Catholic World News has a report on remarks Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI made to a friend visiting him in Rome: “I’m fine. I live like a monk,” Benedict XVI told an old German friend who […]
Pope Francis, preaching during Mass at the Domus Sanctae Marthae chapel this morning: “It’s not enough to say: ‘But I believe in God, God is the only God.’ That’s fine, but how do you live […]
The Vatican’s Prefecture of the Pontifical Household announced today that, in a break from the practice of many of his predecessors, Pope Francis will not spend the summer months at the papal residence at Castel […]
Dean Wright, director of the 2012 film For Greater Glory, made his first movie as a boy attending grammar school in Scottsdale, Arizona. He did it for a school project, and received an “A” for […]
Here is a Vatican Radio translation of the Holy Father’s catechesis: Catechesis Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! Today I want to focus on the issue of the environment, which I have already spoken of […]
It is often said that faith (and, if comes to that, culture) is “caught, not taught.” A massive amount of what we believe most deeply comes to us, not from engagement in abstract arguments about […]
From the folks at the USCCB: WASHINGTON—Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, applauded the “victory in the Land of […]
It is often said that Augustine is the most “modern” of all the Church Fathers. Whatever one means by “modern,” it is certainly true that Augustine still speaks to us today, even though he is […]
While US Catholics celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi yesterday, many of the world’s faithful observed the feast on Thursday of last week, some in rather dramatic fashion, as shown in this lovely slideshow of Corpus Christi […]
At the close of the Second Vatican Council, Paul VI noted that the Council had displayed an unparalleled desire “to know, to draw near to, to understand, to penetrate, serve and evangelize the society in which she […]
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