Lesser-known stories of American cardinals at papal conclaves — before electing one of them Pope was imaginable By Donald McClarey* With the election of the first American-born cardinal, Robert Prevost, as Pope Leo XIV, the Church enters a new era. Yet American cardinals have been part of the papal conclaves since the dawn of the 20th [...]
The Jesuit sign on the ceiling, San Fedele church, Milan, Italy. The abbreviation of Jesus Christ in form "IHS" adopted by the order of Jesuits or Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu). “A central question for understanding what has happened to our Church must be the question of the Jesuit order. What happened to the [...]
Pope Pius XII St. Pius X (Pope from 1903 to 1914) was the last Pope to be canonized. Now, after almost six decades, causes for the last five Popes, with the exception of Benedict XVI, have been initiated. Don’t you think that’s too many? And why almost all at the same time? Don Nicola [...]
