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 to make…

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…

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…

“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 up.

Who can sum up…

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 1993 to 2004. I personally saw…

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 first, lonely, low note from…

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, cultured Russia, the Russia of…

[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 traditions.

This will…

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 temi dottrinali non…

First, the breaking news — Cardinal Peter Turkson, 61, the Archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana, the eloquent “relator” or general secretary of this month’s Synod for Africa, will succeed Cardinal Renato Martino (photo below), 77, as the head of the Vatican’s…