ROME. The great Piazza San Pietro is a five minute walk from where I’m living during Synod-2015. About three-quarters of the Square is bounded the famous Bernini colonnades, which reach out from the Vatican basilica as […]
Having just returned from a week covering Pope Francis’s triumphant journey to the United States, I can confidently tell you that the news media are in love with the Vicar of Christ. Time and again, […]
Chesterton may not have been able to foretell the future but this essay—”The Surrender upon Sex”—indicates that he was surely prophetic. From the collection In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton: ——– […]
In the preface that John Henry Newman wrote as an old man to a reissue of Tract 90, the pamphlet that preceded his conversion to the Church of Rome, he made some characteristically incisive points. […]
Could the annulment reforms promulgated by Pope Francis last month cause “crises of conscience” among some Catholic couples who are struggling in their marriages? It’s a possibility, says canon lawyer Edward Peters. Shortly after the […]
Cardinal Kasper has taken to using the “F” word in criticizing some of his opponents on the question of divorce and civil remarriage. It seems that they are “fundamentalists”, not appreciating the context of the […]
I live in Eugene, Oregon, just a few miles from where 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, in May 1998, murdered his parents and then went on a shooting spree at Thurston High School, killing two students and wounding 25 […]
Pope Francis told journalists on board his flight to Rome that giving communion to divorced and remarried Catholics is a “simplistic” solution to the issue, and stressed that there are also other problems that need […]
In a 47 minute Q&A with journalists on his way back to Rome Pope Francis touched on sensitive topics such as forgiving abusers and conscientious objection, as well as the upcoming synod of bishops and […]
Pope Francis told bishops Sunday that a widespread consumerism and desire to follow new fads has rendered youth fearful of commitments, and said that as pastors they must encourage youth to be brave in going […]
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