Well, some Protestants are not taking the document on Catholic primacy very well. Consider this snippet: The Rev. Setri Nyomi, general secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, published an open letter July 10 addressed to Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. “An exclusivist claim that identifies the…

It’s not often that a baseball star opens up and talks candidly, even movingly, about his Catholic faith. But that’s what Oakland A’s star Mike Piazza has done with this interview at Beliefnet. The All Star says, among other things: My personal opinion is to keep (prayer)broader, to get up in the morning and pray…

Some things are just too good not to share. Like this clip from the vault of the Colbert Report, posted over at The Word: Catholic Colbert. A big tip of the zuchetto to Diane, who keeps the plates spinning at The Word (as well as over at Bringing Home The Word) for alerting me to…

With that one simple word, St. Benedict began his famous Rule, and what followed transformed Western monasticism and, in fact, the Western world. It’s no secret that monks the faith alive during some of the darkest times in history. But the values and ideas in the Rule of St. Benedict seeped into the rest of…

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