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by bcadmin | Nov 23, 2022 | Canada, Commentary, Gaudium et spes, Immaculate Conception, life, Liturgy, News, Pope Paul VI, Scripture, Second Vatican Council, universal call to holiness, unplanned pregnancy | 0 |
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. I’ve found myself rereading the council documents, since they are a treasure trove of insights about the liturgy, Scripture and the universal call to holiness, among other topics.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 23, 2022 | Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Caritas, charity, Church management, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Pope Paul VI | 0 |
One sometimes wonders why Francis hasn’t yet been termed the “Lear Pope,” meaning a leader who doesn’t hesitate to act – who, in fact, can come off as perhaps a bit rash or impetuous at times, but never indecisive.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 3, 2022 | and the Unsaved, Benedict XVI, Hell, Jesus Christ, missions, News, Pope John Paul II, Pope Paul VI, Salvation, Spe Salvi, The Dispatch, Vatican II | 0 |
The distinguishing feature of the doctrine and the pastoral program of the Second Vatican Council is Trinitarian Christocentrism. The Council’s teaching on the nature of Sacred Liturgy, on the mystery of the Church, on the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | 1962, ecumenical council, Features, History, Liturgy, modernity, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Second Vatican Council, St. John Henry Newman | 0 |
October 11th marks the sixtieth anniversary of the formal opening of the Second Vatican Council. In the lead-up to that day in 1962, my fifth-grade teacher, Sister Regina Rose (who just died last year at […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Books, conversion, Jewish, Magazine, News, Pope Paul VI | 0 |
Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance Emily Michelson Princeton University Press, £30, 352 pages In 1555 Pope Paul IV decreed that Rome’s Jews, “who through their own fault were condemned to eternal servitude”, should now live within the walls of a ghetto whose doors would be locked at night. These strictures
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | Contraception, Humanae Vitae, John Paul II, lead, News, Pontifical Academy for Life, Pope Paul VI, Vatican | 0 |
Over the past few days the Vatican’s top body on life issues has stirred up debate over its assertion that the encyclical Humanae Vitae, one of the church’s most influential documents in the past century, is not covered by papal infallibility.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | conscience, Liturgy, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, Pope Paul VI, Second Vatican Council, synodality, The Dispatch, Vatican II | 0 |
The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) was a unique ecumenical council. The previous twenty were assembled to address particular doctrinal or ecclesial crises, while John XXIII called Vatican II to layout a new pastoral program for […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 2, 2022 | Blessed Alexandru Rusi, Blessed Ioan Balan, Blessed Ioan Suciu, Blessed Iuliu Hossu, Blessed Tit Liviu Chinezu, Blessed Valeriu Traian Frențiu, Blessed Vasile Aftenie, Greek Catholic, News, Nicolae Ceausescu, Pope Francis, Pope Paul VI, Romania, The Dispatch | 0 |
Fifty years from now, which of our current political and Church leaders will be remembered and honored by Catholics in the U.S.? Perhaps the Catholics of Romania can help us form an answer to that […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 1, 2022 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal States, Pope Paul VI, Vatican trial | 0 |
Popes have made their peace with the separation of powers ad extra, but they have yet to do so ad intra.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 19, 2022 | Analysis, Catholic Schools, Congregation for Catholic Education, Education, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Features, News, Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Vatican | 0 |
On March 23, the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Educational Institutions)1 issued an “Instruction,” “The identity of the Catholic school for a culture of dialogue.” The focus here is on elementary/primary schools and secondary/high schools [….
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 28, 2021 | Barack Obama, lead, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Pope Paul VI, President Joe Biden, President Trump, Vatican | 0 |
On Friday, two titans will meet again: Upon arriving in Rome to take part in this weekend’s G20 meeting, United States President Joe Biden will pay a visit to Pope Francis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 26, 2021 | Featured, John Paul II, News, Pope John Paul I, Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Shortcut to canonization, Social media, Twitter, U.S. & World News | 0 |
With the news that Pope John Paul I would soon be beatified, Twitter and other social media were filled — again — with the question: Has being pope become a shortcut to canonization?
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