Reverand Nicholas L. Gregoris is a member of the Priestly Society of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and the managing editor of The Catholic Response magazine. He holds theological degrees from both the Pontifical Gregorian […]
I am not sure what Archbishop Rino Fisichella meant when he said that “we need to understand well ‘physical violence’ [against the pope] because sometimes words, too, are rocks and stones, and therefore I believe […]
Walker Percy wrote back in 1971 that “our beloved old U.S.A. is in a bad way.” His novel Love in the Ruins is a quite prophetic novel, much of which is coming true in our […]
Readings: • Bar 5:1-9 • Ps 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 • Phil 1:4-6, 8-11 • Lk 3:1-6 “There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know,” wrote St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the […]
The bi-annual papal blessing “Urbi et Orbi”—to the City (meaning Rome, of course) and to the World—is a charming Catholic event reflecting the solicitude a pope feels for the City entrusted to his episcopal care […]
The various and diverse documents that make up modern magisterial utterances by the popes of Rome since at least the time of Leo XIII do not tend, as a general rule, to quote directly, or […]
Here, after some delay resulting from the vicissitudes of life and death this vale of tears and the unforeseen quotidian professional and personal demands of each new day, I offer a second response (my first […]
In today’s [15 dec 2014] homily Pope Francis warns, yet again, about the threat that he feels modern Pharisees pose in the Church. Now, some people think that the pope’s incessant critiques of law and lawyers […]
While the US government has approved the entry of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees fleeing war in their country, 27 Iraqi Chaldean Catholics, seeking to escape violence and anti-Christian persecution in their homeland, were denied […]
Just after I was named auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, Archbishop Gomez, my new boss, told me to get the Waze app for my iPhone. He explained that it was a splendid way to navigate the often […]
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