[Yesterday] in Rome, the Holy See published revisions in the norms to be used throughout the Church to handle “more serious (or exceptionally serious) crimes” (“graviora delicta“).

Pope Benedict XVI approved these revisions on May 21, and that have since…

Ninety-three years ago [yesterday], on July 13, 1917 — precisely when Lenin was beginning to foment the Russian revolution in Petrograd (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Days) — three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, for the third time in three months…

Three years ago [yesterday], Pope Benedict XVI promulgated the motu proprio “Summorum Pontificum” (“Of the Supreme Pontiffs,” from the first words of the original Latin text), allowing the “old Mass” (the Tridentine Mass of Pope St. Pius V, codified and…

Despite much opposition, Benedict will go to Great Britain in September.

“Accepting the invitation of Her Majesty Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, and of the bishops’ conferences of England and Wales, and of Scotland, His Holiness Benedict XVI…

In a move rumored for several weeks, Pope Benedict XVI [Thursday] appointed Swiss Bishop Kurt Koch of Basel, Switzerland, to be the new president of Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with…

Some leading thinkers in the Church feel our current crisis stems, at least in part, from our neglect for half a century of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274). Now the Pope has just devoted three important talks…

In Rome in recent weeks, as the “Year for Priests” has drawn to a close, there have been many references in papal talks to the identity and role of the priest.

In this connection, one case which sheds special light…

“The third time he said to him, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, ‘Do you love me?’ He said, ‘Lord, you know all things; you know that I…

A week of flame in Italy — of “tongues of fire” in many candles, from Turin to Rome, and in the hearts of pilgrims from many countries — reminiscent of those tongues of fire which descended upon the heads of…

Embattled Pope Benedict XVI, who turned 83 ten days ago on April 16, was honored in the United States on April 24, the 5th anniversary of his election in 2005 at the age of 78, by thousands of American Catholics…