Spring in the Tatra Mountains

On the Bishop of Rome’s visit: “Clearly, they like the pope, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to do everything he tells them,” said Father Thomas Reese of Georgetown’s Woodstock Theological Center. “People ultimately are going to do what they think is right.” As quoted in the Bloomberg article: Benedict to Confront Skeptics, Scandal in U.S. Trip . I guess that in Fr. Reese’s book Roman Catholics in the U.S. are really Protestants ... more

But according to the Scriptures we have been taught that death is threefold. One death is when we die to sin, but live to God. Blessed, then, is that death which, escaping from sin, and devoted to God, separates us from what is mortal and consecrates us to Him Who is immortal. Another death is the departure from this life, as the patriareh Abraham died, and the patriarch David, and were buried with their fathers; when the soul is set free from the bonds of the body. The third death is that of w... more

A welcome to the Bishop of Rome on his Apostolic journey to the United States. This Friday a delegation of Bishops from our Church will meet with Benedict at St. Joseph’s Church in Manhattan, along with leaders from other Catholic and Christian denominations. ... more