Below is the address delivered by Pope Francis at his Wednesday General Audience in St. Peter’s Square June 12, as translated by Vatican Radio. *** Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! Today I would like […]
Yesterday the website Rorate Caeli posted a translation of what is alleged to be a transcript of a meeting Pope Francis held last week with members of the Latin American Conference of Religious. The original […]
I had thought I’d use Dan Brown’s new book Inferno (which I reviewed here) for, er, personal hygiene, but it turns out that Cottonelle works better. So I’ll have to be satisfied with this. I […]
Oh what’s love got to do, got to do with it, What’s love but a second-hand emotion; What’s love got to do, got to do with it, Who needs a heart When a heart can […]
The Sacra Liturgia conference, to be held in Rome from June 25 to 28, 2013, is an international conference with the goal to study, promote, and renew the appreciation of liturgical formation and celebration and […]
As the US bishops’ second “Fortnight for Freedom” approaches later this month, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia has a column about the religious liberty issues at the center of the bishops’ efforts. From Archbishop Chaput’s […]
Dear brothers and sisters! The month of June is traditionally dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the highest human expression of divine love. Just this past Friday, in fact, we celebrated the Solemnity of […]
“Is comic Jim Gaffigan the Catholic Church’s newest evangelizer?” asks Michelle Boorstein at the WaPo “On Faith” blog. She continues: Gaffigan seems to effortlessly embody the idea the Catholic Church and other denominations are desperately […]
Today Pope Francis met with a large crowd of young people from Jesuit schools during an audience at the Vatican. While the Holy Father had prepared a speech to deliver to the students (that text […]
From Pope Francis’ Friday morning homily, for the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Tenderness! But the Lord loves us tenderly. The Lord [knows] that beautiful science of caresses, the tenderness of God. He […]
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