It’s good to know where people stand! There was a pro-abortion rally recently at the Rhode Island state capitol recently, during which protesters projected the following message onto the capitol building: “Bishop Tobin does not speak for RI.” The message is referring to Bishop Thomas Joseph Tobin of Providence,...
What was this priest thinking? In a video that’s gone viral around the world, you can see an elderly priest slap a crying baby during a baptism. The baby wouldn’t be quiet after the priest tried to comfort him, so the priest grabbed hold of the baby and...
1) We do not know exactly what Saint Junípero Serra looked like, but we do know a lot about his inspiring life thanks to his many writings. 2) He was baptized on November 24, 1713 in Petra, Mallorca the day he was born, because he was sickly and it was...
In 1999, the Lilly Endowment undertook a project to see what would happen if a culture of vocation was woven into the undergraduate experience in colleges and universities. Eighty-eight schools received over $225 million in grant money to implement a Program for the Theological Exploration of Vocation (PTEV). Students regularly...
The original Jurassic Park film from twenty-five years ago rather inventively explored a theme that has been prominent in Western culture from the time of the Romantic reaction to the Enlightenment—namely, the dangers of an aggressive and arrogant rationalism. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, poets and philosophers such...
I love this! A friend of ours Addae Vinicius is a seminarian in the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro. He and his fellow seminarians were riding a public train going somewhere – when they decided to break out in song. Really! Vinicius was able to take two short videos, which you...
