Pack Journalism, Vatican-Style
Here’s one man’s recent Holy Week schedule: On Palm Sunday, he celebrated a three-hour Mass, preached, and led the Angelus for a congregation of over two hundred thousand. On Holy
Parsing the "New Evangelization"
The “new evangelization” is one of the signature themes of the pontificate of John Paul II. Addressing the bishops of the southeastern United States on March 17, the Holy Father
Making a Joyful Noise
An old saw among musicians has it that the angels play Bach on high days and holy days, but Mozart gets the nod when they’re having fun among themselves. It
Truth and Labeling
A senior American prelate once said to me that the “greatest curse” of Catholic life since the Second Vatican Council was the epidemic use of the terms “liberal” and “conservative”
Ockham and Us
Everybody knows and uses “Ockham’s razor” even if they’ve never heard of William of Ockham, the 14th century Franciscan philosopher. “Ockham’s razor” is a philosophical principle of economy which holds
At the Center of the Human Drama
According to ancient custom and church law, a bishop must make a pilgrimage to Rome every five years to pray at the tombs of the Apostles Peter and Paul. In
John Paul II and the Priority of Culture
That no good deed goes unpunished is nicely illustrated by the terms in which several biographers have recognized John Paul II as a seminal figure in the Revolution of 1989.
John Paul II — Preparing the 21st Century
Even at the height of Hollywood’s infatuation with things Catholic, no screenwriter would have dared propose such a storyline: Months after his country regains its independence, a son is born
John Paul II — Preparing the 21st Century
Even at the height of Hollywood’s infatuation with things Catholic, no screenwriter would have dared propose such a storyline: Months after his country regains its independence, a son is born
Homecoming
“Before he got here I was worried,” a Polish friend confessed during John Paul II’s homecoming pilgrimage this past June. “I thought the people might be tired of him. But
Pope 007?
His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time. By Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi. Doubleday. 582 pp. $27.50. On October 21, 1978, five days after the
The Quinn Proposals
The debate on the future of the papacy and the Roman Curia launched this past June 29 by the retired archbishop of San Francisco, John Quinn, in a lecture
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