Around these parts we muse on matters catechetical and scholarly, and the engagement between the two. As a high school teacher, like most high school teachers of any subject, I was constantly unimpressed by the materials from which I had to teach, even when I chose them. The fact is, at the time I was…

Wesley Smith reports on the innovation of a San Antonio clinic: The instrumentalization of human life continues to spread like a wild fire. Apparently, a San Antonio fertility clinic is now going to make embryos from donated egg and sperm, not to help the biological parents get pregnant but for sale to infertile couples. The…

Every year, Professor Ratzinger offered a summer reunion/seminar of sorts for his former students. He continued last year, his first year as Pope, focusing on Islam. This year Darwin, Evolution and Christianity will be the topic. Next September 2, professor Peter Schuster, president of the Österreichichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Austrian academy of sciences, and…

The Pope returned to Rome from Castel Gandolfo for the Wednesday audience today, to address a gathering of thousands of altar servers and choir members in St. Peter’s Square: Since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah started on the Israeli-Lebanese border, the pope has not let one public occasion pass by without repeating his appeal…

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