Two Old Books

Let's go around the horn and look at a few points of interest.... Amy Wellborn reminds us, clearly, calmly, and rationally, that we ne...

There was quite the hubbub made in the press about Pope Francis being caught on camera making his confession during a penance service this l...

Something's been sticking in my craw for a while now. It's niggled at me like a pebble in my shoe and irritated me like a mosquito b...

Today Pope Francis announced the names of the 19 men he will create as cardinals on February 22. (I'm not sure why "create" ...

The pope has given an interview to Italian Journalist Andrea Tornielli , mostly focusing on the meaning of Christmas, but with a few random ...

Some recent news stories have reported an increase in the number of people going to confession since Pope Francis ascended to the Holy See ....

For the past 80 years or so my tiny home parish has put on a traditional Dutch sausage & sauerkraut dinner as a fundraiser for the churc...

Once upon a time, in the halcyon days of my undergraduate education, I majored in journalism. Well, technically speaking, I majored in Commu...

Yesterday Pope Francis named Monsignor Leo Cushley as the archbishop-elect of St. Andrews and Edinburgh in Scotland. I found this interestin...

Pope Francis has been on the job for all of a week, but in some ways it feels like a year. Perhaps I should clarify: in the brief span of se...