Author: S&P
The mental and spiritual health of young people in America is rapidly worsening. This isn’t just a medical problem. Something far bigger is going on… …
On Feb. 13, the Centers for Disease Control published its biennial Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary and Trends Report for 2011-2021 and it showed the truly alarming, and rapidly worsening, situation of the mental and spiritual health of high school students in the United States. The report documented that 42% of U.S. high school teens in 2021 said they felt persistently sad or hopeless, 22%...
Have Your Loved Ones Turned Their Backs on God? Do What Élisabeth Leseur Did…
The incredible story of Félix and Élisabeth Leseur is a great testament to the power of sacrificial love and Divine Providence. Having a loved one who doesn’t believe in God is soul-crushing. Not to be able to share the joy of the Mass with that person or to share anything about the Faith, for that matter, can be incredibly lonely and can bring a person to the brink of despair. Take heart, though,...
Shutdown of Jimmy Lai Filmmaker’s TikTok Account Reversed After Censorship Outcry…
“This is both deplorable and predictable. Yet, truth has a way of interring [its] undertakers,” the Catholic priest wrote. TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based company that reportedly has links to the Chinese government. The company is currently trying to fend off bipartisan efforts on Capitol Hill to restrict or outright ban TikTok in the U.S. because of privacy and security concerns. Th...
Prioritize the Ordinary: Go for a Walk Together…
The path to restoring home-life will be in restoring the ordinary. It might not be easy, but it should be rather obvious what to do. If someone takes a ball away from a child, the child will in any case know what to look for—that is, unless it’s gone so long he begins to forget, or, those around him keep handing him other things to distract him. Many of the ordinary functions of human living have ...
Meet Dr. Michael Brescia, the ‘St. Joseph of New York’ who helped give care to the dying…
I’m still waiting for the world to stop to mark the death of Dr. Michael J. Brescia. He was a founder of Calvary Hospital in New York and a trailblazer in palliative care. As best I can tell, Dr. Michael Brescia was St. Joseph living in New York. That’s something you’d think people should know about. A loving husband and father, he lived to help people, ultimately, have a happy death. Dr. Michael ...
The Family is the path toward a Christian Encounter…
Civility is fundamental in developing human relationships, especially within a communal family structure. From the onset, exercising a visible and genuine respect for the dignity of the person exhibits a desire to embrace the person as a child of God. This means that we are called to embrace both the good and understand the bad of the person with the intent of helping the member of the family matu...
Here’s why I think Henri de Lubac should be beatified…
On March 31, the bishops of France announced that they would petition the Holy See for permission to open a beatification cause for Father Henri de Lubac, SJ. Whatever the outcome of the cause, paying such a tribute to one of the great figures of 20th-century Catholic theology was a fitting way to continue celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Council’s opening. For without de Lubac’s pioneering...
Dark energy fills the cosmos. We know how it behaves. But what is it?
The universe has a dark side—it’s filled with dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is the unseen mass floating around galaxies, which physicists have searched for using giant vats of ice, particle colliders, and other sophisticated techniques. But what about dark matter’s stranger sibling, dark energy? Dark energy is the term given to something that is causing the universe to expand fast...
Pope Francis Greets Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Anthony After Wednesday General Audience…
Pope Francis has wanted to meet with the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine. A planned meeting between the two leaders in Jerusalem last summer, which would have taken place during a trip to Lebanon, was canceled. On the second day of his trip to Budapest, Hungary, April 28-30, the pope had a private meeting with Russian Orthod...
In this month of May, spreading devotion to Our Lady is more needed than ever…
By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY May is the month traditionally dedicated to Our Lady, and of course, it is also distinguished by the fact that the first apparition at Fatima took place on May 13, 1917. The following month, she spoke of how Jesus wanted to use the young seers, and Lucia in particular, to make her known and loved, such that devotion to her Immaculate Heart would be spread throughout the worl...
Rock stars Paul Stanley (Kiss) and Dee Snider (Twisted Sister) warn about “sad and dangerous fad” of pushing transgenderism on children…
Two prominent rock stars are voicing their opposition to the activist push to normalize and transition children who say they identify as transgender. “There is a BIG difference between teaching acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young children into questioning their sexual identification as though some sort of game and then parents in some ca...
5 places where you can still search for gold in the United States…
Interest in gold prospecting is growing across the country as the value of gold rises. David Paul Morris/Getty Images Millions of Americans have tried their luck at gold panning. In 1852, the peak production year of the Gold Rush, $81 million worth of gold was discovered in California alone, coming to about $3.2 billion in today’s dollars. And still, two centuries later, prospectors search for gol...
