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A New Kind of Fossil Record Revisited
“The history of the earth is recorded in the layers of its crust; the history of organisms is inscribed in the chromosomes.” Hitoshi Kihara, former director of the Japanese National Institute of Genetics Recently, I wrote a post about a gene survey that had been...
5 Key Pieces of Evidence on the Shroud of Turin
Whether questioning or defending the authenticity and date of its origins or attempting to offer a “scientific” explanation for the cause of the image itself, the Shroud has generated an enormous amount of research and literature. Recently, at the Napa Institute’s...
How to Pray for Your Enemies and Forgive
Jesus enjoins us to forgive one another from the heart; to forgive seventy times seven times (Mt. 18: 21-22); and to ask the Father to “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us” (Mt. 6:12). It will probably come as no surprise that Jesus...
Are You Humble? These 17 Signs from St. Josemaria Escriva Will Help You Find Out
Are you humble? What a tricky, but necessary, question. To truly determine the answer, we need help. Humility is not an easy virtue to cultivate - just ask Fr. Spitzer. [video width="1280" height="720"...
The Evolution of the Universe
Do modern theories in cosmology contradict the idea of creation? “By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible” Hebrews 11:3 (KJV) If a picture is worth a thousand words, this...
49 Years Later, the Moon Landing Still Astounds Us
July 20, 1969, 4:18 pm EDT. With only 30 seconds of fuel left, Mission Control Houston hears with relief, “Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed!” (For the CBS live footage, listen and view the event starting at minute 14.) By 10:56 pm, Neil Armstrong...
Light from the Stars – What NASA’s New Telescope Can (and Can’t)Tell Us
There has been disappointing news from NASA. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) met with several technical difficulties that have delayed its deployment. Its mission? To go where no satellite has gone before. To see so far into the past, that we may get close to...
Father Spitzer and Credible Catholic Featured on Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service (CNS) is featuring Father Spitzer and Credible Catholic as one of their top stories today. The article provides an excellent summary of the project, and points to Father's efforts to stem the flood of young Catholics leaving the church. The...
Fr. Spitzer’s Prayers in Times of Suffering, Trial, and Anxiety
In times of suffering, prayer is one of the first refuges of the faithful, but it can be hard to know where to begin. In this excerpt from this article, Fr. Spitzer details what prayers he uses in his own life and how they can help. Help The first and most important...
Vatican Observatory Celebrates Fr. Angelo Secchi, the Father of Astrophysics
Let’s add Fr. Angelo Secchi to the list: the founders of the many branches of modern science that have been priests or religious, men and women of faith. Fr. Secchi was the first to classify stars by their spectra and was dubbed in an article cited below as “the most...
