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PHOENIX, AZ — 12:15 p.m. At last, the majority of the diocese’s 133 pilgrims are home. After many hours of delays in Sydney — due to a leaking gas tank and lost screws — everyone made it to Los Angeles International Airport around 5 p.m. yesterday. Some pilgrims hopped on one of two outgoing flights [...]

In case you haven’t noticed, the latest Batman movie hit theaters last weekend. Steven D. Greydanus, the film reviewer for The National Catholic Register and the editor-and-chief of DecentFilms.com, has an interesting take on the film. “Good guys may bend or break the rules, but they may also be willing to fall on their swords [...]

Serbian secret police arrested one of the world’s most wanted war criminals for his part in the 1995 massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, The New York Times reported today. Radovan Karadzic was the Bosnian Serb president during the 1992-1995 war in that country. He had apparently shaved [...]

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — JULY 22, 6:50 p.m. Our plane has been delayed. We were supposed to leave 5.5 hours ago, but we were de-planed w/a minimum of two hours more of waiting. It’s safe to say that we’ll all miss our connections. We’ll try to touch word in Los Angeles. -Ambria

Pope Benedict celebrated a private Mass with four Australian victims of clerical sexual abuse and their families, Catholic News Service reported today. “Through this paternal gesture, the Holy Father wished to demonstrate again his deep concern for all those who have suffered sexual abuse,” read a Vatican statement issued after the Mass. The pope also [...]