Art, Food and the air of Rome. Curated by Lucy Gordon
By Mother Martha The ancient Romans were the world’s first gourmets. They owe their obsession with food, at least in part, to fellow citizen Marcus Gabius. Better known as Apicius, he was a wealthy decadent epicure who in the first century wrote De Re Coquinaria (Concerning Culinary Matters), the world’s first cookbook. He specialized in [...]
The Pope is continually portrayed as a "progressive" — but how "progressive" is he really? By ITV staff/Vatican News Pope Francis “never intended to offend” by using a slang term for homosexuals, said Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni. Others commented: Michael Day on the INews website in the UK and Robert Mickens, editor-in- chief of the [...]
"The glorious city of God is my theme, my dearest son, Marcellinus" By Marcellus Allen Roberts * The “heart check.” Before leaving the county jail for prison, an inmate will have heard about it, dreaded it, feared it, trembled. The heart check is the legendary inaugural ceremony of a prison sentence, where a new “boot” must [...]
Obedience to legitimate authority makes us more powerful By Anthony Esolen “The propagation of Christianity” by Tommaso Minardi, Quirinale Palace, Rome “There is neither Jew nor Greek,” says Saint Paul, “ “there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you all are one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28). He [...]
More than a century ago, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson foresaw the rise of secular humanism, the contraction of the Catholic Church, and the coming of the Antichrist By ITV Staff Editor’s Note: The passage below is from the Prologue to the novel Lord of the World, written by the English Catholic convert Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson [...]
As John Paul II reminds us in his 1999 Letter to Artists — written as Fr. Rupnik was completing the Pope's private Redemptoris Mater Chapel — "in shaping a masterpiece, the artist not only summons his work into being, but also in some way reveals his own personality by means of it" By Christina Deardurff [...]
By ITV staff “Watching people from all over the world praying... it’s an experience of the universal Church. For me, it reinforces my faith,” Joan Lewis, author of A Holy Year in Rome: The Complete Pilgrim’s Guide for the Jubilee of Mercy, held in 2016, told Catholic News Agency in a 2023 interview. The Jubilee Year [...]
Can Catholics and Orthodox finally celebrate the Resurrection together? By Zachary Naccash Since at least the Second Vatican Council, it has been a goal of the Catholic Church to come to an agreement with the Orthodox Churches regarding the date of Easter. In recent years Church leaders on both sides have repeatedly pointed at the year [...]
"Henceforth, no failure or sorrow will have the last word" March 30, 2024. St Peter's Basilica. Holy Saturday. Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter, presided over by Pope Francis with Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re and Cardinal Leonardo Sandri (Photos - Grzegorz Galazka) The following is the text of Pope Francis’ homily delivered at [...]
By Mother Martha Theaters of Pompeii with Mt. Vesuvius in the background When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., at least 3,000 of Pompeii’s some 15,000 inhabitants were killed, buried under continuous waves of 700° ash-containing toxic gas. The deceased were either the wealthy who didn’t want to abandon their valuables or the [...]
