[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...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='75' color='' background_color='' border_color='']"T[/dropcaps] he justice of God has been manifested through faith in Jesus Christ” (cf. Rm 3, 21-22) Dear Brothers and Sisters! Each year, on the occasion of Lent, the Church invites us to a sincere review of our life in light of...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']"J[/dropcaps] esus, at the sight of the crowds, was moved with pity" (Matthew 9:36) Dear Brothers and Sisters! Lent is a privileged time of interior pilgrimage towards Him Who is the fount of mercy. It is a pilgrimage in which He...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps] ear Brothers in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood, Dear Ordinandi, Dear Brothers and Sisters, The First Reading and the Gospel of Pentecost Sunday offer us two great images of the mission of the Holy Spirit. The reading from the Acts of...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps] he feast of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul is at once a grateful memorial of great witnesses of Jesus Christ and a solemn confession in favor of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. It is above all...
VATICAN CITY, APRIL 20, 2005 (Zenit.org) [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]ope Benedict XVI has assumed "as a primary commitment" the work of promoting full unity among Christians separated in various churches and confessions. The former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger explained this in the first message of his...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps] ear Brothers and Sisters: After celebrating the solemnity of Mary's Immaculate Conception, we enter these days in the evocative atmosphere of preparations for this coming holy Christmas. In the present-day consumer society, this period suffers, unfortunately, a sort of commercial...
QUOD IAM DIU ENCYCLICAL OF POPE BENEDICT XV ON THE FUTURE PEACE CONFERENCE TO THE PATRIARCHS, ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS, AND OTHER ORDINARIES OF THE CATHOLIC WORLD [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']V[/dropcaps] enerable Brethren, Health and Apostolic Benediction. That for which the whole world has long sighed, which Christianity has...
PATERNO IAM DIU ENCYCLICAL OF POPE BENEDICT XV ON THE CHILDREN OF CENTRAL EUROPE TO THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES, ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS, AND OTHER ORDINARIES IN PEACE AND COMMUNION WITH THE HOLY SEE [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']V[/dropcaps] enerable Brethren, Health and Apostolic Benediction. It was the expectation and hope of...
PACEM, DEI MUNUS PULCHERRIMUM ENCYCLICAL OF POPE BENEDICT XV ON PEACE AND CHRISTIAN RECONCILIATION TO THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES, ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS, AND ORDINARIES IN PEACE AND COMMUNION WITH THE HOLY SEE [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']V[/dropcaps] enerable Brethren, Health and Apostolic Benediction. Peace, the beautiful gift of God, the...