Edit: His Holiness was truly one of the least destructive popes of the late 20th century, and that's saying something. What will the Be...

  Eugenio the friend of the pope, or: The pope who had a freemason and atheist as a friend and did not convert him. (Rome) Eugenio Scalfari,...

My Personal Hero, Cardinal Lehmann Edit: things have been proceeding steadily downhill for months and what with so much negative feedba...

Edit: with a hat tip to susan and to Rorate Caeli , for a great and zealous minister of the Lord. Let us pray for the good of his soul. The...

Edit: we never knew him, but his work was extremely important to this blog, especially his continuing the work of Roberto de Mattei. Here&#...

(Monza) The well-known Catholic legal philosopher and journalist Mario Palmaro has  died on Sunday night ,  Catholic who was one of the s...

(Vatican) The Church musician Domenico Cardinal Bartoluccci is dead, who was born near Florence in 1917, the Cardinal was  head of the c...

Edit: sometimes death can reveal friends we never knew, and throw light on a life of bright and perspicacious industry, lived out on a cryst...

Edit: rather than take the bus, this Jesuit liked to walk.  He lived a simple life with few comforts save for the joy of learning and inve...