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February 2013

February 20, 2013

Was I shaking the hand of the next pope?

Hey, you never know. I wrote about it here. With all the O'Malley buzz...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Preserving Catholicism’s diversity: “We’re not talking about nostalgia”

Here are a couple glimpses at the work being done by the Catholic Near East...

December 2012

December 07, 2012

Behold, the Orthodox deacons of Ethiopia

Do you have vestments like these? Over at our CNEWA blog, ONE-TO-ONE, there's an interesting...

December 07, 2012

Behold, the Orthodox deacons of Ethiopia

Over at our CNEWA blog, ONE-TO-ONE, there’s an interesting look at the clergy in that...

December 06, 2012

An encounter with St. Nick

My colleague Michael La Civita posted this remembrance of a poignant trip to Italy over...

October 2012

October 19, 2012

“Pentecost is alive!”

Every now and then, when folks hear where I work, they go..."Huh?" We like to...

October 11, 2012

50 years after Vatican II, “radically changed relations” between Catholics and other religions

In the current issue of ONE magazine, I chat with Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, Apostolic Nuncio...

October 09, 2012

Is there room for Christians in the Middle East?

My colleague at CNEWA, Michael J.L. La Civita looked at that question in a speech...

August 2012

August 07, 2012

Meeting His Beatitude

Another visitor from the East popped into our office today: Major Archbishop Baselios Mar Cleemis...

July 2012

July 24, 2012

A special Sheen

Yesterday, I had the privilege of meeting the niece of a future saint — and...

July 24, 2012

What is CNEWA?

We have a new video posted on our award-winning blog One-to-One that offers what I...

June 2012

June 25, 2012

This ONE won

Periodically, when people hear I'm the Executive Editor of a Catholic magazine, they ask me...

March 2012

March 06, 2012

“What an uplifting feeling to know that God has blessed this Church with so many priestly vocations…”

It's not every day that an American priest gets to celebrate Mass with several hundred...

March 02, 2012

Desert days

Since we often consider Lent to be time spent in the desert, it's instructive to...

March 01, 2012

Worth a thousand words: the deacon’s back

At the office this morning, Your Humble Blogger met the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop...

December 2011

December 14, 2011

“A group of parishioners hoisted the deacon on their shoulders…”

From Jordan comes this colorful description of a Melkite diaconate ordination, via Msgr. John Kozar...

December 12, 2011

Remembering “a humble and prayerful giant”

That would be the late, great Cardinal John Foley, who died over the weekend after...

November 2011

November 07, 2011

“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem…”

Last week, my colleague at CNEWA, Fr. Guido Gockel, delivered a speech in Washington that...

October 2011

October 11, 2011

Out of Egypt: a woman reporter speaks

This month, ONE has a revealing and unsettling look at what it's like to be...

October 03, 2011

Worth a thousand words: Hail, Mary!

For the month of the rosary, a striking image from a shrine in India. Source....

August 2011

August 17, 2011

Here it is: "One-to-One"

At long last, Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) and its magazine ONE (where I...

August 17, 2011

Here it is: “One-to-One”

At long last, Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) and its magazineONE (where I serve...

June 2011

June 27, 2011

Passing the torch

From the In My Backyard Desk, a little news about a change where I work,...

June 25, 2011

Kudos! — UPDATED

"These are untold stories, rich with the sort of confluence of religion, history, culture and...

June 03, 2011

From Baghdad to Phoenix: Iraqi Christians settling in the southwest

Bridging the divide between East and West is a big part of the mission of...