Last year on the day after Thanksgiving I finally had the chance to visit after years of wanting to the Shrine of St Katharine Drexel the great Philadelphia heiress-turned-foundress nbsp The shrine in Bensalem Pa located a few miles from my family s home is also the home of the mother ho

Following up on Austen Ivereigh s illuminating post below another question What is the nbsp importance of Pope Benedict XVI rsquo s sweeping statements in the latest installment of his book series Jesus of Nazareth about the need not to hold the Jewish people responsible as a whole for the death o

It would have been surprising if Pope Benedict had resurrected the age-old antisemitic accusation that the Jews as a people were responsible for Jesus death But in part two of Jesus of Nazareth out next week he provides some interesting further scriptural and theological justification for debunk

Those remembering Father George Hunt wrote movingly of his literary interests and former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent s story of Father Hunt scouring used bookstores for that hidden book gem brought a smile to my face and I m sure to many other readers as well I m certain that a shared charac

The publishers of the second part of Pope Benedict XVI s book Jesus of Nazareth entitled Holy Week from the entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection have allowed certain extracts to be published in advance of the book s 10 March publication date The following is taken from the last part of Cha

What changes are coming to Caritas Internationalis the Church rsquo s vast global charity There are many things still unclear about why Lesley-Anne Knight pictured CI rsquo s British secretary-general has been unexpectedly prevented from applying to renew her term But one thing is in no doubt