News from Saint John and Beyond

(Updated 10am with election results) BALTIMORE – Nine years ago on this Election Morning, as the leadership of the nation's largest religious body hung in the balance, this scribe asked a favorite op...

BALTIMORE – A hundred years since the bishops of the United States – freshly gathered into an episcopal conference – made their first collective strike on the national stage with a sweeping Program...

If you're thinking the "Main Event" is over, in reality, it's just beginning.... Only now, see, will this scribe need to "bilocate." Eighteen months in the making, the...

Six years ago, even as it initially became clear that the Synod of Bishops would emerge as "the key to [Francis'] shake-up" of the ecclesial order, to sense that a bulked-up assembly could...

As trade-offs go, it would be one for the books – after traditionalist opponents of the Pope stole the much-ballyhooed statues of Amazonian women from a Roman church early yesterday and tossed them...

So it seems, there's more than one way of "covering" this Amazon Synod – one can either focus on process... or if that's too much, it's apparently become sufficient to just cast aspersions...

HOMILY OF POPE FRANCIS CANONIZATION OF SAINTS JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, GIUSEPPINA VANNINI, MARIAM THRESIA MANKIDIYAN, DULCE LOPES PONTES, MARGUERITE BAYS ST PETER'S SQUARE 13 OCTOBER 2019 (Video/Libretto) “