Lift high the cross? Yes, and right to the top of the classical music charts. With their third hit album in as many years, the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, have done it again. […]
According to Catholic News Service’s Cindy Wooden, CNS has obtained a copy of the lengthy address Cardinal Walter Kasper gave to the College of Cardinals last week on the subject of the family. The Vatican […]
That is my paraphrase of this story, which contains some direct, blunt words from the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Just because many Catholics do not understand the Church’s teaching […]
In mid-January, 1964, Irene and Michael Novak received the devastating call that their second son, a missionary priest, Richard, was missing. A few days later, confirmation came that their 28-year-old son was dead. Many questions, […]
“Auntie Joanna, can I help you with your knitting?” The difference between tapestry and knitting was not apparent to an uninitiated small boy, fascinated by the intricacies of bright wool and needles. Not one to […]
James Freeman reports for the WSJ: Last night in Washington President Obama addressed the national meeting of Organizing for Action, the outfit formerly known as his re-election campaign. Young OFA volunteers have been redeployed to […]
In a column published at Vatican Insider, Andrea Tornielli quotes from a letter he received from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI concerning the validity of Benedict’s resignation from the papacy last year. Tornielli had sent the […]
Looking ahead to October’s Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which will consider “the pastoral challenges to the family in the context of evangelization,” Pope Francis has released a letter to families, asking for […]
Who, exactly, is reassuring whom? And about what? Those were my thoughts upon reading David Gibson’s spin-laden, cliché-soaked piece, “U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke: Pope Francis opposes abortion and gay marriage” (Feb 21, 2014), for Religion […]
Late last week, Cardinal Raymond Burke took to the pages of L’Osservatore Romano to respond to “a certain questioning” he has encountered when discussing the pontificate of Pope Francis with some of his fellow Americans. […]
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