The Way of the Exile: A Review of Prophet
MPAA Rating: Not rated at the time of this review USCCB Rating: Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels Nearly every Catholic knows that Pope St. John […]
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by bcadmin | Nov 19, 2022 | Blessed Stefan Wyszyński, Communism, John Paul II, Michal Kondrat, News, Poland, Prophet, The Dispatch | 0 |
MPAA Rating: Not rated at the time of this review USCCB Rating: Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels Nearly every Catholic knows that Pope St. John […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 9, 2022 | Advent, Blessed Virgin Mary, Endow, Featured, John Paul II, News, Redemptoris Mater | 0 |
The Mother of the Redeemer has a precise place in the plan of salvation, for “when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 26, 2022 | 2022, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Chateaubriand’s Genius of Christianity, Columns, earth is 8000 years old, John Paul II, Michael Pakaluk, News, Robert Royal, St. Augustine's Confessions, The Catholic Thing, the nature of time, W.V. Quine, Young Earth hypothesis | 0 |
A sentence in Chateaubriand’s Genius of Christianity, truly one of the masterworks of apologetics, caught my attention recently: “God might…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 20, 2022 | Featured, John Paul II, News, Theology of the Body | 0 |
There are three frames through which to view sexuality in the light of Christian teaching that I hope will be helpful and hopeful. First: Christian sexuality must always be a both-yes proposition if it is to be enjoyed in the fullest measure. Debating whether procreation, on one hand, or the mutual enjoyment of the spouses’ […]
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In comments to a gathering of conservative Catholic college professors recently, I remarked that in modern times American Catholicism has…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 21, 2022 | 2022, Abortion, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Francis X. Maier'a "The “National Synthesis” on the Synod", Jesus Christ, John Paul II, John Stowe bishop of Lexington KY, National Synthesis of the People of God in the United States of America for the Diocesan Phase of the 2021-2023 Synod, News, Robert Royal, rolling Vatican III, Russell Shaw, Synod on Synodality, The Catholic Thing, USCCB | 0 |
I was traveling on September 19, and was delayed in reading the National Synthesis prepared by U.S. bishops in advance…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 20, 2022 | 2022, Catholic Church, Catholic social justice, Catholicism, Columns, Daniel Guernsey, John Paul II, News, Patrick Reilly, poor leadership in Catholic schools, Randall Smith’s “Something All Catholic Colleges and Universities Agree On” | 0 |
There are very different kinds of “Catholic” colleges and universities, depending on how they view their Catholic identity. Some pronounce…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 20, 2022 | 2022, Catholic Church, Catholic social justice, Catholicism, Columns, Daniel Guernsey, John Paul II, News, Patrick Reilly, poor leadership in Catholic schools, Randall Smith’s “Something All Catholic Colleges and Universities Agree On” | 0 |
There are very different kinds of “Catholic” colleges and universities, depending on how they view their Catholic identity. Some pronounce…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | Berlin Wall, Catholic News Service, Cold War, Communism, John Paul II, lead, News, Russia, Soviet Union, Vatican | 0 |
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Aug. 30 in Moscow after a long illness, met several times with St. John Paul II, and the two often exchanged words of appreciation for each other.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | 2022, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, Benedict XVI, Columns, E. Christian Brugger's "Throwing St. John Paul II Under the Bus", Etica Teologica della Vita (Theological Ethics of Life), Jesus Christ, John Paul II, News, Pontifical Academy for Life, proportionalism, Sigrid Müller, The Catholic Thing, Veritatis Splendor | 0 |
The Pontifical Academy for Life is no longer what it was under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Under…
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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 27, 2022 | Evangelium Vitae, Humanae Vitae, John Paul II, moral theology, News, proportionalism, The Dispatch, Veritatis Splendor | 0 |
On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II had lunch in the papal apartment with Dr. Jerome Lejeune, the renowned French pediatrician and geneticist who identified the chromosomal abnormality that causes Down Syndrome. Dr. Lejeune […]
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