Huygens. PART IV: In the 1800s, the idea of a Plurality of Worlds was challenged by the fact that, just as stars are not all other suns, planets are not all other earths — and […]
Italy’s Reckoning
TRANSCRIPT Italian victims of clerical sex abuse are demanding the Catholic Church reveal the scope of the abuse crisis. Church Militant’s Hunter Bradford examines how victims are making themselves heard. Sex abuse victim Mario claims Fr. Gianni Bekiaris began abusing him when he was 8. It went on for 16 years. Mario is just one of […]
Resist and Restore
TRANSCRIPT Resistance is carrying out its mission in the trenches — to restore Christendom one soul at a time. It has come a long way since its humble beginnings. Church Militant’s James Fedewa takes a look at where Resistance has been and where it’s going. In the early days, Church Militant’s focus was explaining the Catholic faith, but it quickly […]
Detroit Church Demolished
TRANSCRIPT It’s becoming a common sight throughout the West — the demolition of a church. And Detroit is no exception. Church Militant’s Martina Moyski tells about the archdiocese’s latest target — All Saints Church, a once-proud structure and vibrant Catholic community in southwest Detroit. Anonymous priest: “To bulldoze a church desecrates the very ground the church sat upon for […]
Cooking show is this New Orleans priest’s recipe for sharing the faith
Father Robert Cooper on the set of his online cooking show. / Screenshot of YouTube video. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 26, 2022 / 10:00 am (CNA). Last Holy Thursday, a New Orleans-area priest decided to go live on Facebook for his local pari… […]
Pope Francis speaks with Ukrainian President Zelensky: I pray ‘for peace and a ceasefire.’
As Russian tanks and troops moved to attack Kyiv and explosions were heard across Ukraine’s capital city, Pope Francis spoke by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this Saturday afternoon, Feb. 26.
A Change in Charleston?
TRANSCRIPT Charleston, South Carolina, has a new bishop — and Catholics are hoping for a change of course. Going back to the late ’50s, some of the dioceses’ former bishops were dismal shepherds and instruments in the liberal infiltration of the Church in America. Church Militant’s William Mahoney has more on the incoming bishop and some […]
Pope and Zelenskyy speak by phone: “Deep pain for the war in Ukraine”
The Ukrainian President thanks Pope Francis for his prayers for peace and says the Ukrainian people feel his “spiritual support”. Read all