2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (551+ words) I am a vegetarian and a Catholic. Such a statement might immediately arouse suspicions: "Why would a person not eat fast food, hamburgers, chicken nuggets, steak, hot dogs? Isn't such food what a large part of the American economy is…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (612+ words) Along with some cool history on how St. Patrick's Day came about, here are five ways that families with kids can get more excited about St. Patrick's Day. Did you know St. Patrick didn't start out as Patrick at all?...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (888+ words) In the seventeenth century, however, European science was overturning the old prejudices of the Medieval worldview and the erroneous conclusions of the ancient world. It was steering toward the direction of our own twenty-first century worldview, where science is supreme....

1+ mon, 10+ hour ago  (802+ words) Sixteenth-century France was a time of moral, political, and intellectual chaos, when the dearest assumptions of Western Tradition were turned upside down. " Born in 1533, Catholic intellectual Michel de Montaigne entered the sphere just as Nicolaus Copernicus was leaving it. Copernicus…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (717+ words) The Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games are underway and will last until February 22." A powerful yet inconsistent tradition with Catholic roots has existed in the modern Olympic games'a Mass that precedes the Opening Ceremony. The Olympic Mass, or Holy Mass…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (504+ words) Dairy Takes Babies From Their Mothers." A professor I used to know once saw the above statement written in big letters on a billboard in Dublin, along with a picture of a momma cow licking her cute baby calf. At…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (422+ words) There's a Catholic custom that involves chowing down on pancakes? It's true! "Fat Tuesday" or "Mardi Gras" is also known as Pancake Day because of a long-standing custom for celebrating the eve of Lent. After giving a quick overview of…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (470+ words) Theodore Samuel Williams, aka the "Splendid Splinter," was my childhood hero. He was, without a doubt (at least in my imagination), baseball's greatest hitter of all time. And he had the statistics to prove it. His .406 batting average in 1941 has…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (695+ words) G.K. Chesterton's classic The Everlasting Man was originally written as an alternative account of human history to H.G. Wells' The Outline of History." He critiques Wells' choices about what was most important in the history of humanity and proposes an alternative set…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (480+ words) But then it struck me when my husband and I finally made it to Santiago de Compostela: it was never "me" and "my actions" anyway. It was God's grace. Some readers may recall that I started the "From Tourist to…...