Lakes and Oceans

So it seems, even Rome's getting in on the Trade Deadline action -- at least as evidenced by this morning's appointment of Msgr La...

B16's "Bombshell By the Bay" -- Marriage Chief Cordileone to Rock San Francisco

( 2pm ET -- updated below with video, statements, etc. ) Depending on how one looks at things, this Friday morning brings either the most co...

On the "Nun Wars," Fresh Blair... and A Word from the "Holy Office"

As the promised follow-up to last week's Fresh Air interview of the LCWR president, Sr Pat Farrell (above left), in the run-up to the...

For Santiago's Day, Holy Smoke

As today's liturgy brings the feast of St James, there's no better time to roll out one of the Catholic imagination's many gre...

For Bill Lynn, "Hard Time" -- Clergy Chief Gets 3-To-6 for Philly Cover-Up

The first church official in the English-speaking world to be held criminally liable for his handling of sex-abuse cases, this morning a Phi...

In Aurora, The Dark Night... And "The Dawn"

Yet again, the eyes of the world have turned with shock to the suburbs of Denver, and another unspeakable loss of life. Thirteen years after...

What We Have Seen and Heard

For all the attention that surrounded last week's triennial General Convention of the Episcopal church in Indianapolis, it's worth n...

Live From 5280

SVILUPPO: Its text still to emerge late Wednesday, below you'll find fullvid of the Fifth Archbishop's half-hour inaugural preach -...

On LCWR Reform, The Sister-President Speaks

As the group representing the superiors of a majority of the US' religious women approaches its all-important St Louis assembly early ne...

In Denver, The Appointed Hour

Tomorrow, the focus of Churchworld -- at least on these shores -- turns to the Rockies as a native son takes his seat as the Fifth Archbish...

Quote of the Day

“Y ou know, we like talking about the Vatican! Today many people seek to understand and study us.... Yet many people assure you that the chu...

Religious Freedom vs. "That's Not Fair" -- From the White House, A Mandate Update

Normally, local-TV interviews at the White House tend to be ho-hum, starstruck affairs at which genuinely newsworthy developments are few an...

Midsummer Classics, Catholic Style

Even if the news has blessedly let up, it's worth noting that there are still Big Things Moving on the beat.... Just not the ones we...

"Women in the Church Are Angry!": L'Osservatore's "First Lady" Speaks

On his 2007 appointment as editor of L'Osservatore Romano , Gian Maria Vian was widely expected to make a more lively read of the venera...

At Fortnight's Close, "We Belong to God, And Only to God"

Before an overflow crowd in the nation's largest church -- Washington's 3,500-seat Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate...

Let Freedom Ring

As the Liberty Bell hasn't rung since 1835 -- when its famous crack appeared as it tolled the death of John Marshall -- at this noon hou...

"Repair My House" -- On This 4th, Freedom Begins At Home

The 4th of July in the West's Cradle of Liberty.... Always and everywhere, this Day is one to celebrate freedom's march and seek ren...