My dad, Bruce Thomas Clark, and the communion of saints...
John Clark
On Jan. 10, my father died in the arms of the Catholic Church — embraced by Confession, Holy Communion, Anointing of the Sick and the Apostolic Pardon. The fact that my father received such graces has been a powerful and hopeful consolation. It has also helped me understand the Communion of Saints in a new and glorious way. My father grew up Protestant but converted in his early twenties...

Here’s a Q&A to help make sense of what’s been alleged about Benedict XVI and Munich...

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The need for two pockets...
Msgr. Charles Pope
Like so many things in life, self-esteem needs to be balanced. The balance is between humility and pride. The following is attributed to Rabbi Simcha Bunim, one of the leaders of Hasidic Judaism in Poland in the late 1700s and early 1800s: Everyone must have two pockets so that he can reach into one or the other according to his needs...

Pope’s Wednesday Audience: ‘God Is Not Afraid of Our Sins’...

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Even Peter nods...
Regis Martin
Soon after ascending to the Chair of St. Peter in 2005, Pope Benedict XVI was driven across town in order to take possession of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the mother of all churches. Indeed, the very first Christian basilica built in Rome and the oldest of all the churches in Christendom, it is the place where, until 1870...

Shock Gallup poll: Only 41% of U.S. conservatives and 45% of churchgoers say it’s ‘very important’ that couples with children together legally marry...

Cardinal Parolin and Deputy Vatican Secretary of State Test Positive for COVID-19...
Edward Pentin
Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra have tested positive for COVID-19, the Holy See press office confirmed on Tuesday. Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, has “very mild” symptoms, while his Venezuelan substitute, Peña Parra, is asymptomatic, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told journalists on Jan...

MLK, the Law and Human Rights...
Deacon Michael Forrest
It has always struck me how close Martin Luther King Day is to the day the Supreme Court affirmed we could legally deny unborn children the most fundamental civil right of all: the right to live and not be killed. Every year, when I talk with my 10th-grade religious-education students at this time (MLK Day and the anniversary of Roe v...

This Church-approved 1980 Marian apparition echoes Our Lady of Fatima...

Friendship between cardinal and politician cemented comeback of ‘Bologna school’...
John Allen
When Italy recently celebrated a state funeral for David Sassoli, the President of the European Parliament who died unexpectedly from Legionnaire’s disease on Jan. 11, the Mass was held in Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and attended by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, Prime Minister Mario Draghi, European President Ursula von der Leyen...

Rare 19th-century film of Pope Leo XIII, remastered and colorized...

Sister Jeannine Gramick has a 50-year record of dissent from Catholic beliefs on homosexuality, women’s ordination and abortion...
Ann Carey
When I first heard that Pope Francis had written a letter to Loretto Sister Jeannine Gramick praising her 50 years of ministry, I immediately thought it had to be a case of mistaken identity. Surely the Pope or his staff had confused her with any one of the thousands of Catholic sisters who have toiled for a half-century to teach and model the truths of the Catholic faith and who deserve such a letter...

Jesus has opened up the pathway of supreme humility...

Marching into the fray, a culture of evangelization, and a process story...

Diplomacy in the Church, in light of the Gospel...

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