[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]hrist has clearly added a law here, binding us to a definite condition, that we should ask for our debts to be forgiven us only as much as we ourselves forgive our debtors, knowing that we cannot obtain what we...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]ntroduction The Second Vatican Council, with its Dogmatic ConstitutionLumen gentium, and its Decrees on Ecumenism (Unitatis redintegratio) and the Oriental Churches (Orientalium Ecclesiarum), has contributed in a decisive way to the renewal of Catholic ecclesiolgy. The Supreme Pontiffs have also contributed to this renewal by...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']1[/dropcaps] At this moment in the Church's life, the question of the primacy of Peter and of his Successors has exceptional importance as well as ecumenical significance. John Paul II has frequently spoken of this, particularly in the EncyclicalUt unum...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']Y[/dropcaps]our Excellency The International Year of the Family is a particularly important occasion to discover anew the many signs of the Church's love and concern for the family(1) and, at the same time, to present once more the priceless riches of...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he problem of procured abortion and of its possible legal liberalization has become more or less everywhere the subject of impassioned discussions. These debates would be less grave were it not a question of human life, a primordial value,...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]rot. N. 2607/98/L December 18, 1999 Your Excellency: This Congregation for Divine Worship expresses its appreciation for your kind reply concerning the request of a child of 11 years, resident in your Diocese along with her parents, for reception of the...
St. Augustine's Theology of the Holy Trinity This excerpt from Yves Congar's book "I Believe in the Holy Spirit" (vol. 3, Part B - chapter 1: Augustine) outlines Saint Augustine's understanding of the person and role of the Holy Spirit in relation to the other two persons...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']H[/dropcaps]ere is a family story of Pope John Paul II, an intimate tale of his humanity. During the summer of 1942, two women in Krakow, Poland, were denounced as Jews, taken to the city's prison, held there for a few months and then...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]e shall pray without ceasing to the Creator of all things, and beg him to preserve the number of his elect throughout the whole world, through his beloved son Jesus Christ, and not let a single one of them fall...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']B[/dropcaps]ut not to dwell upon ancient examples, let us come to the most recent spiritual heroes. Let us take the noble examples furnished in our own generation. Through envy and jealousy, the greatest and most righteous pillars [of the Church]...