Collecting My Thoughts

"The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued the Declaration Fiducia Supplicans (FS), which says it’s possible to give “non-li...

Today is the anniversary of the convening of Vatican II, October 11, 1962. 60th anniversaries don't get the hoop-la of 50th, but the doc...

On March 12, Pope Francis went to the Jesuit Church of the Gesú in Rome for a Mass on the occasion of the 400 th anniversary of the canoniz...

A big nothingburger. “The summit’s very title (“The Protection of Minors in the Church”) and agenda limited the focus to the sexual abuse ...

“The annual Fall Meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which took place in Baltimore earlier this week, was a...

"There are three takeaways from the announcement that came from the Vatican on Wednesday, of a gathering of the presidents of the world...

 William Kirkpatrick, The Catholic Thing "Ironically, one of the factors that is driving people out of the [Catholic] Church is its r...

I'm not a Catholic (I'm Lutheran), but even I know the recent decision (word? opinion? comment? letter? leak?) by the Pope about div...

Not a good time to be an American Catholic--both our President and Pope are messing with marriage! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLFyB-Dxz...

"In 301 AD, twelve years before Constantine legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire, King Tiridates III made Christianity the offi...

 It seems I've read every imaginable explanation--and no one is happy with this document.  Could Pope Francis have been more vague and ...