With the election of Pope Leo XIV, many Catholics are wondering: does this mean we’re starting over again? What happens to the teachings and legacy of Pope Francis, Benedict XVI, and John Paul II? In this video, Pedro explores why...
Already posted in this series: Part One; Part Two I am troubled now. John, mystic among Evangelists, treats of the Agony’s psychological inner content only as a pericope within the context of Palm Sunday and the entry in Jerusalem, Jesus...
Vatican news reports that the new edition of the funeral rite for the Roman pontiff has been officially published and released, following the pope’s approval on April 29 of this year: A number of new elements for papal funerals have...
America’s Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell published an article Thursday reporting that Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Pope Benedict’s longtime private secretary and former prefect of the papal household under Pope Francis, has been appointed by the pope to serve in the Vatican...
Editor’s note: This is a long-form essay in five parts, all published simultaneously below. The word count is around 12,400. Part 1 The liturgical path of the Church after Vatican II Introduction The Second Vatican Council, a watershed in the...
Editor’s note: This is the fourth article in a series by Andrew Likoudis entitled “The Liturgical Reform – Council, Consilium, and Papacy.” Part 5 will be published tomorrow. Click here for Part 1: “The liturgical path of the Church after...
This morning I awoke to several messages from Rome regarding the address given to the Synodal Assembly today by the Australian theologian Fr. Ormond Rush. It took me some time to track it down on YouTube, but I found it...
One of the endnotes in George Weigel’s 2005 book God’s Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church retells the (likely apocryphal) story of an exchange that is said to have occurred immediately after the 1914 conclave...
I first came across Shaun Blanchard a couple of years ago when I read his excellent article, “Traditionis Custodes Was Never Merely About the Liturgy” in Church Life Journal. That article provoked my interest in how doctrine develops and the relationship between...
The National Eucharistic Revival launched June 19, 2022 on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, or Corpus Christi, began as a three-year initiative with a mission to “renew the Church by enkindling a living relationship...
This article by Pedro Gabriel was originally published at The City and the World, a news and journalism site founded by Pedro and his wife Claire. Republished with permission. Click here to subscribe. For years Joseph Ratzinger has been at the epicenter...
Shortly after the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German Catholic magazine Die Tagespost published a video of an interview between editor-in-chief Guido Horst and Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former private secretary of Pope Benedict XVI. Afterwards, several media outlets...
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