On the decision to celebrate gay marriages in the largest Episcopal church in the US The Very Rev. Gary Hall, the Episcopal cathedral’s dean The Washington National Cathedral, the largest and most prominent Episcopalian church in the United States, will soon begin hosting same-sex marriages. Cathedral officials told the Associated Press that the church [...]
ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY Interview with Valentina Colombo, professor of History of Contemporary Islam at the European University of Rome and Senior Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels The Jasmine Revolution, which originated from the desire for freedom and justice of the Arab masses and which has swept over the Arab countries of North [...]
PHOTO ESSAY EPIPHANY CONSECRATIONS After the consecration Mass, Benedict XVI invited the faithful, gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Angelus, to pray for the four new bishops At midday on January 6, Solemnity of the Lord’s Epiphany, the Holy Father appeared at the window of his study to pray the Angelus with the faithful gathered [...]
PHOTO ESSAY EPIPHANY CONSECRATIONS Who is the priest who became Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s personal secretary in 2003 and the closest collaborator of the Vicar of Christ in 2005? Archbishop Georg Gänswein lies prostrate during the episcopal ordination Pope Benedict XVI ordained his longtime secretary an archbishop January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany. The [...]
PHOTO ESSAY EPIPHANY CONSECRATIONS —photography by Grzegorz Galazka Archbishop Georg Gänswein, prefect of the Papal Household and personal secretary of Benedict XVI, carries his pastoral staff during his episcopal ordination Pope Benedict’s words during his homily on the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6 in Rome were a profound reflection on what it [...]
Key excerpts (slightly edited for clarity) from Bishop Fellay’s talk at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy in New Hamburg, Ontario, on December 28, 2012 Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior of the SSPX, delivers a blessing during an early morning Mass at the Society’s headquarters in Menzingen, Switzerland, May 11 (CNS photo) Editor’s note: We [...]
Bishop Bernard Fellay, SSPX head, says Vatican sent “mixed messages” during reconciliation talks Bishop Fellay is pictured near an image of St. Pius X at the society’s headquarters in Menzingen, Switzerland, last year (CNS photo) The head of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X said he has been receiving mixed messages from the [...]
Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera (Galazka photo) An interview with the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera Your Eminence, on November 3 you celebrated Holy Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for 2,000 believers from around the world, using John XXIII’s 1962 Missal. Why? Card. [...]
Benedict on the Role of the Pope Peter’s responsibility thus consists of guaranteeing the communion with Christ. Let us pray so that the primacy of Peter, entrusted to poor human beings, may always be exercised in this original sense desired by the Lord, so that it will be increasingly recognized in its true meaning by brothers [...]
Slovakia decided to mint a special 2-euro coin for the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, apostles of the Slavs in Moravia, now part of Slovakia. But... Can a 2-euro coin become a way of witnessing to the faith of a people? Perhaps this may happen in a Europe which continues to [...]