John Coverdale is a law professor at Seton Hall University Law School in New Jersey and has been an Opus Dei numerary (celibate member) for more than 50 years. He worked for Opus Dei in […]
The NPR site has a recent piece, “Nuns And The Vatican: A Clash Decades In Making”, that is informative in some ways, curious in others. One informative part is anecdotal and opens the piece: When […]
At the Washington Post, George Will has a moving column about his son Jon, who has Down Syndrome and who turns 40 tomorrow. Will notes that when Jon was born in 1972, the life expectancy […]
Not that it’s a slow news day, but I couldn’t let this bizarre bit of news pass by, taken from a recent article in The New York Times about chickens and their loving owners in […]
For three days in late March, Pope Benedict XVI traveled across Cuba on a tightly choreographed spiritual pilgrimage. During his trip, Benedict met with government and Church officials, celebrated large public masses in Santiago de […]
A recent editorial by Fr. Michel Simoulin, SSPX, answers several objections of Traditionalist “hard-liners” to the current negotiations between the Society of Saint Pius X and the Holy See and describes the prospect of reunion […]
From Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 2 May 2012 (VIS) – The prayer of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, was the theme of the Holy Father’s catechesis during his general audience this morning. Addressing […]
Maureen Dowd, as most readers know, writes a regular op-ed column for the New York Times. Her dislike for certain people and institutions is quite obvious, mostly because she fixates on them in nearly every […]
Here is William McGurn, from his column in yesterday’s WSJ: Paul Ryan shocked the gentle souls at Georgetown University when he traveled up to their campus last Thursday and said: “We believe that Social Security […]
Gloomy news about the Church makes national headlines, but a story about a turn for the better gets buried in section two or goes unreported. The April issue of Phaith, the magazine of the Catholic […]
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