“Is comic Jim Gaffigan the Catholic Church’s newest evangelizer?” asks Michelle Boorstein at the WaPo “On Faith” blog. She continues: Gaffigan seems to effortlessly embody the idea the Catholic Church and other denominations are desperately […]
Today Pope Francis met with a large crowd of young people from Jesuit schools during an audience at the Vatican. While the Holy Father had prepared a speech to deliver to the students (that text […]
From Pope Francis’ Friday morning homily, for the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Tenderness! But the Lord loves us tenderly. The Lord [knows] that beautiful science of caresses, the tenderness of God. He […]
As it turned out, the Christendom trilogy served as the last great work of English-Welsh historian and man of letters Christopher Dawson (1889-1970). Sort of. The trilogy derived, originally, from lectures Dawson had delivered while […]
Catholic World News has a report on remarks Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI made to a friend visiting him in Rome: “I’m fine. I live like a monk,” Benedict XVI told an old German friend who […]
Pope Francis, preaching during Mass at the Domus Sanctae Marthae chapel this morning: “It’s not enough to say: ‘But I believe in God, God is the only God.’ That’s fine, but how do you live […]
The Vatican’s Prefecture of the Pontifical Household announced today that, in a break from the practice of many of his predecessors, Pope Francis will not spend the summer months at the papal residence at Castel […]
Dean Wright, director of the 2012 film For Greater Glory, made his first movie as a boy attending grammar school in Scottsdale, Arizona. He did it for a school project, and received an “A” for […]
Here is a Vatican Radio translation of the Holy Father’s catechesis: Catechesis Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! Today I want to focus on the issue of the environment, which I have already spoken of […]
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