Kraków, Poland – The streetcars in Kraków sported yellow-and-white and blue-and-white pennants. They fluttered as the trams raced to and from the Shrine of the Divine Mercy, arriving full and leaving empty. The 20-minute fare […]
Novels are what we read when we should be reading something else—or are they? Currently I should be reading Henri Nouwen’s “modern spiritual classic,” The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and […]
Apparently it is unusual for one Ignatius novelist to review another, but I cannot resist chatting about Fiorella de Maria’s excellent legal thriller Do No Harm. This is partly because, like De Maria, I am […]
The Reverend Doctor Athanasius D. McVay specializes in the 20th-century history of Vatican diplomacy and of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He co-edited a publication of Vatican archival documents on the 1932-1933 Holodomor famine in […]
The 2006 conviction of Carmelite Father Mark Paterson for sexual assault was overturned last Thursday in Edinburgh’s High Court. Father Paterson, 55, had been the Catholic Chaplain of the University of Aberdeen. After his conviction, […]
In a homily last November, Pope Francis referred to a novel by Fr. Robert Hugh Benson called Lord of the World. Fr. Benson was the son of an Archbishop of Canterbury. He made headlines when in […]
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