Based on your response to PODCAzT 93, and my own desire to drill more deeply into the issue, we welcome back as our guest Pope Paul VI (+1978). In the last PODCAzT we explored Paul’s General Audience of 26 November 1969, a few days before the Novus Ordo Missae went into force. This time we turn [...] Post from: WDTPRS PODCAzT 94: PART II - 40 years ago… Paul VI on the eve of the Novus...
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...
The Catholic news service, Zenit, announced yesterday that it is beginning a "Spirit of the Liturgy" column "which will periodically present various themes of liturgical theology by expert theologians, liturgists and canonists." This year it proposes to explore themes related to the priesthood and the sacred liturgy, thereby tying into the Year for Priests. The first article in...
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...
This morning, the Pope received a global group of 250 artists in the Sistine Chapel, commemorating the tenth anniversary of his predecessor's Letter to Artists and the 45th anniversary of Paul VI's encounter with the world of art. Here below, B16's address to the gathered: Dear Cardinals, Brother Bishops and Priests, Distinguished Artists, Ladies and Gentlemen, With great joy I welcome you to this...
Lest the occasion go unremarked, today is the 62nd anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Pius XII's encyclical Mediator Dei (20 November 1947), widely regarded as the magna carta of the 20th-century Liturgical Movement. Probably most NLM readers are familiar with this encyclical principally for its admonition against romantic antiquarianism, which took for granted (among other things) the versum...
I am disappointed that Kieran Conry, Catholic bishop of Arundel and Brighton, has again questioned papal teaching on contraception, specifically as found in the encyclical Humanae Vitae of Pope Paul VI (pictured). In his latest pastoral letter, Bishop Conry writes: "[Some Catholics] campaign on the moral issues of the day – someone said recently that a person’s attitude to Humanae...
Jenny Mendieta daughter of Colombian police General Luis Mendieta, who was kidnapped and held by FARC guerrillas for more than a decade, looks on during Pope Benedict XVI 's Wednesday general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican November 18, 2009. (Photos- Daylife )
Kathryn Jean Lopez: Lopez discussed the cultural turmoil so prevalent today. “Pope Paul VI warned us 41 years ago in Humanae Vitae that men would lose respect for women, that men would view women as mere objects for selfish enjoyment,” she said. “Everything he predicted has now become reality. Culturally, it’s hard to walk in innocence.”
I would like to comment on this at some point in the near future, but I can't promise that time will allow. But following is the English translation of the Holy Father's most recent General Audience, a continuation of his catechesis on Medieval developments in Catholic culture and tradition. Among the greatest points that he stresses here is a theme throughout Benedict XVI's pontificate, a theme that...
In a General Audience address today that almost certainly will be the subject of my next Monday morning segment for the Son Rise Morning Show, Pope Benedict explains the significance of medieval cathedrals: VATICAN CITY, 18 NOV 2009 (VIS) - "The Christian faith, profoundly rooted in the men and women of the Middle Ages", said the Pope in his catechesis during this morning's general audience,...
27 November 2009 - 7.15pm (doors open 6.45pm) - Emmanuel Centre, Marsham Street, Westminster, SW1P 3DW Speaker: Baroness Williams of Crosby Chair: Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP In the midst of the global economic crisis Baroness Williams explores the relationship between capitalism, Catholicism and community. Financial markets have been seriously shaken and its effects are being felt around the globe. Baroness...
Fr Z has an excellent podcast analysing Pope Paul VI's General Audience address for 26 November 1969 in which he speaks about the "liturgical innovation of the new rite of the Mass" which was to be introduced on the first Sunday of Advent, four days later. I was struck by this passage in the address: So what is to be done on this special and historical occasion? First of all, we must prepare...
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About 26 years ago, Yves Congar (d. 1995), one of the most influential theologians of the last century and a luminary at Vatican II, expressed three wishes at the conclusion of a colloquium on Paul VI (Paul VI et la modernite dans l'Eglise, Rome, 1984). "Paul VI and John Paul II have pronounced words and made gestures of great significance, which call for some follow-up. When Paul VI puts his
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