Everyone loves jolly ol’ Saint Nicholas. There is something romantic and cozy about telling Santa stories around the crackling fire. He is an icon of the Christmas season. But not everyone agrees about the real […]
Contemplation of Christological events, like the Transfiguration, provides a wealth of liturgical poetry and hymnography in the Eastern Church […]
The seldom-told stories of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. […]
Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will meet in Bethlehem, Sunday evening, and then pray together in an ecumenical prayer service at the Holy Sepulcher. The events of the weekend can be followed through the […]
This week (18-25 January) has been observed as the International Week of Prayer for Christian Unity for over one hundred years. This year’s theme is, “Has Christ Divided Us?” (cf. 1 Corinthians 1:13). As we […]
In a recent interview with Vatican Insider’s, Andrea Tornielli, Pope Francis talked about Christmas and addressed a few popular misconceptions about his new exhortation. For example, the Pope confirmed that Marxism “is wrong”, supported breast-feeding […]
I recently asked an anonymous, young, Syrian Christian studying in America what he thought the best solution for Syria was. “The foreign fighters are bad, but so is Assad,” he said, “Nevertheless, there is hope […]
At the beginning of this 50th anniversary year of Vatican II, Benedict XVI called for a renewed, authentic reading and implementation of the council documents. After suffering through many decades of vulgar, saccharine Church music, […]
Samuel Gregg, senior research fellow at the Acton Institute, gave the culminating lecture at Acton University yesterday. He courageously reminded the 900 conference participants from 85 countries of the universal duty to seek religious truth. […]
It is surprising how much weight can be put on a single, limited analogy, like the notion of sister Churches. There are several images of the Church of Christ that have been set forth by […]
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