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Cardinal Raymond Burke, 75 (link, link) Pope Francis is reportedly contemplating actions against Burke, like taking away his Vatican apartment, and his cardinal's salary, according to reports today in Rome (link and link) "You would be wise to take another path" "A te convien tenere altro viaggio," rispuose, poi che lagrimar mi vide, "se vuoi [...]
In the November-December issue of Inside the Vatican: our Lead story profiles the Latin Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and his offer of himself as hostage in place of innocent civilians in Gaza; we cover extensively the Synod on Synodality which ended October 28, and its implications for the Church; the modern Popes give [...]
Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900). This profound Russian Orthodox theologian was deeply attracted to the Roman Catholic Church. He wrote many theological works, and dealt at length with the question of the Petrine primacy — the role of the Pope as the enduring "rock" upon which the Church is founded and due to which she will always [...]
Pietà (detail), by Giovanni Duprè, 1867, Siena, Cimitero della Misericordia (Cemetery of Mercy). The moment when the body of Jesus is taken down from the cross and given to his mother, Mary, for burial, is the moment of the intersection of the deepest love, deepest faith and deepest sorrow in our tradition, and so, in [...]
"It was an era in which people were disappointed by charlatans and false prophets who claimed to be messengers of God." --Flavius Josephus (37 A.D-100 A.D.), about the first century after Jesus (see link). His most important works were The Jewish War (c. 75) and Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94). The Jewish War recounts the Jewish revolt against Roman occupation. Antiquities of [...]
Today, a beautiful day in Rome, warm, sunny, clear, fresh, I received in my email from a friend a link to a video about a woman — Tammy Peterson, the wife of the Canadian author Jordan Peterson — who learned that she had a very rare, and seemingly inevitably fatal form of cancer, which would [...]
