I couldn’t let the day slip by without a prayerful salute to my patron: St. Gregory the Great. Deacon, monk, writer, musician, pope. Among other things, he was the one who coined the phrase “servant of the servants of God” to describe the pontiff. And, he was quite an innovator: Saint Gregory was, above all…

Regular readers will recall that is Katie Couric’s nickname for this dashing TV priest and moral theologian, Fr. Thomas Williams, who works as a Vatican consultant for CBS News. The good father has a new book out, “Greater Than You Think,” an extended argument against atheism. And Elizabeth Scalia has a review of it over…

For over two decades, the Virgin Mary has allegedly been appearing in Medjugorje — and visitors there have numbered in the thousands, if not hundreds of thousands. (My wife is one of them; she made a trip there herself several years ago and was deeply impressed by the experience.) The Vatican has ruled that it…

Sad but true: one of the most famous voices in the world is no more. From the AP: Don LaFontaine, the man who popularized the catch phrase ”In a world where…” and lent his voice to thousands of movie trailers, has died. He was 68. LaFontaine died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from complications in…

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