Jesus has opened up the pathway of supreme humility…
Jesus Christ has opened up the pathway to freedom and this pathway is the pathway of supreme humility. It is a trail blazed by the Word made flesh and a journey that leads to the Burning Bush where the limitlessness of God sets the limits of man aflame with love. Love alone knows how to […]
Cardinal Sarah is right: ‘The silence of everyday life is an indispensable condition for living with others’…
There is a distinctive drama that perpetually exists between God and man. The nature of this drama involves whether man in good faith engages the virtue of silence to listen to God instead of the choice to listen and engage the noise of the world; an act of despair the devil would prefer you and […]
Pope Francis: ‘The Holy Spirit Reforms the Church Through the Saints’…
Pope Francis said Saturday that it takes saints to reform the Church and for this each Catholic is called to a deeper “second conversion.” “It is the Holy Spirit who forms and reforms the Church and does so through the Word of God and through the saints, who put the Word into practice in their […]
‘Trust the science,’ but do not idolize it, says Vatican astronomer
VATICAN CITY — Those who are stubbornly skeptical of science and those who eagerly embrace science as infallible both have a dangerous misunderstanding of the nature of science, a U.S. Jesuit astronomer said. These two tendencies reflect “the temptation to turn science or faith into a fortress against our basic and human fear of uncertainty,” […]
Catholic items hold their own at New York Public Library exhibit
NEW YORK — One of the most progressive items at a New York Public Library exhibit, perhaps overlooked by visitors heading for pop culture gems such as the hand-painted ballet slipper designed by Coco Chanel and an Andy Warhol oil painting of a Studio 54 ticket inscribed to Truman Capote, belongs to a nun. It’s […]
Astronaut talks with Catholic school students while orbiting Earth
SEATTLE — Crisscrossing above the Seattle region at approximately 17,000 mph aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei took live questions from students at Seattle Nativity School. “How has being in space affected your view of God?” asked one eighth grader at the Jesuit middle school. Vande Hei paused. This was not […]
Newborn abandonment case prompts renewed emphasis on ‘safe haven’ efforts
In 20 years of community organizing, resulting in more than 300 cases of newborns saved from infant abandonment, Floridian Nick Silverio has never actually witnessed a criminal child abandonment in progress. Until, that is, a group of people looking through a dumpster in New Mexico Jan. 7 discovered a newborn infant boy in Hobbs near […]
True Femininity: An Interview with Alice von Hildebrand
Alice von Hildebrand went home to meet our Lord on January 14, 2022, at 12:25 a.m. “She died peacefully at home after a brief illness,” according to the Hildebrand Project. I had the great opportunity to know this incredible human being in this lifetime and to interview her on October 1, 2018. We spoke about […]
Homilist: Holy Spirit’s fire enlightens, purifies those in legal profession
PHOENIX — In a liturgy inviting “tongues as of fire” from the Holy Spirit to guide lawyers and government officials, it seemed oddly appropriate that the fire alarm inadvertently went off just before the Diocese of Phoenix’s annual Red Mass began Jan. 11 at St. Mary’s Basilica. “You will notice that I asked the basilica […]
German canon lawyer: Wait for abuse report before casting blame
MUNICH — As Germans await publication of a report on how leaders of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising handled cases of historic abuse, a canon lawyer casts doubt on accusations against retired Pope Benedict XVI over possible negligence. Helmuth Pree, a retired university professor, wrote in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit that the presumption […]