Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Top Vatican diplomat to celebrate Mass for peace in Ukraine

ROME – In the Holy See’s latest bid to help bring an end to the ongoing Ukraine-Russia, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, will preside over a special Mass for peace in Ukraine later this month. In a statement from the Apostolic Exarchate for Ukrainian Catholics of the Byzantine rite living in Italy, […]

Dutch cardinal asks pope for gender encyclical on gender theory

Cardinal Wim Eijk, the Archbishop of Utrecht in The Netherlands, has asked for a papal encyclical warning against gender theory. The request was made in meetings with Vatican officials during the Dutch bishops ad limina visit in Rome. “I have asked if it would not be good for the pope to issue an encyclical on […]

Jesus’ hymn self

Eighth in a series on the Book of Psalms. Because they were songs, the psalms served as the most useful means of transmitting culture. They were memorable, and so they were easily quotable. Philo of Alexandria, the great Jewish scholar of the first century A.D., quotes the “Psalter” more than any other book in the […]

Story of World War II’s ‘life-saving disease’ told in new indie Catholic film

“Whoever saves one life saves the world” reads the Talmudic inscription on the ring offered by Jewish survivors to Oskar Schindler, the protagonist of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Oscar-winning film. The Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, honors as “Righteous Among the Nations” those who saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust. The work of historians has revealed […]