The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Indulgences [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]NDULGENCES 1471 The doctrine and practice of indulgences in the Church are closely linked to the effects of the sacrament of Penance. What is an indulgence? "An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment...
Here St. Fulgentius of Ruspe shows how all the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament were merely signs foreshadowing the ultimate sacrifice, the only sacrifice that could take away all sin and reconcile the human race with God, the self-offering of the Lord Jesus Christ...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he full text of Cardinal Bergoglio's October 2012 letter marking the start of the Year of Faith CWR Staff LETTER ON THE YEAR OF FAITH: TO THE PRIESTS, CONSECRATED RELIGIOUS AND LAY FAITHFUL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BUENOS AIRES By Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J....
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear Beatitudes, Eminences, Excellencies, brothers and sisters, The Church today takes up once again the dialogue begun with the announcement of the extraordinary Synod on the family, and certainly even long before that, to evaluate and reflect on the text of...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated the Missa pro Ecclesiae in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday afternoon. Below, please find Vatican Radio’s translation of the full text of his homily. ************************************ [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]n these three readings I see that there is something in common:...
AUDIENCE TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER POPE FRANCIS Paul VI Audience Hall Saturday, 16 March 2013 [Video] [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear Friends, At the beginning of my ministry in the See of Peter, I am pleased to meet all of you who have...
A. Primary Sources: Writings by Henri de Lubac A. Selected Booksby Henri de Lubac [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']A[/dropcaps]ffrontements mystiques. Paris: Témoignage Chrétien, 1950. Athéisme et Sens de l'homme: Une double requête de Gaudium et spes. Paris: Cerf, 1968. Catholicisme: Les aspects sociaux du dogme chrétien. Unam Sanctam, no. 3....
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']F[/dropcaps]or an integral interpretation to occur, both Christian tradition and Christian practice must be brought into the interpetation process. I. Allegorical versus critical exegesis? In Pius XlI's encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943), a rigorously scientific and critical approach to the study of the Bible...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]n April 6, 2006, The National Geographic Society (www.nationalgeographic.com) unveiled a document that is not exactly true to its name. The term "Gospel" comes from the Greek term for "Good News" and has historically referred to an eyewitness account of the...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']"I[/dropcaps]f we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us” (1 Jn 4:12). This Sunday’s Scripture readings seem to have been chosen precisely for this moment of grace which the Church is experiencing: the Ordinary...