The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation today announced the two recipients of its 2013 Ratzinger Prize, as well as details about its annual conference. This year’s prize-winners are Richard A. Burridge, an Anglican biblical scholar, […]
The president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Kurt Koch, visited Ukraine from June 5 to 12, 2013. Upon his arrival the curial official was welcomed at Borispol Airport by the primate […]
With World Youth Day 2013 scheduled to kick off in Rio de Janeiro at the end of July, the recent wave of protests sweeping major Brazilian cities—some of which have turned violent—have prompted the event’s […]
I’m currently in California, giving a series of talks on the Year of Faith. I’ll be speaking tonight in Sacramento, but am writing this post in Napa, where I spoke last night. Yesterday, I spent […]
The unprecedented abdication of Benedict XVI and the election of his successor, Pope Francis, has rekindled worldwide interest in the popes and the papacy. This interest has extended not only to Benedict and Francis, but […]
From Pope Francis’ Thursday morning homily: “To whom do I pray? To a cosmic God? That’s quite normal these days, is it not? … praying to the cosmic God, right? This polytheistic model that comes […]
Below is the text of the Holy Father’s Wednesday General Audience catechesis, delivered in St. Peter’s Square earlier today (via Vatican Radio). *** Dear brothers and sisters, good day! Today I will focus upon another […]
Fr. Landry, a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, operates the www.CatholicPreaching.com site. In a piece written for the The Anchor, he argues—quite compellingly, I think—that the recent decision by the BSA was a serious mistake that […]
While an official announcement from the Vatican has yet to be made, various Italian media outlets are reporting that a second miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed John Paul II has been approved. If […]
MPAA Rating, PG-13 USCCB Rating, A-III (Adults) Reel Rating, (5 Reels out of 5) Among the great Christ figures of world literature, Superman is our country’s best such figure by, literally, leaps […]
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