Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York is scheduled to read a passage from Scripture at Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony for the U.S. presidency on January 20th. The passage he chose? Wisdom chapter 9. The choice is noteworthy because the Old Testament book of Wisdom is accepted by the...
Pope Ven. Pius XII is best known as having served as the Vicar of Christ during the Second World War (the heroism of his fight to save Jews from the Holocaust has been recently vindicated by new research). He is also known for being one of the few popes in...
Jesus was thoroughly Jewish. Even so, different cultures and ethnicities have often portrayed Jesus and others from the Bible as being from their group. Sometimes this is done to symbolize the fact that Jesus came for all the nations of the world. Since Christianity for many centuries was based largely...
What a cool group! In the video below, you can see a group of Franciscan Friars Minor perform a song with the food they are preparing to distribute to the poor. If that doesn’t quite make sense to you, just watch! The video description says: “The Friars are so...
There is a “very high” chance that Rome will be attacked by terrorists, warns Italian security official Franco Gabrielli, pointing to Pope Francis and the Vatican as two potential targets. “There is relentless propaganda,” Gabrielli told Italian news outlet il Giornale, referring to propaganda efforts of the Islamic State, “that...
The papacy is one of the most distinctive aspects of Catholicism. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most misunderstood. Note that these myths are about the office of the papacy, not myths about a particular pontiff. Here are 5 of the most common myths about the papacy: Myth 1:...
