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Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the Papal Household, reprinted by Sandro Magister:  Today’s world has hatched a new category of people: atheists in good faith, those who experience the silence of God as a painful burden, who do not believe in God and yet do not boast of this, experiencing instead existential anguish and an…

Thomas at American Papist separates fact from media hype on the Pope’s ecological references in today’s homily, with this fantastic pickup from Reuter’s (but of course!): Pope Benedict, leading the Catholic Church’s first ‘eco-friendly’ youth rally, on Sunday told up to half a million people that world leaders must make courageous decisions to save the planet…

From Loreto, via PRF: Jesus Christ, God made man, took on our flesh in Mary, took part in our life, and shared our history. To realize this new alliance, God looked for a young heart and found it in the girl Mary.Even today, God seeks out young hearts, he is looking for young people with…

The Pope’s address to the young people this evening, via PRF. What an amazing spectacle of young and engaged faith we are living tonight! Tonight Loreto has become, thanks to you, the spiritual capital of the youth – the center of convergence for the multitudes of young people who inhabit the five continents.At this moment,…

The next week will be a busy one for the Pope. There are two journeys on the calendar. Tomorrow and Sunday, he will be in Loreto, in northern Italy, for a gathering of youth called the “Agora.” Here is his schedule, which includes, tomorrow evening, one of those sessions we all appreciate so much –…

A few interesting reactions from here and there: Carl Olson has some excerpts from Christopher Hitchens on MSNBC. The man (Hitchens) is pathological in his hatred of Mother Teresa. What is it in her that riles him so? We can only guess. Whatever else can be said about Atheistic Flavor of the Year Christopher Hitchens,…

I mentioned the other day that I’d read The Pawnbroker by Edward Lewis Wallant, an American writer who died in 1962 at the age of 36. Two of his novels, including The Pawnbroker, were published during his life, and two posthumously.  I just finished on of those, The Tenants of Moonbloom, in a new edition from…

Still here. Just working and reading and, in the most absorbing task of the last two or three weeks, potty training. But do you know what? Done!  This time last week, I was near despair. Telling myself that this was nothing in the grand scheme of things and that he certainly wouldn’t be in diapers at…

Today, the Pope resumed the General Audiences in St. Peter’s Square, and continued his series on the Early Church Fathers – today being Gregory of Nyssa. No full translation of the catechesis yet, but at PRF, there is a good summary from a news service: He devoted the catechesis today to St. Gregory of Nissa,…
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