Marian devotion is just an late medieval accretion to the faith, right? Think again! In addition to the important place she is given in the Gospels in the New Testament, meditation on the unique importance of Mary’s role in salvation history (known as Mariology) dates back at least to...
One of the most beautiful ancient Advent liturgical traditions is the “O Antiphons.” If you pray the Liturgy of the Hours, then you probably pray them every year. If you know the hymn O Come, O Come Emmanuel, then you know a paraphrase of them. But did you know they...
You may know about Apollo 11, the 1969 mission when humans landed on the moon for the first time. And there’s a good chance you’ve seen the movie Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks. Apollo 8 gets a lot less attention. And yet it was an extraordinary mission – one...
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In February 1962, just a few months before the opening of the Second Vatican Council, some workers were digging in a Vatican courtyard to work on an air conditioning system when they came across a peculiar find: very large animal bones. At first, they thought they had discovered dinosaur bones!...
