(20 Nov 09 - RV) Pope Benedict XVI received the participants in a Vatican-sponsored conference on pastoral care for hearing and speech-impaired people. We have this report... ...»
(19 November 09-RV) Pope Benedict today emphasised the irreplaceable role that Catholic institutes of Higher learning have in the Church and in Society. He made the comments while addressing members of Rome’s Pontifical Universities and participants of the General Assembly of the International Federation of Catholic Universities. Lydia O’Kane reports ...»
(19 November 09-RV) There are more than 278 million hearing impaired people in the world, and at least 1.3 million of them are Catholic, but globally there are only 13 priests who were ordained deaf.
The shortfall in education and training in ministry to the hearing impaired is what this years’ conference of the Vatican Council for Pastoral Health Care is all about. Entitled ...»
(18 Nov 09 - RV) On Wednesday Pope Benedict XVI dedicated the catechesis of his general audience to the Art of the Middle Ages, a period, noted Pope Benedict, when art and architecture reached for the sublime, inspiring some of the greatest works of art of all time: the cathedrals of Europe.: ...»
(18 Nov 09 - RV)On Wednesday Pope Benedict XVI launched an appeal for the children of the world, that their right to a safe and carefree childhood be respected.
The Pope delivered the appeal in Italian at the end of his General Audience to a packed Paul VI audience hall.
(20 Nov 09 - RV) One of the central missions of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem is that of helping Christian communities to ...»
(20 Nov 09 - RV) A delegation of Catholic Bishops in India has called for high government officials to address the outstanding concerns of suffering ...»
My dear brothers and sisters, I have been speaking in recent weeks about medieval theology, and would now like to turn my attention to how the Christian faith of the Middle Ages inspired some of the greatest works of art of all time: the ...»
Dear Brothers and Sisters, In our catechesis on the Christian culture of the Middle Ages, we now turn to the monastic reform linked to the great monastery of Cluny. Founded eleven hundred years ago, Cluny restored the strict observance of the ...»
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today we continue our comparison of the monastic and scholastic approaches to theology which we began last week, by looking again at Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, this time in comparison with Abelard. Both of them ...»
Dear Brothers and Sisters, In our catechesis on the Christian thinkers of the Middle Ages, we now turn to the renewal of theology in the wake of the Gregorian Reform. The twelfth century was a time of a spiritual, cultural and political rebirth ...»
Dear Brothers and Sisters, In our continuing catechesis on the theologians of the Middle Ages, we now turn to one of the most outstanding, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Bernard combined the austerity of the Cistercian monastic renewal with intense ...»
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Our catechesis today considers an outstanding churchman of the early twelfth century, Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny. Despite his pressing responsibilities and frequent travels in the service of the Church, Peter ...»
“This week marks the four hundreth anniversary of the death of Saint John Leonardi, the founder of the Clerks Regular of the Mother of God and a priest whose missionary zeal found expression in the establishment of the congregation of ...»
Dear Brothers and Sisters, My Apostolic Journey to the Czech Republic last week-end was both a pilgrimage and a mission. It was a pilgrimage on account of the many saints who bore witness to Christ in the Czech lands through their holy lives, ...»
(23 Sept 09 - RV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, Our catechesis today turns to an outstanding churchman of the eleventh century, Saint Anselm of Canterbury. Anselm received a monastic education in his native town of Aosta, in the north of Italy, and ...»
Dear brothers and sisters, Today’s catechesis focuses on the life of Symeon, an Eastern monk known as the “New Theologian”. He was born in nine hundred and forty nine in Asia Minor. As a young man, he moved to Constantinople to ...»
