Catholic World News November 20, 2009 During a visit to Argentina, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the longtime personal secretary to Pope John Paul II, said that the next step toward beatification of the late Pontiff was up to Pope Benedict XVI. "We do not want the Pope to rush, he should analyze it properly," the Polish cardinal said. His words seemed to provide indirect confirmation of recent...
The Pope John Paul II Hall in Croatia, designed by Randić & Turato is quite amazing. The skin dematerializes to allow light in and out of the seemingly heavy, solid mass. From within, the sense of the space is very light and open. I also really like the siting and how the portico integrates into the plaza, and how the zone is re-used for confessions. The entire project is really well done....
Vatican City, Nov 21, 2009 / 02:59 pm ( CNA ).- Today Pope Benedict XVI extended a warm personal welcome to artists from all over the world who met with him in a private audience hosted at the Sistine Chapel. In a moving address he challenged the artists, as "custodians of beauty," to be "heralds and witnesses of hope for humanity." Artists from many countries, who represented the...
In 1998, Pope John Paul II formally apologized for the failure of Catholics to help Jews during the Holocaust, but considering that the Vatican continues to claim the moral highground, we should remember what exactly it did—or rather failed...
This excellent new CD called "Making life alive" looks fantastic. It is a tribute to the late Holy Father Pope John Paul II. You can listen to a sample here. You can sample some free tracks. This work is art and for the promotion of the Catholic faith. You can also get some sample free desktop backgrounds for your computer. A great initiative!
This morning in the Sistine Chapel, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, met with artists, in an event sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Culture in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of John Paul II's Letter to Artists of April 4, 1999, and also on the 45th anniversary of Paul VI's address to artists of May 7, 1964. The Holy Father delivered the following discourse. Dear Cardinals, Brother...
The Catholic Herald In his 2002 Message on Social Communication our late Holy Father John Paul II wrote about the internet: “For the Church the new world of cyberspace is a summons to the great adventure of using its potential to proclaim the Gospel message. This challenge is at the heart of what it means at [...]
P R E S S R E L E A S E Motion Picture About 'One Of Those Quiet Heroes' Navy Chaplain Father Ron Moses Camarda's book / diary TEAR IN THE DESERT, about his journey into the harsh reality of the Iraq War in 2004, soon to be a motion picture. November 2009, Grafton, WI / Atlantic Beach , FL Film & TV Producer Christian Peschken recently obtained the exclusive film rights of Fr. Ron Moses Camarda's...
Damian Thompson wonders what's so hard about understanding that the Catholic Church will never ever ever ordain women: Thanks to technical problems, I wasn’t able to comment on Rowan Williams (”Archbishop of Canterbury” in the Henrician usurpation tradition, as Gerald Warner calls him) lecturing the Vatican on the virtues of women priests. I’m glad he did, because it is high...
Vatican City, Nov 19, 2009 / 12:06 pm ( CNA ).- This afternoon Pope Benedict XVI met with professors and students of Roman Pontifical Universities and discussed the “urgent need, which still persists today, to overcome the separation between faith and culture.” Speaking as well to participants in the International Federation of Catholic Universities (FIUC), the Holy Father drew from John...
...Obama evidently expected that his election would change not only America's image in the world but the policies of nations both friendly and unfriendly. In saluting the fall of the Berlin Wall, on videotape, he made no mention of Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher, Lech Walesa or John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev or Vaclav Havel, but cited as a world-changing event his own election in the United States...
Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II by Jason Berry and Gerald Renner (1.03) Iceberg Reader Category: Books Price: $23.99 Cracker: WhiteAlbino Application Description: Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II Jason Berry, Gerald Renner Free Press March 4, 2004 Going deep behind the headlines about scandals in the Catholic Church, Jason Berry and...
The above performcae, though unrelated, seems doubly à propos with this story — Argentinians remember life of Pope John Paul II . Not mentioned in the article is the Papal mediation in the Beagle conflict , by which war with Chile was averted. Subscribe in a reader
Fr. Barron has a thoughtful piece on 2012 --although he completely disagrees with my absolution of the charge "anti-Catholic." He notes that anyone who prays gets wiped out; that certain instances of symbolism seem to suggest that prayer gets you nowhere (notably the dome of St. Peter's falling and crushing all the people praying there --a scene he says will go down in the annals as one of...
Of all the absurd things done by President Obama -- I confess to still chuckling every time those two words are strung together -- the most emblematic must be his remarks (delivered remotely) to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall. From Michael Barone's latest column for the Washington Examiner : As for the planet beginning to heal, well, that's not clear. Obama evidently expected that his election...
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