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The end of a old year and the beginning of a new is a time for prayer, a time for gratitude and hope. The Pope’s schedule during these days is a busy one. Yesterday, he prayed Vespers at St. Peter’s and afterwards blessed the crib of the really big Nativity in St. Peter’s Square: There…

Italians and their nativity scenes – something to behold, they say (she sighed) – here’s an interesting Slow Travel thread on what people are seeing around Italy these days and here’s a post from a wonderful blog by an American woman living in Rome on the tradition in general as well as on her Presepe-related…

I was just listening to our local Catholic radio station, and they were playing a most interesting discussion, obviously from England – about the Church and the press. I’ve figured out that it must be a feed from EWTN’s "Top of the Week" program, which seems to have variable content. But I’d really like to…

Last spring, the NYTimes Magazine ran an almost 8,000-word story on abortion in El Salvador. One of the central stories involved a woman who was supposedly jailed after obtaining an abortion at 18-weeks of pregnancy. Problem was, that wasn’t the situation at all. She was jailed after being tried and convicted for murdering her full-term…
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