Last year I reflected on the intersection of Earth Day and Sunday. I noted how fitting it was to focus on our life-giving ecosystems on the day when Christians celebrate the victory of love and life over […]
Robert Spencer has written a dozen books on Islam, as well as thousands of pages of commentary on Islamic law, scripture, and tradition, but this may be his most significant book yet because of its […]
Seminarian Joseph Previtali was in St. Peter’s Square when Pope Benedict XVI was introduced on April 19, 2005. Here is what he saw and experienced (from this eight-year-old Insight Scoop post): Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum […]
An unforgettable moment:
In one of the last acts of his pontificate, Benedict XVI gave an address to the clergy of the Diocese of Rome on the Second Vatican Council. In the address he drew a distinction between […]
Last Sunday Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. concelebrated Mass with the embattled chaplain of the George Washington University Newman Center, Father Greg Shaffer. During his homily at the 7:30 student Mass at St. Stephen […]
As all the world surely knows by now, “equality” is the ideological key to President Obama’s domestic policies. That all people are created equal, the president says, is the “most evident of truths.” Whether that’s […]
From the chapter “A Cardinal on the Subway,” Francis: Pope of a New World (Ignatius Press, 2013), by Andrea Tornielli (translated by William J. Melcher) How does someone experience prayer who as a youth, on […]
Today the Holy See announced that Father David J. Walkowiak of the Diocese of Cleveland has been appointed bishop of the Diocese of Grand Rapids, Michigan, succeeding Bishop Walter A. Hurley, who submitted his retirement […]
Catholic News Service has posted a video interview with Cardinal George Pell of Sydney, Australia, in which he discusses being selected by Pope Francis to be one of eight cardinals in a new papal advisory […]
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