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by bcadmin | Nov 4, 2022 | Between the Sundays, Cardinal Virtues, daily life, daily work, fasting, Featured, holiness, In the Workplace, mortification, News, Pope John Paul II, Self-control, self-mastery, temperance, virtues, Work | 0 |
In his first four Wednesday audiences, Pope St. John Paul II taught about the cardinal virtues. He was continuing what John Paul I had started before his sudden death. In his catechesis, John Paul II defined temperance quite simply: “A temp…
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 12, 2022 | Jesus Christ, modernity, News, Pope John Paul II, The Dispatch, Vatican II | 0 |
Sixty years after its solemn opening on October 11, 1962, is there anything new to be said about the Second Vatican Council? I think there is. And I hope to have said it in To […]
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 | Oct 9, 2022 | lead, News, News Analysis, Nobel Peace Prize, norway, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Protestant Reformation | 0 |
Every pope has been nominated at one point or another since Benedict XV, who reigned from 1914 to 1922, but so far none of them have ever become Nobel laureates.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 5, 2022 | lead, News, News Analysis, Papacy, Pope John Paul II, Popes | 0 |
Baseball’s ferment started me thinking about a similar question vis-à-vis Catholicism. What might be considered the church’s own most unbreakable record?
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 1, 2022 | Faith, fides et ratio, Jesus Christ, News, Pope John Paul II, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Apostles, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • Hb 1:2-3; 2:2-4 • Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 • 2 Tm 1:6-8, 13-14 • Lk 17:5-10 “Lord, I would seek you, calling upon you—and calling upon you is an act of believing in […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | Mikhail Gorbachev, News, Pope John Paul II, Soviet Union, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Pope John Paul pressed Gorbachev on the possibility of the Vatican and the Soviet Union exchanging diplomatic representatives, which he felt would aid in resolving religious freedom problems and other issues. Gorbachev responded positively, saying that “we approve such an approach” while cautioning against acting too quickly.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 14, 2022 | lead, Media, News, News Analysis, Papal conclave, Papal health, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II | 0 |
Executives from TV networks are finalizing contracts for locations and personnel for the “big show,” and journalists are dusting off papal obituaries and handicapping lists of papal candidates.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 5, 2022 | Abortion, Abraham Lincoln, Evangelium Vitae, intrinsic evil, News, Phil Lawler, Pope John Paul II, slavery, Stephen Douglas, The Dispatch, Wall Street Journal | 0 |
Paraphrasing John Adams, intrinsic evil acts are stubborn things. The Fifth Commandment prohibits murder. Abortion is murder. It is always and everywhere wrong. A person who commits — or formally cooperates in a direct abortion […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | canonisations, Editorials, Magazine, News, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul I, Pope John Paul II, Pope Paul VI beatification, Popes | 0 |
Some popes, like St Gregory the Great, are outstanding embodiments of Christian virtue. But the popes of the last century were not set in that mould
The post Not all popes deserve to be canonised appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 29, 2022 | Canada, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, Jerusalem, lead, Native Americans, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada, Pope John Paul II, Western Wall | 0 |
Then as now, it was important not only that the pope apologize, but that he do it in a specific place – the remains of the Jerusalem temple for John Paul, and the site of a former residential school in Canada for Francis.
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