Fisherman catches rarely-seen alligator 'feeding frenzy' on video...
Goodbye, Old Legion. All the Powers of the New General...
As the pope's delegate, Archbishop De Paolis has full authority over everything and everyone. For Corcuera, Garza, and the other heads of the congregation founded by Marcial Maciel, the end is in sight. But they're still resisting.
Offbeat: Was Pope Pius XII a closet Yankees fan?
This was sent in to me by a reader this week and it seemed too fantastic not to be true: My father was in a private audience with Pope Pius XII. He asked where my father was from (New York City) and the Holy Father then asked: "how are the Yankees doing?" I don't know, but it looks like the Holy Father's (holy) hands could throw a mean slider!
Anne Rice: "I quit being a Christian"...
Shock: Baby Boy Drowns During Baptism Ceremony in Moldova...
The Delusion of the Familiar...
I have always been joyously afflicted with wanderlust. In It's a Wonderful Life, when George Bailey tells Uncle Billy that the three most exciting sounds in the world are anchor chains, plane motors, and train whistles, something stirs in my marrow. I have always felt the romance of travel...
Farewell to a Swiss Guard who served three popes: his last interview...
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Anne Rice Quits Christianity...
Is It Possible that St. Paul Was a "Poor Preacher?" A Brief Meditation on Superficiality...
Sneak Peak At There Be Dragons Movie Trailer...
It's a Deal: Backpacks for $0 from Staples...
QUAERITUR: birettiquette, revisited...
Spirituality: Feast of Saint Martha...
An Important Announcement from Ignatius Press...
The disgrace of EWTN's "The World Over"...
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A Kenyan lesson in faith, politics, and the Christian future...
Next Wednesday, Kenyans head to the polls to vote on a new national constitution. It's intended to ease the political and tribal tensions which erupted in violence in early 2008, leaving more than 1,000 Kenyans dead and some 300,000 displaced. The referendum is being closely followed all across Africa...
Singing nuns get death threats...
Disturbing news out of France, about a group of nuns who made headlines recently: Benedictine nuns from a secluded convent in southern France have received death threats after winning a deal aimed at creating a chart-topping album, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
A Cautionary Tale: Augustine, Aquinas, and Anne Rice...
Did you hear the one about how Archbishop Burke was "promoted out" of the US?
That's what a great many of his Stateside critics would have you believe. But given the Archbishop's steady rise in prominence, influence, and his accumulation of real power within the Roman curia, I'd say his critics are really just whistling past the cemetery .
St. Martha: pulling apart a painting...
Homosexuality is a disorder, former Vatican prefect emphasizes...
What does Heaven Cost? A Meditation on the "Curse" of Affluence...
Every biblical quotation from Greek and Latin Church Fathers...
