Articles on this issue "journalists"
By Catherine Smibert The U.S. Embassies to Rome and the Holy See joined forces in the fight against the illicit trade of human beings last Thursday. Though having held various conferences …
read moreBy Catherine Smibert When Vatican Radio recently launched its podcasting option for audio files, it didn't expect the big response it received from around the world. It was like a …
read moreBy Catherine Smibert Participants at a Vatican conference on the world's growing sex trade concluded that the time has arrived for the Church to take bigger steps toward freeing modern-day …
read moreThe British media's overall reaction to the election of Benedict XVI showed its secular agenda, says a bishop's press secretary. Peter Jennings, press secretary to Archbishop Vincent Nichols …
read moreBy Catherine Smibert Understanding the true presence of Jesus Christ in the consecrated host and wine is difficult for Catholics. To this end, the Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum held a …
read moreBy Catherine Smibert As the world gets acquainted with Benedict XVI, I have had a chance to catch up with some who shared his life closely over the past few weeks -- the cardinal electors who …
read moreItalian journalist Vittorio Messori believes that the image of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger -- now Pope Benedict XVI -- which presents him as the "Panzer-Kardinal," is false. Instead, Messori, …
read moreBy Catherine Smibert Rome and Italy have become more reverent over this past week, following the city's loss of its pastoral leader and the intense period of waiting for a new one. For a …
read moreBy Catherine Smibert At a three-day conference hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace on the document "Gaudium et Spes," families took center stage. A session last Friday at …
read moreBy Catherine Smibert The Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., has been in Rome over the last week on a recording tour to honor John …
read moreBy Catherine Smibert Just prior to the annual assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life, one of its members gave bioethics students a glimpse of the issues the academy would deal with. …
read moreBy Catherine Smibert Lent is when Rome offers its international community the chance to grow in holiness through the traditional "station church" pilgrimage in their own languages. I am not a …
read moreBy Catherine Smibert Last Sunday I could barely walk down my street without being caught in a sea of little people, all decked out in white and all following our parish priest. What amazed me …
read moreBy Catherine Smibert On Wednesday, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, a visitor to the North American College could feel a particular union between Rome and the United States. In the …
read moreBy Catherine Smibert At the multicultural pontifical universities, a Roman education is much larger than what one learns in the classroom. This conviction is what led one American laywoman to …
read more
