What Works: Renewal
I always go to the Easter Vigil. I don’t do it out of duty; I do it out of love. My own baptism happened at…
pope benedict xvi
Commenting on Condoms
Recently, on a pilgrimage in Italy, I heard a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal relay in a homily one of the many stories of St.…
The Golden Rose
A blinging gift from Pope Benedict to the Madonna of Pompeii puzzles Fr. Larry. The question leads into a brief and surprising history of the…
Since the Pope is German are there any particular German-Catholic rituals that he might have participated in growing up that we wouldn’t know about?
Pope Benedict XVI is from the German state of Bavaria, a region which is predominately Catholic and sometimes described as the “most religious state in…