Looking for the Lord Jesus in Lisbon
In mid-May, I spent two intense days in Lisbon, where a new Portuguese edition of my Letters to a Young Catholic was being prepared as a catechetical resource for World Youth Day 2023. In and around that wonderful city, I had the pleasure of meeting with Catholic educators from all over Portugal; I was hosted […]
Extra, extra! News and views for July 26, 2023
Spirits of the Air – “Today . . . it seems as if the devil is abandoning old tricks for some new ones. Demons are having their day in the popular consciousness.” Spirits of the […]
Looking for the Lord Jesus in Lisbon
In mid-May, I spent two intense days in Lisbon, where a new Portuguese edition of my Letters to a Young Catholic was being prepared as a catechetical resource for World Youth Day-2023. In and around […]
Second Generation Trad: On Freedom for the Good
I’m a second generation Trad, no doubt about it. I can’t really remember the pontificate of Benedict XVI—by the time I was actually paying attention to my faith in a more serious way in high school, Francis’s pontificate had already begun. I have one indistinct memory associated with John Paul II from what must have […]
African seminarians learn to translate liturgy into local languages
The Catholic Diocese of Porto-Novo, located in the capital of Benin, is training its seminarians on how to translate worship aids into three African languages used in the liturgy
Nigeria: New bishop on peace mission amid intractable tribal wars
When Christians resort to violence, “it means that there is something wrong with our practice of Christianity,” says the new bishop of Wukari in Nigeria’s Taraba region hard hit by warring tribes
Gun crazy in the USA
Mass shootings continue in the United States. What can we do?
Vatican newspaper draws attention to UN food summit (L’Osservatore Romano (Italian))
With the headline “Contro la fame la sfida della sostenibilità” [Against hunger, the challenge of sustainability], the Vatican newspaper devoted the most prominent front-page coverage in its July 25 edition to a UN food summit in Rome. In comments highlighted by L’Osservatore Romano, UN Secretary General António Guterres said that “more than 780 million people […]
Number of religious in US expected to fall by nearly half over next decade (CWN)
The number of religious sisters, priests, and brothers in the United States is expected to decline by nearly half over the next decade, according to “Projected Population of Religious by Age Group 2023-2033.”
Russian attack badly damages Orthodox cathedral in Ukraine (CWN)
Transfiguration Cathedral, the cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, was badly damaged by Russian strikes on the city’s historic center.