[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he Dogmatic Constitution "Dei Verbum," whose drafting I personally witnessed as a young theologian, taking part in the lively discussions that went with it, begins with a deeply meaningful sentence: "Dei Verbum religiose audiens et fidenter proclamans, Sacrosancta Synodus ...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]ntroduction The dignity of a person must be recognized in every human being from conception to natural death. This fundamental principle expresses a great “yes” to human life and must be at the center of ethical reflection on biomedical research, which...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']F[/dropcaps]aith, Reason and the University Memories and Reflections Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a moving experience for me to stand and give a lecture at this university podium once again. I think back to those years when, after a pleasant period at...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear young friends, Yesterday evening we came together in the presence of the Sacred Host, in which Jesus becomes for us the bread that sustains and feeds us (cf. Jn 6:35), and there we began our inner journey of adoration. In the Eucharist, adoration...
ENCYCLICAL LETTER SPE SALVI OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF BENEDICT XVI TO THE BISHOPS PRIESTS AND DEACONS MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND ALL THE LAY FAITHFUL ON CHRISTIAN HOPE [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]ntroduction “SPE SALVI facti sumus”—in hope we were saved, says Saint Paul to the Romans, and likewise to us (Rom8:24). According...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']Y[/dropcaps]our Eminences, my dear Brother Bishops and Priests, Distinguished Authorities and Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Dear Brothers and Sisters, During these days of great intensity, we have chanted the litany of the saints on three different occasions: at the funeral...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps] o my Venerable Brothers the Cardinals, Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, Deacons and to all the People of God. Twenty years ago, work began on the Catechism of the Catholic Church that had been requested by the extraordinary Assembly of...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']H[/dropcaps] ere is the complete text of Pope Benedict XVI's first message, delivered in Latin at the end of Mass with the Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel, on April 20, 2005, the morning after his election. It can be seen...
POPE BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE St. Peter's Square Wednesday, 12 November 2008 Saint Paul (12) Eschatology: the Expectation of the Parusia. [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps] ear Brothers and Sisters, The subject of the Resurrection on which we reflected last week unfolds a new perspective, that of the expectation of...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps] o Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo President of the Pontifical Council for the Family On 22 February this year, the venerable Holy Father John Paul II convoked the Fifth World Meeting of Families to take place in Valencia, Spain, selecting as...