2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1835+ words) All of life was a pilgrimage for St. Francis of Assisi. It only made sense, 800 years after his death, that I would go on my own pilgrimage in search of him. St. Francis has been called many things: a peacekeeper,…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (315+ words) “It would seem from the little we know that maybe the judges have drawn in more information than there was in the previous elements of the trial, from the Jesuits and from the diocese in Ljubljana,” Gerry said on the…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (244+ words) My parents (a culturally Jewish father and a Protestant mother) were regular viewers of Bishop Sheen. I was in elementary school and remember the show, but not many details. In 1967, when he was bishop of Rochester, N.Y., he came to the…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (628+ words) America Media interprets the church for the world and the world for the church. We are a forum for discussion of religion, society, politics and culture from a Catholic perspective. The Ignatian traditions of “finding God in all things” and…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (612+ words) The four-day visit, which starts on Sept. 25, will include popemobile rides, an open-air Mass in central Paris and a stop in Lourdes, one of Catholicism’s most important pilgrimage sites. The trip is “important for the country hosting him, but more…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (337+ words) A Reflection for Friday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time Although I am free in regard to all,I have made myself a slave to allso as to win over as many as possible…I have become all things…...