News of the “decorating” of the Anglican cathedral in Canterbury with graffiti has been met with mixed explanations and reactions. The cathedral’s dean, David Monteith, explained that festooning it with graffiti gave voice to “marginalized […]
Two days ago, on Saturday, October 12th: A delegation of Catholic priests, nuns and lay leaders were among hundreds of people from Chicago and the suburbs who marched from Maywood to Broadview Saturday in hopes […]
Leo XIII became pope in February 1878. Within 18 months of his election, he issued his encyclical Aeterni Patris, recommending St. Thomas Aquinas as bearing “golden wisdom” and promoting the renewal of Thomistic studies as […]
Among his (temporarily?) abandoned liturgical instructions that generated a firestorm of controversy recently, Charlotte Bishop Michael Martin wanted to suppress the pre-Vatican II practice of praying vesting prayers while putting on vestments for Mass. Upon […]
In the wake of the murder of children during Mass in a Minneapolis church, various politicians excoriated people who expressed sympathy by sending “thoughts and prayers.” It’s not the first time politicians have taken umbrage […]
California legislators are working to move forward three bills whose effect—if not overt intent—will be to undermine parental rights. AB495, the “Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025,” cleared third reading in the California State Assembly […]
Should scientists be allowed to edit the genes of ticks to make you allergic to eating red meat? “Yes” is the answer of two Michigan academics, Parker Crutchfield of Western Michigan University and Blake Hereth […]
Karol Nawrocki of the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party assumed the presidency of Poland on August 6. His inauguration provides two sharp contrasts: between himself and the assorted leftists in Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s […]
A recent post on X complained about “the total lack of frugality” on the part of the “American poor.” His examples were food stamp recipients driving SUVs and a couple who put every third paycheck […]
On July 21, 1925, a Tennessee jury convicted John Scopes of teaching evolution. The “Scopes Monkey Trial” has gone down in American history as the caricature of the fight between “religion” and “science.” Why a […]
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