The faithful took a pummeling, this year as last, though I noticed in preparing for this piece that I’d described 2021 as “the year of meh” in my review of it. It’s been a brutal […]
This year was the comeback of entertainment. After a two-year lull, Hollywood may have returned with a whimper, but dozens of smaller companies, mostly notably Skydance and the Daily Wire, quietly produced cinematic gold. Here […]
Readings: • Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 • Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 • Col 3:12-21 • Mt 2:13-15, 19-23 There’s no doubt that the family is under attack today in many ways. The list of corrupting influences […]
A detail of Tsarkova’s painting showing Benedict XVI’s pectoral cross, his fisherman’s ring, and his rosary. / Daniel Ibáñez / CNA
Rome, Italy, Dec 29, 2022 / 14:23 pm (CNA).
The anticipated death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI raises important … […]
If you have access to a radio station that carries the Saturday matinee broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera, you have a memorable experience waiting for you. On January 28, the featured work will be Francis […]
This Rupnik business is very bad. There’s no telling how bad it will be for Pope Francis, the Vatican, the Jesuits, or the Slovenian bishops. There’s plenty of bad to go around. Rupnik’s art is […]
Amidst the sundry aggravations of contemporary life in these United States, few have such a cringe-inducing effect on me as a ubiquitous neologism that appeared eight times in a November column in the Wall Street […]
Pope Francis visits Benedict XVI on Aug. 27th, 2022 / Vatican Media
Vatican City, Dec 28, 2022 / 02:16 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Wednesday asked for prayers for a “very ill” Benedict XVI.Francis made the appeal for the 95-year-old pope emeritus… […]
An Authentic Christian Artist – “She will never receive the Church patronage that the corrupt Jesuit mosaicist Marko Rupnik has, but this Ukrainian Catholic mom creates extraordinary images that glorify God” Ivanka Demchuk, Christian Artist […]
This week, we have three significant feast days in a row. First, on December 28, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Innocents. On December 30, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family. And […]
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