No matter how much times change, human nature remains the same. Thus the lessons of child rearing we see in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, as explicated in this Crisis article, remain applicable today: Children need clear boundaries... [Continue Reading]
A New York legislator is proposing a new law that would mandate the creation of a device, similar to a Breathalyzer, that instead of detecting blood-alcohol level instead analyzes mobile phones to determine if they were being used before a crash. He... [Continue Reading]
Hamilton fans who haven't seen the Broadway musical yet, but want to see the original cast better get on it quick. Some of the show's stars, including composer/lyricist/writer/star Lin Manuel Miranda, will be leaving the production this... [Continue Reading]
Trent Horn goes to town on the logic of the so-called "bathroom bill" in North Carolina that requires people to use the bathroom corresponding with their biological sex as determined on their birth certificates. (What a world we have when you have... [Continue Reading]
Here's Ken Briggs' National Catholic Reporter commentary in a nutshell: "How can Crux be considered journalism if it doesn't treat heterodoxy as a valid approach to Catholicism?" Briggs is concerned at Crux's move from the control of the Boston... [Continue Reading]
In the Boston Globe's coverage of Laetitia Amoris, Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation on the family, they include the results of a poll of Catholics on Catholic teaching about marriage, sex, and family. Surprise! They disagree with Church teaching... [Continue Reading]
Several Catholic NASA astronauts discuss how they practiced their faith in relation to going into space. From the basic of going to confession before the flight to preparing for six months without Mass to how seeing the universe from that perch... [Continue Reading]
Update: Smile Software has heard the uproar and has modified their plan. Now, those who will be upgrading their TextExpander from 5 to 6 will get a special lifetime, lower subscription price of $20 per year or about $1.66 per month. With that you... [Continue Reading]
Like coffee and eggs and butter already, whole milk is being rehabilitated from its bad reputation. It turns out skim (yecch!) and low-fat milk aren't really better for you. In fact, you may be better off with whole milk. In a new study published in... [Continue Reading]
Massachusetts has its own religious liberty case going before its highest court on Tuesday. The case involves the Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette and the city of Attleboro. In 2012, the city declared that most of the shrine's property, which... [Continue Reading]