Yesterday Pope Benedict held his penultimate Angelus address yesterday before a huge crowd in St. Peter’s Square. From Vatican Information Service: More than one hundred and fifty thousand people attended Benedict XVI’s second-to-last Angelus in […]
Faithful arriving to pray the Stations at Beijing’s North Church, 17 February 2013. Photo by author. Lent has begun, and Catholics in Western countries have likely selected something to “give up,” and the more devout […]
It so happens that the Holy Father, who is six months older than Schall, announced his retirement about six months after Schall announced his. As far as we know, no causal connection can be established, […]
In Called to Communion, published in 1996, a decade before the beginning of his papacy, Joseph Ratzinger had some strong words to say about the bureaucratic machinery of the Church. He wrote: The more administrative […]
Interesting and thought-provoking articles have been popping up all over the Internet this week in the wake of the Holy Father’s surprise announcement on Monday—as have…shall we say…less-than-well-informed pieces. But skip those, and read these […]
I had the pleasure of meeting and visiting a bit with Deacon Bill on my trips to EWTN, and he was always very gracious and encouraging. May God grant him eternal rest. From EWTN News: […]
At a briefing with members of the press today, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi acknowledged that it may be possible that the conclave to elect Pope Benedict XVI’s successor will begin sooner than the prescribed […]
“The rejection of the primacy of St. Peter has driven men on to a slippery course, where all the steps are downwards.”— Lord Acton It has been quite a week. My head is still spinning, and […]
Note: The following essay was originally published in the May 2007 edition of This Rock magazine. “The greatest of these,” wrote the Apostle Paul, “is love” (1 Cor. 13:13). Many centuries later, in a culture […]
Back in college, one of my history professors once observed in class, “Nobody writes letters anymore.” This was late 1994. My professor, a nice Jewish lady who actually admitted she grew up during the 1950s, […]
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