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The Goal of “Ordinary Time”
One of the beauties of Catholicism is the centrality of seasons in the religious and spiritual imagination in the Catholic consciousness. We begin the Liturgical Year with the First Sunday […]
October 5, 2016
The Church and the Clown
Joseph Ratzinger once recounted an incident he had as a young priest in the company of the famous Joseph Frings, Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne. The context was shortly before the […]
October 5, 2016
The Church in Africa and the 2015 Synod on the Family
There are an estimated 1.2 billion Roman Catholics in the world, according to Vatican figures. More than 40% of the world’s Catholics live in Latin America – but Africa has […]
October 5, 2016
Domine, Non Sum Dignus!
A central leitmotif of the October 2014 Extraordinary Synod on the Family, following the presentation by Cardinal Kasper in the Consistory of February 2014, almost narrowed down to the question […]
October 5, 2016
Baptism Says It All
From September 19 – 22, 1996, St. John Paul II made his sixth pastoral visit to France, a nation that was certainly dear to the heart of this son of […]
October 5, 2016
Remembering Benedict XVI Three Years Ago
February 11 is celebrated in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar as the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, which recalls the 1858 apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the […]
February 16, 2016
Who Do You Say I Am?
At the Second Vatican Council, Catholicism gave itself a hermeneutic that certainly marked a profound shift regarding Church-world relations. This is what the Council said: “To carry out such a […]
February 9, 2016