Tag: John Paul II
Catholic history can tell us much about the Voice to Parliament...
On the question of Aboriginal people in 1846, Archbishop Polding wrote that "his opinion may be very different from that entertained by the greater part of the community." His words and those of John Paul II offer Catholics much guidance in the days ahead to October 14.
Dr Rocco Loiacono: JPII wanted a politics of dignity, not identity
The idea of equality before the law has its origins in St Paul's Letter to the Galatians (3:28): "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, given you are all one in Christ Jesus."
What is John Paul II’s Theology of the Body?
Talks addressed the times and the truth of human love
As the sexual revolution began sweeping across the developed world, in 1960 Karol Wojtyla, a...
George Weigel: How to be missionary Catholics
A prophetic call amid a world hostile to our faith
Thirty years ago, on 22 January 1991, Pope John Paul II’s eighth encyclical, Redemptoris Missio...
Blaming St. John Paul II for McCarrick’s advancement misplaced
Theodore McCarrick, a priest and bishop of the Catholic Church, brazenly lied to the bishop of Rome
Pope Francis, Benedict XVI questioned for McCarrick Report
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, then-prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, wrote to McCarrick in June 2008, asking him to move out of the seminary where he had an apartment and to "conduct a quiet life of prayer and penance for past imprudent actions."
Leaders outraged by Trumps’ St JPII visit
Washington archbishop said the saint would not condone the US President's actions of recent days.
Archbishop Fisher OP: The Pope John Paul II I knew
Memories of a most influential and beloved pope
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP reveals the incredible personality and legacy of St John Paul II and his...
New biography reveals retired pope
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said 'possible dementia' was one cause for his 2013 resignation.
St John Paul II ‘was a great’, says Pope
He taught that holiness dwells in "person who lives in profound communion with Christ".