The announcement that Pope Francis will celebrate the Mass of the Last Supper in a private ceremony with youthful offenders in the Casal del Marmo Youth Jail is the latest act of exemplary leadership in his new pontificate He and the 50 delinquents 10 girls and 40 boys will be joined only by his

Here 39 s a nbsp surprise From Vatican Radio quot The archbishop of Havana Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino on Saturday read from a document given him by Pope Francis outlining the speech he gave during the pre-conclave General Congregation meetings of the Cardinals Cardinal Ortega had

This guest blog from Gary Bledsoe and Robert S Notzon is a response to the Of Many Things column by Matt Malone S J in the Feb 25 issue As lawyers who are both Catholic we read Father Matt Malone 39 s column on Justice Antonin Scalia with great interest Our view of our duties as Catholics in

As Daniel P Horan O F M noted earlier today Pope Francis has decided not to live in the Apostolic Palace but to remain at the Casa Santa Marta the Vatican Guest House where he stayed during the conclave and has remained since his election ldquo He is experimenting with this type of living ar

The summer I was ordained I spent a month as a substitute pastor in Kotzebue an Eskimo village in the Alaskan Arctic One of the courtesies I received from the villagers was a fifty cent admission for me and my guests to the folk dances they did for visiting tourists In return I was prompted to b

One of the many outbursts that St Francis is remembered to have exhibited during the early years of the Franciscan Order centered on the Saint 39 s concern about the stability of the friars I should point out that this was about the quot stability quot of housing not to be confused with one 3