“It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.”

A poem for 'Mater et Magistra'

On Feb. 11, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI announced a decision that will have far-reaching implications for the modern church.

The modernist crisis and the death of a magazine.

At the time of his violent death, Charles de Foucauld had had founded no congregation nor attracted any followers. And yet his witness endured.

Seventy years ago a fateful meeting occurred in Rome. The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII), and Germany’s vice chancellor, Franz von Papen, formally signed a concordat between the Holy See and the German Reich on July 20, 1933.