How fitting that Pope Benedict traveled on Friday evening from the Park East Synagogue to St Joseph s Catholic Church on East 86th St The visit to the Synagogue on the eve of Passover was an event added on to an already busy schedule This visit surely reminded the assembled ecumenical leaders

Father Richard John Neuhaus has been doing on-air commentary for EWTN during the Pope s visit Yesterday at the papal Mass held in the new Nationals stadium he crossed a line he should not have twice criticizing the liturgy for its multicultural emphasis and questioning whether those who pla

The Pope s visit is stimulating a lot of different reactions on many fronts even if the drama of the sexual abuse issue tends to hog the media s attention Another appreciative response for me is focused on Benedict s active support of the UN and its international work on human rights Ameri

The Pope s itinerary did not include Boston the center of the clerical sex abuse crisis so Boston came to the Pope In a private meeting at the nunciature Pope Benedict XVI met with half a dozen victims of clerical sex abuse prayed with them and Boston Cardinal Sean O Malley OFM Cap gave

Today Pope Benedict met with five or six victims of sexual abuse from the Boston area The emotional meeting took place in the office of the Vatican nuncio to the U S in Washington D C For many Catholics this represents a significant step forward in the healing of the church It is not

Matt Malone S J is on assignment covering the papal visit to the United States The final installments of his review of the HBO mini-series John Adams will appear next week on America Connects You can catch up on his previous reviews here