Mass confusion, a cardinal’s Christmas card, and a scandalous birth…

Pillar reader Cardinal Angelo Becciu sent an extended Christmas card to his brother Cardinal George Pell in the form of an open letter this week. The former sostituto of the Secretariat of State has been in a state of public disgrace since being sacked by the pope last year, and charged in July with a […]

How young saints teach us holiness…

Advent and Christmas lead us to talk about child saints. We have the patron saint of children, St. Nicholas, on December 5; we focus on the Annunciation and Visitation, which occurred when Mary herself was a very young, teenage, woman; we contemplate God’s becoming a babe for us; and we have the feast of the […]