Speaking of Faith, the faith/religion program from American Public Radio, hosted by Krista Tippet, is seeking your views on Catholicism: Pope Benedict XVI will be making his first papal visit to the U.S. in April, to help revitalize and strengthen the U.S. church. He will be stopping in Washington D.C. and New York City to…

Peter Steinfels’ two cents about looming papal coverage: Is the pope Catholic? That used to be a sarcastic way of saying, could anything be more obvious? Is fire hot? Is water wet? Now, however, that nothing in the world is obvious, when Pope Benedict XVI arrives in the United States on April 15 there will…

Like anything else the institutionally-sponsored Catholic press has its limitations, but it has strengths, as well. One of the areas in which the Catholic press shows its value and even necessity is in the telling of stories of individual Catholics – their vocation journeys, their struggles, their pilgrimages and their transformations. Around this time, diocesan…

First, from Fr. Philip Powell OP’s blog: He took a group of UD students to Athens, GA, to help at the Oasis Católico Santa Rafaela . and lets us know that the Sisters need some assistance: I want to plug the sisters’ work at the Oasis in Athens, GA. The sisters there serve a large…

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