Posted on 12 March 2010
Wednesday in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI gave a fascinating talk containing important insights into the ideas and principles guiding his pontificate.
And this talk, given at his regular Wednesday Audience, came as a series of terrible crises continues to strike…
Posted on 26 January 2010
It was a dramatic sight: tens of thousands of Americans — and foreigners — marching peacefully through the streets of Washington DC on behalf of life on Friday, January 22.
It took about two hours for all the marchers…
Posted on 21 December 2009
In a dramatic move, after long hesitation, Pope Benedict XVI has signed a decree declaring Pope Pius XII — the Pope who led the Church during the Second World War and has been repeatedly accused by many Jewish and progressive…
Posted on 04 December 2009
We live in a busy, troubled world, and it is tempting to take time here to denounce the “evils of the day” – apostasy from the faith, sins of many types, false teachings from many pulpits, unjust laws from many…
Posted on 20 November 2009
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe — and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. —Blaise Pascal.
Lights and Shadows
And so it comes to the time of leaving, and of summing…
Posted on 18 November 2009
The icon we are going to see is the icon of Our Lady of Kazan.
It is the icon which was kept by Pope John Paul II in his own apartment for 11 years, from…
Posted on 13 November 2009
Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my prayer…” —King David, Psalm 130.
World Premiere in Moscow
It was called “A Song of Ascents,” and the song did rise, inexorably, from a…
Posted on 11 November 2009
I am in Russia — not Rome. Why?
Because, born in the middle of the 20th century, no country has seemed more mysterious, more romantic, and, yes, more vaguely sinister, to me than Russia: Holy Russia,…
Posted on 10 November 2009
[Yesterday there was] historic news: the Vatican has issued the official text of the document, Anglicanorum Coetibus (“Groups of Anglicans”) which sets up an unprecedented structure to allow Anglican congregations to reunite with Rome but still keep their Anglican…
Posted on 27 October 2009
The talks began, Monday, October 26.
On this historic Monday, unprecedented high-level theological discussions between representatives of the Society of St. Pius X and of the Holy See got underway to discuss “all the unresolved doctrinal questions” (“grandi…