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Introduction to Christianity

14/09/2013 08:34
"the discovery of a You, who supports me and, despite all the inadequacies and final frustration of human encounter, gives me a promise of indestructible love, which not only longs for, but grants, eternity. Christian faith lives not by giving objective meaning, but by the fact that this meaning...

Faith and Future, 1970

14/09/2013 08:34
" ...faith is fundamentally a particular kind of passion, or, more correctly, a kind of love that seizes a man and points the way he must go, even if that way is wearisome." p. 36 Link to context "...wholeness of man, who fulfills the unity of his being as the interpenetration of spirit and...

Theological Highlights of Vatican II, 1966

13/09/2013 21:51
“The Struggle Over Schema 13”(of to-be “Gaudium et spes:” The Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World) “The history of the text begins in late fall, 1962. In a way typical of classical Roman scholasticism, the preparatory commissions had suggested a kind of codification of all...

CDF INSTRUCTION DIGNITAS PERSONAE ON CERTAIN BIOETHICAL QUESTIONS, 20.6-2008

02/04/2013 01:49
  CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH INSTRUCTION DIGNITAS PERSONAE ON CERTAIN BIOETHICAL QUESTIONS   INTRODUCTION   1. The dignity of a person must be recognized in every human being from conception to natural death. This fundamental principle expresses a great...

ADDRESS TO MEMBERS OF THE PONTIFICAL JOHN PAUL II INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES ON MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, 11 May 2006

02/04/2013 01:39
  ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO MEMBERS OF THE PONTIFICAL JOHN PAUL II INSTITUTE  FOR STUDIES ON MARRIAGE AND FAMILY  ON THE XXVth ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FOUNDATION Hall of Blessings Thursday, 11 May 2006 Your Eminences,  Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate and in...

ANGELUS, FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY, Sunday, 27 December 2009

02/04/2013 01:30
  FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY BENEDICT XVI ANGELUS St Peter's Square Sunday, 27 December 2009 (Video)   Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today is Holy Family Sunday. We can still identify ourselves with the shepherds of Bethlehem who hastened to the grotto as soon as they had received the...

ANGELUS, Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday, 11 June 2006

02/04/2013 01:08
  BENEDICT  XVI ANGELUS Saint Peter's Square Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday, 11 June 2006 Dear Brothers and Sisters, On this Sunday that follows Pentecost, we are celebrating the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. Thanks to the Holy Spirit, who helps us understand Jesus'...

Welcome Ceremony at Manises Airport, Valencia, Spain (July, 8, 2006)

01/04/2013 14:50
  APOSTOLIC JOURNEY  OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO VALENCIA (SPAIN) ON OCCASION OF THE FIFTH WORLD MEETING OF FAMILIES WELCOME CEREMONY ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER Airport of Manises Saturday, 8 July 2006   Your Majesties, Mr President of the Government, Distinguished...

Familiaris Consortio

20/03/2013 09:55
  APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO OF POPE JOHN PAUL II TO THE EPISCOPATE TO THE CLERGY AND TO THE FAITHFUL OF THE WHOLE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE ROLE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY IN THE MODERN WORLD   INTRODUCTION The Church at the Service of the...

General audiences of Pope Benedict XVI. 2005

09/03/2013 08:52
  Wednesday, 27 April 2005 Reflection on the name chosen: Benedict XVI Dear Brothers and Sisters, I am pleased to welcome you and I address a cordial greeting to all of you present here, as well as to those who are following us via radio and television. As I already expressed in the Sistine...
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