Whew! What a week! While my website and business email were down, some wonderful things were happening in the Church. Most notable was the meeting between Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Friday, March 22 at Castel Gondolfo.
They greeted each other with a warm embrace (more…)
When I first noticed the media hoopla over what chair the Pope sat on today, I thought Oh, please. Isn’t that too much? Let the poor man sit wherever he wants, for goodness sake! Now we’re just picking on any little things we can make a big deal out of. After some investigation, however, I’m eating my words, or rather, sitting quietly in my seat. The chair the Pope sat on is a big deal…
Instead of the throne chair traditionally used by popes, today Pope Francis sat on the same (more…)
After an entire day of having both my business email AND website down, I finally can share with you the surprise I found on my doorstep this morning – the first batch of my Imitating Mary author copies!!Â
You know what that means, don’t you? It means that the official release date is close at hand – likely sooner than the April 22 date originally (more…)
How is wish I had been one of the 200,000 persons from 132 countries who attended Pope Francis’ Inaugural Mass in Rome today!! Perhaps you wish the same, and so, courtesy of Vatican Radio, I’ve posted the video of the Inaugural Mass – all four hours of it! Below that, courtesy of the Vatican website, is the full text of Pope Francis’ homily.
Of course, I simply can’t resist at least a few tidbits; From the Moynihan Letters, I learned that heads of both the Jesuit and Franciscan orders con-celebrated the Mass. If it (more…)
Well, for starters, he’s ruffling the feathers of the Swiss Guard and the Vatican Gendarmeria (police), who ended up grumbling to the Italian press about it. What did our dear Pontiff do?
On Saturday, the Holy Father dismissed the papal car and escort (more…)
Today, Pope Francis gave the first Angelus message of his pontificate. The message itself is beautiful and meaningful, but the way in which he delivers it is simply (pun intended) remarkable. His warmth, his tone, his closeness to his listeners is something this scribe has not heard from a Pope before, at least no quite in the same manner. There is no (more…)
CatholicVote.org has put together a new video celebrating the election of our Holy Father. I’ll let the video speak for itself. I bet it brings you to tears as it did me.
And, just another little tidbit: So, where did the name Francis really come from? The Pope explained it to a group of more than 5,000 journalists and their families earlier (more…)