Art, Food and the air of Rome. Curated by Lucy Gordon
Bacci described human life in an ancient, sacred language — and then blessed it By John Byron Kuhner* In my last Latin column, I wrote about the late Antonio Cardinal Bacci, who served as one of the two papal Latin secretaries from 1931 until his elevation to the cardinalate in 1960. Bacci’s love of his cardinalatial [...]
By Robert Wiesner The Circumcision of the Lord The Circumcision of Jesus is a feast rather under-celebrated by both the Western and the Eastern Churches. Even Scripture gives short shrift to the event, since it is mentioned only in Luke 2:21, one short verse in the Gospels. This is odd, because there is a tremendous [...]
The school's President, Brian Black, tells the story of a school which combines much-needed technical training with Catholic spirituality. By Brian Black* Harmel Academy, hosted on the beautiful campus of Kuyper College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Harmel students live in dedicated dormitory floors, and receive instruction in dedicated classrooms and labs Several years [...]
A new arrangement makes it easier – and more understandable By Rev. Thomas K. Murphy, OFM* In the illustration, King David, to whom tradition attributes the authorship of the Psalms In 1969, after a three-and-a-half year stint as a U.S. Army chaplain, I studied pastoral counseling while assigned part-time to St. Anne Church [...]
The Church's social teachings suggest a "Just Third Way" — an economic system that respects the dignity of the person By Michael D. Greaney Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846) during a Corpus Christi procession along the colonnade of St. Peter’s Square. Left, Félicité de Lamennais, considered by some as founder of liberal Catholicism. Following [...]
Veteran researcher says vaccines, as currently formulated, are often a response to fear, and not the way to true health - Part 2 By Stefanie Stark, special correspondent to Inside the Vatican “I am Catholic, but my opposition to the use of fresh material from the bodies of aborted babies is not just a catholic perspective [...]
Decades of Political Support for Abortion Began With This Sophisticated Propaganda Campaign By Terry T. Beatley with Clare Ruff At a prayer vigil in November 2009, I discerned the Lord asking me to interview Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the last surviving co-founder of NARAL — the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (later [...]
Stark Choices Lie Before Us. No Matter the Outcome, the Penultimate Struggle Has Already Been Won by Christ By Robert Royal “Put not your trust in princes.” We quote it all the time. And as a general rule about not expecting much from politicians or public authorities—whether they have to appeal to voters to retain [...]
By Peter Anderson Social ethos of the Orthodox Church Chairperson of the theological commission: Greek Orthodox Archdeacon John Chryssavgis Since the promulgation of the encyclical letter Rerum Novarum in 1871, the Catholic Church has developed through the Second Vatican Council and various encyclical letters a well-defined set of social teachings. In 2005, these teachings [...]
By Father El Meskeen Initiated into truth Orthodox Prayer, Part 6 Chapter 2 of the book Orthodox Prayer, by Matta El-Meskeen (1919-2006), Coptic monk and spiritual father of the Monastery of St. Macarius, expounds on the degrees of prayer. This tradition of prayer certainly originated in the early monastic Fathers, who were Eastern. A striking contrast [...]
