CATHOLIC NEWS: Communion with Jesus leads us to the definitive Jerusalem says Pope at Palm Sunday Mass... PLUS 6 MORE

CATHOLIC NEWS: Communion with Jesus leads us to the definitive Jerusalem says Pope at Palm Sunday Mass... PLUS 6 MORE

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Communion with Jesus leads us to the definitive Jerusalem says Pope at Palm Sunday Mass

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 08:01 AM PDT

Vatican City, Mar 28, 2010 / 10:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- "Being Christian is a path, or better: a pilgrimage, a walk together with Jesus Christ," underlined the Holy Father at Palm Sunday Mass on an extraordinary spring morning in Rome. He said it is in this communion on the path towards Jerusalem that we find our way to the "new City of God."

Dare to Discipline

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 03:01 PM PDT

In the wake of the Catholic soul searching and hand wringing over the child sex abuse allegations and cover up, I've got some ideas on how the situation might be improved. It involves discipline, and lest this sounds too harsh for our delicate soft, selves, let's remember that 'discipline' and 'disciple' are from the same root.

Quote of the day

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 06:53 AM PDT

I alluded to it here, but it's worth it's own post: "To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers and hypocrites of every description. It also, at the same time, identifies you with saints and the finest persons of heroic soul of every time...

African American founder of New Orleans religious order declared venerable by Pope

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 11:07 PM PDT

Vatican City, Mar 28, 2010 / 01:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Benedict XVI has approved the cause for the canonization of a Spanish religious sister and cleared the way for the beatification of eight other individuals. Among others advancing on the road to declared sainthood is Servant of God Henrietta Delille of New Orleans...

Vatican's "Voice": For "Credibility's" Sake, The Response "is Crucial"

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 12:04 AM PDT

While continuing to cast blame on "media attacks" for the recent spate of stories on sex-abuse and serial mishandling of allegations in the church, even the Vatican's lead spokesman conceded today that "the way in which the church deals with [its response] is crucial for her moral credibility." Still...

The View from the Top

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 03:33 PM PDT

On Friday I was permitted to go up into the Clerestory level of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception here in Washington. I brought my camera and took some unique photos of the Basilica. I am posting a few of them here but you can see the rest of what I took...

Vatican woes confuse ordinary Catholics

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 07:51 AM PDT

Analysis Behind the scenes in Rome these days, word is that the Vatican is in something of a mess. Talk of chronic managerial, personnel and public relations woes under Pope Benedict XVI is in the air -- and that's what the pope's best friends are saying, never mind his critics.