Just two months after an earthquake rocked central Italy and killed several hundred people, another, larger quake hit the region today, wounding around 20 people and destroying many buildings. Among the structures destroyed is the […]
Readings: • Wis 11:22-12:2 • Ps 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13, 14 • 2 Thes 1:11-2:2 • Lk 19:1-10 “That’s a good question. I’ve never really thought about it.” The remark was made a number of […]
You may have read reports of dead people having voted in recent elections. You may also have heard warnings about questioning the legitimacy of the outcome of the upcoming presidential election. Indeed, one U.S. bishop […]
Editor’s note: The following is a homily given at a Red Mass celebrated on October 27, 2016, for the New York Guild of Catholic Lawyers. ———————————————— “He said this with reference to the Holy Spirit […]
As All Saints Day comes again, the beauty of the liturgical year presents itself with renewed vigor just before its close. We human beings are creatures of habit—one of the reasons why we benefit from […]
Sister Mary Jordan is a member of the Dominican Monastery of St. Jude in Marbury, Alabama. The cloistered community was founded in 1944 and welcomed women of all ethnic backgrounds, a practice not typical of the […]
Kenya’s National Assembly voted on Thursday afternoon, to approve the appointment of Lady Justice Philomena Mwilu as the country’s next Deputy Chief Justice. This means Mrs. Mwilu automatically joins the seven member Supreme Court bench. […]
As Iraqi forces continue their offensive against the ISIS-held city of Mosul, reports and images of the re-capturing of a string of villages and towns outside the city have hit the international media. Video aired […]
When the pot is boiling, turn down the heat. You can’t be sure, but that could well have been part of the reasoning behind Pope’s Francis’s decision to choose as topic of the next world […]
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” So wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran, German pastor, […]
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