Bidding farewell to this papal visit blog will be bittersweet, just as bidding farewell to Pope Francis was bittersweet last week. Bitter because campus seems so very quiet now! Yet, sweet [...]
Rare — and growing rarer by the day! — are those occasions when I wish that I were older. But, now and again, when I look at photos of Pope John Paul II’s 1979 visit to CUA, I can’t help but wish [...]
I am not naïve enough (or pompous enough!) to believe that Pope Francis selects the topics for his weekly audiences based on what might be happening in my life on any given Wednesday. But, I had [...]
At a recent meeting with youth in Rome, Pope Francis recounted a brief conversation he had with a 92-year-old Italian. He reminisced that while riding through a crowd in his Popemobile, he [...]
Here inside the Beltway as we plan for Pope Francis’s visit to us, it can be easy to forget that the original impetus for his travel to the United States was the World Meeting of Families, hosted [...]
Since June 18, Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, has captured much attention. Indeed, it garnered attention long before that — with commentators lauding or lamenting it before one syllable [...]
One of my great privileges here at Catholic University’s law school is to direct our International Human Rights Summer Law Program in Rome. Our three weeks of study are enhanced by Rome’s rich [...]
In anticipation of Pope Francis’s visit to the United States, I have watched with interest his current travels and his pastoral outreach to our southern neighbors. Last week, Pope Francis visited [...]
