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By Christopher Gunty editor@CatholicReview.org As a former seminarian and a “professional Catholic” who has worked for the church for nearly 30 years, I’ve gotten to know a lot of priests – and bishops – personally. This past week is not the even the first time I have traveled with a group of priests and a […]

By Christopher Gunty The Catholic Review Sunday, Oct. 17, the group found its way to one of the seven New Wonders of the World, Petra (rock), a city formed in the rock canyons in southern Jordan. Many people will recognize part of Petra, the façade of the Treasury especially, from the first Indiana Jones movie. […]

I asked the priests in the group to share their some of their reflections on the pilgrimage. Here’s one from Redemptorist Father Kevin Milton. – CG We arrived in Jerusalem Oct. 12. Our first Mass occurred there at the Pontifical Institute Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center. In the sacristy, I came across a picture of […]

MILWAUKEE – Federal law enforcement officials were continuing to investigate how criminals were able to steal $121,000 electronically from a parish in the Milwaukee Archdiocese.

VATICAN CITY – At a synod where the Israel-Palestinian conflict repeatedly was singled out as a source of problems for Christians throughout the Middle East, a rabbi from Israel told Catholic bishops that Israel is not solely responsible and that the attitude of some Catholics violates the church’s own teaching about Jews and Judaism.

The Western Wall is the only fragment of the Great Temple to survive destruction by the Romans, and is the most sacred structure to the Jewish people. According to a brochure distributed at the Western Wall Plaza by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, the wall “is a focus of Jewish longing and prayer for redemption […]

Bishop Denis J. Madden of Baltimore and 23 priests began their pilgrimage in the Holy Land Oct. 12 with Mass at the Notre Dame Center in Jerusalem, just outside the walls of the Old City. Listening to a reading from Luke’s Gospel of Jesus speaking to the “good thief” who he promised would join him that day in Paradise, the bishop said, “We will visit the sites … tomorrow where these words were spoken.”