A unique conflict of ideas is emerging from the Pope and the Obama administration. Few would be surprised to find liberal Catholic leaders taking Obama’s side. But what is strange is that these pundits are favoring not abortion or gay marriage, but money-idolatry and greed. Stranger still, no one seems to notice this contradiction, especially [...]
According to the archbishop in charge of the Vatican office promoting new evangelization, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of people going to confession since the election of Pope Francis. Archbishop Fisichella told Catholic News Service that testimony from priests and bishops from Europe to Latin America has confirmed that this is [...]
Pope Benedict XVI never flew to America to participate in the March for Life. But Pope Francis might. Life Site News is reporting that after delivering his weekly Regina Coeli address this past Sunday, Pope Francis surprised the 40,000 or so participants in Italy’s third annual March for Life by greeting them as they gathered [...]
Last month I blogged about Pope Francis’s remarks against the idea of a “self-referential” Church. The Church, the Pope believes, must reach beyond itself, must seek to bring the Gospel to those on the outside. This way of thinking, I observed, is consistent with the Second Vatican Council and with the concerns of Pope John [...]
Disclaimer: Please forgive this foray into somewhat lighter matters. For those hoping for the sort of heavy theological and sociopolitical analysis of the kind I usually produce, you’ll just have to wait, either forever or for Pat Thornton’s next article, whichever comes first. Yes, they are making a movie. Sounds like a good group of [...]
John-Henry Westen of LifeSiteNews notes that Pope Francis has recently urged Argentinian bishops to follow the Aparecida Document as “guidelines we need for this time in history”. The document, among other things, says: “…We should commit ourselves to ‘eucharistic coherence’, that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and at the [...]
EDITOR’S NOTE: CV is happy to include a new entry in our “Five Questions” series. This interview features Alejandro Bermudez, the Executive Director of the Catholic News Agency. Alejandro spoke with CV’s Stephen Kokx about his experience translating into English the Spanish version of On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the [...]
Mohammed Sohel Rana owned a business. Like a good businessman, he hoped to grow his operation by expanding his facilities to increase production. He added three new floors to his 5-story building, where he leased space to several textile factories near Dhaka, Bangladesh. But Mr. Rana, it seems, took short-cuts. He built without a permit. [...]
The terrorist attacks in Boston this week have prompted many people to ask themselves why. Why did this happen? Why would anyone do such a thing? Why would God allow an 8-year-old boy to die in such a senseless way? Many times, tragedies like this cause people to wonder if God even exists. If God [...]
An Italian soccer news site has a sweet story about Pope Francis who apparently gets up very early without an alarm. Loose translation of the story: Recently, when he left his apartment at Domus Marta and went out into the hall, the Pope found a Swiss Guard standing at attention outside his door. He asked him, “And [...]
