Yes, God is good. A new European Journal of Nutrition study of 2,264 middle-aged Finnish adults found that people who drank more coffee tended to have more skeletal muscle, less total body fat, and less visceral fat, even though BMI was similar across coffee-intake groups. The researchers described the pattern simply: “Higher coffee intake groups … Read more
NBC. Note why they wanted to pass the bill – people were traveling to other countries – Switzerland – to get killed. See the “courageous” comment of the Catholic Prime Minister. Meanwhile the self proclaimed “social justice Catholic” Governor Hochul wrote nine months ago that suicide is a human right. Following an impassioned four-hour debate … Read more
I had already posted about this here A Record at Harvard: 85 enter Catholic Church . there were 45 students; the rest had some connection with the school. Here’s the brief interview.
From the Catholic League, and this is not to denigrate the terrible losses for people of other faiths, or no faith. The loss of nearly 3,000 innocent Americans on September 11, 2001 in New York City, western Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. is something everyone who lived through that fateful day will never forget, and this … Read more
This is an excerpt of a speech by the Catholic writer Mary Eberstadt and published in NR. Since NR (National Review) allows a limited number of free articles (don’t need a subscription; I got in without one) you should be able to access it. The link is the sub title and I have excerpted a … Read more
More signs of hope – and here are some other recent ones – “I teach at Yale. There are Gen Z Catholics all Around Me”, and Nice! A secular newspaper article about a Cloistered Carmelite community. & Las Vegas – who knew? – huge surge in Seminarians & A look at the large rise in … Read more
This is in Slate Magazine – another surprise from a left wing magazine. Another hopeful sign! The author is Sergio Infante, a PhD candidate at Yale. I am not a subscriber to Slate so what I’ve excerpted is all I can copy. Universities need to do more to connect with an increasingly religious student body. … Read more
This is an Indianapolis newspaper. Cloistered Carmelite nuns fill life with prayer, silence, community Now, 11 nuns, from ages 38 to 85 live in the Catholic monastery. They are a multicultural community representing five countries. Sister Anne, 85, has lived at the Terre Haute monastery for 67 years. “I’ve enjoyed every minute of it,” she … Read more
This guy is good – short and sweet.