by Editor | Feb 18, 2015 | Lent
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. It seems certain that a Lenten season preceding Easter goes back to the time of the Apostles. The length of time has varied. But by the Council of Nicaea (325 A.D.), which was the first general council of the Church, Lent was observed for...
by Editor | Feb 16, 2015 | Vocations, Year of Consecrated Life
by Fr. John A. Hardon Come & See Chapter 3: Vocations and the Commitment Crisis With the dwindling number of entrants into seminaries and novitiates, we naturally ask, “What happened?” And we are inclined to put the blame where it does not belong, on a...
by Editor | Feb 14, 2015 | Evangelization, Inter Mirifica, Vatican II
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J Our present conference is on how should Catholics be retrieved who have lost either their faith or they have at least lapsed from the practice of their Catholic religion. Our first conference, you remember, was on why there has been such...
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...
