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…

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…

Increasing clouds have been gathering for days over Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome on January 17th, casting a shadow on what was planned as a meeting to improve Catholic-Jewish understanding.

John Paul II (1978-2005) had…

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…

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…

I left off my last report, driving to the train station, and snapping a blurry photo of St. Basil’s Cathedral in the rain.

As I rode the overnight train to Kazan, I remembered that St. Basil’s Cathedral,…

The Russian Orthodox have set up a vehicle to work with Catholics, Protestants and others to promote traditional Christian values in Europe. It’s name: The St. Gregory Foundation.

The Founding

“We were on Mt. Athos…

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…