Monthly Archive: October 2013
John Paul II, he who barring the intervention of the Almighty (which would not surprise me even one iota) is roughly half-a-year away from being canonized, is in many ways the neo-catholic version of John the Baptist; a voice that cried out from …
Ross Douthat, writing in a recent NY Times editorial, said that the story of religion in the West for the last 40+ years has been one in which traditional groups show resiliency while liberal groups tend to atrophy. “Of late, this process of …
Vacationing last week in the South Carolina Low Country, I noticed these unusual road signs every half a mile or so. (At least I’ve never seen one before.) Needless to say, 98% them are positioned near the entrance to the worship site of …
From John Allen: While stressing the basic “trustworthiness” of a recent blockbuster interview with Pope Francis by Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, Fr. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, left room on Oct. 2 for the possibility of small imprecisions … Pressed by reporters on …
With so many faithful Catholics feeling discouraged, I think we need to take a small step back to consider exactly where we find ourselves in salvation history. As I recently shared with a friend, those who want to know their faith can. Should …
In the aftermath of yesterday’s blog post, it has become evident that Fairytale Fever has reached near epidemic proportions among the Catholic population. With the well-deserved criticism of Interviewgate 2 making its rounds, in particular as it relates to the pope’s insistence that …
Having absorbed the bitter reality of yet another revealing papal interview, one that somehow managed to offend Catholic sensibilities even more than the last, all but the most detached among us are now struggling to come to terms with what the future holds …
Reading the pope’s comments in his interview with Eugenio Scalfari is enough to make a more innocent person wonder if it is not perhaps a hoax. It’s as if the man speaking in Francis’ name is not even Catholic much less the pope. …
Apparently, Pope Francis left some important things unsaid in his exchange with the atheist founder of Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper, Eugenio Scalfari. And so another interview. I’ll have more to say on its contents later, but based on its opening paragraph, the title …
According to Vatican Radio: Pope Francis on Monday morning held the Public Ordinary Consistory for the forthcoming Canonization of Blessed Pope John XXIII and Blessed Pope John Paul II. During the course of the Consistory in the Vatican’s Consistory Hall, the Pope decreed …
