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[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...

07 February, 2016 /

[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...

07 February, 2016 /

[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...

07 February, 2016 /

[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...

07 February, 2016 /

[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,...

06 February, 2016 /

[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...

06 February, 2016 /

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...

05 February, 2016 /

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...

05 February, 2016 /

Can You Prove God Exists? Peter Kreeft [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']B[/dropcaps]efore we answer this question, we must distinguish five questions that are often confused. • First, there is the question of whether something exists or not. A thing can exist whether we know it or not. •...

05 February, 2016 /

Argument from Design - Can You Prove God Exists? Peter Kreeft [dropcaps type='normal' font_size='100' color='' background_color='' border_color='']T[/dropcaps]he argument starts with the major premise that where there is design, there must be a designer. The minor premise is the existence of design throughout the universe. The conclusion is that...

05 February, 2016 /
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