Papal Preacher is No Fr. James Martin, SJ
Fr. Jim Martin, SJ had words that everyone should have read yesterday: Good Friday, though, reminds us that Jesus went to his crucifixion freely and surrendered his life for something…
Being the Pope is Lonely
Sandro Magister–Vaticanista par excellence, has much to add about the SSPX story. In the disaster, Pope Benedict XVI found himself to be the one most exposed, and practically alone. Both…
Pope mandates recant to reconcile with SSPX
For those who doubted: The Vatican demanded Wednesday that a bishop who denied the Holocaust recant his positions before being fully admitted into the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican also…
Archbishop of Hamburg Criticizes Vatican PR
Give this Bishop credit for saying what everyone else is thinking. Werner Thissen, the archbishop of Hamburg, said Pope Benedict XVI should have lifted the excommunication of Bishop Richard Williamson…