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by bcadmin | Nov 9, 2022 | News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope Saint John Paul II, Pope St. Paul VI, St. John XXIII, The Dispatch, Vatican II | 0 |
On the morning of October 17, 1978, the newly-elected Pope John Paul II concelebrated Mass with the College of Cardinals and pledged that the program of his papacy would be the full implementation of the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 2, 2022 | Artificial intelligence, Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate, Centesimus Annus, Economics, Elon Musk, Features, Investing, News, Opinion, Pope Saint John Paul II, short-selling | 0 |
Elon Musk is a curious guy. The son of a Canadian-born model and a South African engineer, he grew up in Pretoria before moving to Canada and later graduating from the Wharton School at the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 15, 2022 | College of Cardinals, News, Papal conclave, papal election, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope Saint John Paul II, The Dispatch | 0 |
Pope Francis’s recent announcement that he will create 21 new cardinals on August 27, 16 of whom would vote in a conclave held after that date, set off the usual flurry of speculations about the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 6, 2022 | conscience, Legalism, Morality, News, Pope Saint John Paul II, The Dispatch, Veritatis Splendor | 0 |
When the Church speaks definitively on morality—says that without exception something is wrong—is it declaring a truth or laying down a law? Confusion about that is rampant today. Recently I came across this statement by […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 2, 2021 | Adam and Eve, Genesis, Jesus Christ, Jorge Cardinal Medina Estévez, Marriage, News, Pharisees, Pope Saint John Paul II, The Dispatch, Theology of the Body | 0 |
Readings: • Gen 2:18-24 • Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 • Heb 2:9-11 • Mk 10:2-16 “No human institution,” writes Jorge Cardinal Medina Estévez in Male and Female He Created Them (Ignatius Press, 2003), “is […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 27, 2021 | Essay, Features, Fr Dave Pivonka, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Higher education, News, Opinion, Pope Saint John Paul II, University | 0 |
It scarcely needs to be pointed out that western culture is under attack. What appeared at first to be a series of isolated skirmishes has turned into a full-frontal assault. The legitimacy and value of […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 11, 2021 | Christifideles Laici, News, Pope Francis, Pope Saint John Paul II, Spiritus Domini, The Dispatch | 0 |
Pope Francis’s latest motu proprio, Spiritus Domini, opens up the minor ministries of lector and acolyte to women. On the surface, this can look like much-ado-about nothing since females have been functioning as lectors and […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 3, 2021 | clerical sexual abuse, Features, News, Opinion, Pope Saint John Paul II, Sainthood, The McCarrick Report, Theodore McCarrick | 0 |
The life and papacy of Saint John Paul II have had an immense impact on the Church after the Second Vatican Council and beyond. One only has to look at his contributions and personal witness […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 21, 2020 | ecclesiology, Ecumenism, Essay, Features, News, Pope Saint John Paul II | 0 |
In The Bishop and Christian Unity, the December 4, 2020 document from the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, the question addressed briefly regards the following issue: “Changing ecclesial affiliation as an ecumenical challenge and […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 11, 2020 | Abortion, Alasdair MacIntyre, freedom, liberty, News, Politics, Pope Saint John Paul II, The Dispatch, Veritatis Splendor | 0 |
The Left, Republicans warned in this year’s election, hate liberty. “They want to steal your liberty, your freedom,” declared prominent former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle during an August 24th speech at the Republican National […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 19, 2020 | Analysis, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Blase Cardinal Cupich, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, clerical sexual abuse, Features, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope Saint John Paul II, The McCarrick Report | 0 |
Unconfirmed stories a couple of months ago indicated that the long-awaited “McCarrick Report” ran to 600 pages; as it turns out, the final count of the English text is 449. Some very thoughtful Vatican person […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 15, 2020 | conversion, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, Eucharist, Evangelization, Jesus Christ, News, Pope Saint John Paul II, Prayer, The Church, The Dispatch | 0 |
“The end is near!” Our mental picture of a typical street evangelist often consists of a person standing in some public square and holding a sign with these words written on it. In society’s rush […]
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