Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have brought this computing technology into popular awareness in a dramatic way. Its astounding, creative abilities in natural language processing and computer vision have contributed to a wider awareness […]
Polls, as a rule of thumb, should be taken with a grain of salt. Or even, at times, with a salt shaker. That said, the recent online poll by @Synod.va—the official X (formerly Twitter) account […]
In the early morning hours of August 1, 2024, after a conference committee from the two chambers of the Massachusetts legislature reconciled the differing versions of the forty-two-page House Bill 4750, both the House (156-0) and Senate […]
Eroticism is a fundamental feature of contemporary Western civilization. This is not clearly recognized by the majority and is thoroughly rejected by elite opinion.1 To attempt a serious discussion of the matter in the media […]
Dr. René Frydman is best known by French citizens as the “medical father” of their first in vitro fertilization baby (1982). Medical researchers, on the other hand, laud him for his quadruple decades of pioneering […]
George Soros’ Open Society Institute is often blamed for providing funding to faux Catholic organizations—like the now-defunct Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good—in an effort to marginalize Catholic teachings on moral […]
In all the rightly indignant ferment over appalling developments in the Rupnik Affair and the soap opera stramash over Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s richly deserved comeuppance, two news items worth everyone’s attention skated under the radar. The first […]
“Who am I to judge the Rupnik stories?” Pope Francis’s Communicator-in-Chief, Dr. Paolo Ruffini, asked that rhetorical question on Friday in an Atlanta, GA hotel ballroom, in front of journalists, one of whom—Colleen Dulle of […]
The Vatican’s chief comms officer on Friday defended his department’s use of an accused serial rapist’s art. “We’re not talking about abuse of minors,” said Dr. Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication of […]
Governor Jeff Landry’s signing of the law requiring Louisiana public school classrooms to display the text of the Ten Commandments once again brings together a volatile combination: religion and schools. It’s already generating a collective […]
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