From the SF paper, a spiritual journey: Often you hear stories about people starting out as a Catholic and leaving Catholicism behind after getting into Eastern religions. But you went back to it. What do you make of that? Three things came together for me at this point. One was that I was in Jungian…

George Neumayr on the ‘abortion debate that wasn’t." Not wishing to publicize a practice most doctors prefer to keep secret, the medical community releases only sketchy information on the frequency of eugenic abortion against the disabled. But to the extent that the numbers are known, they indicate that the vast majority of unborn children prenatally…

Excellent article from Crisis. As presently defined, there are 24 Catholic Churches that can be grouped into eight different rites. A rite is a liturgical, theological, spiritual, and disciplinary patrimony of a distinct people manifested in a Church. While each Catholic Church may have its own rite or customs, in general, there are only eight…

The British government put an ad in the Times for a new ambassador to the Holy See. There’s no direct link, but here’s the text: The Holy See has the status of a sovereign state. It plays an important role on international issues of importance to HMG such as , development and the fight against…

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