Some insist football is like a religion, but that is surely nonsensical. If it really were so, football fans would dress up in special clothing, travel to large and ornate buildings, join together in feasting […]
Perhaps Rome is not perishing; perhaps she is only scourged, not utterly destroyed; perhaps she is chastened, not brought to nought. It may be so; Rome will not perish, if the Romans do not perish. […]
Readings: • Jer 1:4-5, 17-19 • Ps 71:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 15-17 • 1 Cor 12:31—13:13 or 13:4-13 • Lk 4:21-30 The nineteenth-century poet Thomas Moore once observed: “The prophet ill sustains his holy call/Who finds not […]
In what is apparently a response to Archbishop Jose Gomez’s letter to the faithful, Cardinal Roger Mahony today posted on his blog a letter he sent to Gomez concerning the “historical evolution of dealing with […]
Responding to today’s announcement from the Obama administration that certain exceptions may be made for religious institutions in the implementation of the HHS mandate on contraception and abortion insurance coverage, the USCCB released a brief […]
From the Vatican Information Service, Benedict XVI’s message for Lent: Vatican City, 1 February 2013 (VIS) – “Believing in Charity Calls Forth Charity: ‘We have come to know and to believe in the love God […]
Rocco Palmo provides an overview of the latest news from the Archdiocse of Los Angeles: Ten days after an initial release from 30,000 pages of clergy sex-abuse files in the archdiocese of Los Angeles sparked widespread scorn and calls […]
An interview with Dr. Richard Purtill, author of books about J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. […]
Edmund Campion had an illustrious career in front of him. He was a rising star at Oxford University and had captured the favorable attention of the Queen of England. Elizabeth I. All that was necessary […]
Today, the name of Greece may evoke new images of debt, bailouts, and tourism, or old images of Olympians, Corinthian columns, Socrates, and Spartan warriors. But most of us don’t associate Greece with Western Church […]
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