Thanksgiving is one of those few national holidays when a semi-religious sentiment is allowed. It peeks through in reply to two obvious questions: Thanksgiving to whom for what? In search of an answer, it seems […]
Remember HAL? For those whose memories may not go back that far, HAL (Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer) was the murderous artificial intelligence machine in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Based on stories […]
Lately, I’ve had occasion to read two books by Saint John Henry Newman. One is Newman’s first novel, Loss and Gain, while the other is that classic “history of my religious opinions” (Newman’s words), the Apologia Pro Vita […]
“This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.” The speaker is the Roman poet Virgil, Dante’s companion and guide in scaling […]
Participants in the Synod on Synodality spent two days before the start of its final session in a closed retreat that ended with a “penitential liturgy.” The synod office also provided the participants with a […]
“A man that’d expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic, but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer and […]
When the Supreme Court opens for business again on October 7, it will have before it for argument and eventual decision in the term ahead at least three cases directly involving the protection of children […]
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian communication guru of the last century who was probably best known for saying, “The medium is the message.” As the second and last session of the Synod on Synodality draws […]
“By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate […]
Two years ago, the Supreme Court vindicated the right to life by reversing a 1973 ruling, which abruptly asserted the existence of a constitutional right to abortion that no one had ever previously heard of. […]
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