Since this blog was launched in November of 2010, it has logged more than 35,000 page views. In 2011 alone, The Narthex had about 29,000 page views. As a new year gets started, I wanted to thank everyone who has taken the time to read these posts. I hope you find them interesting and I...Read More
LAGOS, Nigeria – The Nigerian bishops’ conference described the Christmas church bombings as the equivalent of war and declared Dec. 31 a day of fasting and prayer to ask God’s forgiveness for the acts.Read More
Paulist Father James McCabe, former director of the Family Life Center in Baltimore and a longtime columnist for The Catholic Review, died Dec. 25, 2011 in Toronto. He was 81 and had been battling cancer.Read More
VATICAN CITY – A select group of young international designers will be submitting innovative mock-ups of what an eco-friendly popemobile should look like.Read More
WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has established a U.S. ordinariate for former Anglicans who wish to become Catholics and named a married former Episcopal bishop to head it.Read More