CATHOLIC NEWS: Facing stormy seas, pope heads to Malta to recall a shipwreck... PLUS 13 MORE

CATHOLIC NEWS: Facing stormy seas, pope heads to Malta to recall a shipwreck... PLUS 13 MORE

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Facing stormy seas, pope heads to Malta to recall a shipwreck

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 07:50 AM PDT

Benedict XVI arrives in Malta tomorrow to celebrate the memory of a shipwreck, and at the moment the pope could be forgiven for feeling like he's on the brink of another one. In recent weeks, the "Barque of Peter," a traditional maritime image for the papacy...

The Rumors of the Church's Death are Greatly Exaggerated

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 10:00 PM PDT

By Mark Shea | My friend Gaurav Shroff is in the news, talking about how Gregorian Chant brought him to Christ. We had a great time wandering around Green Lake with our mutual pal Alex Edezhath and then going to an uber-high Dominican Rite Latin Mass at Blessed Sacrament (my home parish) here in Seattle a couple of summers ago.

When God gives "the Gift"

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 09:16 PM PDT

Back in college I became interested in learning to play the Pipe Organ. I had heard the thunderous resonance of that instrument and knew I wanted to play it and make the whole building shake. I had not studied piano as a child and so was starting from scratch. But I hammered away at it...

How to Save the Catholic Church

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 07:50 AM PDT

The great second wave of church scandals appears this week to be settling down. In the Vatican they're likely thinking "the worst is over" and "we've weathered the storm." Is that good? Not to this Catholic. The more relaxed the institution, the less likely it will reform.

Let Him Eat Cake

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 07:58 AM PDT

Amid the most seismic crisis his five-year pontificate's faced, today sees B16's 83rd birthday... and a group of American pilgrims brought him a treat. After welcoming members of the Philadelphia-based Papal Foundation for their annual Roman pilgrimage, the pontiff was given a cake as the visitors sang "Happy Birthday" in English...

For French Kudos, Castrillón Gets Curbed

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 06:47 AM PDT

In but the latest notable Roman development on the abuse front, late last night the Holy See underscored B16's record on the handling of cases at the expense of one of his pontificate's lead allies on other matters. In a September 2001 letter relayed by the French journal Golias...

Can a teaching pope get his house in order?

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 05:47 AM PDT

Article Details Pope Benedict, five years into his pontificate Some years ago, after a speech he delivered in Paris drew a bit of negative reaction, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger told friends he wasn't worried. "I'm like the cellist Rostropovich," he joked. "I never read the critics."

Vatican disses one of its own on sex abuse

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 02:13 PM PDT

Article Details By John L Allen Jr Pope John Paul II distributes ashes to Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos on Ash Wednesday Feb. 25, 2004. (CNS) ROME -- Late Thursday evening Rome time...

Pfleger apologizes

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 12:23 PM PDT

One of the most controversial priests in Chicago -- or in the country, for that matter -- has apologized for remarks he made in last Sunday's homily: Rev. Michael Pfleger -- the South Side priest who has often found himself at odds with the Catholic church hierarchy -- has issued a written apology after saying during his sermon Sunday that priests should be allowed to marry and that.

Free From a Taxing Life!

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 10:00 PM PDT

Luke 5:27-28 After this He went out, and saw a tax collector, named Levi, sitting at the tax office; and He said to him, "Follow me." And he left everything, and rose and followed Him. No child begins life filled with the glorious vision of life in a tax office. We start life in wonder.

Aquinas' Conquest: An Interview with Dr. Kevin Vost

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 10:03 PM PDT

Dr. Kevin Vost is no stranger to Catholic audiences. As a clinical psychologist and author of Memorize the Faith! and Fit For Eternal Life, he is a regular guest on EWTN Radio's Son Rise Morning Show as well as appearing on numerous other radio programs and EWTN's Abundant Life with Johnette Benkovic .

The new atrocity: three-parent embryos

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 07:12 AM PDT

The headline reads: "UK scientists have created 'designer embryos' containing DNA from a man and TWO women." As I read this bizarre and disturbing news item regarding how mad scientists have successfully performed a "3-person in vitro fertilization" ("eighty embryos were created but destroyed after eight days")...

A meeting with 'Little Ratzinger'

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 10:31 AM PDT

I hadn't been talking long with Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera before he fired a broadside both at Spain's secularist prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and Barack Obama. "Zapatero is intelligent but he and the government have the same dominant theology: man without God," he said in a quiet and gentle voice.

Human Embryo Research Company to Relocate Near Ave Maria University

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 09:55 AM PDT

A biotechnology company that offers conferences, how-to courses, and product sales specifically for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research is being lured to the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District.