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

Via Media

Rumors and speculations have swirled for weeks about when Pope Benedict would name new cardinals and call a consistory in which those cardinals will be formally elevated. It’s tempting to shrug at even more Vatican inside baseball, but this is important – we’re talking future Popes here! (Probably – although they can go outside the…

Will be on The World Over with Raymond Arroyo on Friday.

The Supremes accept a PBA case today, for fall argument: After the court’s announcement this morning, groups on both sides of the abortion debate tried to attach some significance to the decision to accept the case. In fact, it would have been highly unusual for the court to turn down the appeal. A lower court’s…

A Russian Orthodox bishop at the WCC meeting reflects: That growing divide may prompt Orthodox churches to consider a tactical alliance with Roman Catholicism to defend traditional Christian values, Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev said in an interview on the sidelines of the global assembly here of the mostly Protestant World Council of Churches.

The rumors regarding the possible lifting of the excommunication of the SSPXer’s who are excommunicated (which is not everyone, remember…it’s confusing) continue to swirl. This blog posts a translation of an Italian newspaper account, and the comments on the post are very interesting. Lots of speculation, and a little bit of grumbling from those who,…

NCR(eporter) has an informative dialogue between two scholars of the Crusades, Thomas Madden and Carole Hillenbrand: I want to ask Carole Hillenbrand about something Thomas Madden wrote: “Without the Crusades, it [Christianity] might well have followed Zoroastrianism, another of Islam’s rivals, into extinction.” Carole, do you think that’s true? Hillenbrand: No. Firstly, Zoroastrianism is not…

The Vatican Watcher summarizing a couple of recent, slap-in-the-head moments in which satirical jabs at Christianity (to put it mildly) are okayed by the same people who disapprove of satire using Islamic images.

Sort of. We’ll get there on Saturday morning, wiped out and confused, but with hopefully enough energy just to look around and orient ourselves. Believe it or not, I actually have to meet with someone on Saturday afternoon, but since it’s in, you know, Rome, it will be novel enough in itself. Sunday, what’s set…

The good news from today is that I finally took the time to research our plane – it’s supposed to be an Airbus A330, which has individual audio/video monitors at every seat. Do you KNOW how much tension that instantly relieves? I haven’t been too concerned about the trip over, because it’s overnight, and both…

Whispers in the Loggia has the scoop (For those of you who didn’t know, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the figure at the center of the Vatican Bank scandal back in the 80’s, had been living in retirement in Arizona)
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners