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This blog's purpose is to help shed light on the topics of science and the Catholic faith.
Recent Posts
On the Origin of Species: 150 Year Anniversary
Today is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's world-shaking opus, On the Origin of Species, which introduced the concept of natural selection to science. Evolution had long been discussed by naturalists. Darwin's great contri...
Diagnosing Depression from a Snapshot
A Canadian woman with major depressive disorder so severe she is on long-term sick leave has had her diagnosis declared null and void based on some snapshots. (Read the take from World of Psychology.) Nathalie Blanchard was told by her doctors to tr...
Dreams of the Blessed Virgin Mary Bring Hindu Couple Home
From the Catholic News Service comes the story of a Hindu couple who converted to Catholicism in only a few months' time after the wife was led there by a series of dreams of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There are a couple of interesting notes in this st...
This is an Actual Real Estate Listing
So instead of meeting deadlines—the deadlines that are keeping me from posting here more often—I got sucked into perusing a humor blog called Lovely Listing. If you have ever been in the market to buy a home, you have seen some odd t...
Vatican Holds Astrobiology Conference: Are There Extraterrestrials?
A six-day scientific conference to discuss astrobiology—the science of life beyond Earth, so-far hypothetical—concluded at the Vatican Observatory yesterday (Nov. 11). Read the story from the Catholic News Service or, if you don't mi...
National Cat Day
I have a lot of flaws. But among my virtues, I am a cat lover. So I would like to bring to your attention the fact that today is National Cat Day in the U.S., with the goal of 10,000 cat adoptions nationwide. St. Gertrude, patron saint of cats, and S...

