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IN HONOUR OF TWENTY 0NE MARTYRS OF THE COPTIC CHURCH

my source: Vatican RadioThe Coptic Orthodox Church has announced that the murder of the 21 Egyptian Christians killed by the so-called Islamic State in Libya will be commemorated in its Church...

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ON EUCHARISTICAL ADORATION; OR, THE WORSHIP OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR IN THE...

John Keble, born 1792, ordained Priest in 1816, tutor at Oxford from 1818 to 1823, published in 1827 a book of poems called The Christian Year, containing poems for the Sundays and Feast Days of the...

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SAINT AUGUSTINE AND THE CHURCH: A LENTEN SERMON BY FR R. CANTALAMESSA

(Vatican Radio) The theology of the great Doctors of the Church are the focus of a series of Lenten reflections prepared by Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, ofmcap for Pope Francis and the Roman Curia in...

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2nd SUNDAY IN LENT 2015

icon of the Transfigurationby a monk of PachacamacThe Transfiguration: Law Through Moses, Grace &Truth Through Jesus Christ Pope  St Leo the GreatbySt. Leo the Great, Pope and Early Church Father...

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SAINT MILAD SABER AND HIS TWENTY COMPANIONS

Their story is the same as the Acts of the Martyrs of the first centuries. Killed by the sword of Islam out of pure hatred for their Christian faith by Sandro MagisterROME, March 2, 2015 – They refused...

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THE POSITION OF THE POPE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Pope Pius IXDefinitions of the First Vatican Council, 1870:5. Therefore, if anyone says that it is not by the institution of Christ the lord himself (that is to say, by divine law) that blessed Peter...

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3rd SUNDAY OF LENT 2015

to see the source of the mosaic, please click hereLectionary: 29 or 28Reading 1 Ex 20:1-17In those days,God delivered all these commandments:"I, the LORD, am your God,who brought you out of the land of...

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THE SHEPTYTSKY INSTITUTE: SOME EXCELLENT TALKS ON VATICAN II AND ITS AFTERMATH

This is absolutely essential listening if you wish to understand what Rome is doing. Please, please listen to this first video. The others will help, but the first is absolutely necessary, for...

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VATICAN EVENT TACKLES WOMEN'S EQUALITY, INCLUSION, ORDINATION

Dorothy DayJoshua J. McElwee  |  Mar. 9, 2015Mother Teresamy source: National Catholic ReporterVATICAN CITY -A Vatican event Sunday saw a remarkably open and frank discussion among women about the...

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ORTHODOX READINGS OF ST THOMAS AQUINAS by Marcus Plested (Orthodox)

Orthodox Readings of Aquinas ? by Marcus Plested? Oxford, 272 pages, $99The Greeks never had any interest in Latin culture: This was true in the classical period and was inherited by the Church Fathers...

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POPE: MASS IN THE VERNACULAR HELPS PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND GOD AND TO LIVE THEIR...

By Carol GlatzCatholic News Service March 9, 2015ROME — Allowing priests to celebrate Mass in the language of the local congregation rather than in Latin allowed the faithful to understand and be...

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AN INTRODUCTION TO RESSOURCEMENT THEOLOGY

 Ressourcement Theology, Aggiornamento,and the Hermeneutics of Tradition Ressourcement theology, aggiornamento, and the hermeneutics of traditionMarcellino D'AmbrosioCommunio 18 (Winter 1991). ©1991 by...

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Excerpt from and interview of HIS BEATITUDE KIRILL: BY DENYING GOD'S TRUTH WE...

my source: Tass NewsagencyOn parishioners, occasional visitors, Pope Francis, Charlie Hebdo, and Leviathan-- In your book ‘Life And Contemplation Of The World’ you wrote that, as a young man, you asked...

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RESSOURCEMENT THEOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION (2nd Attempt)

 Better luck this time!!The Fathers of the Church Ressourcement Theology, Aggiornamento,and the Hermeneutics of TraditionMarcellino D'AmbrosioCommunio 18 (Winter 1991). ©1991 by Communio International...

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THE CROSS HILL: PRINCE CHARLES IN ROMANIA

Following in royal footsteps: Romania’s ‘Prince Charles Walk’by Leif Pettersen · Oct 12 2011Several years ago, Prince Charles developed a somewhat sudden preoccupation with Romania. During various...

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AFRICA'S HOUR

Africa’s HourIt has the highest number of converts to the Catholic faith. And it also has the highest number of martyrs. As at the dawn of Christianity. The past and present of a continent that has...

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AN ORTHODOX ECUMENICAL VOICE - I: IS THERE A FUTURE FOR ECUMENISM? A LECTURE...

Lecture by the Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk at the Universities of Winchester (5 February 2015) and Cambridge...

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ISLAND MONASTERIES - 1 SKELLIG MICHAEL

Monastic Sitesmy source: TravelmaniaChristian Monasticism has come to be regulated by religious rules (e.g. the Rule of St Benedict) and, in modern times, the Church law of the respective Christian...

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MARCH 21ST: THE SOLEMNITY OF THE 'TRANSITUS' OF SAINT BENEDICT.

Chapter Thirty-seven of St Gregory's Dialogues: how venerable Benedict did prophesy to his monks, the time of his own death.The same year in which he departed this life, he told the day of his holy...

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ORTHODOX ECUMENICAL VOICES - II: METROPOLITAN JOHN ZIZIOULAS OF PERGAMON

Where the Eucharist is, there is the Catholic Churchmy source: 30 Days«Catholics must take seriously the notion of the full Catholicity of the local Church promoted by Vatican Council II, and must...

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