This morning the Vatican announced that Pope Francis has appointed Father Michael Barber, SJ the new bishop of Oakland, California. He succeeds Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who took over as head of the Archdiocese of San […]
The two recent pieces by William Kilpatrick, “Christianity and Islam: Cooperation or Conflict?” (Apr. 21) and “Of Bishops and Bombers” (Apr. 29), have generated a lot of discussion here on the CWR site. Some of […]
Fr. Angleo Mary Gieger is a Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate who recently wrote a fine essay for Catholic World Report titled, “Pope Benedict XVI’s Legacy: Faith and Future”. He blogs regularly at Mary Victrix, […]
Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries were the first to bring Catholicism to the State of Arizona. Franciscan friar Marcos de Niza was the first to visit the region in 1539; Jesuit Father Eusebio Kino established Arizona’s […]
I met the Right Reverend Archimandrite Robert Taft, S.J., at an Eastern-rite monastery that I was visiting in 1985. The community was still in the refectory, whereas I happened to be near the vestibule, so […]
Via Deacon Greg Kandra comes this story of a tiny community of Trappist nuns living in civil war-torn Syria. Despite the danger and mounting tensions in the region, the five nuns are determined to stay […]
Pope Francis delivered his weekly General Audience address today in St. Peter’s Square. As today is the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, as well as World Labor Day, the Holy Father’s remarks highlighted the […]
The April 22nd kidnapping of Syrian archbishops Mar Gregorios Ibrahim of the Syriac Orthodox Church and Paul Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, and the killing of their driver, has reminded us once […]
In case you missed it, NBA veteran Jason Collins is a “trailblazer” and a “role model” who has shown great “courage” and exhibited impressive “bravery” by publicly acknowledging that he is “gay”. The historic news […]
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