All last week the horror in Haiti made it well nigh to impossible to notice anything else And sadly as predicted a fifth horseman of the Apocalypse Chaos has come to torment that tormented island Still there was an article by Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco that was very worth

Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan a nbsp Mexican cardinal and emeritus president of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Health 1996-2009 has said in an interview with Pontifex that homosexuals and transvestites will never enter into the reign of God appealing to St Paul nbsp T rans e omos

Lately when I find it hard to pray or am distracted or can t settle down interiorly I ve started to use musical settings of the psalms and other religious music to help quiet my soul nbsp nbsp It s a wonderful entree into prayer nbsp and sometimes can even become prayer itself as you let the

Yesterday Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed the papers allowing construction to proceed on a monument to the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr on the National Mall here in Washington This is an important thing and I am not sure I would have known how important until a couple of years ago I try

Two interesting clarifications on the ordinariates proposal from a functionary in the CDF In a ZENIT interview Msgr William Stetson an Opus Dei canonist who has the snappy title of secretary to the Ecclesiastical Delegate of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for the Pastoral Provisio

The news from Rome about the establishment of special ordinariates for disaffected Anglicans should not be seen as a re-lighting of the fires at Tyburn Indeed Archbishop Nichols of Westminster and Archbishop Rowan of Canterbury held a joint press conference to put the announcement in the context o

Talks with between the Vatican and the formerly breakaway Society of St Pius X are about to begin in late October nbsp As our former associate and longtime and beloved editor John W Donohue used to say Stay tuned nbsp Here s the story from Zenit VATICAN CITY SEPT 15 2009 Zenit or

Approaching John Paul II's Theology of the Body

Roland Joffe director of The Mission a movie about the Jesuit reductions that I hope that you ve seen is doing a new movie on St Josemaria Escriva founder of Opus Dei nbsp Laurie Goodstein has the story in today s New York Times nbsp The project was initiated by a member of Opus Dei is p

Frederico Lombardi S J the Vatican spokesperson has called the nbsp planned nbsp upcoming priestly ordinations of members of the schismatic Society of St Pius X illegitimate nbsp The order founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefevre pictured here nbsp in the wake of his rejection with many of