Italian journalist Sandro Magister draws attention to a December 19th essay in Asia News by Fr. Samir Khalil Samir, SJ, one of the foremost Catholic experts on Islam and author of several books, including 111 […]
On June 28, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI promulgated a decree on the heroic virtues of Archbishop Fulton Sheen. The full text of the decree was subsequently published in 2013 in Acta Apostolicae Sedis (vol. 6, […]
London is a strange place, and the longer one lives in its shadows the stranger it seems to become. Commuting home, we hardly notice those sitting or standing around us, our hands so full of […]
MPAA Rating, PG-13 USCCB Rating, A-II Reel Rating: (3 Reels out of 5) There are two wars being waged in Saving Mr. Banks. First, an external battle between the impeccably proper and British Mrs. P. […]
Blessed John Paul II is sometimes remembered as a “saint maker” who canonized 482 men and women during his 27-year pontificate. Pope Francis, however, is an even more prodigious “saint maker” who has canonized more […]
(Vatican Radio) The Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill is enthusiastic about the pontificate of Pope Francis. So the Patriarch of Moscow told Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, last week […]
The Wall Street Journal reports: A landmark criminal conviction of a Roman Catholic monsignor imprisoned for his handling of sexual-abuse allegations was overturned Thursday by a Pennsylvania appeals court. A three-judge Superior Court panel ordered the release […]
From the Associated Press: Militants in Iraq targeted Christians in three separate Christmas Day bombings in Baghdad, killing at least 37 people, officials said Wednesday. In one attack, a car bomb went off near a […]
Speaking to a crowd assembled in St. Peter’s Square on Christmas morning, Pope Francis delivered the traditional Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” (“To the City and the World”) message and blessing. Below, via Vatican Radio, is […]
The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature”: “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering […]
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