Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Tuesday, March 29, 2016
What would Fr. Bouyer say about the devotion and Sr. Faustina's diary?
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
The Spirituality of Divine Mercy? Or the Devotion?
What would Fr. Bouyer say about the devotion and Sr. Faustina's diary?
Benedict XVI on Mother Angelica
Pope emeritus Benedict XVI had a special response to EWTN founder Mother Angelica’s death falling on Easter Sunday: “it’s a gift."
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Latins Need to Bring Back Divine Adoption
Rorate Caeli: Guest Op-Ed: Fighting for the soul of Europe
Arguably, Catholics, Copts, and Evangelical Christians are brothers, children of the same God because of baptism. But the claim that we are all "children" in so far as we are created by the same God? While "children of God" has been used in that sense in the West, is the same true of the East? And even if it is the case that that usage has some legitimacy because of the past, is it a good idea to continue it, since the first meaning is more important, and one does not want to create the misunderstanding that Christianity is superfluous or foster indifferentism?
This way of speaking of all of humanity as being sons or children of God is practically equivalent to statements about human dignity, which must be correctly understood as referring to human nature not just in itself but in its being ordered to friendship with God. Otherwise the affirmation of human dignity can be problematic if it is intellectually separated from God and His will for us.
For Francis however, these considerations are no more than semantics. “All of us together: Muslims, Hindus, Catholics, Copts, Evangelical. But [we are] brothers, children of the same God” he said on Holy Thursday.[4] There were reports that “[a] number of the migrants whose feet were washed by the pope had tears streaming down their faces.”[5] One wonders if such an emotional moment has led any of the non-Catholics who have had their feet washed in the past three years to convert. Probably not. Even if it had, based on past statements by the pope, one wonders if this is something that he would even have approved of.[6]
Arguably, Catholics, Copts, and Evangelical Christians are brothers, children of the same God because of baptism. But the claim that we are all "children" in so far as we are created by the same God? While "children of God" has been used in that sense in the West, is the same true of the East? And even if it is the case that that usage has some legitimacy because of the past, is it a good idea to continue it, since the first meaning is more important, and one does not want to create the misunderstanding that Christianity is superfluous or foster indifferentism?
This way of speaking of all of humanity as being sons or children of God is practically equivalent to statements about human dignity, which must be correctly understood as referring to human nature not just in itself but in its being ordered to friendship with God. Otherwise the affirmation of human dignity can be problematic if it is intellectually separated from God and His will for us.
This year, Pope Francis chose to celebrate Our Lord’s Supper with the traditional washing of the feet at a temporary...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Friday, March 25, 2016
Pope Francis celebrated the Missa in coena Domini on Holy Thursday evening, at the CARA Welcome and Hospitality Centre...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Friday, March 25, 2016
A Missionary of Mercy
Dominican Foundation: A Missionary of Mercy: Q&A with Fr. Benedict Croell, O.P.
Patriarch Irenaeos and Theosis
"In the first half of our program we speak with Fr. John Claypool about Patriarch Irenaeos- the Prisoner Patriarch of Jerusalem. In the second half we discuss the topic of Theosis- a much misunderstood teaching of the Orthodox Christian faith."
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Urbi et Orbi 2016
St. Peter’s Square filled to overflowing on Easter Sunday morning, as scores of thousands of pilgrims and tourists...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Sunday, March 27, 2016
Pope Francis giving his Urbi et Orbi message.Read it at the link: http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2016/03/27/pope_francis_easter_urbi_et_orbi_a_message_of_hope/1218463
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, March 28, 2016
The vestments could have been worse...
Pope Francis on Saturday evening presided at the Easter Vigil in St Peter’s Basilica.See our story at the link:...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Sunday, March 27, 2016
Watch Pope Francis give his Urbi et Orbi blessing LIVE now!
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Sunday, March 27, 2016
Georges Lemaitre
The Vatican Observatory Foundation blog looks at Fr. Georges Lemaitre – Father of the “Big Bang”
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, March 28, 2016
Santa Maria Antiqua
Rome’s Church of Santa Maria Antiqua lay undiscovered for more than 1,000 years after it was buried by rubble from an earthquake.
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Video: Elder Ephraim
Elder Ephraim, Abbot of Vatopedi Holy Monastery, Mt Athos. Greece, at a Speech to a students' audience.http://pemptousia.com/video/abbot-ephraim-a-speech-to-students/
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Thursday, March 24, 2016
Athos Ithaca
‘Athos Ithaca’ is a poem closely related to monasticism and its Christian character is revealed through the importance...
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Monday, March 28, 2016
Fr. Moyses has been influenced by Cavafy’s process of spiritual travel, but in this case, he adapts it to the needs of...
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Thursday, March 24, 2016
The Sin of Judas
Repentance is the key that opens the door to salvation. It could have for Judas. It still can for us.http://myocn.net/the-sin-of-judas-was-not-the-betrayal/
Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Monday, March 28, 2016
Chiesa: How Cardinal Müller Is Rereading the Pope by Sandro Magister
Point by point, the exegesis made by the prefect of doctrine on the Francis’ words that most lend themselves to misinterpretation. On homosexuality, communion for the divorced and remarried, Luther, women's priesthood, celibacy of the clergy
Point by point, the exegesis made by the prefect of doctrine on the Francis’ words that most lend themselves to misinterpretation. On homosexuality, communion for the divorced and remarried, Luther, women's priesthood, celibacy of the clergy
Mother Angelica Passes
May She Rest in Peace
Posted by Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J., Ignatius Productions on Sunday, March 27, 2016
Bishop Robert Barron on her spiritual legacy.
Sunday, March 27, 2016
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