This article has been online for a little while but it seemed right in light of Pope Benedict rsquo s recent visit to the United Kingdom to post a link to it here for readers who have not seen it In this article in the Homiletic and Pastoral Review Fr Joseph T Lienhard S J reflects on ldquo P

Here s the trailer for the new movie There Be Dragons about the life of St Josemaria Escriva founder of Opus Dei It s directed by Roland Joffe who also directed The Mission Looks pretty good--though were there really so many drums in Josemaria s life The website for the film is here

Pity Opus Dei Just when they ve dampened the fires of the Da Vinci Code they find themselves implicated in an extraordinary story of mafioso murders secret service intrigues and of course our old friends Archbishop Marcinkus and the Vatican Bank To be fair Opus Dei s involvement in the story o

Many readers of America will have visited or at least heard about the Pantheon in Rome I knew little about it on my first visit there several years ago but was overtaken by it the moment it came into view from the street And once I stepped inside the rotunda and saw the Catholic altar amidst a

Why religious liberty schould be a U.S. foreign policy priority

Life would be so much less interesting if Professor Robert George was not around He has replied to my post yesterday with a post of his own over at Mirror of Justice Among other things he accuses me of an ad hominem attack when I wrote that the tone of his first post was condescending and that con

Archbishop Oscar Romero remains a guiding presence in his native country.

One hundred years hence it is possible that the history books will note the on-going ups-and-downs of the clergy sex abuse crisis Perhaps the treaty the President nbsp signed this morning nbsp to reduce the number of nuclear weapons will be the first of many which will in one hundred years reac