Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Via Media

The podcast I did for Catholic Spotlight on the new Prove It: You book is now online. You can hear it right here. The interview I did about the Pope’s Apostles book and the discussion guide is here. Prove It: You is essentially a book on discipleship for young people. I begin by exploring the…

Not the best day evah  – oh, certainly not the worst, by any stretch of the imagination – just a few momentary bumps in the road. Three, to be precise, each starting with “Dear [Amy’s agent]” . But I’m telling you, nothing cheered me up more than this. I dare you not to laugh. I’m all for…

This caught my eye, over at Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex: In Transylvania and throughout Romania, Catholics who lost more than 2,000 churches to the Russian Orthodox church after the Second World War when the Russians banned Catholicism now want their churches back.  In most cases, the Orthodox church had said no, so Catholics have had to set up chapels in local villages,…

On Saturday, a new bishop for Beijing will be ordained, and the burning question is – has the selection of Msgr. Joseph Li Shan, been approved by Rome? There’s been no public statement, and Adam Minter of Shanghai Scrap is taking that as a “yes.” But I think the most important evidence in regard to…

Today, the cause for the beatification of Cardinal Van Thuan was opened. This morning the Pope received officials and members of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace for the fifth anniversary of the death of the Vietnamese Cardinal Francois-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, whose beatification cause has recently been opened. Also present at the audience were…

And they’re important ones, for Catholics and for him.   Please go see if you can answer any of them. (96 responses at this point…very nice to see!)

As the weekend draws to a close, we can gather reports on various Masses in the Usus Antiquior  held in the US and around the world. Interesting stuff, ranging from bishops celebrating Masses Kansas City and Milwaukee and Birmingham and Cardinal Hoyos in Loreto – to parishes and priests trying things out to private Masses being…

…er…maybe not.

Read this: I have quite an announcement to make. I am now a reporter for Newsweek magazine! I always felt a call to be a reporter for Newsweek magazine so this is something very important for me. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am at this news and the impact this has on my…

Sorry for the light – in every respect – blogging. My brain is full of stuff, but it’s having a hard time finding its way to the blog, for some reason. I am not sure why that is. Probably the Holy Spirit prompting prudence. So, anyway, I finished chapter one of the new opus in…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners