Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Here’s where abortion may be on the ballot

null / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 26, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, and returned most of the power to regulate abortion back to states, legislative fights have ensu… […]

Barbie’s surprising journey

We might wonder about the point of spending any time writing about or thinking about the meaning of a movie about a doll, but then when we realize that it’s the most popular movie in […]

I’m a mess at Christian charity, but we need more of it…..

“This is no time for Christian charity.” That was what stood out among the responses to a recent nationally syndicated newspaper column I wrote about a recent controversial country-music song/video. Jason Aldean was singing about how small towns handle violence better than urban areas. He mentioned his grandfather’s gun, as a warning, among other things. […]

Scientists and amateur astronomers are abuzz over what could be the next great comet. We’ll get to see next autumn whether it fizzles or dazzles…..

It was just a faint speck seen through powerful telescopes on Earth when astronomers discovered Comet C/2023 A3, also known as Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, earlier this year. But despite this object’s unassuming initial appearance, its orbit was immediately eye-catching: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is on track to zip quite close to the sun and Earth alike in the […]

These 81 easy pasta dinners are all practical and delicious…

Sure, these easy pasta recipes are fairly simple to make: you’ll find most of the ingredients in your pantry, pasta is, by nature, only a quick boil away, and let’s be honest, you probably have pre-grated parm in the fridge right now. (Oh, you have a wedge do you? That’s grate!) But they’re all more […]

Remembering the Dead, One Year Later…

How we remember the dead is significant in how we live. Good ‘remembering’ in general is part of how we live in the present. This is very human, for to be in time is to be on the boundary of the eternal, where past, present and future are as one. The Byzantine tradition prays for […]

Heart of Africa desires Traditional Latin Mass | Fr. Abah Onuh Samuel Maria

Fr. Abah Omuh Samuel Maria is a priest in the African Roman Catholic Diocese of Otukpo in Nigeria, dedicated to Catholic tradition and celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass. As a faithful priest Fr. Abah felt called to learn the Traditional Latin Mass — the Mass of the Roman Rite for thousands of years— from the […]