Thomas Williams, an American, formerly one fo the leading theologians of the Legionaries of Christ, now laicized. One of the most prominent Legionaries during the past two decades was an American priest, Father Thomas Williams, the dean of the theology faculty at the Legion’s Roman university. Quite close to the founder, Williams was also [...]
The Legionaries of Christ began meeting in Rome in early January in a six-week General Chapter to chart a new course for the troubled order’s future. The meeting opened on January 8 with a Mass celebrated by the congregation’s delegate from the Vatican, Cardinal Velasio De Paolis. A key task of the meeting was to elect [...]
Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos with James Bogle, new president of the International Federation Una Voce. A talk with the new president of the Una Voce group, the former chairman of the Catholic Union of Great Britain, James Bogle. The Una Voce group seeks to support the use of the “old rite” of the Mass, [...]
Pilgrims prat at a statue of Mary in 2011 on Apparition Hill in Medjugorje. A commission set up by the Vatican to study the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje in Bosnia has completed its work and handed in its report. Next: a decision... Granting Medjugorje the status of an approved Catholic shrine is among the [...]
Rabbi Skorka on his lunch conversation with the Pope about their dream to pray together at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and at Jesus’ birthplace in Bethlehem. “Peace in the Holy Land, and throughout the Middle East, is something that is in the heart of Pope Francis,” Rabbi Abraham Skorka, 63, told me on January 17, [...]
Anna Foa. Studies in recent years have been bringing ever more to light the general role of protection that the Church played toward the Jews during the Nazi occupation of Italy, from Florence, with Cardinal Dalla Costa proclaimed Righteous in 2012, to Genoa, with Fr. Francesco Repetto, also Righteous, to Milan with Cardinal Schuster, [...]
The front page of a newspaper close to the German SS during World War II denounces the protection received by Jews in Milan's Catholic convents. The controversy over the “silence” of Pius XII is being reignited. But the facts speak for themselves. The Catholic Church gave refuge to a great number of Jews. With [...]
On Heaven And Earth, written by Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Abraham Skorka. A rabbi who has known Pope Francis for almost 20 years and counts him as a close personal friend said the Pope’s late May trip to the Holy Land will be a challenging balancing act because of the high expectations of Israelis [...]
The group of Argentinian Jews eating lunch with Pope Francis in The Domus Sanctae Marthae, where the Pope lives, on January 16. Fifteen Argentine Jewish leaders met with Pope Francis for an informal kosher lunch at the Vatican’s Domus Sanctae Marthae in January. On the agenda, the Holy Land... Pope Francis invited 15 representatives [...]
On January 26, Pope Francis, after calling for peace in Ukraine, where protestors had died, released two white doves as a sign of peace. The doves were immediately attacked and pecked by a crow and a seagull... A sign? In this issue, we give profiles of the 19 new cardinals Pope Francis has chosen. We also [...]
