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Bishop Robert Barron on Biblical Religion

Anybody who can make Leviticus engaging has my enthusiastic support:

The Bishops vs. Some Guy with a Keyboard re: the Orans Prayer during the Our Father

Some guy with a keyboard running some site called Catholic365.com barks this order at the faithful: The Faithful are NOT to use the Orans posture during the Our Father Mhm. Except here are the US bishops on exactly this question: Some people hold hands during the Lord’s Prayer, while others hold their hands out like [Read More...]

Today in Crazy Seattle Weather

A rare lightning strike at the Needle! Wild weather blowing through the city – stay safe, Seattle! pic.twitter.com/19bpMs97FO — Space Needle (@space_needle) February 27, 2017 Lightning Strikes the Space Needle! We also had snow and hail and could get more!

Today, Sherry Antonetti and I will be discussing…

the Orans position during the Our Father and also “Will the discovery of life on other planets wreck the Catholic Faith?” Listen live on Connecting the Dots at 5 PM Eastern. Give us a call at 1-573-4BREAD4 to join the conversation.

On Friday, Deacon Steven Greydanus and I talked…

…about Matt Damon, The Great Wall, Oscars, and other fun stuff:

Everybody’s excited about “earthlike” planets this week

Cuz of this discovery. Now “earthlike” has a huge amount of squish to it (Earthlike how?  Size? location? having water? having  a moon to drive tides? Similar age?). So I want to know a lot more.  Of course, the quickest and dirtiest thing to do is check for the presence of chlorophyll via spectrographic analysis. My [Read More...]

Please keep praying for the little girl who was crushed by a tree

My reader writes: The little girl I asked you and your readers to pray for is showing signs of improvement! The doctors were not confident she would wake up, but today she opened her eyes, started moving her hands, and most importantly recognized her mother. She still isn’t able to talk yet though, and she [Read More...]

The Bankruptcy of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton

From the Public Discourse: The details of the Doe case are particularly appalling. Though her case paved the way for millions of women to abort their children, Sandra Cano herself never wanted an abortion. While going through divorce proceedings, she thought that her parents had hired a lawyer to help her fight for custody of [Read More...]

So I gather there was a little mixup at the Oscars

It’s been years since I’ve watched them so I missed the kerfuffle, but congrats to whoever it was that actually won.

Christians Doing Good

…to the stranger. If you are looking for Catholic ways to resist, here is a piece on it.