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Star Gazing
3+ week, 2+ day ago (469+ words) Stephen P. White on Thursday, August 20, 2026 Dad eventually got a telescope – a quality amateur instrument with a mirror eight or nine inches in diameter – and he would bring it out on clear nights to look at the nebula in Orion’s belt,…...
Good Questions
2+ week, 6+ day ago (470+ words) Fr. Paul D. Scalia on Sunday, August 23, 2026 Our Lord has taken His Apostles into the pagan territory of Caesarea Philippi. It’s a calmer place because it’s free of the scribes and Pharisees. He can speak openly without having to deal with…...
The Sorrows of Young Zoomers
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (381+ words) Auguste Meyrat on Friday, September 11, 2026 This was not all bad. Secular leftist narratives tend to target Oliver’s own demographic – white conservative males – making them a scapegoat for all the world’s ills. For decades, the great majority of institutions had thoughtlessly…...
Relaxing With the Bible Alone
1+ week, 6+ day ago (386+ words) Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky on Sunday, August 30, 2026 Except for the Apostles, the disciples scatter in disbelief. The Apostles don’t thumb through their Bibles (which they didn’t have back then anyway). Peter asks, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the…...
Beauty: A True Human Need
3+ week, 1+ day ago (783+ words) Joseph R. Wood on Friday, August 21, 2026 As I write, on the day celebrated by some Orthodox as the feast of the Transfiguration on the Julian calendar, I’ve had several experiences of beauty just this morning. The sunrise through the West Virginia…...
Work, the World, and the Human Person
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (595+ words) St. Pope John Paul II on Monday, September 7, 2026 Through work, man must earn his daily bread and contribute to the continual advance of science and technology and, above all, to elevating unceasingly the cultural and moral level of the society…...
The Mass: Our intimate encounter with the transcendent Lord
1+ week, 3+ day ago (63+ words) Bishop James Conley, What We Need Now on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 All of us, whether religious or not, long for transcendence because the human heart was made for it. ‘The Resurrection of the Christ’: a 20-minute documentary on the forthcoming Mel…...
T.S. Eliot???s complete simplicity
1+ week, 3+ day ago (111+ words) In T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life, Lyndall Gordon plunders the various works of her subject to show how suffused they are with the travails of the life, especially the life’s The post T.S. Eliot’s complete simplicity appeared first on The Catholic…...
Christ in the Universe
3+ week, 2+ day ago (216+ words) Alice Meynell on Thursday, August 20, 2026 With this ambiguous earth His dealings have been told us. These abide: The signal to a maid, the human birth, The lesson, and the young Man crucified. But not a star of all The innumerable…...
The Second Spring
1+ week, 3+ day ago (94+ words) St. John Henry Newman on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 The English Church was, and the English Church was not, and the English Church is once again. This is the portent, worthy of a cry. It is the coming in of a Second…...