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Living in Faith
21+ hour, 23+ min ago (71+ words) Venerable Fulton J. Sheen on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Our knowledge of Truth will be cumulative, if we really wish it to grow: "Ask and the gift will come; seek and you shall find; knock and the door shall be opened to you....
The forgotten foundations of Constitutional law
21+ hour, 22+ min ago (71+ words) Nicholas Aroney, Public Discourse on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Long before the separation of powers and judicial review were given written form, Greek philosophy, Roman law, Christian theology, and the medieval doctrine of paired jurisdictions laid the deeper architecture of constitutional government....
Cost of abuse scandal in US soars 82 percent in single year to $483. 5 M
21+ hour, 22+ min ago (74+ words) Catholic Culture on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 The costs of the clerical abuse scandal in the United States soared 82 percent in the July 2024 June 2025 reporting year, to $483, 534, 316, according to the U. S. bishops" Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection. " The Origins of the Feast…...
Beware the Benedict bot
21+ hour, 23+ min ago (92+ words) Nikolas Prassas, First Things on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 The words of a dead man / Are modified in the guts of the living." Neither W. H. Auden, who wrote these lines in 1939, nor W. B. Yeats, whom they concern, knew that their words would one day…...
Madame Bovary" and Us
21+ hour, 24+ min ago (848+ words) Casey Chalk on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Note: We're near the end and near the goal! We're only several thousand short of putting TCT on a solid footing for this year and beyond. Now's not the time to slack off. One last,…...
Catholic Relief Services gets $240 million in U. S. humanitarian aid
21+ hour, 22+ min ago (69+ words) Madalaine Elhabbal, EWTN News on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 The State Department named Catholic Relief Services as the first in a round of global aid awards a year after the Trump administration closed the United States Agency for International Development. " The Origins…...
Can we humanize our brave new world?
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (94+ words) The elimination of suffering will not produce joy. If we seek to be truly free, we must acknowledge our responsibilities to one another. We will flourish to the extent that The post Can we humanize our brave new world? appeared…...
On Prayer
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (118+ words) St. Ephrem on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 See, brethren, what strength prayer has. There is no possession more precious than prayer in the whole of human life. Never be parted from it; never abandon it. But, as our Lord said, let us…...
In a first, scientists edit human embryo genes with startling precision
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (68+ words) Carl Zimmer, The New York Times on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 Scientists at Columbia University have edited the DNA of early human embryos with unprecedented accuracy, an achievement that could open the way to babies engineered with particular characteristics. " The Origins of…...
Why Pope Leo quoted Tolkien's Gandalf
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (84+ words) Joseph Pearce, National Catholic Register on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 It is no surprise that Leo XIV's new encyclical should be full of quotes from recent popes. What is a surprise is that there's also a quote from a wise old wizard…...