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Technology and Education by: Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']J[/dropcaps]esus once quipped that the spiritual leaders of his day were very good at forecasting the weather, but very bad at reading the signs of the times (Mat 16:3). As we approach the 50th anniversary of...

03 February, 2016 /

SPIRITUAL THEOLOGY: SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY by: Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio This annotated bibliography was offered to Masters level students in a spiritual theology course taught in the University of Dallas’s Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies from 1994-2001. It is offered as a list of resources that may be...

03 February, 2016 /

SELECTED CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHURCH 1: FROM CHRIST TO CONSTANTINE [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']K[/dropcaps]now basic facts, centuries, and sequence of all items. Know exact dates of bolded items. (c. = approximate) 30 c. AD Death and Resurrection of Jesus followed by Pentecost, the “birthday” of the Church 50...

03 February, 2016 /

Scripture Texts Interpreted by the Church Definitively [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]here are many interpretations of certain biblical passages that have been officially and definitively disallowed by the Universal Magisterium of the Catholic Church. However, a definitive, positive interpretation has been provided for only seven...

03 February, 2016 /

SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION: ITS MEANING AND BIBLICAL BASIS Compiled by Marcellino D’Ambrosio, Ph.D. The most important scripture for the understanding of the sacrament of confirmation is the narrative about Jesus own baptism and anointing by the Spirit, as well as the Church’s anointing with the Spirit at Pentecost...

03 February, 2016 /

Ressourcement Theology and its Intellectual Background A Select Bibliography Ressourcement Theology was a theological movement from the early 20th century through the Second Vatican Council that saw the key to the revitalization of both theology and pastoral life in the church as lying in a reappropriation of...

02 February, 2016 /

The Kingdom of God is Within [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']B[/dropcaps]odily health is a good thing, but what is truly blessed is not only to know how to keep one’s health but actually to be healthy. If someone praises health but then goes and eats...

02 February, 2016 /

Fight the Good Fight of Faith [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]hoever is in Christ is a new creation; the old has passed away. Now by the “new creation” Paul means the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in a heart that is pure and blameless, free...

02 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']A[/dropcaps] Official Roman Liturgical Texts , Instructions and Commentaries Thereupon Book of Blessings.  ICEL trans of De Benedictionibus.  Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1989. Paperback  edition of all the liturgical blessings of the Church for people, places, and objects (sacramentals).  Contains official texts, commentary, and suggestions for celebration.  832pp.   Available also...

02 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]ver the past few years, vast changes have occurred in the concept of marriage, at least in the Western world.  There is tremendous disagreement over the goals, purposes, and the very definition of marriage these days.   Surprisingly, however, there is one thing that everyone on...

02 February, 2016 /

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...

01 February, 2016 /

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...

01 February, 2016 /

[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....

01 February, 2016 /

[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...

01 February, 2016 /

  (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:...

01 February, 2016 /

  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...

01 February, 2016 /

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....

01 February, 2016 /

[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...

01 February, 2016 /

[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...

01 February, 2016 /

[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...

01 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']B[/dropcaps]elow please find Vatican Radio's translation of the full text of the Holy Father's address to the Cardinals: Brother Cardinals, This period of the Conclave has been filled with meaning not just for the College of Cardinals but also for all the...

01 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear Beatitudes, Eminences and Excellencies, Dear Brothers and Sisters, I would like first of all to thank the Lord, who has guided our synodal process in these years by his Holy Spirit, whose support is never lacking to the Church. My heartfelt...

01 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']J[/dropcaps]ust before Christmas 1936, Regina Bergoglio gave birth to her first child, who she named Jorge, which is Spanish for George. As she held her baby boy in the intense sunshine of an Argentinean summer, little did she know that...

01 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear Brothers and Sisters, This morning I have the joy of celebrating my first Chrism Mass as the Bishop of Rome. I greet all of you with affection, especially you, dear priests, who, like myself, today recall the day of your...

01 February, 2016 /

Holy Mass for the Closing of the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (official translation) 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 25 October 2015 [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he three Readings for this Sunday show us God’s compassion, his fatherhood, definitively revealed in Jesus. In the midst of...

01 February, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]onfirmation/Chrismation Biblical and Historical Basis Biblical Christ’s anointing with Holy Spirit coming up after baptism in fulfillment of Is 61:1, anointing for battle & mission Acts 10:38 “I take it you know what has been reported all over Judea about...

31 January, 2016 /

End Times Prophecy of St. Malachy Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']A[/dropcaps]ccording to the prophecies of St. Malachy (d. 1148), the successor of Pope Benedict will be the last man to sit on the throne of Peter before the end of the world. But...

31 January, 2016 /

ECUMENISM & EVANGELIZATION: SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY by: Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio This very limited bibliography was used in a Master’s level course taught in the University of Dallas’s Institute of Religious and Pastoral Studies(IRPS) from 1994 to 2001. Call numbers are those of the Univ. of Dallas library. The abbreviation...

31 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]early beloved, I know now that you are safe, as I was hoping, and I felt that I had paid you a visit, by being suddenly transported over the face of the earth like Habakkuk, when the angel brought him...

31 January, 2016 /

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON MARRIAGE & FAMILY by Marcellino D’Ambrosio, Ph.D.  Www.dritaly.com This bibliography is by no means complete or up-to-date.  It is provided only as a starting point for further reading and research on marriage and family.  It should not be implied that inclusion of a book in this bibliography connotes...

31 January, 2016 /

CATECHETICAL LECTURES XIII-XXIII Including the 5 MYSTAGOGICAL CATECHESES St. Cyril of Jerusalem Early Church Father and Doctor of the Church [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]LECTURE XIII. ON THE WORDS, CRUCIFIED AND BURIED ISAIAH liii. 1, 7. Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord...

31 January, 2016 /

CATECHETICAL LECTURES I-XII With PROTOCATECHESIS St. Cyril of Jerusalem Early Church Father and Doctor of the Church PROCATECHESIS PROLOGUE TO THE CATECHETICAL LECTURES OF CYRIL, ARCHBISHOP OF JERUSALEM. [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']1[/dropcaps]. ALREADY there is an odour of blessedness upon you, O ye who are soon to be enlightened1:...

31 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]hough many, we are one body, and members one of another, united by Christ in the bonds of love. Christ has made Jews and Gentiles one by breaking down the barrier that divided us and abolishing the law with its precepts...

31 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]atience is a precept for salvation given us by our Lord our teacher: Whoever endures to the end will be saved. And again: If you persevere in my word, you will truly be my disciples; you will know the truth,...

31 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he Lord's prayer continues: Thy kingdom come. We ask that the kingdom of God may appear to us, just as we ask that his name may be sanctified in us. For when does God not reign, or when does his kingdom...

31 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he sufferings of this present time are not to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed in us. Who would not strive wholeheartedly to attain to such glory, to become a friend of God and straightway rejoice with...

31 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear brother, the reason why I could not write to you immediately was that all the clergy were embroiled in the heat of the conflict. They could not possibly leave, all of them having prepared themselves for divine and heavenly...

31 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]ur obligation is to do God’s will, and not our own. We must remember this if the prayer that our Lord commanded us to say daily is to have any meaning on our lips. How unreasonable it is to pray...

31 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']H[/dropcaps]ow great is the Lord’s indulgence! How kindly he bends down to us, how he overflows with goodness towards us! For he wishes us to pray in the sight of God in such a way as to call God Fatherand to...

30 January, 2016 /

[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...

30 January, 2016 /

[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...

30 January, 2016 /

[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...

30 January, 2016 /

[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...

30 January, 2016 /

[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,...

30 January, 2016 /

[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...

30 January, 2016 /

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...

28 January, 2016 /

[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...

28 January, 2016 /

[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...

28 January, 2016 /

[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]...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']C[/dropcaps]hap. I. The salutation. Praise of the Corinthians before the breaking forth of schism among them. THE Church of God which sojourns at Rome, to the Church of God sojourning at Corinth, to them that are called and sanctified by the will...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]o Ermentrude, dearest sister, Clare of Assisi, humble handmaid of Jesus Christ, greetings and peace. I know that you, o dearest sister, have fled the filth of the world, with the help of God's grace; for which I rejoice and give thanks...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]o the esteemed and most holy virgin, the Lady Agnes, daughter of the most excellent and illustrious King of Bohemia: Clare, an unworthy servant of Jesus Christ and useless handmaid of the Cloistered Ladies of the Monastery of San Damiano,...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']O[/dropcaps]kay, brothers and sisters, this year our fall mission theme is biblical geography." This is not the type of catch phrase that has historically packed 'em in for the big Church mission. To many, the idea of studying geography sounds as...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps] remember growing up with a love for books. It wasn't unusual for me to read a book through three or four times, each time finding intriguing new bits of information about characters and plots that I didn't see before....

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]hat if your friends and family could only draw their conclusions about God based upon observing your life? What would they say? How would they describe God? This was the question posed to me many years ago by a good friend....

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]hy do you Catholics add all those traditions to the Bible? Jesus told the Pharisees, "You nullify the word of God in favor of your traditions that you have handed on" (Mark 7:13). This is a typical question posed to...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]hen reading the Bible do you see only trees and no forest? This Bible teacher explains how to step back and see Scripture's single basic theme. The Holy Bible - for some, the very words evoke feelings of warmth and wisdom,...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']1[/dropcaps]601 "The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']L[/dropcaps]et us take our stand on the tower, leaning with all our strength on Christ, the most solid rock, as it is written: He has set my feet on a rock, he has guided my steps. Thus firmly established, let us begin...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]REFACE This translation of St. Bonaventura's "Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum" is addressed to undergraduate students of the history of philosophy who may wish to read a work of a great medieval Franciscan thinker. I have used the Latin text of the Franciscan Fathers contained...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]here was only one mode of birth that was worthy of God, and that was to be born of a Virgin. Equally, who could come from a Virgin birth except God himself? The maker of mankind, if he was to...

28 January, 2016 /

Baptism in the Holy Spirit Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]SUMMARY: The Baptism in the Spirit is not a sacrament, but it is related to several sacraments. The Baptism in the Spirit makes real and in a way renews Christian initiation. At the...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='65' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]e read in the gospel that when the Lord was teaching his disciples and urged them to share in his passion by the mystery of eating his body, some said: This is a hard saying, and from that time they...

28 January, 2016 /

St. Ambrose of Milan A Patristic Icon Pope Benedict XVI The text of an address given at the general audience of October 24, 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI. [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear brothers and sisters: The saintly Bishop Ambrose, of whom I will speak to you today,...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear young friends, In our pilgrimage with the mysterious Magi from the East, we have arrived at the moment which Saint Matthew describes in his Gospel with these words: "Going into the house (over which the star had halted), they saw...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']A[/dropcaps]postolic Letter In the form "motu proprio" Benedict XVI "Summorum Pontificum" Up to our own times, it has been the constant concern of Supreme Pontiffs to ensure that the Church of Christ offers a worthy ritual to the Divine Majesty, "to the praise and...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]ROLOGUE Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']V[/dropcaps]enerated Brothers in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood! Dear Brothers and Sisters! On this 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time, our Eucharistic celebration is enriched for various reasons that impel us to give thanks to God. Concurrently, the Year of the Eucharist and...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he Pope met with thousands of enthusiastic German pilgrims Monday for an audience; it lasted about ten minutes, but he arrived exactly half an hour late for it, coming from a meeting with non-Catholic religious leaders. He started with a...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']L[/dropcaps]ETTER OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO THE BISHOPS ON THE OCCASION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE APOSTOLIC LETTER "MOTU PROPRIO DATA" SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM ON THE USE OF THE ROMAN LITURGY PRIOR TO THE REFORM OF 1970 My dear Brother Bishops, With great trust and hope, I am...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']“[/dropcaps]God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 Jn4:16). These words from theFirst Letter of John express with remarkable clarity the heart of the Christian faith: the Christian image of...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he Dogmatic Constitution "Dei Verbum," whose drafting I personally witnessed as a young theologian, taking part in the lively discussions that went with it, begins with a deeply meaningful sentence: "Dei Verbum religiose audiens et fidenter proclamans, Sacrosancta Synodus ...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]ntroduction The dignity of a person must be recognized in every human being from conception to natural death. This fundamental principle expresses a great “yes” to human life and must be at the center of ethical reflection on biomedical research, which...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']F[/dropcaps]aith, Reason and the University Memories and Reflections Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a moving experience for me to stand and give a lecture at this university podium once again. I think back to those years when, after a pleasant period at...

28 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']D[/dropcaps]ear young friends, Yesterday evening we came together in the presence of the Sacred Host, in which Jesus becomes for us the bread that sustains and feeds us (cf. Jn 6:35), and there we began our inner journey of adoration.  In the Eucharist, adoration...

28 January, 2016 /

ENCYCLICAL LETTER SPE SALVI OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF BENEDICT XVI TO THE BISHOPS PRIESTS AND DEACONS MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND ALL THE LAY FAITHFUL ON CHRISTIAN HOPE   [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']I[/dropcaps]ntroduction “SPE SALVI facti sumus”—in hope we were saved, says Saint Paul to the Romans, and likewise to us (Rom8:24). According...

27 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']Y[/dropcaps]our Eminences, my dear Brother Bishops and Priests, Distinguished Authorities and Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Dear Brothers and Sisters, During these days of great intensity, we have chanted the litany of the saints on three different occasions: at the funeral...

27 January, 2016 /

[dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps] o my Venerable Brothers the Cardinals, Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, Deacons and to all the People of God. Twenty years ago, work began on the Catechism of the Catholic Church that had been requested by the extraordinary Assembly of...

27 January, 2016 /
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