In All Things

In a homily he gave during Mass on May 9th at the Santa Marta guesthouse chapel Pope Francis looked around the congregation and said ldquo We are sinners everyone here And the Church is holy We are sinners but she the Church is holy hellip But how can it be holy if all of us are in it rdq

ldquo The general security situation in this country is awful rdquo says Msgr Nestor-D sir Nongo-Aziagbia bishop of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic ldquo Terrible rdquo he adds shaking his head sadly nbsp Behind him across the grounds of the archbishop rsquo s residence in Ba

Cambridge MA There has been a great deal of coverage during the last week about the Black Mass that will occur at Harvard tonight May 12 By tradition at least the Black Mass was and may still be an obscene parody of the Catholic Mass using a consecrated host Today rsquo s Crimson the camp

For those who are dedicated readers scholars researchers mdash or just plain bibliophiles mdash welcome news came across the wires May 7th that the New York Public Library has finally decided to shelve pun definitively intended the grandiose ldquo Central Library Plan rdquo It was a plan to r

On May 5 2014 the U S Supreme Court decided in a 5-4 vote that the Town of Greece New York did not violate the First Amendment when it invited local clergy to pray before the opening of town board meetings Significantly all nine justices affirmed the constitutionality of public legislative pr

The truck lurches and weaves with every rut and gully on the bush trail mdash and there are many of them mdash in slow but steady progress through to the outlying villages around Bossangoa The day before two large lorries broke down repeatedly during the same exercise through these small villages

Coming from such a large and imposing figure the soft voice of the general is a surprise One has to lean in and listen closely to hear Mohamed-Moussa Dhaffane speak sharing the high drama of the moment in something close to a whisper Acting President of the Seleka in the Central African Republic

As a defense of teaching about business in Catholic universities ldquo Noble Vocations rdquo by Joseph J Dunn 3 24 is intelligent and clear The title of the article a quote from Pope Francis rsquo apostolic exhortation ldquo The Joy of the Gospel rdquo is a good one It underlines an o

It has been years since I have seen a film as dazzling beautiful and challenging as Patrice Chereau rsquo s Queen Margot It tell the story of the 16th-century French ldquo wars of religion rdquo which raised to a bloody pitch with the Saint Bartholomew rsquo s Day Massacre 1572 when for vari