Amateur eugenicist and billionaire spouse Melinda Gates is professing her Catholicism out of one side of her mouth and extolling the Wonderful Healing Powers of Contraception out of the other. Melinda provides her Catholic bona fides as follows: I grew up in a Catholic home, and I am still a practicing Catholic. My mother’s great uncle was [...]
St. Francis Xavier Church in Newtowne, Maryland is among the oldest Catholic churches America. The current chapel dates to 1731, but that wasn’t the first chapel. Jesuits began their work in Newtowne Neck in 1640, and in honor of the church’s 350th anniversary, Fr. Brian Sanderfoot wants to find the remains of the original chapel, which was [...]
When I was asked to come up with a header for this blog, I submitted two ideas to Patheos: a robotic riff on Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, and an image of an astrolabe. Unable to choose between the two, I suggested that the art department just combine them, and the striking image above was born. I first encountered [...]
This is an expanded and updated version of a story that originally appeared in the National Catholic Register. We all want to do right by our children: make them happy, keep them healthy, and raise them to be fine adults formed by the values of our faith. Having a nonstop spigot of toxic mass media [...]
In Ethiopia, hyenas normally just eat whatever they can scavenge from the garbage leftoutside of inhabited areas. But what happens when there are no meat leftovers in the garbage due to the strict Ethiopian Orthodox Lent? Let’s just say you wouldn’t want to be a donkey: Hyenas will eat just about anything organic. They’ll chow down on mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles. [...]
In 2011, 42 percent of all property crimes committed against individuals in New York City involved the theft of a cell phone. Cell phone theft may seem like a fairly minor crime in the grand scheme of things, unless it’s your phone, and then it’s the worst thing ever. It’s also a crime that can [...]
A shorter version of this piece appeared originally in the National Catholic Register. Video and computer games are an almost inescapable element of life for any modern child. Even parents who don’t have game machines and carefully control their children’s media exposure will, at some point, have to make some choices about games. Do you [...]
No, the chickens haven’t started laying yet. Full-sized eggs will probably have to wait until about August. We’re just trying to inspire them.
Artist Thomas Kinkade died on Good Friday, which is probably how he would have wanted it (albeit about 30 years from now). Kinkade was a Christian, and his Christianity was just one of the many things that rankled his critics. Let’s be very clear here right at the outset. Thomas Kinkade was not a bad [...]
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