Pope Benedict XVI has named Dominican Bishop Jean-Louis Brugues of Angers, France, as secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, elevating him to the dignity of archbishop. 11 November 2007 […]
Living the Catholic faith within our cultureby Bishop Tod D Brown We now live in a society quite different from what we had when most of us grew up, […]
Rewarding Failure: Executive Pay Settlements Raise Eyebrows Father John Flynn writes in ZENIT:Lavish wage and benefits packages for executives have been the target of increasing criticism in the last few […]
“Today as in the past, people who wish to be Christ’s disciples are called to go against the tide,” said Pope Benedict XVI to a group of Catholic university students […]
BBC News reports Lord Puttnam’s view that the growing number of toy-themed virtual worlds aimed at young people risks undermining the basic human values we wish to instill in children. […]
Coming in the week that the Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, talked about the Bible as foundational to our national culture, journalist and broadcaster Libby Purves chaired a Theos debate […]
The presidents of the Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Scotland and England and Wales have issued a letter considering the forty years of legalized abortion in Britain. Their message emphasizes that “abortion is […]
ZENIT reports that an explosion in media technology means both parents and society need to be more alert to the dangers children face. This was the warning contained in the […]
The Gospel of Sunday 21st October 2007 begins thus: “Jesus told them a parable about the need to pray always and not to lose heart.” The parable is the one […]
In our secularist society there is a popular, but erroneous notion of what it means to follow one’s conscience, often reduced to the idea, “if it feels right, how can […]