St. Francis, whose feast is October 4, somehow managed to reconcile his love for the church with his understanding of it as an institution corrupted by power
As in the sixteenth century, the question is not whether the Catholic Church will survive this age of scandal, but what form the church will survive in
Long before Patrick ever set foot in Ireland, the pagan Celts believed their island was a thin, holy place, where the veil between heaven and earth vanishes