Many of the Church's teachings don't require faith, only reason and honesty

A Conversation with Peter Kreeft Many students consider themselves to be Catholics, but state that they have trouble reconciling the Church...

The Coming Secularist Storm

BY Father Alfonso Aguilar, LC National Catholic Register. November 30-December 6, 2008 Issue | Posted 11/24/08 at 11:41 AM. Fr. Alfonso A...

Benedict XVI: Escriva knew that we cannot make ourselves holy

Homily of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, at the thanksgiving Mass for the beatification of Josemaría Escrivá, In the Church of the Twelve Apostl...

Benedict XVI and contraceptive issue

Your Eminence, many Christians do not understand the Church's position on contraception. Do you understand that they don't understan...

Benedict XVI and contraception

by Nick Bagileo in Lifeissues.net Human Life International e-Newsletter . The overwhelming affection for Pope Benedict XVI during his rec...

Benedict XVI on Opus Dei

By Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, October 6, 2002 . An article by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, published on the occasion of the canonization ...

Agnosticism

I posted this in Wikipedia: Religious scholars, whether Jewish, Muslim or Christian, affirm the possibility of knowledge, even of metaphysic...

Sleeping in God

On the Feast of the Assumption , Pope Benedict XVI once again spoke about a favorite theme in his preachings, and which is the center of his...

Pope Benedict XVI warms the hearts of 200,000 pilgrims

POPE Benedict XVI warmed the hearts of over 200,000 pilgrims camping under the stars at a chilly Randwick racecourse tonight. Bendict XVI th...

Pope Benedict XVI knows best

Beautiful article from the Herald Sun , the highest daily circulating newspaper in Australia. How the Pope is transforming Sydney. By Roger ...

More than a crisis of faith, a crisis of reason

More than a crisis of faith, what we have is a crisis of reason , an Italian intellectual, Vittorio Messori, once said. That is the same poi...

Unlikely centre of attraction

Pope Benedict XVI has a mysterious but very genuine appeal for Gen Y. A woman who is one of Australia's leading theologians explains why...

Pope Benedict XVI, Theologian of Joy

An Interview with Monsignor Joseph Murphy, author of Christ Our Joy: The Theological Vision of Pope Benedict XVI by Carl E. Olson Ignatius ...

What are we in the Catholic Church for?

Or what does being in the Church mean? Ratzinger: We are not in the Church in order to exercise power as if we were in some kind of associat...

Why the face of the Shroud of Turin?

When we "seek the face of Christ," why should we emphasize the particular face of Christ in the Shroud of Turin, and not just an a...

Benedict XVI - Renewal of the world depends to a great extent on rediscovering confession!

Benedict XVI said in Washington D.C. last May: To a great extent, the renewal of the Church in America and throughout the world depends on t...

What have we done with this gift?

Benedict XVI on Good Friday, 2008 Through the sorrowful way of the cross, the men of all ages, reconciled and redeemed by the blood of Chris...

Agnosticism: Question of God is a question of that which is above us

I posted this at Wikipedia: According to Ratzinger, if the question of the knowability of God is not addressed, then “agnosticisim would in ...

Ratzinger on Truth

I have just posted this in Wikipedia: Philosopher and theologian Joseph Ratzinger, before his election as Benedict XVI, explored the relatio...

Evangelical Leader Returns To Catholicism

Move Reflects Narrowing Gap Between Denominations By Alan Cooperman, Washington Post Staff Writer, Saturday, May 12, 2007 The president of t...

The Enlightenment Pope

By GIULIO MEOTTI in the Wall Street Journal VATICAN CITY -- There's a popular joke here at the Holy See: The Swiss progressive theologia...

Why Benedict's first two encyclicals are on love and hope

The answer to this question is found in an earlier post: Benedict's main point in his book, Jesus of Nazareth. "What did Jesus ...