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May 2018

May 21, 2018

Happy new feast day: Mary, Mother of the Church

The image here comes from St. James Cathedral in Orlando. I took it last year...

April 2018

April 17, 2018

A sign of spring: a joyful cardinal!

I just love this picture of New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan, sharing a laugh with...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

After 100 days, “dire situations” for Christians in Iraq

A new report from CNEWA's blog One-to-One: After 100 days away from their homes, churches,...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

“Mend a Quarrel:” A Message of Mercy We Need to Hear

Over at the CNEWA blog, (where I toil as part of my day job) there's...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

“My Heroes Were Visiting Missionaries…”

That's how Msgr. John E. Kozar, president of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA)...

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...

October 2012

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...

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 02, 2012

Desert days

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

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...

December 01, 2011

Answering the call: meet a seminarian…and his wife

Here's something we don't encounter very often: a story about seminarians preparing to get married....

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...

June 2011

June 27, 2011

Passing the torch

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

February 2011

February 28, 2011

A little news

A few people have wondered about the new job I alluded to in this post....