The other day, our intern, Rich Meyer, and I participated in a national media conference, via telephone, from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The topic: immigration legislation. There is currently an overhaul of US immigration law being proposed, one that will wend its way through Congress in the...
Earlier this week, I was attending an event whose speaker was Archbishop Joseph Kurtz (Archdiocese of Louisville). After speaking about popes and more specifically Pope Francis, there was a Q&A session filled with a variety of questions from the audience, some wanting to learn more about him, others...
As a shoe lover, I am thoroughly enjoying all the talk going on lately about the pope’s latest choice in footwear. Apparently, the fate of the Church rests not in Pope Francis’ hands, but on his feet. But it doesn’t surprise me. As a society seemingly obsessed with which celebrity is wearing what made...
The psalmist praises the God of Israel as king of the universe. God is pictured in his heavenly court. He is surrounded by “sons of God” or “heavenly beings.” Some think that this is an adaptation of a hymn to the Canaanite god Baal. We might think of angels.
The heavenly court praises God’s glory...
Monday’s news included a story that Pope Francis basically gave an affirmation to the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith in its takeover of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. You can read the details in all sorts of places on the web—I spotted the ABC news story first, then checked...
On April 6, Pope Francis appointed Father Jose Rodriguez Carballo, OFM, as the Secretary for the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, thus also naming him an archbishop. It was the pope’s first appointment within the Roman Curia.
Father Jose had been the...
