This week in art class, we created reverse animal portraits with white gouache on black board. Patrick painted his favorite animal, and I painted Collin’s. Everyone has a favorite animal. Mine has been the polar bear for nearly twenty years, when I saw one maneuver through an enormous tankRead More
Sarah Rodriguez moved from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to the United States in 1953, but has followed the work of a certain cardinal in her home diocese.Read More
UPDATED March 19We learned six days ago that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio had been elected by his fellow cardinals as the 266th pope, and took the name Francis I.Though no pope had ever taken that name before, it was in my list as a possibility.It could signal, as I noted,Read More
Archbishop William E. Lori will speak to media about the election of the new pope at 4:30 p.m. at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, 5200 N. Charles Street, in the parish hall.Read More
Like most Catholic journalists, I’ve been doing as much reading as possible about the church and the papal transition since Pope Benedict XVI announced Feb. 11 he would renounce the papacy at the end of February. I’ve been through four papal transitions in my life (but only one while working for the Catholic press),Read More