Black hole expert explains black holes in 5 levels of difficulty…
Astrophysicist Janna Levin, PhD, is asked to explain black holes to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert…
St. Peter’s Peacocks stand out among Catholic tourney teams, on and off the court…
Of the 11 men’s basketball teams from Catholic universities that qualified for this year’s NCAA tournament, four made it through the first two rounds to the Sweet Sixteen. For the most part, they’re from the “usual crowd” of Catholic collegiate basketball excellence: the Gonzaga Bulldogs were the number one overall seed and last year’s runners-up […]
John Cassian’s rules for discernment can help you filter out false teaching and bad teachers…
John Cassian, born in the mid-fourth century in what is present-day Romania, exerted a major influence on Western monasticism and therefore on Western culture. As a young man he traveled to Palestine, lived in a hermitage near Bethlehem, and visited the monasteries of Egypt before traveling to Constantinople, getting caught up with the political and […]
Poland’s Cardinal Krajewski is driving an ambulance from the Vatican to Lviv, Ukraine…
A Catholic cardinal and close papal aide is driving an ambulance blessed and donated by Pope Francis to western Ukraine to serve the civilian population fleeing the Russian invasion. Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, took on the assignment right after returning from Fatima, Portugal, where he led a ceremony consecrating Russia and Ukraine […]
Consecration day, fake news about Pope Francis, and the DC circus…
Bishop John Brungardt will return to ministry leading the Diocese of Dodge City, Kansas, after a nearly 14-month voluntary leave of absence. Brungardt was cleared of an allegation of sexual abuse following investigations by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and what we are now supposed to call the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith…
Pope Francis and Our Lady of Fátima…
Sister Lúcia dos Santos, who lived to age 97, is our primary source for the Marian apparitions and communications that she and two others, all of them children at the time, said they received in Cova da Iria, which was a field near Lúcia’s house in Fátima. The site, now a pilgrimage destination featuring hotels, […]
The parable of the Prodigal Son convicts us. But it hurts even more when you realize something else…..
Jesus tells the story of the Prodigal Son on the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year C, and all the things we typically say about it are true. But there are two very clear meanings of the parable that I hadn’t noticed all my life, even though they are plain and obvious. Maybe the truths were […]
The Great Lenten One-Hour Cellphone Fast of 2022
DrMedYourRasenn Cellphone “If our ‘interior cellphone’ is always busy because we are ‘having a conversation’ with other creatures,” says Cardinal Sarah, “how can the Creator reach us?”
Pro-abortion California bill could legalize infanticide for months after birth, attorney warns
AB 2223 ‘is beyond the pale for any civilized society to even consider, and must be aggressively opposed by all people of conscience who value human life.’
Rejoice, Jerusalem: Laetare Sunday is Catholicism’s Best-Kept Little Secret
Altera Levatur Rose Chasuble ‘Rejoice with Jerusalem; be glad for her, all you that love this city! Rejoice with her now, all you that have mourned for her! You will enjoy her prosperity, like a child at its mother’s breast.’ (Isaiah 66:10-11)