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John Burger
John Burger is a news editor at Aleteia.org.
By John Burger Joan Sheen Cunningham is the niece of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, the pioneering television priest whose body was recently moved from New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral to the cathedral of Peoria, Illinois. As the Catholic…
George Weigel on our turbulent times and the way forward
It’s the difference 30 years make. At the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century, the Soviet Union disintegrated. People living behind the Iron Curtain began to reclaim their God-given freedom. There was a widespread feeling of…
Apollo 11 memories: How a sleepy kid almost missed Armstrong’s ‘one small step’
I was 9 years old when Apollo 11 made history. Throughout the 1960s, it was nearly impossible to miss the excitement of America’s program of space exploration. Not all of it was triumphant. I remember looking at the front page of the New…
Catholics in China at a crossroads
There was no reason why Thomas would become a Christian. Although he knew of a famous Catholic church in town — a holdover from a much earlier age when foreign missionaries were free to evangelize China — he lived in a society where the…
Bringing healing to a wounded Church
Fr. Thomas Berg had just finished celebrating morning Mass. The faithful had left the church, and Fr. Berg was locking up. As he made his way back to the sacristy, he glanced up at a stained glass window depicting the Resurrection. It was…
Wim Wenders: Pope Francis is ‘fearless and driven by an incredible courage’
German filmmaker Wim Wenders might never have imagined that he would be invited to make a film about a pope. But in the second year of Pope Francis’ pontificate, Wenders received a letter from the Vatican. Wenders is a cradle Catholic who…
A Conversation with Bishop Robert Reed
Bishop Robert Reed is one of the newest members of the Catholic Digest family. As editor-at-large, Bishop Reed, well- known to viewers of The CatholicTV Network, will write a column in each issue. An auxiliary bishop of the…