Cardinal Wuerl talks about the pressing task of our time: the New Evangelization. He discusses the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Watch below: For more information, visit http://cardinalsblog.adw.org/2016/06/… http://adw.org/ #NewEvangelization #BeingCatholicToday ...read more

On Monday, June 15, 2015, Cardinal Donald Wuerl gave the keynote address at the AFL-CIO Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on the Catholic Ideal of Solidarity and the New Evangelization. Read the full text of his address below: I have been asked to speak about the Catholic ideal of solidarity in our contemporary world and the need ...read more

When we talk about a development in church tradition or teaching, we are talking about a phenomenon that has taken place within Christianity from the very beginning. Even the varying articulations of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus that we find in the four Gospels represent a development as such: the written narratives were ...read more

Sebastian Gomes and I recently came across a diary entry of Saint Pope John XXIII entitled “Six maxims of perfection” in his autobiography Journal of a Soul. Some of you may recall that from the age of fourteen until his death at the age of eighty-two, Pope John XXIII kept a journal where he recorded ...read more

Bishops leave St. Peter’s Basilica after a meeting of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. CNS photo/Catholic Press Photo ...read more

I never get tired of viewing images of Pope John Paul travelling the world bringing the Good News to all. It inspires me to do the same. In this photo, Kenyans greet Pope John Paul II with music in Nairobi in September 1995. It was a busy year of travel for Pope John Paul — ...read more