[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']M[/dropcaps]ost Catholics receive Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist while they are still children under parental authority. Usually, of course, the process of preparing young people to receive these three sacraments of initiation (Canon 842 § 2) proceeds smoothly. At...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps] Second only perhaps to pastors, catechists are more likely than any other parish staffer to encounter questions about canon law. This is because catechists, especially those working with adults seeking to convert, are recognized as accessible sources of information about...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']N[/dropcaps]ew Haven — On June 3, 1979, a few months after Cardinal Karol Wojtyla became the first Slavic pope, he set out as the vision of his pontificate "that this Polish pope, this Slav pope, should at this precise moment...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]ith this solemn liturgy we end the celebration of the nineteenth centenary of the martyrdom of the holy apostles Peter and Paul, and thus close the Year of Faith. We dedicated it to the commemoration of the holy...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]uring the Last General Meeting of the Second Vatican Council 7 December 1965 Today we are concluding the Second Vatican Council. We bring it to a close at the fullness of its efficiency: The presence of so many of you here clearly...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he recent indignity by which the Obama administration wants to mandate everyone, including all Catholic institutions or their insurers, to pay for contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs, has raised the issue of Catholic teaching on these issues. Some commentators have mistakenly...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps] e should understand, beloved, that the paschal mystery is at once old and new, transitory and eternal, corruptible and incorruptible, mortal and immortal. In terms of the Law it is old,...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']A[/dropcaps] COMMONITORY(1) FOR THE ANTIQUITY AND UNIVERSALITY OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH AGAINST THE PROFANE NOVELTIES OF ALL HERESIES. [Translated by the Rev. C. A. Heurtley, D.D., The Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, and Canon of Christ Church.] CHAPTER I: The Object...
Christ Lives in His Church St. Leo the Great Early Church Father & Doctor of the Church This excerpt from a sermon by Saint Leo the Great (Sermo 12 de Passione, 3, 6-7: PL 54, 355-357) is used in the Roman Catholic Office of Readings for Wednesday of...
Human Personhood Begins at Conception Peter Kreeft [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']N[/dropcaps]on-Christians and even Christians can take opposite positions on abortion even when they think rationally, honestly, and with good will. The continuing controversy over abortion shows that it is a truly controversial issue. It is...