Blessed Fulton Sheen on sex, love, and marriage
Pretty insightful quick video. His beatification – which is sainthood – is today.
Catholic stuff
Cardinal Burke on the Pentateuch – he gets it right .
And gets attacked by whacko fundamentalist Catholic know nothings. The first five books of the bible didn’t reach their final form until centuries after Moses was gone.
Interview: Bishop Barron on the latest Vatican document and other stuff
The interview is 22 minutes long and well worth investing 22 minutes whether you like the Bishop or not. Happily Raymond Arroyo doesn’t talk too much on this.
More proof for God: Coffee builds muscle and bone!
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
British Parliament rejects (just barely) approving assisted suicide.
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
Harvard Chaplain on # of students joining the Catholic Church.
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.
“9/11 for Catholics; Especially Poignant”
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
Short Essay: “Campus Keepers of the Faith”
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
A Record at Harvard: 85 enter Catholic Church
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