"I wish still with my heart, my love, my prayer, my reflection, with all my inner strength, to work for the common good and the good o...

O God, eternal shepherd, who govern your flock with unfailing care, grant in your boundless fatherly love a pastor for your Church who will ...

Fr. Dariusz Oko By Ann Barnhardt ( Barnhardt.biz ) If you scroll down, I made a post in January titled "Pulchra Vera", whi...

By NICOLE WINFIELD | Associated Press VATICAN CITY ( AP ) — Pope Benedict XVI basked in an emotional send-off Wednesday from an esti...

By NICOLE WINFIELD  VATICAN CITY ( AP ) — Pope Benedict XVI will be known as "emeritus pope" in his retirement and will conti...

From the Associated Press via FoxNews.com : LONDON –   Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Britain's highest-ranking Catholic leader, re...

By FRANCES D'EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY ( AP ) -- Pope Benedict XVI bestowed his final Sunday blessing of h...

By Simon Caldwell ( Mail Online ) The African cardinal widely tipped to be the first black pope in modern history faced a firestorm of cr...

These Stone Walls by Father Gordon MacRae is a finalist in About.com's Readers Choice for Best Catholic Blog . In justice, it shoul...

From Father Gordon MacRae : ...I also invite you to choose someone who has hurt you in the past; perhaps someone you have not forgiven...

"The Italian paper La Repubblica reported the powerful cardinal Tarcisio Bertone is working behind the scenes to advance Dolan’s cha...

By Carlo Angerer and Ian Johnston, NBC News Pope Benedict XVI was troubled by "some great challenges" during his time in of...

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A sign from God? Lightning strikes the basilica of St.Peter's dome earlier this evening during a storm that struck Rome on the same d...

"Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves." - Pope Benedict XVI Related: Pope Benedict XVI to resign at th...

( Fox News ) Pope Benedict XVI will resign at the end of February, the Vatican Press Office tells Fox News. The 85-year-old pontiff mad...

By Terry Mattingly ( Knoxville News Sentinel ) ...Even though Pope Benedict XVI didn't make it to America in person, the Rev. Jason C...

By Daniel Halper ( The Weekly Standard ) This week Russian president Vladimir Putin brought Boyz II Men to Moscow to "hopefull...

With Mr. Bates in prison, Lady Edith jilted at the altar, a Catholic conundrum, and Carson facing Downton Abbey’s first electric toaste...

Repost from November 18, 2009: By John Zmirak ...The source of Mother Angelica's Olympic-level diligence was the fiercely protect...

( BBC ) A retired Los Angeles cardinal accused of mismanaging a child sex abuse crisis has been stripped of all administrative and public...