Robert Mickens sent us this tip about a new report that he says has produced extensive evidence that last-minute changes were made to the English translation of the Roman Missal without the knowledge or approval of the competent bishops rsquo conferences and in violation of the Vatican rsquo s own

The UN General Assembly voted yesterday for a moratorium on the death penalty advocated by almost all European and Western nations but voted against by the world s greatest violators of human rights China Iran Sudan Saudi Arabia The only major western nation to be included in this roll of dis

After hearing this homily recommended by no less than six people unbidden over the last few days I post nbsp it forthwith nbsp nbsp Here is Archbishop Timothy Dolan s homily on the anniversary of the birth of Dorothy Day nbsp He is speaking at St Joseph s Church in Greenwich Village in New

Cambridge MA I am not sure if readers appreciate hearing about events at Harvard but I cannot help returning once again to the manner in which my ldquo new rdquo life at Harvard mdash as professor and now as Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions mdash keeps opening up for

Just after one Synod on the Middle East the results of the previous one are published The post-synodal apostolic exhortation Verbum Domini is the most important Catholic church document on Scripture since the Second Vatican Council s groundbreaking Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation kno

When I was leaving Barcelona for the airport last Monday there was a vigorous discussion on the taxi s radio about whether the nuns who cleaned the altar at last Sunday s consecration of the Sagrada Familia gave the wrong image - or for some an accurate image - about the place of women in the Chur