Augustine Thompson News Today

It’s time for the Catholic Culture staff’s annual roundup of our favorite books (and other media) of the past year.

Nearly all the Catholic Church’s most cherished festivals (including both Christmas and Easter) can also trace their origins to the same pagan traditions that Fr Muscat now denounces as ‘Satanic’

Drug store soda fountains continued to be popular into the 20th century, particularly during prohibition.

For much of human history, people with mental illness were thought to be possessed by gods or devils. Madness, as it was called, was believed to be supernatural, not natural. Some Greeks, including Plato, viewed mental illness as a kind of spiritual gift, a portal into new ways of seeing.