What is the Theology of the Body and Why is it Changing so Many Lives? [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']"I[/dropcaps]t is an illusion to think we can build a true culture of human life if we do not . . . accept and experience sexuality and...
The Theology of the Body & The New Evangelization [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']"I[/dropcaps]t is an illusion to think we can build a true culture of human life if we do not . . . accept and experience sexuality and love and the whole of...
John Paul II's Theology of the Body: Key to an Authentic Marital & Family Spirituality [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]hat is marital spirituality? How does the family become authentically spiritual? For John Paul II, the answers to these questions “of the spirit” are revealed in the...
A Basic Theology of Marriage [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he twentieth century witnessed significant developments in the Church’s theology of marriage, beginning with Pope Pius XI’s 1930 encyclical Casti Connubii, passing through the Second Vatican Council and Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae, and culminating...
Salvation history is the story of a journey. Abram goes from civilization to the desert, Moses from the Pharaoh’s palace to a mountaintop. The people of Israel repeat Moses’ journey, and then are led through the desert to the Promised Land. All these journeys have a...
[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]hat outstanding youth, Jonathan, son of King Saul, made an alliance with David, but it was not in the hope of obtaining the royal crown or winning the kingdom. For the sake of their friendship, he set David above himself...
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...