by Editor | Feb 10, 2015 | Religious, Year of Consecrated Life
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. What we’re doing, of course, is continuing our meditations on the Holy Father’s essential elements of religious life. Before we proceed further, it may be useful to note that the Pope combines two kinds of fidelity, both, he...
by Editor | Feb 6, 2015 | Apostolate, Laity, Vatican II
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. It may sound a bit odd to address oneself to the subject of the apostolate of the laity since the Second Vatican Council. The address is not in talking about the lay apostolate but in implying that this apostolate is somehow different since...
by Editor | Feb 4, 2015 | Marriage, Sacraments
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. We might begin by saying that this is the most fundamental truth of our faith in Christian marriage and the family. What is it? That, unlike all other marriages either before the coming of Christ or now in the world, two baptized people...
by Editor | Feb 2, 2015 | Articles, Catechesis, Pro-Life
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. The Twentieth century is the most homicidal in the history of the human race. Its principal claim to this tragic title is the widespread legislation of abortion on a scale and with a violence unknown in all the ages of mankind. Not...
by Editor | Jan 31, 2015 | Papacy
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. There are certain events in the Gospels that synthesize what a Catholic is supposed to be. These events are at once both mysteries and challenges. They are mysteries because, though revealed, we cannot fully understand them. That, by the...
