Article on French Protests Helps Register Win Journalist Excellence Award
This article I filed in January 2013 helped the National Catholic Register win a Catholic Press Association journalist excellence award at the CPA annual convention held […]
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Whither China, 25 Years After Tiananmen Square?
It has been 25 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, and China is still far from enjoying religious liberty, civil freedom or democracy. The Catholic Church […]
‘Invocation for Peace’: Yes to Encounter and No to Conflict
VATICAN CITY — “Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare,” Pope Francis told the heads of Israel and Palestine, who he brought together […]
Pope Francis to Host Pentecost ‘Invocation for Peace’
VATICAN CITY — An evening of prayer and music in the Vatican Gardens will be the format of the much-anticipated prayer for peace with Israeli […]
Cardinal Sodano: Church Won’t Be Pressured by Public Opinion to Reform
Former Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano has underlined the importance of Church reform, stressing that it is not governed by public opinion. The […]
Cardinal Baldisseri: ‘The Church Is Not an Abstraction’
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary general of the October Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on Marriage and the Family, caused controversy recently when he said in an […]
Author Discusses ‘The Vatican According to Francis’
VATICAN CITY — What impact is a Latin-American pope having on a Roman Curia heavily influenced by Italians? Massimo Franco, a senior correspondent with Italy’s daily […]
‘It Takes Two to Tango’
As academics and lawyers urge Beijing to respect religious freedoms after recent church demolitions and detentions, Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun has spoken of the damage the current regime […]
Pope Francis Reflects on His Holy Land Voyage
VATICAN CITY — In another frank and revealing papal plane press conference, Pope Francis compared the crime of clerical sex abuse of minors to a black […]
Pope Faces Serious Health Concerns as Holy Land Trip Begins
Newsmax cover story 22 May 2014 As Pope Francis begins a trip to the Holy Land on Saturday with a rigorous schedule that could be […]