Editor’s note: This article is part 6 of a series, “The Kingdom of Grace.” Part 5 can be found here. Grace is a special gift of God’s love, different from all the blessings of nature, and God gives us his grace in order to draw us into us his own divine Life. God gives actual… Continue reading The Light of Grace – SpiritualDirection.com
US Sends Two Warships Through Taiwan Strait In 1st Since Pelosi Visit
The US Navy has sent two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in a significant first sail through since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s provocative visit to Taiwan early this month. The guided-missile cruisers USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville traversed “through waters where high seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international… Continue reading US Sends Two Warships Through Taiwan Strait In 1st Since Pelosi Visit
‘Post-Quantum’ Cryptography Scheme Is Cracked on a Laptop
Say two parties, Alice and Bob, want to exchange a message in secret, even under the watchful gaze of a potential attacker. They begin with a collection of points connected by edges called a graph. Each point represents a different elliptic curve. If you can transform one curve into another in a particular way (via… Continue reading ‘Post-Quantum’ Cryptography Scheme Is Cracked on a Laptop
Meditations on the Holy Rosary
A Bright Cloud of Spirituality Rising from Every Home and Every Heart (Letter of Don Dolindo to E.C., a spiritual child of his) I am writing to you in the light of the Holy Rosary, the prayer that brings us so close to Our Lord and is today the object of a feast day on… Continue reading Meditations on the Holy Rosary
DeSantis’ Campaigning Could Influence Midterms And Beyond
Authored by Todd Carney via RealClear Florida, Florida governor Ron DeSantis made headlines for agreeing to campaign for Republican candidates, including some controversial ones whom the Republican establishment has abandoned – Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, Arizona senatorial nominee Blake Masters, and Arizona gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake. Perhaps DeSantis is campaigning for these candidates to… Continue reading DeSantis’ Campaigning Could Influence Midterms And Beyond
It’s High Time to Protect Our High Seas
Explore Look down at the Pacific Ocean from outer space and it appears to take up most of the globe. That’s how vast it is. Come back down and onto a sailboat, this time in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Weeks from any shore, you could still be closer to the International Space Station… Continue reading It’s High Time to Protect Our High Seas
Cloudy With a Chance of Fraud: Federal Weatherization’s Back
The U.S. Weatherization Assistance Program (website shown) is on track to triple its budget to $1 billion despite a documented Obama-era record of failing to insulate taxpayers from local fleecing. By Eric Felten, RealClearInvestigationsAugust 30, 2022 Alarm bells are sounding at the Department of Energy as the Biden administration has moved to triple the budget… Continue reading Cloudy With a Chance of Fraud: Federal Weatherization’s Back
The Timing of Christ’s Coming
An inquisitive student of mine came to ask me a string of questions one day after class. He led with this: Why did Jesus come to earth when he did? Isn’t it convenient that Jesus came 2,000 years ago when there was no technology to record him? Wouldn’t it have been much easier for us… Continue reading The Timing of Christ’s Coming
Russian Diamonds Flow Back On Global Market As Western Sanctions Fail
The U.S. and its Western allies have unleashed a barrage of economic sanctions to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. A critical element in that strategy is to limit Russian exports of commodities, such as crude oil to diamonds, to cause maximum economic pain in Moscow. Though the strategy has backfired as Russia’s oil revenues… Continue reading Russian Diamonds Flow Back On Global Market As Western Sanctions Fail
Why and How Do We Dream?
Dreams are so personal, subjective and fleeting, they might seem impossible to study directly and with scientific objectivity. But in recent decades, laboratories around the world have developed sophisticated techniques for getting into the minds of people while they are dreaming. In the process, they are learning more about why we need these strange nightly… Continue reading Why and How Do We Dream?