I do hope the USCCB puts up the address of James Cardinal Stafford of the Apostolic Penitentiary, just delivered in Baltimore. It was quite fascinating, and his quiet, humble delivery just added to the interest, to me at least. He came to speak primarily of indulgences, highlighting for the bishops the recent publication of the…

A few days ago, folks went predictably beserk about the "Anglican Church" supposedly affirming the British Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology’s statement about euthanizing severely disabled newborns. Well, it just wasn’t so: The Church of England’s decision to support a policy of withholding or withdrawing medical treatment from very premature or disabled newborns was…

From England: A select congregation including the Pope’s personal representative, Archbishop Faustino Sainz Munoz, and around 30 bishops of England and Wales were at the Mass in which £2million of restoration work was seen for the first time. The 15-month project has seen the 102-year-old building sympathetically restored to be more in keeping with its…

An artist meets the Pope: Alice Lok Cahana survived the Holocaust to become an artist of international renown. The most recent acknowledgment of her work was given by Pope Benedict XVI last month in St. Peter’s Basilica. The pontiff met with the Houston-based artist when her painting No Names was presented to him for the…

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