A recently released study on the effects of micro and nanoplastics deposited in soil on the growth of plants found them to have a negative impact on produce. The study was conducted by Luigi Lucini and Mark Trevisan, of Milan’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart’s Food and Environmental Sciences department, and published in the Read More…

The Venerable Bede says that when St. Augustine of Canterbury and his companions were on their way to England to preach the Gospel, they lost heart and wanted to return home to Rome. “For they were appalled at the idea of going to a barbarous, fierce, and pagan nation,” writes Bede. St. Augustine had personally Read More…

We need the virtue that acts as the “great antagonist” of the “most mortal of sins,” but to get it, “it suffices to contemplate a starry sky,” says Pope Francis. “Blessed are the people who hold in their heart this perception of their own smallness!” the Pope said. “Humility is the gateway to all the Read More…