Following our list of places to stay in the last issue of the magazine, we now provide this list of moderately-priced restaurants in the Eternal City. Many of our readers have asked for a list of this kind, and what is now offered is ample but not exhaustive. All of the following restaurants have been reviewed [...]
This feast is particular to the Carmelite Order and is the octave of the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. We honor Mary as Mother of Divine Grace since she is the Mother of the Son of God, the Author of Grace. Tradition ascribes to Mary the titles Mother of Divine Grace, Mother Most Amiable, [...]
By what looks like a providential coincidence, Sull’aereo di Papa Benedetto (Flying with Pope Benedict XVI), a book collecting the German Pope’s conversations with journalists during his 24 international apostolic journeys, was published at the end of his pontificate, during the vacancy of the Holy See in March. From Benedict XVI’s first journey to his homeland [...]
April Sunday 7 FIRST MASS IN THE BASILICA OF ST. JOHN LATERAN “God always waits for us, even when we have left him behind! He is never far from us, and if we return to him, he is ready to embrace us,” the pontiff said in his homily today. The Mass was the occasion for Pope [...]
“‘Tis DEATH to Counterfeit” T he warning above was printed on Maryland paper money in 1774, and on similar notes issued by other North American colonies along the Eastern seaboard. That was during the period culminating in the American Revolution. Among other things, it indicates that legitimate political entities had by then realized they had the [...]
Pro-Life EVENT The Pope encouraged the participants in the two major events marking May 12 as Italy’s NATIONAL DAY OF PRO-LIFE MOBILIZATION: a collection of signatures in the Italian parishes in support of a Europe-wide campaign for the legal protection of the embryo and the PRO-LIFE MARCH in Rome from the Colosseum to Castel San’Angelo. “I [...]
Payback with Satan is rotten as he pushes people to be loveless and selfish, finally leaving them with nothing and alone, Pope Francis said in a recent morning homily. “Satan always rips us off, always!” he said during a morning Mass homily on May 14. He was concelebrating Mass with Archbishop Ricardo Tobon Restrepo of Medellin, [...]
The new Pope, who chose his name after the “little poor man” of Assisi, St. Francis, and who said in March shortly after his election that he longed for a “poor Church, for the poor” is already writing his first encyclical, and it will be on poverty. It will draw its inspiration from the words “Blessed [...]
With humor and passion, Pope Francis on the vigil of Pentecost shared highlights of his personal faith journey and explained some key points of his teaching to an enthusiastic crowd of representatives from Catholic lay movements. Celebrating the Pentecost vigil with an estimated 200,000 people singing, chanting and waving their groups’ banners, Pope Francis focused on [...]
“Stay quiet, marine. You will be OK. God is with us all this day.” — Father Vincent Capodanno, last words, spoken to a wounded marine on a battlefield in Vietnam 46 years ago in 1967. A few seconds later, Capodanno was shot and killed. On June 14 in Vietnam, not far from the spot where he [...]