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[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]ho are you, sweet light, that fills me And illumines the darkness of my heart? You lead me like a mother's hand, And should you let go of me, I would not know how to take another step. You are the space That embraces my being...

12 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]n the morning of the 14th of September, a great crowd gathered at the Villa Sexti, in accordance with the order of the governor Galerius Maximus. That same day the governor commanded Bishop Cyprian to be brought before him for...

12 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he September 2005 issue of the Archives of Dermatology reports that patients under long-term antibiotic therapy ran a risk of developing upper respiratory tract infections at more than twice the rate of people not using the drugs. The findings highlight the dangers that...

12 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]artridge in a pear tree           Jesus Christ, symbolized as a mother partridge that feigns injury to decoy predators from helpless nestlings.   Two turtle doves                     Old & New Testaments   Three French Hens                 Faith, hope, charity   Four Calling birds                    The Four Gospels   Five Golden Rings                  The Pentateuch or Five Books of...

12 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']S[/dropcaps]t Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474-1548). Little is known about the life of Juan Diego before his conversion, but tradition and archaelogical and iconographical sources, along with the most important and oldest indigenous document on the event of Guadalupe, "El Nican...

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[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']A[/dropcaps]pr. 04 (CWNews.com) - Looking back across a span of 75 years, a boyhood neighbor of John Paul II spoke recently of the simple but deep ties that bound him to the Pope in a lifelong friendship. The bonds that formed...

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[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']M[/dropcaps]   y beloved brethren, the story of Job prefigures that of Christ. Thus we understand it, and we    can see the truth of this by detailed comparison. Job was called a righteous man by God; and God is righteousness...

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    PRI Weekly Briefing 29 December 2005 Vol. 7 / No. 51 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]t’s a sad society, full of sad women—-not to mention men-—when mothers have to be paid not to kill their own children. Yet the situation in Italy, a country once known for a strong...

12 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]ften the greatest challenge in bringing someone to Christ and his Church is finding ways to engage him in meaningful conversation. In contemporary America, most people are not moved by claims of truth or goodness. Relativism has made truth to...

12 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]his is a sampling of accolades from interfaith leaders on the occasion of the death of  John Paul II in April 2005. * * * Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles "No Pope did more for the Jews." --- --- ---   New York Board of Rabbis "We...

12 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']1[/dropcaps]870                    Babylonian empire begins   1850 BC (ca.)    Abraham   1650                    Israel & sons migrate to Egypt    1250                    Exodus from Egypt 1200                    Invasion of Sea Peoples (Philistines); Period of the Judges begins 1020                    Saul becomes king 1000                    David becomes king 961                    Solomon becomes king 922                    Jews split into two Kingdoms: Israel in the North and Judah in the South    721                    Assyrians destroy Northern Kingdom        ...

12 February, 2016 /

Having this conversation is never easy, but it is necessary. Since I have four children and none of them are preggo yet, I'm obviously crushing it, so allow me to drop some knowledge bombs on you for how to have "THE TALK" straight from the...

12 February, 2016 /

Message of Synod on the Eucharist "Living Bread for the Peace of the World" October 23, 2005 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']V[/dropcaps]ATICAN CITY, OCT. 23, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the final message of the 21st Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist, approved Friday at...

11 February, 2016 /

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...

09 February, 2016 /

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...

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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...

09 February, 2016 /

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...

09 February, 2016 /

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...

09 February, 2016 /

    [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...

09 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]ada año, justo después de Navidad, celebramos la fiesta de la Sagrada Familia. Esto es por una razón importante. Es fácil pensar que la “encarnación” quiere decir que Dios tomó un cuerpo humano, que apareció en la carne. Pero la...

09 February, 2016 /

][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...

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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....

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[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...

09 February, 2016 /

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...

09 February, 2016 /

  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...

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[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...

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  [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...

09 February, 2016 /

  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...

09 February, 2016 /

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...

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  Encyclical of Pope John XXIII promulgated on 11 November 1961 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]o the Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Local Ordinaries in Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See: Commemorating the fifteenth centenary of the death of St. Leo the...

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[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he Churches of the East are worthy of the glory and reverence that they hold throughout the whole of Christendom in virtue of those extremely ancient, singular memorials that they have bequeathed to us. For it was in that part...

09 February, 2016 /

  To Our Venerable Brethren, All Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, and Bishops of the Catholic World, in Grace and Communion with the Apostolic See. Venerable Brethren, Health and Apostolic Benediction.   [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he God of all Providence, Who in the adorable designs of His love at first elevated...

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[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he Apostolic concern leading Us to carefully survey the signs of the times and to make every effort to adapt the means and methods of the holy apostolate to the changing circumstances and needs of our day, impels us to...

09 February, 2016 /

  Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Pope Paul VI  On the Church of Jesus Christ    promulgated on August 6, 1964 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']S[/dropcaps]ince Jesus Christ founded His Church to be the loving mother of all men and the dispenser of salvation, it is obvious why she has always...

09 February, 2016 /

  ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PAUL VI  ON THE REGULATION OF BIRTH JULY 25, 1968 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]o His Venerable Brothers the Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops and other Local Ordinaries in Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See, to the Clergy and Faithful of the Whole Catholic World, and...

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ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PAUL VI ON THE HOLY EUCHARIST SEPTEMBER 3, 1965 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he Mystery of Faith, that is, the ineffable gift of the Eucharist that the Catholic Church received from Christ, her Spouse, as a pledge of His immense love, is something that...

09 February, 2016 /

  Encyclical of Pope Paul VI On the Development of Peoples March 26, 1967 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]o the Bishops, Priests, Religious, and Faithful of the Whole Catholic World, and to All Men of Good Will. Honored Brothers and Dear Sons, Health and Apostolic Benediction. The progressive development of...

09 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']E[/dropcaps]NCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE DECEMBER 31, 1930 To the Venerable Brethren, Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops and other Local Ordinaries enjoying Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See. Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, Health and Apostolic Benediction. How great is...

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  ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON THE CHURCH AND THE GERMAN REICH [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]o the Venerable Brethren, the archbishops and bishops of Germany and other ordinaries in peace and communion with the Apostolic See.  Venerable Brethren, Greetings, and Apostolic Blessing. It is with deep...

09 February, 2016 /

  ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON CATHOLIC ACTION IN ITALY NON ABBIAMO BISOGNO   [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']V[/dropcaps]enerable Brethren, Health and Apostolic Benediction. We do not need to acquaint you, Venerable Brethren, with the events which have recently occurred in this Our Episcopal city of Rome, and throughout Italy,...

09 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']E[/dropcaps]ncyclical letter of Pope Pius XI promulgated on 11 December 1925 To Our Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries in Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See. Venerable Brethren, Greeting and the Apostolic Benediction. In the first Encyclical Letter...

09 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]NTRODUCTION To intensify the apostolic activity of the people of God,(1) the most holy synod earnestly addresses itself to the laity, whose proper and indispensable role in the mission of the Church has already been dealt with in other documents.(2)...

09 February, 2016 /

  DECREE CONCERNING THE PASTORAL OFFICE OF BISHOPS IN THE CHURCH CHRISTUS DOMINUS  PROCLAIMED BY HIS HOLINESS, POPE PAUL VI  ON OCTOBER 28, 1965 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]REFACE Christ the Lord, Son of the living God, came that He might save His people from their sins(1) and that all men might be...

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[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]NTRODUCTION The Decree on Ecumenism, aka Unitatitis Redintegratio, was not among the longest or most weighty documents of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, but it was certainly ranks among its greatest achievements.  Here is the text in its entirely in html...

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  SOLEMNLY PROMULGATED BY HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI  ON DECEMBER 4, 1963 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]NTRODUCTION Among the wonderful technological discoveries which men of talent, especially in the present era, have made with God's help, the Church welcomes and promotes with special interest those which have a...

09 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]aul, Bishop Servant of the Servants of God Together with the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council for Everlasting Memory [Nostra Aetate] In our time, when day by day mankind is being drawn closer together, and the ties between different peoples are becoming...

09 February, 2016 /

Canticle of Mary My Soul Rejoices in the Lord [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']M[/dropcaps]y soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant. From this day all generations will call me blessed; the almighty has...

09 February, 2016 /

Canticle of Simeon Christ is the light of the nations and the glory of Israel [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']L[/dropcaps]ord, now let you servant go in peace; your word has been fulfilled: my own eyes have seen the salvation which you have prepared in the sight of every people: a...

09 February, 2016 /

Canticle of Zechariah The Messiah and his Forerunner [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']B[/dropcaps]lessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has come to his people and set them free. He has raised up for us a mighty savior, born of the house of his servant David. Through his holy...

09 February, 2016 /

Curcumin’s Immune-Boosting Powers Pin-pointed Turmeric: As found in WIN's BioLean Free®! By Stephen Daniells, 20-Apr-2009 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he health boosting activity of curcumin may be due to the molecule’s ability to stabilize cell membranes and increase the cell’s resistance to infection, suggests a new study: The...

09 February, 2016 /

Readings and Prayers for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]ollect: All-powerful Father, Christ Your Son became man for us and was presented in the temple. May he free our hearts from sin and bring us into your presence. We ask this through our Lord Jesus...

09 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]magine this scene: It's 6 a.m. on a wintry day. More than 100 young men wipe the sleep from their eyes and gather in a dark chapel, heads bowed, for an hour of silent prayer. An Irish monastery, circa 1450 A.D.?...

09 February, 2016 /

General Instruction of the Roman Missal Including Adaptations for the Dioceses of the United States of America [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]oncordat cum originali: Msgr. James Patrick Moroney Executive Director, Secretariat for the Liturgy United States Conference of Catholic Bishops The English translation of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (Third...

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  [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']6[/dropcaps]7 BC          Revolt of Maccabees, Beginning of Hasmonean dynasty 63                   Pompey's Roman legions conquer Palestine, depose Hasmonean ruler 37                   Romans make Herod the Great the vassal king of Judea 27                   Octavian (Augustus) becomes Emperor, Pax Romana begins 20                   Herod the Great begins reconstruction of the Temple  4                    Jesus is born (we think), Herod the...

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DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION ON THE CHURCH LUMEN GENTIUM Excerpts on the Eucharist  Proclaimed By His Holiness, Pope Paul VI on November 21, 1964 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]HAPTER I: THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH As often as the sacrifice of the cross by which "Christ our Pasch is sacrificed" (1...

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[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]hrough his labors and his native endowments man has ceaselessly striven to better his life. Today, however, especially with the help of science and technology, he has extended his mastery over nearly the whole of nature and continues to do...

09 February, 2016 /

This excerpt from Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, paragraph 25, explains the authority of the Magisterium or Apostolic teaching authority of the Church and the way in which Catholics are bound to submit to that authority....

09 February, 2016 /

The Council of Trent Canons and Decrees The Sixth Session: Decree on Justification [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]elebrated on the thirteenth day of the month of January, 1547. DECREE ON JUSTIFICATION Proem. Whereas there is, at this time, not without the shipwreck of many souls, and grievous detriment to the unity...

09 February, 2016 /

Seeing God St. Theophilus of Antioch Bishop and Early Church Father This passage from St. Theophilus of Antioch's apology to Autolycus (Lib 1,2 7: PG 6, 1026-1035) deals with the qualities of soul necessary to be able to see God. It is used in the Roman Office for...

08 February, 2016 /

On Baptism Tertullian Early Church Father [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]HAPTER 1 Introduction. Origin of the treatise. Happy is our sacrament of water, in that, by washing away the sins of our early blindness, we are set free and admitted into eternal life! A treatise on this matter will...

08 February, 2016 /

Reformed Thinking Tim Staples [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he Scenario: You’re meeting your new girlfriend’s entire Reformed Evangelical family for the first time. It’s Easter dinner at her parent’s house. You’ve met and talked to her parents and three brothers at various times, but never all at...

08 February, 2016 /

Mary Worshippers Need Not Apply Tim Staples The Scenario: Ever have one of those days when you’re feeling full of energy and vigor? I mean, you’re feeling just obnoxiously happy? Well, this is one of those days. Driving home from work, you switch on the radio to see what’s...

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Catholic Boot Camp by: Tim Staples [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']A[/dropcaps]s soon as your eyes open in the morning: Make a morning offering. Get up and put your knees on the floor. A morning offering can be in your own words or a traditional prayer like...

08 February, 2016 /

Mary, Blessed are You Among Women! St. Sophronius Early Church Father St. Sophronius was bishop of Jerusalem in the early 7th century and preached this sermon (Oratio 2, in sactissimae Deparae annuntiatione, 21-22. 26: PG 87, 3, 3242, 3250) on the Blessed Virgin Mary on the occasion of...

08 February, 2016 /

The Theology of Kneeling From Cardinal Josef Ratzinger's book The Spirit of the Liturgy [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]here are groups, of no small influence, who are trying to talk us out of kneeling. "It doesn't suit our culture", they say (which culture?) "It's not right...

08 February, 2016 /

The Theological Locus of Ecclesial Movements Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Proceedings of the World Congress of the Ecclesial Movements Rome, 27-29 May 1998 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]nly when the person is struck and opened up by Christ in his inmost depth can the other also be inwardly...

08 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]ardinal Ratzinger's Homily at John Paul II's Funeral Mass "He Roused Us From a Lethargic Faith" VATICAN CITY, APRIL 8, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the homily Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger gave at John Paul II's funeral Mass today in St....

08 February, 2016 /

RELATIVISM: THE CENTRAL PROBLEM FOR FAITH TODAY Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gave this address during the meeting of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith with the presidents of the Doctrinal Commissions of the Bishops' Conferences of...

08 February, 2016 /

On the 100th anniversary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission Relationship between Magisterium and exegetes by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps] chose the topic of my report not only because it concerns the questions which rightly belong to a retrospective of the...

08 February, 2016 /

New Pope Risked Death by Deserting in WWII By DAVID McHUGH, Associated Press Writer [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']B[/dropcaps]ERLIN - In May 1945, thousands of German prisoners of war trudged down the highway toward the Bavarian town of Bad Aibling. Among them — tired but grateful...

08 February, 2016 /

Pope Benedict XVI - Interest in Music and Poetry Pope Benedict XVI [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']S[/dropcaps]tudents at St. Michael's seminary in Traunstein where the Pope studied as a teenager cheered him when he appeared on the balcony at the Vatican. In Traunstein the media-generated opinion...

08 February, 2016 /

ON THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - Pope Benedict XVI [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']1[/dropcaps]October-2001 -- ZENIT.org News Agency "Above All, We Should Be Missionaries" VATICAN CITY, (ZENIT.org-Avvenire).- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has a blunt message for Catholics today. "We cannot calmly accept the rest of humanity...

08 February, 2016 /

Mass for Papal Conclave [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ate: 2005-04-18 Cardinal Ratzinger Warns of "Dictatorship of Relativism" Presides Over Mass for Election of a Pontiff VATICAN CITY, APRIL 18, 2005 (Zenit.org).- At a Mass prior to the conclave, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger asked God for "a new pope, like...

08 February, 2016 /

This Lenten and Holy Week meditation on Psalm 45 and the contemplation of beauty represents a message that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) sent to a meeting of the ecclesial movement Communion and Liberation in August 2002. The group was meeting in...

08 February, 2016 /

INTRODUCTION OF CARDINAL JOSEPH RATZINGER TO THE COMPENDIUM OF THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']1[/dropcaps]On 11 October 1992, Pope John Paul II presented the Catechism of the Catholic Church to the faithful of the whole world, describing it as a...

08 February, 2016 /

CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH PRESENTATION OF THE APOSTOLIC LETTER IN THE FORM OF MOTU PROPRIO MISERICORDIA DEI INTERVENTION BY H. EM. CARD. JOSEPH RATZINGER Thursday, 2 May 2002 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he fact that humanity needs purification and forgiveness is something that is most evident...

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