Papal Patriotism: Popes Praise America
Posted July 4th, 2018
The Fourth of July evokes so many images: Fireworks, fife and drum corps, and … old men in miters dressed in white. [Read More...]
The Pen, the Plough, and the Blood of Boniface
Posted June 5th, 2017
The words of Pope Benedict XVI on the great apostle to Europe. [Read More...]
Fours Years into the Papacy …
Posted March 14th, 2017
It’s an irresistible question to ask if Pope Francis would be re-elected were he a president on the four-year anniversary of Pope Francis’ March 13, 2013 election. [Read More...]
A Pope Is Coming. Expect the Unexpected.
Posted September 22nd, 2015
Papal visits follow a fairly predictable arc — they are predictably unpredictable. Remember Pope John Paul II’s first World Youth Day in America, in Denver? Church officials were told a cold, hostile America would [Read More...]
Students on the Drama of Divine Love
Posted September 11th, 2015
In May 2015, Benedictine College’s Theatre Deparment performed a play directed by senior Gregorian Fellow Will Wright. Rather than choosing a light-hearted play that was easy to perfrom, Wright chose a profound [Read More...]
The Convocation and the Call to Greatness
Posted September 8th, 2015
It is “back to school” time at Benedictine College. That means ritual and ceremony that is almost liturgical — professors processing in academic regalia and filing into monk stalls, Knights of Columbus [Read More...]
TV Channel Turns to Benedictine for Papal Reaction
Posted February 12th, 2013
“The sound of wind and bells winds through the spaces between stone and altar at the Grotto of St. Mary on the campus of Benedictine College,” says the St. Joseph, Mo., Channel [Read More...]
My Favorite Benedict XVI Surprises
Posted February 12th, 2013
So Pope Benedict XVI will resign (or abdicate, as George Weigel puts it). What I will most miss the clear way he spoke. When you read Pope Benedict, you not only learn [Read More...]