Benedict XVI's provocative theme

From CWNews.com Pope Benedict XVI chose a provocative theme for his first public audience of the autumn season in Rome: the solemn obligatio...

Plunging into the ocean of infinite love

What is eternal life? This is how Benedict XVI depicts it in his new encyclical on Hope: It would be like plunging into the ocean of infinit...

Faith and Myths

An op-ed I wrote for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, 26 May 2005 THE saint-maker himself will be made a saint. Benedict XVI has just announce...

In creation's beauty we touch God's beauty

By Benedict XVI Question posed by Sara Simonetta : "I believe in the God who has touched my heart, but I have many insecurities, questi...

Loving includes being loved

A typical mistake is to view love exclusively as doing something for the beloved, external deeds and self-giving. Yes, it is true that all t...

Devotion to the Holy Face

I found these sites today and have to read more on them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Face_of_Jesus http://www.catholictradition.org/Ch...

Divine filiation

Divine filiation is the condition of being a child of God, and thus a sharer in the life and role of Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God and...

What can we perceive in the face of Jesus?

If the face is the most expressive manifestation of the person, and Christians are supposed "to become one with Christ", alter Chr...

The face of God

Christians would want to become friends with Jesus, to be acquainted with him, to get to know him as a person. How do we best get to know a ...

Benedict XVI is a prophet for our times

In Jesus of Nazareth, Benedict XVI describes a prophet in this way: His task is not to report the events of tomorrow or the next day in orde...

Spirituality of sanctity vs other-centered spirituality?

There seems to be a current of thinking which considers the search for sanctity as something selfish, something centered on self rather than...

What is God about?

If God is what Jesus brought to this world, if God is the axis on which everything depends, then the common question of the common man livi...

Everything depends on this - Benedict XVI

"Everything depends on this". With these words Benedict XVI described the absolute importance of the central reason he wrote Jesus...

Message of Fatima: faith, hope and love

Remember what I posted earlier, Benedict's main point in his book, Jesus of Nazareth ? What did Jesus actually bring, if not world peace...

The Economist praised Benedict XVI

The Economist praised Benedict XVI in its review of the Pope's book: "the pope's elegantly, almost tenderly written essay on th...

St. Josemaria, the Tridentine Mass and the Mass of Paul VI

See my post at Wikipedia: Monsignor Escrivá saying Mass Escriva considered the Mass as the "center and root of the Christian...

Tridentine Rite as extraordinary form: was never juridically abrogated

I posted this at Wikipedia: Through his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of 7 July 2007, Benedict XVI has enabled the use of the Tridentin...

Relativism will end up collapsing like a house of cards

The letter of Fr. Javier Echevarria, the Prelate of Opus Dei is posted in the web. And he does a marvelous job of using texts taken from the...

Pope Benedict XVI, A Saint?

Someone at Catholic Answers asked this question: do you think there is a possibility of Benedict being canonized some day? Well, I'm sur...

Do you think Jesus really lived, died and came back to life? Why?

I was asked this question and I submitted this answer. The asker came back happy and thanked me for it. So am sharing my reply to more peopl...

Why doesn't God make himself visible?

Again and again, this question arises: Why can't God just show himself, directly manage our affairs, then we will believe him and follow...

How can I be holy if I am so weak and full of mistakes?

You and I, as everybody else, are called to holiness. This is an established fact in Catholic doctrine. Now the question is: How can I be a ...

Jesus of Nazareth: the key question

What is the key point in Benedict's new book, Jesus of Nazareth, 1.5 million copies of which have been sold after only a month? He answe...

Benedict XVI now the leading German thinker

Benedict XVI is now considered the leading German thinker, surpassing secularist thinkers such as Gunther Grass and Jurgen Habermas. That...

Sanctity through prayer (John Paul II) and Love through contemplation (Benededict XVI)

John Paul II: Sanctity through a training in prayer John Paul II : Sanctity through a training in prayer is the most important priority...

First Day of May, First Day of Mary´s Month

It´s May 1. I am now in Madrid and it´s great to be breathing the air of the birthplace of Opus Dei and of many great things Catholic. If Ma...

Alleluia: What does it mean?

"Beginning with the Easter Triduum as its source of light, the new age of the Resurrection fills the whole liturgical year with its bri...

God's eros is supreme agape!

In Benedict's Lenten message he says: Dear brothers and sisters, let us look at Christ pierced in the Cross! He is the unsurpassing reve...