On September 5, 1977, “Voyager 1,” built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was launched from Cape Canaveral atop a Titan IIIE rocket. It’s still going, almost forty-seven years later and some 15 billion miles away: […]

Flamboyant Corruption – “Now the Vatican is once again paralysed by scandals, but this time round, correspondents working for secular and Catholic outlets are trying to protect Francis, who faces more serious questions about his […]

“I owe my existence and cheerful countenance to the pituitary glands of thousands of pigs butchered daily in Chicago, Illinois at the Armour packing plant.” This quote from Flannery O’Connor appears after the end-credits of […]

While Lent offers us a clear path of conversion, turning away from the world, Easter invites us into God’s own life. In Lent, we seek to die with Christ; in Easter, we must live with […]

If the Catholic Church had only investigated the virtue and diplomatic skills of Saint Catherine Benincasa of Siena (1347-1380), there would have been ample evidence to canonize her. After all, besides living a virtuous life, […]

The robot uprising is gon’ be a hoot. That’s the lesson from this week, one that saw the world’s first-ever sacerdotal AI chatbot ordained and assigned to general ministry, then swiftly laicized and reinvented as […]