“[N]ews reports abound which are often unverified or unverifiable, or completely false…” –Communique this morning from the Vatican’s Secretariat of…
“…As we grow older the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated…” –T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets, East Coker The…
“Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate” — Psalm 143:4. The Secret Report Given…
“Only a permanent formation of the heart and mind can actually create intelligibility and participation which is more than one…
“While the Lord continues to raise up examples of radical conversion, like Pavel Florensky, Etty Hillesum and Dorothy Day, he…
Today the Vatican announced that its ability to process credit card transactions, interrupted since January 1 by a decision of…
Each year, Inside the Vatican magazine chooses 10 people we believe are examples of great courage, fidelity to the Church…
A Pope in the pages of an ordinary newspaper? As a columnist? Never happened before. But it happened yesterday. Pope…
The cardinals and bishops of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints gave the “go ahead” on December 10 for…
Pope Benedict is said to be “saddened” by the discovery that one of his closest aides, Paolo Gabriele, 46, his…