Archbishop Theodosius of Sebaste By Israel Shamir | March 9, 2009 “Pope Benedict is not welcome in the Holy Land in the present circumstances", - said Archbishop Theodosius of Sebaste, the highest ranking native Palestinian Christian clergyman in Jerusalem, after it was announced in Israel that th...

Image via Wikipedia Tri-City Herald In some of his strongest criticism of his successors, Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday likened Vladimir Putin's United Russia party to the worst of the communists he once led and helped bring down, and said Russia is today a country where the parliament and the judic...

by Michael Hoffman Copyright ©2009 All Rights Reserved Hoffman is the author of Judaism Discovered: A Study of the Anti-Biblical Religion of Racism, Self-Worship, Superstition and Deceit End notes are in brackets, thus: [ 0 ] This is a continuation of our previous article, " The Talmud is God Itsel...

A couple of emails from Catholics expressing displeasure at the news that Nancy Pelosi is heading to Rome with a contingent of legislators and will take a meeting with His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI. Wrote a former marine who seem pretty angry: I am deeply concerned about this matter as I personall...

Text of the Pope's Speech to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations MICHAEL HOFFMAN'S NOTE : Here below is the text of the pope's adddress to the sixty heads of American Zionist organizations who met with him today in the Vatican. Despite its Biblical window-dressing (a ...

“In the light of Christ’s death and resurrection, illness no longer appears as an exclusively negative event,� he said. “[R]ather, it is seen as...an opportunity ‘to release love..., to transform the whole of human civilization into a civilization of love’ (Apostolic Letter Salvifici dol...

In his 1998 Encyclical Letter Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason), Pope John Paul II said that, " Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth - in a word, to know himself - so that, ...

Georges Cardinal Cottier, the Dominican bishop and former theologian of the papal household, has published a new book on what he calls Pope John Paul II’s “theology of communication.”  A symposium was held at the Vatican to celebrate the book’s release.  What follows is Zen...

I came into the Catholic Church as an adult. Part of the process of "settling in" as a Catholic convert is confronting the dizzying array of popular devotions in which Holy Mother Church has indulged her children over the centuries. A new convert is free, of course, to choose none of them (although ...

In response to the question, “What is wrong with socialism?” I can hardly do better than Pope John Paul II, who wrote in Centesimus Annus , “the fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature,” because socialism maintains, “that the good of the individual c...