For Germans, the most moving event of the Church year in 1980 was the visit of Pope John Paul II in Germany. It became for us a great festival of faith, hope, and love- a festival that simply swept aside all the critical, and even hostile, minor tones that had previously sounded dominant. We...
The goal of optimism is the utopia of a world that is finally and forever free and happy, the perfect society, in which history achieves its goal and reveals its divinity. The short range goal that, so to speak, assures us of the reliability of the long-range goal is the success of our technology....
Source Human Life International gave a “Pro-life Achievement Award” to Mayor of Manila, Lito Atienza and to Sr Pilar Verzosa during the 35th HLI Anniversary Banquet held at the Army Navy Club in Arlington, Virginia, USA last July 7, 2007. Hon. Lito Atienza, who has just finished his three terms as Mayor, received the...
To faith belong the readiness to suffer but also the courage to do battle. Granted, we have no lack of people who tell us: Faith should be both protest and resistance against the power of this world. But if we look more closely, what such groups really want is, for the most part, an...
By John Aston and Cathy Gordon, PA Published: 16 July 2007 | Source Teenager Lydia Playfoot today lost her High Court challenge over a ban preventing her from wearing a Christian “purity ring”. Sixteen-year-old Lydia Playfoot claimed the ban at the Millais School in Horsham, West Sussex, was an “unlawful interference” with her right...
For Paul, the opposite of slavery, of a lack of freedom, is not license, but an obedience that comes from the heart. It can come from the heart because it is a response to truth and because the truth that conforms to men is not something alien to us, but rather the call of...
