Books

Books

On the Question of the Indissolubility of Marriage, 1972

19/09/2013 10:02
Joseph Ratzinger On the Question of the Indissolubility of Marriage Remarks on the dogmatic-historical state of affairs and its significance for the present Originally published in German: "Zur Frage nach der Unauflöslichkeit der Ehe: Bemerkungen zum dogmengeschichtlichen Befund und zu...

Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today, 1991

14/09/2013 20:01
"...the Church is the Body of Christ in the way in which the woman is one body, or rather one flesh, with the man.  Put in other terms, the Church is the Body, not by virtue of an identity without distinction, but rather by means of the pneumatic-real act of spousal love.  Expressed in...

Behold The Pierced One

14/09/2013 18:16
"Christ communicates himself to us in the Holy Spirit; and it is the Holy Spirit who makes the clay into a living Body, i.e., fuses isolated men into the one organism of the love of Jesus Christ. It is also the Holy Spirit who imparts new meaning to Adam’s becoming “one flesh” with Eve, applying it...

Dogma and Preaching: Applying Christian Doctrine to Daily Life, 1973

14/09/2013 10:50
Dogma and Preaching: Applying Christian Doctrine to Daily Life p. 326-327.  We must ask ourselves: What is the real reason why Christ decided to be born of a virgin? It would have been quite possible for him to be born of a normal marriage; that would not have detractred from his Divind...

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...

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...

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...