One Happy Old Priest

"This is a decent account of Tom Sullivan’s eighty-plus years as a Catholic. Many males keep in mind their triumphs, others their disappointments, yet what remains with this satisfied priest are the unforeseen twists and turns occasions have taken alongside the best way. "

Finding Your Hidden Treasure

An important trip in existence is the adventure inward--to the depths of our personal being. it's a trip we're all invited to make. It takes us past phrases and pictures into silence. The silence permits the stressed brain to turn into nonetheless and within the stillness we input a brand new global. We go back to our hearts.

The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

At the first anniversary of his election to the papacy, Leo the nice stood ahead of the meeting of bishops convening in Rome and forcefully asserted his privileged place because the inheritor of Peter the Apostle. This statement marked the start of a robust culture: the Bishop of Rome may henceforth leverage the cult of St.

What Pope Francis Really Said: Words of Comfort and Challenge

His likeable, spontaneous, unguarded demeanour has drawn either estranged Catholics or even non-Catholics to take a better examine the Catholic Church. He has additionally questioned or even outraged the trustworthy who listened uncritically to the media’s interpretation of Pope Francis’s off-the-cuff observation on hot-button concerns corresponding to abortion, marriage, divorce, the surroundings, immigration, and a bunch of alternative concerns.