by John Freund, CM | Apr 6, 2013 | Pope
(Vatican Radio) Below we publish a translation of a communique issued Friday morning by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: The Holy Father today received in audience Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 6, 2013 | Pope
The AP reports …”Pope Francis on Saturday named a Spanish Franciscan to be the No. 2 at the Vatican’s office for religious orders, his first appointment to the Vatican bureaucracy badly in need of a shakeup. “Jose Rodriguez, who also was...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 5, 2013 | Pope
Metaphors did not come to Pope Francis with the papacy. As archbishop of Buenos Aires, he used similar figures of speech to get simple, yet powerful, ideas across to his listeners writes Carol Glatz in The CatholicSpirit. The following are some metaphors that appear...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 5, 2013 | Pope
EWTN’s exclusive 15-minute interview with Cardinal-Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, now Pope Francis. Conducted just six months ago, the future pope discusses His Holiness Benedict XVI’s call for a Year of Faith, Latin America as a...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 4, 2013 | Daughters of Charity, Pope
Fr. Rolando S.DelaGoza, CM writes of his recollections of Domus Santa Marta … I think that all our readers know that the Holy Father, Pope Francis, lives in “Domus Sanctae Marthae” (Santa Marta) which is the Vatican Hotel run by the Daughters of...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 31, 2013 | Pope
It is not only the women at the tomb who were surprised. In our days the Church has been surprised by the Holy Spirit. In a post titled “The Spirituality of Surprises” the blog Dating God catalogs how the church has been surprised by election of its new...
