Democrat (and Roman Catholic) Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan of New York is reputed to have said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” It would also be fair to say that every Catholic is entitled
(AP) Pope stresses strength, courage, hope in new yearBy FRANCES D’EMILIOAssociated PressVATICAN CITYPope Francis on Wednesday urged people to accept each other’s differences and for enemies to recognize that they are brothers. `’We are all children of one heavenly father,
Michael Coren didn’t have to be Catholic. Actually, he’s had several opportunities to walk away from the enterprise altogether. Born to a Jewish cab driver in Essex, England, in January 1959, he became a Roman Catholic in his 20s while
The reality that Pope Francis sounds more like President Obama than Ronald Reagan has put bit of a scare into the Republican party and Conservatives. Conversely, the Pope has become a darling to the Democratic party. Pope Francis’s proclivity for
President Obama is using Pope Francis to foster wealth redistribution ideas in his speeches on the importance of reducing the gap between rich and poor. Now that the President’s message of “Hope and Change” has drastically soured over his last
Greeting the 70,000-strong crowd below his balcony at St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis issued a wide-ranging call for peace in areas as disparate as Syria and the Central African Republic, and explicitly pled for “nonbelievers to desire peace” along with
On Wednesday, Pope Francis gave his first official Christmas message in Italian, speaking from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. It focused on the theme of peace. “I take up the song of the angels who appeared to the shepherds
(AP) Pope’s Christmas wish: hope for a better worldBy FRANCES D’EMILIOAssociated PressVATICAN CITYIn his speech on Christmas Day, Pope Francis said he hopes for a better world, including successful Middle East negotiations in the land of Jesus’ birth, peace for
Comedian Sarah Silverman sent out a tweet today equating gun owners with “gun boners” and suggesting they should listen to the Pope, as if he is pro gun control. Twitchy.com carried her tweet: Hey gun boners–at least listen to THE
POLITICO’s Mike Allen hosts “Playbook Breakfast” with President of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka…
(AP) Pope given San Lorenzo’s trophy after victoryBy DANIELA PETROFF and NICOLE WINFIELDAssociated PressVATICAN CITYPope Francis celebrated his beloved San Lorenzo’s victory in the Argentine soccer championship Wednesday, congratulating team members, reminiscing about going to the stadium as a child
A leading lifestyle magazine that promotes gay rights and same-sex marriage has named Pope Francis its “Person of the Year.” The December issue of The Advocate features Pope Francis with a “NO H8” message photoshopped on his right cheek. Next
(AP) ST. LOUISPope Francis announced changes in the influential Vatican office that evaluates and nominates candidates for bishop around the world. Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington was appointed Monday to the Congregation for Bishops. The pope also reconfirmed Cardinal William Levada,
In an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa published Sunday, Pope Francis offered a clarification of the economic views he articulated in his November 24th apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium. “The Marxist ideology is wrong,” he told La Stampa. The pontiff
The editor of a major digital Catholic evangelization publication writes that, in choosing Pope Francis as its “Person of the Year,” Time made the right choice but for the wrong reasons. Daniel McInerny, editor of Aleteia’s English language edition, wrote
An ABC News/Washington Post poll released Wednesday shows that Pope Francis is hugely popular among Roman Catholics in America. The poll came out on the same day that Time magazine named the pope its “Person of the Year” for 2013. Since his elevation to
Describing him as both a “Teddy Roosevelt” and a “rock star,” Time has chosen Pope Francis as its Person of the Year. The Pope, now in his ninth month of papacy, has made waves for everything from his attitude toward enforcing
In 1996, writer, editor, and speaker Dale Ahlquist founded the American Chesterton Society, which is devoted to promoting interest in 20th-century English author, journalist, dramatist, biographer, and lay theologian G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936). The Baptist Ahlquist was received into the Roman
Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh told his listeners on Thursday that he refuses to “play villain in the Pope Soap Opera” that the left created following Limbaugh’s comments about Pope Francis’ recent exhortation. In part of the statement, the pope
Veteran actor Gabriel Byrne told a radio talker that Pope Francis’ public graciousness belies the fact that the religious leader is merely a figurehead who cannot affect the change needed for the Catholic Church. Byrne, raised Catholic, compared the Pope
A source familiar with the inner workings of the Vatican told Breitbart News on Monday that Pope Francis is likely to offer a “clarification” of his comments on economics contained in his apostolic exhortation released on November 24, Evangelii Guadium
Rush Limbaugh after the president mentioned the pope’s views on economic inequality Wednesday:
When Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome on Monday, Nov. 25–a 35-minute meeting for which Putin (as is his custom, and partly caused by pro-Pussy Riot protesters outside his hotel) was 45-50 minutes late–the
Argentine-born Pope Francis wrote the newly released Evangelii Gadium (“The Joy of the Gospel”) in his native Spanish, which may help to answer some thorny questions being raised about the English translation of the pontiff’s first solo official document (the recent
Since the days of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame University has been known as the home of one of the best college football programs in America. Since 2001, it has also been the home of Father Gustavo Gutierrez, the originator of
