by Editor | May 26, 2025 | Papacy
The Papal Primacy has become a scandal to those who refuse to believe that Christ has chosen Peter and his successors to be the rock on which the Savior has built His Church. It is the rock of faith by which the mysteries we believe are the foundation of our unity as...
by Editor | Apr 24, 2025 | Papacy, Spirituality
Until recent years, we would hardly have written on a subject like “The Roman Primacy and the Spiritual Life.” But much has happened to call for some inquiry into the relationship between faith in the papal primacy and growth in the spiritual life. We now know, more...
by Editor | Jan 25, 2024 | Papacy, Spirituality
,by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Until recent years, we would hardly have written on a subject like “The Roman Primacy and the Spiritual Life.” But much has happened to call for some inquiry into the relationship between faith in the papal primacy and growth in the...
by Editor | Mar 27, 2023 | Papacy
How to Be a Loyal Catholic Today? By Being Loyal to the Bishop of Rome by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Not too many years ago this would have been a strange title for a lecture, “How to Be a Loyal Catholic Today.” The reason is obvious. Catholics were Catholics. They were...
by Editor | Nov 26, 2021 | Christ to Catholicism, Papacy
Christ to Catholicism PART TWO: DOGMATIC ECCLESIOLOGY IX. Papal Infallibility by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. When papal infallibility was defined by the Vatican Council in 1870, the non-Catholic world reacted with spontaneous hostility. With rare exception, the secular...
