[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]rot. N. 2607/98/L December 18, 1999 Your Excellency: This Congregation for Divine Worship expresses its appreciation for your kind reply concerning the request of a child of 11 years, resident in your Diocese along with her parents, for reception of the...
St. Augustine's Theology of the Holy Trinity This excerpt from Yves Congar's book "I Believe in the Holy Spirit" (vol. 3, Part B - chapter 1: Augustine) outlines Saint Augustine's understanding of the person and role of the Holy Spirit in relation to the other two persons...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']H[/dropcaps]ere is a family story of Pope John Paul II, an intimate tale of his humanity. During the summer of 1942, two women in Krakow, Poland, were denounced as Jews, taken to the city's prison, held there for a few months and then...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]e shall pray without ceasing to the Creator of all things, and beg him to preserve the number of his elect throughout the whole world, through his beloved son Jesus Christ, and not let a single one of them fall...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']B[/dropcaps]ut not to dwell upon ancient examples, let us come to the most recent spiritual heroes. Let us take the noble examples furnished in our own generation. Through envy and jealousy, the greatest and most righteous pillars [of the Church]...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]hap. I. The salutation. Praise of the Corinthians before the breaking forth of schism among them. THE Church of God which sojourns at Rome, to the Church of God sojourning at Corinth, to them that are called and sanctified by the will...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]o Ermentrude, dearest sister, Clare of Assisi, humble handmaid of Jesus Christ, greetings and peace. I know that you, o dearest sister, have fled the filth of the world, with the help of God's grace; for which I rejoice and give thanks...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]o the esteemed and most holy virgin, the Lady Agnes, daughter of the most excellent and illustrious King of Bohemia: Clare, an unworthy servant of Jesus Christ and useless handmaid of the Cloistered Ladies of the Monastery of San Damiano,...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]kay, brothers and sisters, this year our fall mission theme is biblical geography." This is not the type of catch phrase that has historically packed 'em in for the big Church mission. To many, the idea of studying geography sounds as...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps] remember growing up with a love for books. It wasn't unusual for me to read a book through three or four times, each time finding intriguing new bits of information about characters and plots that I didn't see before....