by Editor | Jan 27, 2023 | Scripture, Spirituality
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. For the opening conference of our retreat, I thought I should explain what our retreat will be all about. I am calling it a Scriptural Retreat or the Spiritual Life in the Bible. In our opening conference I would like to briefly explain...
by Editor | Dec 24, 2022 | Christmas
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. In the three hundred and fifty years since Peter Canisius died at Fribourg in Switzerland on December 21, 1597, his name has become synonymous with the Counter-Reformation of the Church in German-speaking Europe. He has been variously...
by Editor | Nov 28, 2022 | Civil Law
Co-operation of Church and State – Part I In American Legislation by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Secularist leaders in growing numbers are telling the people that America needs an “entire separation of Church and State.” [1] Organizations like the American Humanist...
by Editor | Oct 24, 2022 | Ecumenism
by John A. Hardon, S.J. The need for ecumenism goes back to the first century of Christianity. Within a generation of Christ’s establishment of the Church by His death on the cross, there were divisions among His followers. One letter of St. Paul after another...
by Editor | Sep 19, 2022 | Ecumenism
Plan For Christian Community by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Is it realistic to talk about Christian unity except in the broad, far-off sense of praying that someday the divided Christian world might come together again? After all, there have been divisions among...
