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The Expanding Universe – Is it Getting Bigger All the Time?
Do you believe in the Big Bang? We wrote of the theory, as formulated by the Catholic priest, Father Georges Lemaitre, back in 1927, for which there is much evidence, even if the implications...
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Pope Zephyrinus and the Barque of Peter
Pope Zephyrinus, whose feast is traditionally celebrated on August 26th, governed the Church for 18 years at the end of the third century (199 – 217), during the persecution of Emperor Septimus Severus. In...
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Two Songs to Our Lady of Częstochowa
A hymn to Our Lady of Częstochowa, from the shrine at Jasna Gora:
https://youtu.be/awVxS2LLnnc
And from World Youth Day in Poland, back in 2016, which may as well be 1016:
https://youtu.be/TKDahZFqXaQ
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Letter to the Editor: On Evil, Physical and Moral
(To remind readers, letters to the editor are very welcome, and those judged pertinent can be posted, with permission, and with some commentary in the spirit of charitable dialogue and critique in search of...
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Palestrina’s Regina Coeli
To celebrate this memorial - let's just call it the feast - of the Queenship of Mary, here is Palestrina's rendition of the Regina Coeli, first published posthumously in 1601. May Our Lady's reign...
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The Disastrous DNC and Cardinal Cupich
It sounds like a parody in a tragic comedy, like an even more-inverted Monty Python come full circle: Attendees at the recent Demo(n)cratic National Convention were offered 'free abortions and vasectomies':
Planned Parenthood Great Rivers,...
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D.E.I. – Where S.T.E.M. goes to D.I.E.
Those of sane mind know that D.E.I. is a problem, especially as mandated by faceless bureaucracies, cloaked in a veneer of goodness. After all, diversity, equality and inclusivity seem admirable, or at least not...
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Sister Sasagawa, and Our Lady of Akita and Knock
Sister Agnes Sasagawa, the visionary of Akita, has died, at the age of 93, and, fittingly, like Saint Hyacinth of whom we wrote today, on the Solemnity of the Assumption.
Readers may recall the alleged...
