Blogger and former Anglican priest David Palmer shares his conversion story. I believe that John Henry Newman when asked why he became a Catholic, said something along the lines that becoming a Catholic wasn’t little thing that could just be explained between two courses of a meal. And indeed it isn’t. There are so many…

Catholics outnumber other religious groups (not Protestants as a whole, but as divided up into denominations)  in Congress (this is not new – I believe Catholics have numerically dominated for a while) Roman Catholics are the largest single U.S. religious denomination among members of the new U.S. Congress which also includes two Buddhists and a…

Over the past few weeks, controversy has grown over the archbishop-elect of Warsaw, Stanislaw Wielgus (due to be installed on Sunday). John Allen summarizes: Controversy surrounding the alleged collaboration of the archbishop-elect of Warsaw, Stanislaw Wielgus, with Poland’s Communist-era security forces deepened on Tuesday, with the publication of documents purporting to show that as early…

Today, Pope Benedict visited a soup kitchen – near the Termini station, run by Caritas of Rome. Those who give and those who receive in the daily work of Caritas experience the beauty of the love that Jesus brought and feel “the depth of the joy that derives from it, a joy that is certainly…

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