"The glory of God is man alive, but the life of man is the vision of God." — St. Irenaeus, Against All Heresies, c. 180 A.D. in Lyons, France "The 'living man' intended by Irenaeus is Christ himself, in whose life we believers contemplate the Father's glory revealed in the Son." —Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon, in an [...]
Top, a moment from the controversial fund-raising event in Vienna's Cathedral of St. Stephen on Saturday, November 30. The figure in the center of the top photo, and in the lower photo, is Austrian singer Thomas Neuwirth, also known as Conchita Wurst. Neuwirth is an Austrian recording artist and "drag queen" known for his stage persona Conchita Wurst. He uses masculine [...]
Join Us On Giving Tuesday! Dear Friends, I hope everyone had a joy-filled Thanksgiving day weekend with their family and friends. My family gathered with my father to give thanks for our many years together. It is now the evening of "Giving Tuesday." The day was established in 2012 to focus [...]
CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Lo Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has published a new essay on an Italian website. Below an English translation Above, an artist's conception of a night-time aerial view of the "Abrahamic Family House" in Abu Dhabi. Each building is dedicated to one of the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and [...]
Emanuela Orlandi (in the pink sweater) with her family and Pope John Paul II at about age 11 in late 1978 of 1979, not long after Pope John Paul II was elected Pope (he was elected in October 1978). Four years later, on June 22, 1983, Emanuela would be kidnapped and never heard from again. Now, [...]
Photo Credit: Alexander Tschugguel/Twitter Alexander Tschugguel, 26, the young Catholic man from Vienna, Austria, who tossed five Pachamama images into the Tiber River in Rome on the morning of October 21. Tschugguel revealed in a video this morning that he was, in fact, the man, unidentified up until now, who took the images from [...]
Wednesday, October 30, 2019 CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul Haring Top, Marcivana Rodrigues Paiva, representing the Satere-Mawe indigenous people in Brazil, carries a plant in the offertory procession as Pope Francis celebrates the concluding Mass of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican Oct. 27, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Second [...]
Friday, October 25, 2019 Screenshot (Sceenshot) CNS photo/Paul Haring I am sending the same three photos again, because Pope Francis today spoke of these wooden images. The Pope gave a brief talk in the Synod Hall (text below) on the finding by Italian police of these wooden images, which had [...]
CNS photo/Paul Haring (Sceenshot) (Screenshot) Monday, October 21, 2019 Top, a carved wooden image of a pregnant woman which was in the first chapel at the back of the Church of St. Mary in Traspontina in Rome for the past two weeks, as the Synod of Bishops on the Amazon [...]
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS/Paul Haring Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoletti (L), the new Commander of the the Vatican Gendarmerie Corps. Photo Credit: Vatican News Top, the new commander of the Vatican security force, Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoletti, walks beside the Pope's popemobile in St. Peter's Square today. He is [...]
