Here St. Ambrose comments on the biblical theme of God as Our Refuge (Pslam 45) and emphasizes God's incomparable goodness for which we must thirst as if deer longing for fountains of water....
][dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']o[/dropcapsffer to God a sacrifice of praise and pay your vows to the Most High. To praise God is both to make your vow and to fulfil it. That is why the Samaritan in the story is placed above his...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps] he Three Persons of the Godhead were not unknown to the judges of old nor to Moses, for the equality of the Son with the Father, as well as of the Three Persons amongst Themselves, is laid down both elsewhere...
On Priesthood and Those With Homosexual Tendencies Instruction From the Congregation for Catholic Education Here is the text of the new Vatican instruction "Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with Regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in View of Their Admission to the Seminary and...
CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITION TO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps] NTRODUCTION In recent years, various questions relating to homosexuality have been addressed with some frequency by Pope John Paul II, and by the relevant Dicasteries of the Holy See.(1) Homosexuality is a troubling moral...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]n the shadows of the Temple we have followed the signposts of a long road. God chooses a people and sends them on their way. Starting with Abram: “Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']F[/dropcaps] rom the diary of her pilgrimage in the 4th Century AD Egeria's Return to Constantinople XXIII 8. On the next day, crossing the sea, I arrived at Constantinople, giving thanks to Christ our God who deigned to give me such grace, unworthy and undeserving...
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 implored with such fervent...
DECLARATION "DOMINUS IESUS" ON THE UNICITY AND SALVIFIC UNIVERSALITY OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE CHURCH [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]NTRODUCTION The Lord Jesus, before ascending into heaven, commanded his disciples to proclaim the Gospel to the whole world and to baptize all nations: “Go into the whole world and proclaim...