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The Uninformed Information Age – The Hugh Hewitt Show
As I said yesterday, “…I concluded reading Salena Zito’s latest tome. I intend to write extensively about the book tomorrow. I honestly think that taken with her prior book on the 2016 election, they comprise the best possible analysis of the…
M’Lisa Goff: Never Too Far Gone
By The Stream Published on August 4, 2025 M’Lisa Goff, author of It’s Not Beyond Hope, assures those who feel far from God of His welcoming presence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VnQ9H9L3pI Like the article? Share it with your friends! And…
Ian Stewart’s summer reading list
via Alamy/ 2A3E6P0With the summer holidays upon us, this week’s briefing provides a reading list of articles – and one podcast – designed to offer a distraction from the rigours of travel, leisure or, indeed, of continuing work. These articles…
The Brew: Why Are Brits Naming Their Sons After Hamas’s Dead Head Terrorist?
Columnist Brendan O’Neill writes at The Daily Telegraph: Imagine if in 1945 hundreds of Brits christened their newborn sons Adolf. That might have rattled us as a nation, right? I feel similarly about the news that, last year, 583 baby boys in…
Rule 5 Sunday: Gother Than Thou : The Other McCain
Posted on | August 4, 2025 | No Comments — compiled by Wombat-socho Maybe not as Goth as, say, Ally Slayter, but she’ll do, she’ll do.Post title from the Most Pretentious Card Game Ever Made, which is unfortunately out of print.Ceterum autem…
Vatican farm for use as a field of solar and becomes the world’s first carbon-neutral state
Italy has agreed to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of controversy between the two, into a vast solar farm that the Holy See hopes will generate enough electricity to meet its needs and turn…
Newman’s Elevation as Doctor of the Church: a gift for our times
Pope Leo XIV’s decision to proclaim St. John Henry Newman the 38th Doctor of the Universal Church will help bring the 19th-century English saint’s teachings to a world in great need of them and at a time when England appears to be at the…
Pope at Youth Mass: The Lord is gently knocking at the window of your soul
During yesterday’s Mass for the Jubilee of Young People at Tor Vergata just outside of Rome, Pope Leo XIV reminded the young people that Jesus is our hope, urging them to embark upon an “adventure with the Lord toward eternity” as the Lord is…
On the relevance and reality of the development of doctrine today
Presently, within the Catholic Church, there is much discussion concerning the development of doctrine. Traditionally, doctrinal development was understood to be an authentic growth in the Church’s understanding and articulation of what had…