Recently I had occasion to speak with a person who holds an important public office and who said to me: The impression that people have today is that being a Christian is something irksome, a multiplicity if commands and prohibitions to which new prohibitions are added with every increase in knowledge and every new...
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VATICAN CITY, JUNE 12, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Here is a Vatican translation of Benedict XVI’s homily at the June 3 canonization Mass. * * * EUCHARISTIC CONCELEBRATION FOR THE CANONIZATION OF FOUR BLESSEDS: GEORGE PRECA, SIMON OF LIPNICA, CHARLES OF ST. ANDREW HOUBEN, MARIE EUGENIE OF JESUS MILLERET HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI St...
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Manila, Jun. 11, 2007 (CWNews.com) – An Italian missionary priest was kidnapped in the Philippines on June 10. Father Giancarlo Bossi, a member of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) was abducted from the village of Bulawa in the Mindanao region. Police indicated that they believed the kidnapping was arranged by the separatist...
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Here is an excerpt from an interesting article, A World Ablaze With Divine Mercy, Devotions Abound, Thanks Largely To The Laity, by JOSEPH PRONECHEN that appeared on April 15-21, 2007 isssue and was posted 4/10/2007 on the National Catholic Register website. You can read the whole article here. Filipino Fire In the Philippines, on Divine Mercy Sunday an...
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The arrogance of the specialist in matters of faith is just an especially obdurate form of the blindness inherent in all arrogance. The faith that rediscovers the fresh water of God’s word in the desert of a godless world, in the empty conversations at fashionable spas, may be inferior to that of the specialist...
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Faith is part of the theology and so is thought. The absence of one or other of these would be the end of theology. In other words, theology presupposes a new beginning for thought that is not the product of our own reflection, but comes from the encounter with a Word that always precedes...
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