Not the baseball Cardinals, who struck out making it to the World Series, nor the SF Giants, who will do mortal combat with the Tigers, but the ecclesial giants of the Catholic Church. The College […]
“The second reason for my hope lies in the fact that the Gospel of Jesus Christ, faith in Jesus Christ is quite simply true and the truth never ages.” — Pope Benedict XVI, Interview, October 15, 2012. […]
… from Dr. Robert Moynihan, editor of Inside the Vatican magazine, via his Moynihan Report: No we know the reasoning of the Vatican’s judges in the ongoing “Vatileaks” case. The three-judge Vatican tribunal that convicted […]
For former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson, the turning point came when she was asked to assist with an ultrasound-guided abortion. “Abortions are typically performed blind,” explained Johnson, who served as health director for Planned […]
A story from the Middle East to help put some things in perspective: The Vatican’s ambassador to Iraq and a number of monks held the first mass in 1,500 years in one of the oldest […]
A sizeable percentage of committed Catholics have given up on the arts: literature, poetry, visual art, music, and film, at least art that is produced in the public arena. Other Catholics have built a wall […]
The Pope (below) speaks of a “happy coincidence” regarding the timing of the naming of the seven new Saints, but there is nothing coincidental about his focus on three characteristics of the seven: they were […]
Andrew McCarthy discusses those issues at length in an October 20th essay on the NRO site. An excerpt: Religion as cosmetic reverence shorn of substantive content is a virtue only the postmodern, post-doctrinal West could […]
Two friends alerted me to a Wall Street Journal piece, “My 6,128 Favorite Books”, by Joe Queenan, which is adapted from his new book, One For the Books. I’ve read several of Queenan’s books; at his best, he is […]
Pope Benedict XVI will today canonize seven new saints, four women and three men. From RomeReports.com: Among the new saints, are two martyrs: Jacques Berthieu (1838-1896), who was killed in Madagascar and Peter Calungsod, who was killed in the […]
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