George Herman “Babe” Ruth was born on February 6, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland, and died on August 16, 1948. Although many of his celebrated records have been broken, what he gave to and did for the game of baseball will forever be remembered. Each August Chatter from the Dugout recalls a particular aspect of Ruth’s [...]
By Matt Kososki When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground. –Cersei Lannister One of the more recent posts in the Catholic blogosphere somewhere wrote that The Lord of the Rings is best appreciated when read alongside another work, one of considerably darker character, to highlight [...]
(From the Catholic Encyclopedia 1913 edition) The most famous and best known prophecies about the popes are those attributed to St. Malachy. In 1139 he went to Rome to give an account of the affairs of his diocese to the pope, Innocent II, who promised him two palliums for the metropolitan Sees of Armagh and [...]
On July 9, 2012, the Archbishop Emeritus of Rio de Janeiro, Eugenio Cardinal Sales died. His funeral was celebrated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil . During his funeral, a white dove landed on the casket of the late Cardinal. Reports say the dove stayed there for almost an hour! Eugênio de Araújo Sales (8 November 1920 [...]
You have undoubtedly heard a torrent of reports about the so-called “God Particle”, or the Higgs boson, in the news recently. But as important as this particle is to the understanding of the Standard Model (a theory concerning the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions, which mediate the dynamics of the known subatomic particles), this particular [...]
