Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

“This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” Mk. 7:6   I’m a hypocrite. The meaning of that word comes from what the ancient ...

New Shocking Findings Concerning Autism

A brand new book entitled Evolving Ourselves, by Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans claims that “In 2008, a 78 percent increase in autism – a noncontagious condition – occurred in ...

Fr.Thomas Reese on Pope Francis

Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., a senior editor at the National Catholic Reporter, has written a very thorough and penetrating review of Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si. ...

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

“Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.” Jn. 6: 54” In a kind of half-joking manner, a certain biblical scholar has suggested ...

Stephanie Carnes – Adolescents and web porn: a new era of sexuality

According to Stephanie Carnes, PhD, CSAT-S, the full text on this article on teen porn use is not available yet, but the abstract’s findings are stunning. for example, it states, ...

Phyllis Zagano – Women’s Lives Matter

Phyllis Zagano, a senior research associate at Hofstra University, published the following article in the August 1 issue of National Catholic Reporter. It’s entitled Women’s Lives Matter: http://ncronline.org/blogs/just-catholic/womens-lives-matter.