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The same year that Copernicus published his book asserting that the sun and not the earth was the center of the solar system, a Belgian doctor named Andreas Vesalius published an illustrated anatomy textbook, On the Fabric of the Human Body, that would result in a paradigm shift in medicine as impactful as Copernicus’ was…
When I began praying to St. Michael with my parishioners after every Mass, I didn’t realize that there was some issue with the translation. The prayer I had said for years asked the archangel to “thrust into Hell Satan and all evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.” Some people…
The above words were spoken by Donald Trump during a June 22, 2024, Faith and Freedom Coalition event, creating great expectations that indeed pro-life prisoners would at some point be free. Trump did get a few facts wrong; for one, Paulette Harlow, who participated in the October 22, 2020, rescue at the Washington, D.C., Surgi-Center,…
Recently we published a large critique of the Trad movement from Fr. Michael Brownson, a diocesan priest who is very sympathetic with our movement, but has some concerns. The motive for publishing this, of course, is to sharpen our movement so that it can be more effective in achieving its goals for the sake of…
I lived with my family in Israel from 1982 to 1989 while working for Save the Children (SCF) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS), mainly in the West Bank and Gaza. I managed a CRS-sponsored “Health Education” project there from 1984 to 1989. The five-year project provided training programs in 160 villages in the West Bank…
The last thing I’d want to be in our time is an American bishop. The recent letter from the USCCB to President Trump, on illegal immigration, was measured in tone, nor did it fail, implicitly, to recognize the duty of those in public office to provide for the common good, taking all circumstances into account….
Above: Metz, France. As a foreigner to the US and the rest of the world once called free, sometimes, among those akin to me in the one true faith, I come across issues that I find to be both controversial and surprising. For example, as we have celebrated the anniversary of the Second Vatican Council,…
China’s new AI program Deep Seek has taken the world by surprise. China is known for its penchant for stealing ideas and joining those ideas with slave labor and authoritarianism to manufacture cheap junk, and now a Chinese outfit has surprisingly developed something new— and it’s better than the most cutting-edge AI programs produced here…
The first piece of legislation that President Trump signed into law is the Laken Riley Act. This law mandates the federal detention of illegal immigrants accused of serious crime. The legislation is named after a Georgia nursing student who was sexually assaulted and brutally murdered by a Venezuelan illegal alien who was previously arrested and…
Five centuries ago, on a day perhaps much like today, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born, a figure whom Giuseppe Verdi hailed as “the true prince of sacred music and the eternal father of Italian music.”[1] At just eleven years old, Giovanni was already a choirboy at Rome’s Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore, studying under…
