Total recall: the extremely rare condition of not being able to forget things...

3 saints who may have had autism spectrum disorder...
Philip Kosloski
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects millions of individuals around the world, and more and more children and adults are being diagnosed each year. It is a condition characterized by “difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors.” In the past individuals who possessed these traits were highly misunderstood and often badly treated...

The problem with the Beethoven Argument: It's more pro-consequentialism than pro-life...
John Clark
I have heard pro-life arguments for most of my life. I’ve even made many of them myself. And I have discovered that some pro-life arguments are better than others. That’s the nature of rhetoric. But there is an argument going around now that, while surely well-intentioned, is ethically disastrous. It’s called The Beethoven Argument...

Pope Francis: “There is corruption in the Vatican” but prayer, devotion to St. Joseph give him strength...

You locked yourself out of your phone. Now what?

Pope addresses La Civiltà Cattolica staff as 167-year-old Jesuit paper expands to 5 languages...

What comes next in the relations between China and the Holy See...
John Cardinal Tong
Over the past year, there have been frequent contacts between the representatives of China and the Holy See. A working group has been set up, through which both sides tried to resolve the accumulated problems. The core problem to be resolved is the appointment of bishops. After several rounds of dialogue, a preliminary consensus has reportedly been reached...

ISS astronaut films elusive blue lightning dancing above a thunderstorm...

How St. Agnes, and the “reckless charity” of the Dominicans, brought the love of Jesus Christ to the Women's March...

Would you rather have a skinny St. Thomas Aquinas, or the Summa Theologiae?

Rock Star Bono of U2 explains why Jesus had to have been God...

New gender policy won't affect Catholic Scouting units, says committee...

Septuagesima, Shrovetide and pancakes...
Stephanie Mann
The Super Bowl is over and the next great commercial social event is St. Valentine’s Day, but Easter candy is already sharing shelf space with Valentine’s candy in our stories. We are in a transitional time in our liturgical year too. Last Christmas seems a long time ago. Before the reform of the liturgical calendar in late 1960’s...

Looking for on-the-record Vatican voices in the New York Times piece about Darth Bannon...
Terry Mattingly
It would be hard to imagine a subject more intriguing to some editors at The New York Times than suggestions that the Darth Vader of the Donald Trump administration – that would be Stephen K. Bannon – was somehow working with forces close to the Vatican to undercut Pope Francis. Thus, there has been quite a bit of online buzz about the rather BuzzFeed like feature (in terms of its sourcing) that Times editors ran under the headline...

These 20 easy-to-memorize Boy Scout mnemonics could save a life...

10 ways to tell which online reading is spiritually beneficial...
Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble
Bishops and popes are human. Like many of you, perhaps, I have had to wrestle in a personal and very direct way with the reality of the flawed humanity of our Church’s shepherds. When I left the Church I felt a deep sense of rebellion against any and all authority. I felt that there was no reason I should live under anyone’s thumb—not a pope...

How Catholic is your stance on immigration?
Msgr. Charles Pope
I have lamented in the past that the politicization of moral issues has caused distortions in the reflections of many Catholics. No Catholic should have any doubt about the Church’s teaching on abortion, contraception, and euthanasia, nor should he or she dissent from it. But enter the fact that political parties take different stands on the issues and suddenly many Catholics either set aside the teachings of faith...

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