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Artificial intelligence thinks it can detect if you’re telling the truth
Aleteia - Dec 28, 2017 at 11:00 pm Universities and companies are perfecting artificial intelligence and augmented reality systems to reliably discover when someone is lying.The right combination of artificial...
Where did the Holy Family live in Egypt?
Aleteia - Dec 28, 2017 at 11:00 pm Jesus likely took his first steps not in Bethlehem or Nazareth, but in Egypt.It is easy to forget that part of Jesus’ early childhood was spent outside of Bethlehem and the Holy...
Bishop Robert Barron: How the ‘Star Wars’ franchise lost its way
Aleteia - Dec 28, 2017 at 11:00 pm In service to an out-of-balance ideology, the series loses its grasp of what is complementary, timeless and true about humanity.I fell sound asleep for about ten minutes during...
8 Great planners to help you be more organized in 2018
Aleteia - Dec 28, 2017 at 11:00 pm If you've got the right tools, managing your time is a whole lot easier.“Be more organized” is one of the most common New Year’s resolutions, but it’s hard to follow through with...
12 Romantic movies to watch while you ring in the new year
Aleteia - Dec 28, 2017 at 11:00 pm Staying in for the arrival of 2018? Celebrate while snuggled on the couch with one of these romantic NYE classics.As 2017 comes to an end and you prepare to say hello to 2018, you...
“Work? What a tragedy when young people cannot even dream of a job”
Vatican Insider - Dec 28, 2017 at 9:55 pm Welcoming is a matter of faith because, “if I know how to welcome, I will find Christ immediately close to me; the opposite is an act of non-faith". The Church is called to "make...
Mohamed’s Nativity Scene
Vatican Insider - Dec 28, 2017 at 9:00 pm In the old Cathedral of Brescia, amid hundreds of handcrafted nativity scenes, the Christian Workers’ Movement sets up every year, there is also an original multi-level...
BECKET - "This is the sign of the Church always: The Sign of Blood."
Rorate Coeli - Dec 28, 2017 at 7:25 pm KNIGHTS. Where is Becket, the traitor to the King?
Where is Becket, the meddling priest?
Come down Daniel to the lions' den,
Come down Daniel for the mark of the beast.
Are you...
Pope Francis and the Our Father: Why Context is Key
Verbum Blog - Logos Bible Software - Dec 28, 2017 at 7:01 pm A guest blog post by Fr Devin Roza, LC (devin.roza@upra.org).
This is the first of three posts discussing and clarifying Pope Francis’s recent comments on the Our Father. ...
Flannery O’Connor on the Glorified Body
Big C Catholics - Dec 28, 2017 at 6:30 pm From 1955 until her death, Flannery O’Connor maintained a correspondence with Betty Hester, a personal friend with whom she discussed various issues including God, the Church and...
Thousands of People Will Take the Pro-Life Message to San Francisco at West Coast Walk for Life
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2017 at 5:54 pm The 14th annual Walk for Life West Coast is quickly approaching and organizers are gearing up for a huge crowd and several exciting new speakers. On Saturday, January 27, 2018,...
Warning: you might not get through it dry-eyed
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 28, 2017 at 5:54 pm I posted this under my Childermas entry, but it deserves attention on its own.
Here is a reworking of Lully Lulla Lullay by Philip Stopford. It’s about the Holy Innocents....
She Rejected Abortion After Her Uncle Raped Her, Then the Judge Granted Him Christmas Visitation
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2017 at 5:23 pm Alabama urgently needs to pass The Rape Survivor Child Custody Act, to terminate the parental rights of rapists and to suspend any custody or visitation. Last week, a rape...
How this would-be scam turned a man’s life around
Aleteia - Dec 28, 2017 at 5:00 pm It started with a Facebook message but it changed his life.We’ve all received those scam messages to our email or Facebook accounts, but what would happen if you didn’t just...
Newborn Baby Abandoned in a Box Meets the Woman Who Saved Her
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2017 at 4:43 pm As 2017 comes to a close, I look back on the year and my life with a huge smile on my face. The organization I founded, Safe Haven Baby Boxes, achieved more in 2017 than I could...
Adieu to Remy's
Saint Louis Catholic - Dec 28, 2017 at 4:40 pm Alas, this favorite restaurant of ours is closing for good December 31st. I'm sure C.S. Lewis would point out that there is a more real, everlasting Remy's up in Heaven, "further...
Presiding in charity: Ecumenical dialogue looks at pope’s role
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 28, 2017 at 4:31 pm Many people, including many Catholics, believe the pope always ruled over the Catholic Church as an absolute monarch, appointing the world's bishops and definitively settling...
Vatican agency says at least 23 church workers killed in 2017
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 28, 2017 at 4:21 pm The majority of Catholic Church workers violently killed in 2017 were victims of attempted robberies, the Vatican's Fides agency said, with Nigeria and Mexico topping the list...
Judge Forces Illinois Taxpayers to Pay for Abortions
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2017 at 4:18 pm An Illinois judge ruled today that taxpayers in the Midwestern state must pay for abortions. The state judge refused to issue an injunction blocking a new state law forcing...
The Feast of the Holy Innocents 2018
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 28, 2017 at 4:00 pm Truly it is worthy and just, meet and profitable to salvation, that we praise Thee more gloriously, holy Father almighty, in the precious death of the little ones, whom because of...
