You don’t see this very often! Gesturing sharply with his hand, Pope Francis sternly corrected a group of overeager young people after they pulled him down on top of a boy with disabilities. His rebuke was caught on video that was also being displayed live on screens throughout the...
From bearded indie rockers to hipster barkeeps, facial hair is in. And with it come rumors of a holy renaissance. Men and women everywhere are rediscovering the hairy lore of church history, the long curly whiskers of the saints, the bearded patriarchs of the Bible, and how our own spiritual...
Pope Pius XII’s secret support for the attempted overthrow of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler is the subject of a new book that draws on wartime documents and interviews with the American intelligence agent who wrote them. “This book is the truth – as best I could establish it in a...
“You believe in heaven and hell?” the interviewer asked. “Oh, of course I do,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia answered. “Don’t you believe in heaven and hell?” The interviewer said she didn’t. “Oh my,” Scalia sighed. The interviewer was about to move onto another topic when...
Pope Francis and Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow called on Christians today to pray that God would not allow a World War III. “We exhort all Christians and all believers of God,” they wrote in a joint declaration, “to pray fervently to the providential Creator of the world to… not...
Pope Francis and Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow condemned abortion, euthanasia, and non-traditional marriage in a joint statement today. “We call on all to respect the inalienable right to life,” the document says. “Millions are denied the very right to be born into the world. The blood of the unborn...
