The Good Friday homily given by Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the Pontifical Household, touches on a key point of ecumenical importance, namely, is the Eucharistic sacrifice a supposed repetition of the death of Christ […]
Almost fifty years ago, the writings on religious pluralism of an American Jesuit, John Courtney Murray, helped the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council to draft a Declaration on Religious Liberty in a world where […]
“Pope denounces dissident priests who question church teaching on celibacy, ordaining women” “Pope Assails ‘Disobedience’ Among Priests” “Pope Benedict XVI slams priests…” “Pope rips into dissident priests…” Glancing over today’s headlines about Pope Benedict’s Holy […]
A day before Pope Benedict XVI’s historic visit to Cuba on March 26, I was in Arroyo Naranjo, one of Havana’s poorest areas, meeting with Lilvio Fernandez Luis, a Catholic and the leader of JACU, […]
The Scottish composer James MacMillan is popular, prolific (over 200 pieces composed in the past twenty-five years), occasionally controversial, and unapologetically Catholic. He composed the settings for the Mass celebrated in 2010 by Pope Benedict […]
From the California Catholic Daily: In 1975, an informal group of 50 Catholics from San Francisco’s South Bay decided, in the words of one, “to offer prayer and penance in union with the Passion of […]
The New York Times would have you believe that the Catholic Church is on a heartless crusade to expose the names, addresses, and phone numbers of anonymous victims of atrocious clergy abuse. According to a […]
Last week, North America’s first community of contemplative, cloistered Norbertine nuns broke ground on the site for their new convent in Tehachapi, California. The Bethlehem Priory of St. Joseph, a community currently consisting of 25 […]
The major league baseball season opened its 112th season, on March 31. The World Series will go into October. The playing seasons major sports now encroach on each other; the distinction between winter and summer […]
When the Association of Catholic Women was started more than 20 years ago, it was partly in response to the sense of confusion created by the strident campaigning of some extreme feminists. There were repeated […]
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