Over the weekend, Pope Benedict XVI made his 19th international trip of his pontificate, visiting Croatia for that country’s first National Day for Catholic Families. In a conversation with journalists on the plane to Croatia […]
“An Episcopal church in Bladensburg has decided to become the first in the country to convert to Roman Catholicism under new Vatican rules, the Episcopal Diocese of Washington announced Monday.” So says the Washington Post. […]
Marxist poet and suspended priest Ernesto Cardenal is a notorious figure of liberation theology. He was famously scolded by Pope John Paul II on the tarmac of Managua airport for defying Church authority. Cardenal had been told not to take […]
Over at the Catholic Key – the newspaper of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph – Jack Smith has a report on a recent scandal out of that midwest diocese: the apparent mismanagement of a […]
Music at Mass remains one of the most touchy subjects. Vatican observer Sandro Magister pokes at some sensitive areas of this touchy subject in a column “Glorious Music. But the Choir is Tone Deaf”. His […]
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From the very beginning of his pontificate Pope Benedict XVI has emphasized the importance of living out our Catholic faith under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the Magisterium of the Church in union […]
On December 8, 2010, Green Bay Bishop David Ricken made Church history. On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, before an invitation-only congregation of 250 at the packed at the Shrine of Our Lady of […]
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