A recent Vatican document offers the following definition of an indulgence: 1. This is how an indulgence is defined in the Code of Canon La...

Recently Mark Shea drew attention to an article entitled, " THE CHURCH FATHERS: A DOOR TO ROME" by self-proclaimed Fundamentalist...

Anyone who has stood by the sea as huge breakers crashed against the shore has felt the tremendous power of the ocean. It is hard not to fe...

The Feast of the Ascension commemorates the Ascension of Christ into heaven. There is documentary evidence that this feast has been celeb...

In the second reading this Sunday we are reminded by St. John that all Christians are called to a life of holiness by virtue of our Baptism ...

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As pointed out previously, during the discussions for the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church ( Lumen Gentium ), a distinction was borrowed...

Redemptoris Missio (1990) Two years after writing the Apostolic Exhortation, Christifideles laici, John Paul II wrote a major encyclical ent...

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All teachers in Catholic schools are catechists. The following post explains the role of the catechist in the Church and the proper attitud...

(part I) The term New Evangelization became a characteristic expression of Pope John Paul II during his pontificate. Pope Paul VI called ev...

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Cardinal Dulles points out, Vatican I spoke rarely of evangelization. They used terms such as "missionary activity, "the propa...

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