Popin' Ain't Easy

Damien Thompson has raised this question due to Cardinal Schonborn's latest revelations on the abuse scandal. Per Cardinal Schonborn, t...

Ali Agca. The same guy who tried to assassinate JPII back in 1981 is now getting publicity for his thoughts on Pope Benedict's job perfo...

Apparently, Fr. Hesburgh took a call from Nancy Pelosi , asking him to help secure a vote for the Health Care Reform act, which the bishops ...

Have you ever noticed the complete hypocrisy of the secular world in its attitude regarding how the Pope should conduct himself? When the Su...

Scandals are coming again. The New York Times is attempting to connect the dots from sex abuse of minors to the pope, and in doing...

Basically, we've learned that ostensibly pro-life legislators will choose allegiance to their party over the interests of the unborn, ju...

Given the recent presidential subversion of the CHA as a way to get supposedly pro-life Democrats to support Obama's health care plan, ...

Invoking the name of the Guardian of Jesus Christ and the Blessed Mother in the name of passing a piece of legislation that could only have ...

I thought this was a good article from Zenit . Msgr. Charles J. Scicluna is the "promoter of justice" of the Congregation for the ...

Fr. Z does a far better job than I could. Read the whole article, but note especially the last bit. A few days ago a priest who once worked ...

For there is no other God, nor ever was before, nor shall be hereafter, but God the Father, unbegotten and without beginning, in whom all th...

That's right all you Catholic folk. Dr. LK Landis said so . It must be true. For centuries Roman Catholicism has laid claim to the suppo...

If somebody doesn't think of marriage as a sacrament, why would they call it "HOLY matrimony"?

There's a big freaking shocker. Per CNA : In comments to the newspaper, “Le Point,” Jewish historian Saul Friedländer defended Pius XII ...

Whispers in the Loggia just reproduced a Salt and Light text of some interesting comments from Cardinal Levada in a talk he gave about the...

According to their web site , the Anglican Church in America is looking to accept the Pope's invitation. We, the House of Bishops of the...

And because we could all use some friendly black optimistic advice, I present the funniest thing I've seen in a long time and a film tha...

During the course of today's readings, I couldn't help but be struck by this particular quote from Jesus: At that time some people w...

Can someone tell me when GWF Hegel took over the world? Let me preface this by saying that no sane person should ever even consider reading...

Today we celebrate the birth of Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci. This remarkable guy ascended the Throne of St. Peter as His Holine...

Got in a pretty bad wreck on Friday. Hydro-plane, full-spin across multiple lanes of interstate, smashing into concrete barrier stuff. Every...

The story broke not long ago about some new clarifications on Summorum Pontificum from the Pontifical Council Ecclesia Dei. I got it from t...

Philip asks in a comment for my thoughts. Here they are: If you decide that the fact that people will do bad things means that on...

What did logic ever do to Gene Robinson to make him abuse it so? Gene, if you'll recall, was the Episcopalians first openly gay bishop. ...

The Times had the story: Forward in Faith Australia, part of the Anglo-Catholic group that also has members in Britain and America, is sett...