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by bcadmin | Sep 6, 2022 | Benedict XVI, Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Communio, Features, Lumen Gentium, News, People of God, Pope Francis, ressourcement, Second Vatican Council, St. Pope John Paul II | 0 |
“The real problem with popes,” a friend once said to me, “is that they die.” What he meant was that no matter how consequential a particular papacy might be, it is still at the mercy […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | Blessed Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, Features, Mt 5:14 Museum of John Paul II and Primate Wyszyński, News, Poland, Special Report, St. Pope John Paul II, Warsaw | 0 |
For the Catholic tourist with an interest in history, Poland is an attractive destination, home to world-famous Marian shrines, illuminating museums, and sites that witnessed some of the most tragic – and inspiring – events […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Latin Mass, News, News Analysis, Orthodoxy, Rod Dreher, St. Pope John Paul II, Vatican II | 0 |
What holds Catholicism together over time isn’t so much ideological consistency but family ties. Catholics regard the church as their spiritual home, and whatever their frustrations might be at any given moment, most can’t conceive of leaving.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 18, 2022 | Columns, Fatherhood, Features, News, Pope Leo XIII, St. Joseph, St. Pope John Paul II, The Past Present, traditional family | 0 |
I recently received an e-mail with the curious subject line: “Men are like water heaters”. I opened up the e-mail to find a picture of a confused-looking, middle-aged man struggling to fix a water heater […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 23, 2022 | Assisted suicide, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Church teaching, Italian politics, Jesuits, La Civiltà Cattolica, law, News, Pontifical Academy for Life, Pontifical Gregorian University, St. Pope John Paul II, Theologians | 0 |
A Jesuit physician and moral theologian has called on lawmakers to stop postponing action and to restrict the practice as much as possible by refining and passing an “imperfect law” that is on the table.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 26, 2021 | Jeffrey Sachs, lead, News, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Pope Francis, St. Pope John Paul II, Vatican | 0 |
World renowned American economist Jeffery Sachs vows to do his “utmost to contribute” to the “path breaking work” of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS) after his appointment to the academy was announced by the Holy See on Oct. 25.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 13, 2021 | Alì Ağca, Catholic Church, lead, News, Poland, St. Peter's Square, St. Pope John Paul II, Vatican | 0 |
May 13, 1981 was a busy day – like any other – for St. John Paul II. The Institute for Marriage and Family has been established, and the pontiff had received French doctor and geneticist Jerome Lejeune.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 14, 2021 | Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, Jesus Christ, John Lennon, Josef Pieper, News, St. Pope John Paul II, The Dispatch, Valentine's Day | 0 |
Saint Valentine’s Day is a good time to remind ourselves that human love is an imitation, a reflection, of the divine love that created all […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 11, 2020 | Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, lead, News, Poland, Polish bishops, St. Pope John Paul II, Vatican | 0 |
One of the McCarrick report’s few living protagonists is Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, John Paul’s longtime personal secretary, who was mentioned 45 times in the document.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 11, 2020 | Cardinal Blase Cupich, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, lead, News, Pope Francis, St. Pope John Paul II, Theodore McCarrick | 0 |
Prominent leaders of the Catholic Church in America point to a “culture of clericalism” that led to laicized ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick rising through the ranks of the church despite decades-long accusations of sexual misconduct and abuse.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 10, 2020 | clerical sexual abuse, Emeritus Pope Benedict, lead, News, Pope Francis, Secretariat of State, St. Pope John Paul II, Theodore McCarrick, Vatican | 0 |
“Believing that the allegations had already been reviewed and rejected by Pope John Paul II, and well aware that McCarrick was active during the papacy of Benedict XVI, Pope Francis did not see the need to alter the approach that had been adopted in prior years,” the report states.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 10, 2020 | clerical sexual abuse, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal Foundation, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, St. Pope John Paul II, Theodore McCarrick, Vatican | 0 |
Thinking in terms of bad guys and smoking guns is often a prescription for over-simplifying a more complicated story.
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