In his first Urbi et Orbi message, on Christmas Day 2013, Pope Francis spoke about the Central African Republic (CAR), asking the Lord to restore peace to that country, which has been engulfed by conflict. […]
Readings: • 1 Sam 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a • Psa 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 • Eph 5:8-14 • Jn 9:1-41 Scripture refers many times to the contrast between darkness and light. The first mention of this […]
I confess that I really don’t want to talk about sex abuse in the Church again. But Pope Francis does, so perhaps we might help him and his newly appointed commission by taking a trip […]
Fr. Joseph Fessio, SJ, founder and editor of Ignatius Press, has started a blog. However, he describes it as a kind of “anti-blog”, or even an “anti-Tweet” site. The blog is not about him, but […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson—the prominent astrophysicist and science popularizer whose reboot of Cosmos is currently airing on Fox and the National Geographic Channel—was asked a few years ago “which books should be read by every single […]
How quickly things change. It wasn’t that many years ago that Barack Obama—as a candidate, and then as President of the U.S.—was lauded with praise and descriptives that, if applied to a pontiff, would have […]
Today President Barack Obama and Pope Francis met for the first time, in an encounter at the Vatican that included a one-on-one conversation running nearly an hour. The Vatican released the following statement after the […]
My wife and I were avid moviegoers once, often heading out to dinner and a film twice a week. We seldom go anymore. Children are one reason, and another is the move from two incomes […]
Tick-tick-tick, goes the clock. We measure time in seconds, minutes, hours, days; scientists, in nanoseconds and light-years, giving us the impression that time is quantitative and fixed. Not so fast, my friend, as ESPN’s Lee […]
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