Cardinal Pizzaballa. Christmas invites us to seek paths of reconciliation amid war
In a Christmas video message the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, urges Christians to heed the Christmas message of love, peace, and reconciliation at a time when violence and hatred seem to prevail in the Holy Land and other parts of the world. Read all
Abp. Viganò: Bergoglio’s approval of blessings for homosexual ‘couples’ shows he is a servant of Satan
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has stated the Vatican’s newly approved blessings for homosexuals ‘couples’ shows that the ‘Bergoglian hierarchy’ are ‘servants of Satan and his most zealous allies.’
EU for greater restrictions to stem rising migrant arrivals
Equipped with increased control measures, the new European Pact on Migration and Asylum will be able to detain asylum seekers in closed centers located at the borders to facilitate repatriation
Sexual violence deliberately used to punish people in South Sudan, say Church workers
Repeated rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution will leave many people traumatized even if the war ends
South Koreans pray for peace with North this Christmas
North Korea’s recent saber-rattling fails to dampen South Korean Catholics during Christmas
Cardinal Becciu’s jail sentence stuns Roman Curia
Some Vatican officials see the conviction of their former high-ranking confrère Angelo Becciu to be the act of an authoritarian pope
Scandal of Belgian Church’s force adoption policy resurfaces
A Belgian newspaper re-opens scandal that erupted in 2015 and estimates that some 30,000 babies were forcibly given up for adoption with the complicity of the Catholic Church
Abp. Viganò: Bergoglio’s approval of blessings for homosexual ‘couples’ shows he is a servant of Satan
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has stated the Vatican’s newly approved blessings for homosexuals ‘couples’ shows that the ‘Bergoglian hierarchy’ are ‘servants of Satan and his most zealous allies.’Read More
What Will You Get Jesus for His Birthday?
Two years ago, about two weeks into Advent, I posed a question to my class of high school sophomores: What will you get Jesus for His birthday? We spend so much time thinking about what we will give our loved ones—we are intentional, searching for the thing that will demonstrate how well we know them […]
Prudence and Symbolic Ambiguity
It was a Friday night in the summer. The painters were not yet finished in the school. A drunk showed up at the door and I dispatched him. Then I got a phone call. Because the man calling was sobbing, it took me a while to understand what he was talking about. Someone had died […]