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 […]
As the Cardinal-electors processed into the conclave on Tuesday, March 12, the Litany of the Saints was chanted. In it the Church Militant begs the Church Triumphant, the Saints in heaven, to pray and intercede […]
Much media coverage of a conclave, both secular and Catholic, consists of speculation about who is papabile, what changes the Church must make during the next pontificate, and where the next pope will come from. […]
The most recent column of Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia, is titled,“Justice, Prudence and Immigration Reform” (Feb. 19, 2013). Here is some of that column (with emphasis added): The Catholic commitment to the […]
The Pope’s announcement of his resignation at the end of this month is unprecedented in modern times but not completely unexpected. In his book-length interview with Peter Seewald, Light of the World (2010), Benedict XVI, […]
In the early fall of 2010, I wrote this Catholic World Report piece on the mysterious and gruesome murder of Bishop Luigi Padovese in Iskenderun: Iskenderun, a port city on the Eastern shore of the […]
On Saturday, January 12, 2013, militant homosexual demonstrators gathered in Trieste (Italy) in front of the archbishop’s residence to protest the alleged “racism” and “homophobia” of the leader of the Catholic Archdiocese. They had picked […]
(Cardinal Kurt Koch in a 2010 photo, courtesy of CNS.) The President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Kurt Koch, was recently interviewed by the German Catholic news agency KNA. What follows […]
The young people from all five continents who gather in Rio in July 2013 for World Youth Day will find in their backpacks a “bioethics survival kit”: a special WYD edition of A Student’s Guide […]
During an interview with Armin Schwibach of the Austrian Catholic news website kath.net on Christmas Eve, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Congregation for Promoting Christian Unity, was asked to comment on the connection between […]
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