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1 - Feb 2016 - Nostra Aetate: Jewish rabbis’ historic reappraisal of Christianity, AD2000 Report
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Nostra Aetate and the later official Church documents it inspired unequivocally reject any form of anti-Semitism affirm the eternal Covenant between G-d and the Jewish people reject deicide and stress the unique relationship between Christians and Jews who were called our elder brothers by Pope John Paul II and our fathers in faith by Pope Benedict XVI.
2 - Feb 2016 - Saints: Mother Teresa of Kolkata to be canonised in September, AD2000 Report
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Mother Teresa was beatified by St John Paul II in 2003 in a ceremony attended by some 300000 pilgrims.
3 - Dec 2015 - China: New clampdown on believers in China, Bernardo Cervellera
In 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell the CPC blamed the collapse on Solidarnosc the independent Polish trade union and Pope John Paul II.
4 - Nov 2015 - Reflection: We are all called to be saints, Archbishop Julian Porteous
This was the magnificent cry of St John Paul II to the youth of the world Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new millennium.
5 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Pope Francis confirms Synod guided by the Holy Spirit
Saint John Paul II also stated that: the Church lives an authentic life when she professes and proclaims mercy and when she brings people close to the sources of the Saviours mercy of which she is the trustee and dispenser.
6 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on sexuality, marriage and the family, AD2000 Report
It added Saint John Paul II offered a comprehensive policy which remains the basis for the evaluation of these situations: Pastors must know that for the sake of truth they are obliged to discern situations.
7 - Oct 2015 - Books: ABORTION AND MARTYRDOM, edited by Aidan Nichols OP, Paul Simmons
This is a question to which St John Paul II gave his attention in addressing women who have had an abortion.
8 - Oct 2015 - The Rosary: The Luminous Mysteries explained, Audrey English
Among the many gifts which St John Paul II left to the Church is the wonderful teaching he gave through his Encyclicals and Apostolic Letters.
9 - Oct 2015 - Russia: Church and State in contemporary Russia, Fr Lawrence Cross
Under Pope John Paul II there was a stated desire to improve relations between West and East but the reality has been very different.
10 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral visit: Positive outcome of Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba, AD2000 Report
The visit by Pope Francis to Cuba last month following in the footsteps of his predecessors St John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI is already leading to a rebirth of Catholicism in a country where Catholicism has been persecuted since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959.
11 - Sep 2015 - Reflection: The proper celebration of the Mass, Cardinal Robert Sarah
True participation means renewing in ourselves that amazement that Saint John Paul II held in high regard (cf.
12 - Sep 2015 - Concordat: Catholic Church signs concordat with East Timor, Peter Westmore
The central event of the visit was the signing of a Concordat between Timor Leste and the Vatican followed by a Mass celebrated at Taci Tolo the same place visited by Saint Pope John Paul II 25 years ago in 1989 Coinciding with the much loved feast of the Assumption into heaven of the Blessed Virgin Mary the visit marked the first time that the Catholic Church signs a Concordat outside the Vatican and also because the visitor Cardinal Parolin is the highest Catholic Church authority to visit Timor-Leste since the visit by Pope John Paul II on 12 October 1989.
13 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Cuba: new centre for evangelisation, AD2000 Report
But the clear turning point for the Roman Catholic Churchs engagement with Cuba was John Paul IIs 1998 visit.
14 - Jul 2015 - Reflection: Benedict XVI acknowledges debt to St John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI
After receiving an honorary doctorate from both the Pontifical John Paul II University of Krakow and the Krakow Academy of Music retired Pope Benedict XVI credited the saintly example of his predecessor for his spiritual and theological achievements.
15 - Jun 2015 - Life issues: Reflections on the death penalty, Anne Lastman
Let us remember the words of the late Pope St John Paul II: Not even a murderer loses his personal dignity and God makes Himself its guarantor.
16 - Jun 2015 - Canonisation: Pope Francis canonises four heroic nuns, AD2000 Report
Saint John Paul II beatified her on 13 November 1983.
17 - May 2015 - Centenary: Armenian genocide must not be forgotten, Pope Francis
A century has passed since that horrific massacre which was a true martyrdom of your people in which many innocent people died as confessors and martyrs for the name of Christ (cf John Paul II and Karekin II Common Declaration Etchmiadzin 27 September 2001).
18 - May 2015 - Vocations: The Call of Young Men to the Priesthood, Bishop Robert McGuckin
For the definitive teaching on this I would refer you to Pope Saint John Paul II Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (22 May 1994) addressed to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on reserving priestly ordination to men alone.
19 - Apr 2015 - Reflection: Good Friday Reflection, Fr Raniero Cantalamessa
Fr Cantalamessa a Capuchin friar was appointed the Preacher to the Papal Household by Pope St John Paul II.
20 - Apr 2015 - Palliative care protects human dignity, Pope Francis
I repeat the call of St John Paul II : Respect protect love and serve life every human life!
21 - Apr 2015 - Today's prophets: where are they?, Anne Lastman
St John Paul II St John Paul II was another great prophet of our own time.
22 - Apr 2015 - Contemporary challenges facing Catholicism: Interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah, Élisabeth de Baudoüin
The Africans suffering prompted John Paul II who also announced that it would surprise the world ed.
23 - Apr 2015 - Tu es Petrus: From John XXIII to Pope Francis: Four recent stages of Catholicism, Patrick Morgan
Since then significant developments in Catholicism have been identified with the three reigns of Popes John XXIII John Paul II and Francis.
24 - Apr 2015 - Vocations: Australia's seminaries flourishing in 2015, Br Barry Coldrey
Both were fully in harmony with Pope John Paul IIs Encyclical Pastores Dabo Vobis (I will Give You Pastors) concerning priestly formation.
25 - Mar 2015 - Letters: Synod of Bishops, John R. Barich
The Synod also almost totally ignored St John Paul IIs teaching on The Theology of the Body which the sex-besotted world so desperately needs to enable mankind to escape the scourge of divorce promiscuity and restore chastity.
26 - Mar 2015 - NACF: National Catholic Families Conference attracts 400 to Albury, Kathleen Horsfall and Marie-Louise Fowler
The National Association of Catholic Families (NACF) founded in the UK was inspired by the writings of John Paul II and based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church the Holy Sees Charter for the Rights of the Family as well as Familiaris Consortio and Humanae Vitae.
27 - Mar 2015 - Apps: Smartphone apps to bring you closer to God, Peter Westmore
The Catholic Churchs position set out in Liturgiam Authenticam a 2001 instruction issued by the Holy See with the approval of St John Paul II said that the original text insofar as possible must be translated integrally and in the most exact manner without omissions or additions in terms of their content and without paraphrases or glosses.
28 - Mar 2015 - The person and mission of St Joseph, Pope St John Paul
On the feast of the Assumption 1989 Pope John Paul II issued the Apostolic Letter Redemptoris Custos (Protector of the Redeemer) a reflection on St Joseph in the life of Christ and the Church.
29 - Mar 2015 - The parish priest and parish school, Fr John O'Neill
The sainted Pontiff John Paul II so insisted in his Apostolic Exhortation of 1979 C atechesi Tradendae: The flowers of piety cannot grow in the desert places of a memoryless catechesis which admonition exposes the years of faulty teaching in religion.
30 - Feb 2015 - Reflection: Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, Anne Lastman
Later suggestions that the Council diminished the role of Mary in the mystery of salvation are quite wrong as subsequent popes including St John Paul II and Pope Francis have repeatedly confirmed.
31 - Feb 2015 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 John Paul II Man of Prayer Claire Anderson and Joanna Bogle A study of the spiritual message of the life of St John Paul II at the heart of which were simplicity and joy.
32 - Feb 2015 - Letters: Homosexuality, Anne Lastman
I am always reminded of the late Pope St John Paul II and his comment that a human remains a human being even in their darkest moments and this being so we remember the divine image which is embedded even in the homosexual person.
33 - Dec 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 John Paul II Man of Prayer Claire Anderson and Joanna Bogle A study of the spiritual message of the life of St John Paul II at the heart of which were simplicity and joy.
34 - Dec 2014 - Cardinal Pell: Synod rebuts 'secular agenda', Catholic News Service
A major absence was a treatment of the Church tradition including teaching on the family by Pope Paul VI St John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.
35 - Dec 2014 - The Long View: Catholicism today and the lessons of history, John Young
Pope Saint John Paul II anticipated a new flowering of Christianity and I think he was right.
36 - Nov 2014 - Family: The global attack on religious belief and moral values, Alejandra Fabris
We who are proponents of the Culture of Life - to use a term coined by Pope Saint John Paul II - regard nature as something intrinsically good whether or not we are aware.
37 - Nov 2014 - Episcopacy: Bishop Anthony Fisher OP appointed Archbishop of Sydney, AD2000 Report
He later founded the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
38 - Nov 2014 - Editorial: The Extraordinary Synod on the Family, Peter Westmore
Under St John Paul II a Synod discussed the Christian Family 34 years ago.
39 - Oct 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-1-78182-990-5 John Paul II: Man of Prayer Clare Anderson and Joanna Bogle This book uncovers the spiritual message of the life of John Paul II.
40 - Oct 2014 - Dissent: Bishop Bill Morris: gone but not forgotten, Peter Westmore
It also shows that St John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI made numerous attempts to engage Bishop Morris and authorised the heads of several Vatican dicasteries (departments) to discuss issues with him over a period of years.
41 - Oct 2014 - The implications of Anglican women bishops, Fr Dwight Longenecker
While admitting the arguments in favour of womens ordination I pointed out that a major argument against the innovation was that Pope John Paul II and the Eastern Orthodox bishops had said repeatedly that womens ordination would be a grave obstacle to unity.
42 - Oct 2014 - Do we construct the Church in our own image?, Fr Ken Clark
St John Paul II addressed this problem in his talk to the American Bishops in Los Angeles in 1987: It is sometimes reported that a large number of Catholics today do not adhere to the teaching of the Catholic Church on a number of questions notably sexual and conjugal morality divorce and remarriage.
43 - Sep 2014 - Reflection: The Christian life: more than Trivial Pursuit or Monopoly, Audrey English
St John Paul II said that the world had forgotten the concept of sin.
44 - Sep 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-1-78182-990-5 John Paul II: Man of Prayer Clare Anderson and Joanna Bogle This book uncovers the spiritual message of the life of John Paul II.
45 - Sep 2014 - Books: JOURNAL OF A SOUL (John XXIII) and POPE JOHN, BLESSED JOHN XXIII, Br Barry Coldrey
Books available from Freedom Publishing) During the 20th century and into the third millennium the Church has been blessed with a series of exceptional popes two of whom (John Paul II and John XXIII) have recently been canonised.
46 - Sep 2014 - Christian witness in a secular world, Fr Paul Rowse OP
As Pope St John Paul II was wont to say the Lord is the sole master of the future.
47 - Sep 2014 - Editorial: Don't pigeon-hole Pope Francis, Peter Westmore
The clearest sign that this is not happening is that Cardinal Quinn traces this back to the Encyclical of Saint John Paul II Ut Unum Sint which the retired Cardinal described as clearly in rupture with the past and in many aspects revolutionary when it was no such thing.
48 - Aug 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-1-78182-990-5 John Paul II: Man of Prayer Clare Anderson and Joanna Bogle This book uncovers the spiritual message of the life of John Paul II.
49 - Aug 2014 - Books: IN SEARCH OF CARDINAL STEPINAC: A Complete Biography, by Fr Zvonimir Gavranovic, Fr Steven Ledinich
In 1998 Blessed Pope John Paul II beatified Cardinal Stepinac in Croatia and declared him a martyr.
50 - Aug 2014 - Eyewitness to history: the canonisation of St John Paul II, Wanda Skowronska
The Poles over a million of them had come en masse to be there when one of their own former Pope John Paul II was to be canonised on 27 April.
51 - Aug 2014 - Uncovering the ideas behind the 'culture of death', Donald DeMarco
In Chapter 11 of Evangelium Vitae Saint John Paul II refers to abortion and euthanasia as attacks made against human life at the time of its greatest frailty.
52 - Aug 2014 - Wilcannia-Forbes: An unusual but welcome ordination, Peter Westmore
He is one of the first priests from the Vianney Seminary in the Wagga Wagga Diocese founded in 1992 by the late Bishop Brennan and the first in Australia to be established in conformity with St John Paul IIs apostolic exhortation Dabo Vobis Patres (I Will Give You Priests).
53 - Jul 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-1-78182-990-5 John Paul II: Man of Prayer Clare Anderson and Joanna Bogle This book uncovers the spiritual message of the life of John Paul II.
54 - Jul 2014 - Life: a gift of inestimable value, Anne Lastman
St John Paul II In his Encyclical Evangelium Vitae St John Paul II has written clearly about the Churchs teachings on the value of every human life.
55 - Jul 2014 - Middle East: Pope Francis cuts through divisions in the Holy Land, AD2000 Report
This was followed by an exchange of visits between the respective Sees of Rome and Constantinople by regular correspondence and later by the decision announced by Pope John Paul II and Patriarch Dimitrios of blessed memory both to initiate a theological dialogue of truth between Catholics and Orthodox .
56 - Jun 2014 - Reflection: Eucharistic adoration: path to union with the Holy Trinity, Bishop James Conley
In 1996 Saint Pope John Paul II wrote that when we contemplate him present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar Christ draws near to us and becomes more intimate to us than we are to ourselves.
57 - Jun 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-1-78182-990-5 John Paul II: Man of Prayer Clare Anderson and Joanna Bogle This book uncovers the spiritual message of the life of John Paul II.
58 - Jun 2014 - Books: HANDING ON THE FAITH IN AN AGE OF DISBELIEF, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
In a way these lectures anticipate the new evangelisation proclaimed by Pope John Paul II some years later.
59 - Jun 2014 - Sisters of St Paul of Chartres and their global impact, CNA REPORT
In the last 30 years especially after the visit of John Paul II to Korea the number expanded by a lot.
60 - Jun 2014 - Fr Des Byrne: priest and catechist extraordinary, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
Father Des was deeply devoted to Saint John Paul II and he understood and promoted the key themes of the papal reform program.
61 - Jun 2014 - Frassati Australia: dedicated young adult ministry, Br Barry Coldrey
By 2011 Nathan was back in Brisbane as Campus Minister at St Columbans College Caboolture and helped to pioneer Frassati Australia as an engaging ministry for young men focusing primarily on their masculine identity and sexuality in the light of Pope John Paul IIs Theology of the Body.
62 - Jun 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Following John Paul IIs visit to Cuba in 1998 religious processions and Christmas were reinstated .
63 - Jun 2014 - Saints John XXIII and John Paul II canonised, AD2000 Report
Before an audience of hundreds of thousands in St Peters Square and an even greater crowd spilling over into the Via della Conciliazione in Rome Pope Francis canonised two of his predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II who exercised a great personal influence on him as well as on the Catholic Church and the world.
64 - May 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-1-78182-990-5 John Paul II: Man of Prayer Clare Anderson and Joanna Bogle This book uncovers the spiritual message of the life of John Paul II.
65 - May 2014 - Books: SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION IN THE CHURCH, by Patrick Madrid, Carmel Westmore
To answer these critics Blessed John Paul II appointed him a Cardinal in the year before his death in 1995).
66 - May 2014 - Priestly Fraternity of St Peter: progress report, Fr Damonn Sypher, FSSP
Founded in 1988 by 12 priests and a small group of seminarians with the approval of Blessed John Paul II its numbers have now grown to 250 priests and 150 seminarians worldwide.
67 - May 2014 - Cardinal Burke: The Gospel of Life in the defence of freedom, Cardinal Raymond Burke
The following remarks take their inspiration from the Encyclical Letter Evangelium Vitae (On the Inviolable Good of Human Life) published by Blessed Pope John Paul II on the Feast of the Annunciation in 1995.
68 - May 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
The Argentinian rabbi who last met with Francis on 17 January said the Popes relationship with the Jewish people would continue along the line of his predecessors Paul VI John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
69 - May 2014 - Editorial: April 27: Canonisation of two great popes, Peter Westmore
On April 27 Pope Francis will canonise two of his recent predecessors Blessed Popes John XXIII and John Paul II in an event which reflects both the personal holiness of his predecessors their inspirational character as leaders and confirmation of the agendas which they set for the Church.
70 - Apr 2014 - Vocations: Australia's flourishing seminaries 2014, Br Barry Coldrey
One of the first was Vianney College Wagga Wagga founded by Bishop Bill Brennan in 1992 and inspired by Pope John Paul IIs Encyclical Pastores dabo vobis concerning priestly formation.
71 - Mar 2014 - Whither religious education in Australian Catholic schools?, Peter Finlayson
Notwithstanding that ideal surely the main purpose of Catholic education must accord with John Paul IIs exhortation Christifidelis Laici and the current Popes Evangelii Gaudium with their calls for a renewed focus on evangelisation including of society.
72 - Mar 2014 - Pope Francis puts indelible mark on College of Cardinals, Peter Westmore
Cardinal Mllers views have annoyed both progressives who reject the teachings of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI and by those traditionalists who deny the validity of Vatican II and the Novus Ordo Mass.
73 - Mar 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Blessed John Paul II visited the country in 1998 and Benedict XVI did so in 2012.
74 - Feb 2014 - The Holy Spirit: "Lord and Giver of Life", Anne Lastman
The language that their body speaks is one of love and the word spoken by the body is enfleshing (Theology of the Body John Paul II).
75 - Feb 2014 - Art: Interview with Tommy Canning: art in the service of truth
Recent popes including Paul VI and Blessed John Paul II specifically called for the development of new religious art and the Second Vatican Councils Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium called for bishops to establish academies of sacred art.
76 - Feb 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
In 1998 Pope John Paul II canonised 117 Vietnamese martyrs who had been caught up in the many waves of persecution from 1600 to 1900 when both clergy and lay people were killed for their faith.
77 - Feb 2014 - Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel: Pope Francis' challenge, Peter Westmore
He recalls that Pope John Paul II asked for help in finding a way of exercising the primacy which while in no way renouncing what is essential to its mission is nonetheless open to a new situation but adds We have made little progress in this regard.
78 - Dec 2013 - Letters: Right of conscience, Marian Grima
If one does not understand a teaching of the Church the wise approach say in regard to contraception would be to consult the authoritative writings of Pope John Paul II (e.
79 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (1), Anne Lastman
December 30 2013 is the 25th Anniversary of Christifidelis Laici the late Blessed John Paul IIs Post Synodal Exhortation on the vocation and mission of the lay faithful in the Church and the world.
80 - Dec 2013 - Catechesis and liturgy: an unbreakable bond, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Within this new cultural context catechesis is of vital importance to evangelisation (Pope John Paul II Catechesi Tradendae 18).
81 - Dec 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Francis mentioned John Paul IIs invitation in Assisi to religious leaders to pray for peace not one against the other but rather alongside each other and praised the St Egidio Community for continuing along this path and ensuring that this did not remain an isolated event.
82 - Dec 2013 - Pope Francis to canonise John Paul II and John XXIII next April, Michael Gilchrist
According to a recent Vatican statement Pope Francis has decreed that Blesseds John XXIII and John Paul II will be canonised on 27 April 2014 the Second Sunday of Easter of the Divine Mercy.
83 - Nov 2013 - Books: WHO NEEDS GOD?, by Barbara Stockl with Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, Br Barry Coldrey
In fact the crux of the new evangelisation launched by Pope John Paul II is not focused essentially on reaching pagans who have never heard of Christianity but on re-evangelising the Christian and Catholic masses in the Western world who have seen their faith eroded by the dominant secular culture.
84 - Nov 2013 - Editorial: Pope Francis' call to holiness, Peter Westmore
He has touched hearts in a similar way to Pope John Paul II whom he will canonise next April.
85 - Oct 2013 - Books: COURAGE AND CONVICTION, by Joanna Bogle, Peter Westmore
The Bridgetine sisters now have houses in several countries including Sweden England and Wales and Mother Elizabeth was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1990.
86 - Oct 2013 - Books: A Book of Saints and Heroes, Heroines, by Joanna Bogle, Val Prendergast
And there are many others: St Thomas More saint of the English Reformation the other St Augustine missionary to Kent in England along with a large concentration of holy men and women from the 20th and the 21st centuries such as Blessed John Paul II Blessed Father Pino who was martyred by the Mafia and the Blessed Martyrs of Drina nuns who were martyred because of their refusal to abandon their vows of chastity.
87 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Exaggeration?, Noel Keith Roberts
John Paul IIs monumental work The Theology of the Body highlights the prophetic nature of Paul VIs encyclical letter and encourages married couples to live up to its teaching.
88 - Oct 2013 - Blessed Jacinta Marto: heroine of Fatima, Cedric Wright
On 13 May 2000 Pope John Paul II made a special pilgrimage to Fatima.
89 - Oct 2013 - Pope Francis to consecrate world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Peter Westmore
In her messages the Virgin Mary specifically asked for the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart and based on these messages Popes Pius XII and John Paul II consecrated Russia and the world to the Virgin Mary.
90 - Sep 2013 - Letters: Anti-life values, Andrew Foong
But as Bl John Paul II observed in Evangelium Vitae: It is frequently asserted that contraception .
91 - Sep 2013 - Frassati: The Holy Terror: a model for young Catholic men, Br Barry Coldrey
Pier Giorgio was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1990 and his story has inspired many young adult Catholics on their own faith journeys as with the young men of Frassati Ministries in Brisbane.
92 - Sep 2013 - A covenant: essence of true marriage, Anne Lastman
The late Blessed John Paul II saw marriage as the restoration of the primordial sacrament the perfect harmony of the covenant of creation in Eden a covenant with God and between man and woman.
93 - Sep 2013 - Oasis: Finding rapprochement and peace among the Abrahamic religions, Patrick Byrne
Pope John Paul II made determined efforts to improve relations with Judaism and Islam.
94 - Sep 2013 - Cardinal Burke: What is good liturgy?
What I also found were some of the shadows as Pope John Paul II called them a loss of Eucharistic faith a loss of Eucharistic devotion and certain liturgical abuses.
95 - Sep 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
He said that it is not a coincidence that the release of the encyclical in and of itself already quite out of the ordinary was preceded a few hours earlier by the presentation of the document and later the historic announcement of the canonisation of John XXIII and John Paul II.
96 - Aug 2013 - Holy See announces canonisation of Blessed John Paul II, Peter Westmore
Just eight years after the death of Blessed John Paul II in 2005 the Holy See has announced that he will be canonised late this year becoming Saint John Paul II.
97 - Aug 2013 - Editorial: Church's clear opposition to all same-sex unions
This document authored by Cardinal Ratzinger and approved by John Paul II is very explicit in stating the Churchs opposition to legal recognition of same-sex unions.
98 - Jul 2013 - Books: ST JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA AND THE ORIGINS OF OPUS DEI, Br Barry Coldrey
ISBN: 0-85244-581-4/5) These are two separate volumes of a planned trilogy the biography of St Josemara Escriv founder of Opus Dei who was canonised by John Paul II in 2002.
99 - Jul 2013 - Obituary: Vale Fr Paul Duffy SJ (1931-2013), Anna Krohn
Fr Duffy concluded his book with words that pre-figured the later pro-life/pro-woman message of Pope John Paul II and his successors.
100 - Jul 2013 - Cardinal Ouellet's Australian lecture: rediscover human nature, Owen Vyner
Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops visited Australia recently and delivered the Harman Lecture for the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family.
101 - Jul 2013 - Paul VI: Humanae Vitae: still prophetic after 45 years, Anne Lastman
Rudderless As examples of intrinsically evil acts John Paul II cites (in Veritatis Splendor) abortion contraception homosexuality direct sterilisation IVF euthanasia and mental and physical torture.
102 - Jun 2013 - Reflection: Marriage: a reflection of Christ's love for us, Fr Paul Chandler
In his huge and momentous catechesis Theology of the Body Bl John Paul II taught that marriage is the foundation of the whole sacramental order.
103 - Jun 2013 - The Boston bombings: facing the reality of evil in the world, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
When freedom does not have a purpose of love when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of love engraved in the hearts of men and women when it does not listen to the voice of conscience it turns against humanity and society (Blessed John Paul II).
104 - Jun 2013 - Why we need the Rosary, Cedric Wright
In 1883 Pope Leo XIII ordered that October should be the Month of the Holy Rosary and in 2002 Blessed Pope John Paul II added the Mysteries of Light (featuring significant events in Christs public life) to the original three Mysteries (Joyful Sorrowful and Glorious).
105 - Jun 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope Benedict reportedly crafted his first encyclical Deus caritas est using some of John Paul IIs notes.
106 - May 2013 - Reflection: Pentecost: opening our minds to truth and our hearts to love, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Just as a baby already alive comes forth from his mothers womb on the day of his birth so the Church already formed is born on Pentecost (Pope John Paul II General Audience 30 August 1989).
107 - May 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Weigel is the author of the official biography of Pope John Paul II and numerous other books on contemporary Catholicism.
108 - Apr 2013 - Returning beauty and sacredness to churches, Art Lohsen
Blessed John Paul II in his Letter to Artists states In a certain sense beauty is the visible form of the good just as the good is the metaphysical condition of beauty.
109 - Mar 2013 - Books: CONTEMPLATING CHRIST WITH LUKE by Cardinal George Pell, Brother Barry Coldrey
Moreover he is close to the mind of the modern Church a regular visitor to Rome and a personal friend of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
110 - Mar 2013 - True reform in the Church: Yves Congar's golden mean, Andrew Kania
How could Congar have ever envisaged that shortly before his death he would have received the cardinals red hat from John Paul II in honour of the instrumental role he played in the Second Vatican Council?
111 - Mar 2013 - Religious persecution occurs in democracies, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
While Dawson made his observations in the 1950s we need to recall that Blessed John Paul II recognised the durability of the problems noticed by Dawson.
112 - Mar 2013 - STOP PRESS: Vale, Pope Benedict!, Peter Westmore
Benedicts eight years as leader of the Catholic Church were characterised by courageous leadership in the style of his predecessor and friend Blessed John Paul II the first non-Italian pope since the 16th century.
113 - Feb 2013 - Adoration: Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration embraced by Brisbane parish, Kate Hobbs
He had been PP for just over two years and like many who lived through the times of the Eucharistic adoration drought he rediscovered the joys and graces of being present to the Lord when through Blessed John Paul II and WYD the tide of adoration turned.
114 - Feb 2013 - Editorial: AD2000 25 years on: the challenges remain, Michael Gilchrist
Responding to what Blessed John Paul II described as a genuine crisis of belief within the Catholic community the magazine aimed to uphold and defend orthodox Catholicism in faith and morals as taught by the popes and bishops and set out in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
115 - Dec 2012 - A different fire: Vatican II and the new evangelisation, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
The call to a new evangelisation born of the Second Vatican Council and given momentum by John Paul II and Benedict XVI implies a particular view of the history of the Church.
116 - Dec 2012 - Catholicism: The Year of Faith: time to revisit the Catechism of the Catholic Church Church, Audrey English
Thus Pope Paul VI wrote Humanae Vitae reaffirming the perennial teaching on life issues; Blessed John Paul II wrote many encyclicals ( Evangelium Vitae Veritatis Splendor Fides et Ratio etc) in answer to contemporary philosophical and moral problems.
117 - Dec 2012 - Pilgrimage: Crossroads: young people spread the message of life and love, Angela Schumann
At World Youth Day in 1993 Blessed Pope John Paul II called upon them to use this power: Young pilgrims Christ needs you to enlighten the world and to show it the path to life (Ps 16:11).
118 - Nov 2012 - Reflection: Father forgive them ...: God's infinite mercy for the repentant, Anne Lastman
Human Life is the concrete reality of a being capable of love and service to mankind (Blessed John Paul II in his homily in Boston 7 October 1979).
119 - Nov 2012 - Books: THE GIFT OF THE ROSARY: How to Make and How and Why to Pray, by Brian Peachey, Barry Morgan
The popes have consistently repeated the message particularly Blessed John Paul II who said it was her intervention that saved him from assassination in 1981.
120 - Oct 2012 - Reflection: The Year of Faith and the Church's missionary role, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
Pope John Paul II in Redemptoris Missio (24) states: The mission of the Church like that of Jesus is Gods work or as Luke often puts it the work of the Spirit.
121 - Oct 2012 - Books: AN AMAZING LOVE, by Father Ken Barker, Br Barry Coldrey
New evangelisation While Father Barker was preparing for his lifes ministry Pope John Paul II was making the new evangelisation a recurring theme in his writings including the encyclical Redemptoris Missio (1990) and the Apostolic Letters Tertio Millenio Adveniente (1994) and Novo Millennio Inuente (2001).
122 - Oct 2012 - Letters: Financial capitalism, Peter D. Howard
Further Blessed John Paul II described the word capitalism as inappropriate pointing out in Centesimus Annus 42 (1991): If by capitalism is meant an economic system which recognises the fundamental and positive role of business the market private property and the resulting responsibility for the means of production as well as free human creativity in the economic sector then the answer is certainly in the affirmative even though it would perhaps be more appropriate to speak of a business economy market economy or simply free economy.
123 - Oct 2012 - The new evangelisation and the culture of life, Anne Lastman
Of course when these terms are used the name Blessed John Paul II is recalled.
124 - Oct 2012 - The Year of Faith and true unity of faith, Cardinal Raymond Burke
The pontificate of Blessed Pope John Paul II may be rightly described as a tireless call to recognise the Churchs challenge to be faithful to her divinely-given mission in a totally secularised society and to respond to this by means of a new evangelisation.
125 - Oct 2012 - Universities: Cardinal Pell's tertiary ministry at Sydney's universities, Br Barry Coldrey
The John Paul II Student Centre within easy access of the three universities on the Broadway-Parramatta Road provides office facilities for the six chaplaincy staff members including the Dominican Chaplain Father Paul Rowse OP.
126 - Oct 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
It is particularly regrettable that she parades her Catholic background which she has comprehensively rejected despite her efforts to co-opt Pope John Paul II to her bizarre green bandwagon.
127 - Sep 2012 - Reflection: Fatima: Mary's appeal for penance and conversion, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
When the procession finished images of Blessed John Paul II during his three visits to the Fatima were shown on a big screen monitor.
128 - Sep 2012 - Books: A COMPANION TO CATHOLIC EDUCATION, by Leonardo Franchi (Editor), Gerard O'Shea
We can look also at the efforts being made in tertiary institutions like the John Paul II Institute Campion College and the University of Notre Dame in Sydney.
129 - Sep 2012 - Australian Catholic Students Association Conference 2012, Br Barry Coldrey
The ACSA leaders thanked their Sponsors the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference in the persons of Cardinal George Pell and Archbishop Denis Hart the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family and the University Chaplaincies of the Archdiocese of Sydney whose Director Daniel Hill was present at the Conference.
130 - Sep 2012 - Time for women's "true genius" to reassert itself, Anne Lastman
John Paul II The late Blessed Pope John Paul II exhorted and believed in a womans genius.
131 - Sep 2012 - Sainthood: Cardinal Van Thuân: process to beatification 'very advanced', Michael Gilchrist
If canonised the Cardinal would not be the first Vietnamese saint Pope John Paul II having canonised 112 Vietnamese martyrs in 1988.
132 - Aug 2012 - Books: THE NEW EVANGELISATION: Issues and Challenges for Catholic Schools, Br Barry Coldrey
In the present book his focus is on evangelisation specifically the New Evangelisation promoted by Pope John Paul II during the last fifteen years of his pontificate.
133 - Aug 2012 - Books: LESSONS IN A ROSE-GARDEN: Reviving the Doctrinal Rosary, by Aidan Nichols O.P., Peter Westmore
The lessons in a rose garden are a series of connected theological reflections on each of the 20 mysteries of the Rosary including John Paul IIs Luminous Mysteries.
134 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Women priests, Francis Vrizmoed
Since Pope John Paul II made clear in his apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis that a male-only priesthood was definitive Church teaching and not open to debate any Catholic priest or lay person who holds this view is no longer a Church member in good standing.
135 - Aug 2012 - The Virgin Mary's key role in our salvation history, Cedric Wright
Blessed John Paul II Throughout the history of the Church Popes have shown great devotion to Mary acknowledging her as Queen of Heaven and Earth and Mother of the Church.
136 - Aug 2012 - Marriage: Archbishop Hickey: the Eucharist and the Christian family, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Pope John Paul II wrote in Familiaris Consortio in 1981 that God in himself lives a mystery of personal loving communion.
137 - Aug 2012 - Events: Equipping Christian leaders for the challenges of secularism, Philippa Le Feuvre
Cardinal George Pell has described the upcoming inaugural John Paul II Australian Leaders Forum as an important milestone for the Catholic Church in Australia.
138 - Aug 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Blessed Pope John Paul II had declared him Servant of God following initiation of the Cause for Canonisation in 2002.
139 - Jul 2012 - Letters: The Year of Grace and the New Evangelisation, Fr Dennis Byrnes
The Australian Bishops decision to call for the year of grace was inspired and guided by Blessed John Paul II who stated in his apostolic letter Novo Millennio Ineuente (2001): Our Christian communities must become genuine schools of prayer where the meeting with Christ is expressed .
140 - Jul 2012 - Letters: Papal infallibility, Peter D. Howard
In posting on web discussion boards over some 15 years I have found one of the most misunderstood dogmas of the Church to be that contained in Pastor Aeternus of Vatican I and especially as it applies to the doctrine against contraception; but also as the case of Bishop Morris of Toowoomba revealed on the doctrine of the priesthood from Christ being only for males in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (Bl John Paul II 1994).
141 - Jul 2012 - Religious Freedom: Prague's Cardinal Duka thanks Australians for helping religious prisoners, Peter Westmore
In 1998 John Paul II made him a bishop and in 2010 he was consecrated as the Archbishop of Prague.
142 - Jun 2012 - Books: ABOUT BIOETHICS: Philosophical and Theological Approaches, Angela Schumann
Not only is Dr Tonti-Filippini highly qualified with an extensive list of academic credentials including the current position he holds as Associate Dean and Head of Bioethics at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Melbourne he also has behind him decades of experience working on the front line of medical and social ethics such as chairing a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Working Committee and having been Australias first hospital ethicist in the early 1980s at St Vincents Hospital in Melbourne.
143 - May 2012 - Benedict XVI builds on John Paul II's historic Cuba visit, Michael Gilchrist
On his arrival at the Antonio Maceo International Airport in Santiago de Cuba Benedict welcomed the new spirit of cooperation and trust between Church and State in Cuba that was ushered in by John Paul IIs visit.
144 - May 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Biggest obstacle to new evangelisation A Vatican official says poorly-formed Catholics present one of the biggest challenges to the late Pope John Paul IIs vision of re-evangelising formerly Christian societies in the West.
145 - May 2012 - Episcopacy: Brisbane's new Archbishop well-equipped for the challenges, Michael Gilchrist
Fr Elich described Pope John Paul IIs guiding document for the revised translation Liturgiam Authenticam as a betrayal.
146 - Apr 2012 - Books: LIGHT OF THE WORLD: The Pope, the Church and Signs of the Times, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Like his predecessor John Paul II Benedict has a profound respect for Judaism as the root of Christianity and the Jewish people as our fathers in faith.
147 - Apr 2012 - Pro-Life: Albury hosts well-attended Family Life International conference, Wanda Skowronska
There were other inspiring speakers at the conference including Sister Moira Debono a member of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma Michigan and a lecturer at Notre Dame University in Sydney; Fr Terence Mary Naughtin OFM a counsellor of those with various addictions especially those involved with homosexuality; Sister Yvonne Berecry from the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart who was a missionary in Papua New Guinea and is now a Helper in Sydney; Fr John Rizzo from the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter who has worked in Australia and New Zealand and who spoke of the demonic presence of abortion contrasted with the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist; Fr Peter Murphy who completed his doctorate at the Urban University in Rome and is now parish priest at Lavington Albury; Fr Scott Armstrong a parish priest in Wagga and doctoral candidate at the John Paul II Institute in Melbourne; and Fr Greg Jordan a Jesuit priest whose activities in evangelisation are so numerous that they would take several pages to list.
148 - Apr 2012 - eVangelisation: The Catholic Church and the digital media revolution - cradio.org.au, Jason Rushton
In his final apostolic letter before his death published in January 2005 Pope John Paul II noted the rapid development of the world of communications.
149 - Apr 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
During his program Keys to a Better World on 4 February the archbishop recalled that this year marks two decades since the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church at the request of Blessed John Paul II and this commemoration is an appropriate opportunity to recall the usefulness of this text.
150 - Mar 2012 - Books: Streams of Grace, by Bishop Julian Porteous, Fr Ken Barker MGL
As Blessed John Paul II emphasised the Church has two lungs by which she breathes the East and the West.
151 - Mar 2012 - Extraordinary life of new Czech Cardinal, Dominik Duka, Peter Westmore
In that year Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Hradec Krlov (literally Queens Castle) in the north of the Czech republic near the border with Poland.
152 - Mar 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
I consider myself as a John Paul II priest and bishop .
153 - Mar 2012 - Year of Grace: can Australian Catholicism recover its unity?, Michael Gilchrist
While Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have striven to steer the universal Church back to the true teachings of Vatican II including production of the Catechism of the Catholic Church their efforts have too often been thwarted at the grass roots by recapcitrant church bureaucracies.
154 - Feb 2012 - Curia: Benedict XVI names 22 new cardinals for his fourth consistory, Peter Westmore
While Pope John Paul II added numerous cardinals from the Third World during his long papacy Benedict has chosen many more Italians including seven in the latest group many of them holding positions in Vatican congregations.
155 - Dec 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
That same date is the 20th anniversary of Blessed John Paul IIs publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church a text Pope Benedict said was meant to show the power and beauty of the faith.
156 - Nov 2011 - Letters: Vatican II, Kathleen Donelly
Why did Pope John Paul II leave the flock unprotected while he embraced the world stage in the name of ecumenism?
157 - Nov 2011 - Society: Finding hope in the midst of secularism, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Blessed Pope John Paul II practising as Pope Benedict XVI declared the beatitude of faith with the Mother of God as his example and intercessor has taught us all to have faith in Christ to believe that what the Lord has promised to us will be fulfilled and thus to live courageously the truth which has its highest expression in pure and selfless love.
158 - Nov 2011 - WYD Madrid: World Youth Day: Becoming sons and daughters of Christ, Sam Rebbechi
Blessed John Paul II initiated WYD in 1985 to bring young people together to share and strengthen their faith and through this to strengthen the Church.
159 - Nov 2011 - WYD Madrid: World Youth Day 2011: Experiencing Christ's presence, Dr Joe Santamaria
I was immediately struck by the fact that I had experienced similar sensations during the first visit of Pope John Paul II to Australia in 1986.
160 - Nov 2011 - Ad Limina: The Australian bishops' 2011 ad limina visit to Rome, Michael Gilchrist
The last such ad limina visit took place in March 2004 when the Australian bishops met with an ailing Pope John Paul II.
161 - Oct 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
The Society has had a troubled relationship with the Vatican since its founder Archbishop Marcel Lefebrve consecrated four bishops against the orders of Pope John Paul II in 1988.
162 - Oct 2011 - World Youth Day 2011, Madrid: Australia's participation, Br Barry Coldrey
Origins World Youth Day was the brainchild of Pope John Paul II.
163 - Sep 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-85244-725-3 Blessed (John Paul II) LOsservatore Romano This is a special glossy edition of the Vatican weekly LOsservatore Romano commemorating the beatification of Pope John Paul II.
164 - Sep 2011 - Interview: Pope's brother sheds more light on Benedict's early years, Zenit News Agency
When John Paul II called him to Rome he found more than enough reasons to stay in Bavaria and once again someone else this time the Pope had to drag him: Munich is important but Rome is more important.
165 - Sep 2011 - Abortion grief: mother love, mercy love and God's compassion, Anne R. Lastman
This is because her body knows it has cooperated with God to bring to birth a new creation: Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life as it develops in the womans womb (John Paul II On the Dignity amp; Vocation of Women).
166 - Sep 2011 - Cloyne Report exposes Ireland's continuing sex abuse crisis, Michael Gilchrist
Previously he had been Secretary to three Popes Paul VI John Paul I and John Paul II the only cleric in history to achieve such an honour.
167 - Sep 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
We are praying to John Paul II for his intercession that he touch the hearts of those who need to be touched so that they will come.
168 - Sep 2011 - 2011 Fighting Fund launched, Peter Westmore
As Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI have pointed out Christian values in contemporary society are being challenged by the culture of relativism which denies moral absolutes and puts personal autonomy at the centre of life.
169 - Aug 2011 - Reflection: The new evangelisation: 'missionary spirit' needed, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
In his 1990 encyclical on Mission Pope John Paul II spoke of the three faces of mission: the peoples the new evangelisation and pastoral activity.
170 - Aug 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-85244-725-3 Blessed (John Paul II) LOsservatore Romano This is a special glossy edition of the Vatican weekly LOsservatore Romano commemorating the beatification of Pope John Paul II.
171 - Aug 2011 - Exegesis: Genesis account of creation and fall: what does the Church teach?, John Young
Pope John Paul II spoke on the question of evolution in his address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on 22 October 1996.
172 - Aug 2011 - Obituary: John Wright (1923-2011): pillar of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
When no other publisher would touch this book the John XXIII Fellowship Co-op took it on board and at the time of Pope John Paul IIs first visit to Australia in 1986 it became a surprise best-seller.
173 - Aug 2011 - Books: MARY: VIRGIN, MOTHER AND QUEEN: A Bible Study Guide for Catholics, Paul Simmons
He discovered a rich intellectual and spiritual tradition which had been almost lost encouraged by the very public devotion to Mary by Pope St John Paul II.
174 - Jul 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-85244-725-3 Blessed (John Paul II) LOsservatore Romano This is a special glossy edition of the Vatican weekly LOsservatore Romano commemorating the beatification of Pope John Paul II.
175 - Jul 2011 - Books: STORIES OF KAROL: the Unknown Life of John Paul II, by G.F. Svidercoschi, Br Barry Coldrey
STORIES OF KAROL: the Unknown Life of John Paul II by G.
176 - Jul 2011 - Lübeck martyrs of the Nazis beatified on 25 June, Frank Mobbs
Pope John Paul II expressed his recognition of the importance for ecumenism of the shared martyrdom of Catholics and a Lutheran when he said: The valuable legacy that these courageous witnesses have passed on to us is a shared legacy of all churches and all religious communities.
177 - Jun 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-85244-725-3 Blessed (John Paul II) LOsservatore Romano This is a special glossy edition of the Vatican weekly LOsservatore Romano commemorating the beatification of Pope John Paul II.
178 - Jun 2011 - Books: MARRIAGE: The Rock on Which the Family is Built, by William E. May, Br Barry Coldrey
May is Professor of Moral Theology at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington DC and Senior Fellow of the Culture of Life Foundation.
179 - Jun 2011 - Cardinal Pell: 'liberalism has no young Catholic progeny', Cardinal George Pell
Father Hodgens claimed that Pope John Paul II had a lust for power .
180 - Jun 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Several Jewish leaders have paid tribute to Blessed John Paul II following his beatification.
181 - Jun 2011 - Australia's Anglican Ordinariate on track, Bishop Peter Elliott
The liturgical use in the Ordinariates will contribute to the deeper and more spiritual renewal of liturgy that has quietly emerged in recent years the fruit of the Eucharistic project of Blessed John Paul II and the liturgical wisdom of Pope Benedict XVI.
182 - Jun 2011 - Why Pope Benedict removed Toowoomba's dissenting bishop, Michael Gilchrist
Bishop Morris Advent Pastoral Letter ran counter to the clear words of Pope John Paul II in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (1994): In order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance a matter which pertains to the Churchs divine constitution itself in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf.
183 - May 2011 - University Life: Australian Catholic Students' Conference 2011 a success, Br Barry Coldrey
Impressive speakers At their latest conference the ACSA was energised by impressive speakers led by Cardinal Raymond Burke Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura Cardinal George Pell Professor Tracey Rowland of the John Paul II Institute in Melbourne and Miranda Devine a prominent journalist.
184 - May 2011 - Interview: International Conference on Eucharistic Adoration in Rome, Father Florian Racine
As we know Pope John Paul II asked the Church to be committed to the New Evangelisation.
185 - May 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
They were created and are supported by a group of Catholic families and individuals inspired by Pope John Paul IIs call for a New Evangelisation.
186 - May 2011 - Two million in Rome for beatification of John Paul II, Peter Westmore
In one of the largest religious ceremonies ever to be held around two million people are expected in St Peters Square for the beatification of Pope John Paul II on 1 May - just over six years after his death.
187 - Apr 2011 - Books: TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF THE ENVIRONMENT, by Paul Haffner, Barry Coldrey
The question of regard for the environment has been a concern for the Churchs leadership especially following Pope John Paul IIs message for the World Day of Peace in 1990 and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peaces Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.
188 - Apr 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Im as conservative as Pope John Paul II or Pope Benedict Archbishop Gomez who was ordained a priest of Opus Dei told the Los Angeles Times.
189 - Mar 2011 - What are the marks of an authentically Catholic university?, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Quoting the Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman the Venerable Pope John Paul II underlined the importance of the service of the Catholic university to the Church and society in general in his Apostolic Constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae with these words: It is the honour and responsibility of a Catholic university to consecrate itself without reserve to the cause of truth.
190 - Mar 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
John Paul IIs beatification approved The much-anticipated beatification of Pope John Paul II will take place in St Peters Square on 1 May the Sunday after Easter the Vatican has announced.
191 - Feb 2011 - Young children: never too early to love God, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
On 13 May 2000 the 83rd anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady at Fatima Pope John Paul II beatified Jacinta and Francisco the two little shepherds of Fatima.
192 - Dec 2010 - Books: FIVE SMOOTH STONES: A 40 Day WYD08 Journal, by Stephen Lawrence, Bishop Joseph Grech
This was the constant challenge of Pope John Paul II the initiator of World Youth Days.
193 - Dec 2010 - Homily: Christus Rex Pilgrimage: Building God's Kingdom on earth, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
A dishonest inhumane and callous society was rightly described as the culture of death by Pope John Paul II.
194 - Dec 2010 - Congress for Life: Catholic orthodoxy: key to promoting the culture of life, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Pope John Paul II reminded bishops that they fulfill their responsibility by the first proclamation of the faith or kerygma which is always needed for bringing about the obedience of faith but is all the more urgent today in times marked by indifference and religious ignorance on the part of many Christians ( Pastores Gregis n.
195 - Nov 2010 - Books: HIS NAME IS MERCY, by Fr Ken Barker MGL, Archbishop Denis Hart
Father Ken quotes John Paul II in Dives in Misericordia (14): The generous requirement of forgiveness does not cancel out the objective requirement of justice.
196 - Nov 2010 - Ukrainian Catholics: Ukraine's University of the Catacombs, Andrew Kania
Of the 25 Ukrainian Catholics beatified by Pope John Paul II on 26 June 2001 many were associated with the Theological Academy as either staff or students.
197 - Oct 2010 - Books: THE PATH TO ROME: Modern Journeys to the Catholic Church, Bishop David Robarts
John Paul IIs maxim is also his Faith when lived becomes culture.
198 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell
But in many places in Australia including Melbourne under the leadership of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict we are doing better.
199 - Oct 2010 - Real Presence: Nigerian priest brings Eucharistic Adoration to a Brisbane parish, Bob Denahy
( Ecclesia de Eucharistia Pope John Paul II.
200 - Sep 2010 - Reflection: Accepting the reality of sin: a cornerstone of Christian faith, Fr Dennis Byrnes
The late Pope John Paul II in his Encyclical Dominum et Vivificatem states: Conversion requires convincing of sin: it includes the interior judgement of conscience and this being a proof of the action of the Spirit of truth in mans inmost being becomes at the same time the start of a new grant of grace and of love: Receive the Holy Spirit.
201 - Sep 2010 - Letters: New evangelisation, Retired Queensland Priest
The late Pope John Paul II often referred to the need for a New Evangelisation.
202 - Sep 2010 - Ecclesial movements in the life of the Church, Bishop Julian Porteous
Such movements have been seen by Pope John Paul II and by Pope Benedict XVI as important gifts for the Church.
203 - Jul 2010 - Reflection: The challenge: how to spread God's word in a secular culture, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
From his many travels around the world Pope John Paul II recognised this hunger for Gods Word in our day.
204 - Jul 2010 - New apologetics for the new evangelisation
The proposal for a new apologetics is tied intimately with the call to a new evangelisation which the Servant of God Pope John Paul II set before the Church as the principal task of her mission at the beginning of the third millennium of Christianity.
205 - Jul 2010 - Two views: Vatican II, infallibility and the Church today, James Bogle and John Young
The teaching was re-affirmed in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis the Apostolic Letter of Pope John Paul II.
206 - Jul 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
John Paul II had an analogous vision of harmony and unity Benedict said recalling his image of the two lungs of Europe.
207 - Jun 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-89870-443-3 From Hermes to Benedict XVI Aidan Nichols OP Fr Aidan Nichols is one of Englands foremost Catholic theologians and in his latest book explores the key concepts of faith and reason through a succession of thinkers including Etienne Gilson von Balthasar and John Paul II.
208 - Jun 2010 - American survey of young Catholics confirms Benedict's agenda, Carl Anderson
Among the many things Pope John Paul II will certainly be remembered for is his outreach to youth.
209 - Jun 2010 - Ecumenism: Christians and Muslims: peaceful co-existence?, Mohammad Al-Sammak
I participated in the previous Synod and I am grateful to His Holiness John Paul II not only for inviting Muslims to a Synod but also for having insisted on us participating as active members and not just as observers.
210 - May 2010 - Culture Wars: Christians uniting to take a stand: the Manhattan Declaration, Bishop Julian Porteous
Our society is being burdened by those who in the words of Pope John Paul II foster the culture of death (Evangelium vitae).
211 - May 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
It is a worldwide movement largely brought about by the vision of John Paul II and the wonderful gentle firm intellectual vision of Pope Benedict who is such an inspiration to us.
212 - Apr 2010 - Books: FROM HERMES TO BENEDICT XVI: Faith and Reason in Modern Catholic Thought, Tracey Rowland
It begins with a summary of the ideas of Georg Hermes (1775-1831) - a kind of Catholic Kantian (if that is not a contradiction in terms) and works through the positions of Anton Gnther Louis Bautain Gregory XVI Pius IX Leo XIII Joseph Kleutgen Etienne Gilson Maurice Blondel Hans Urs von Balthasar Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) and finally Jos- eph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI).
213 - Apr 2010 - Foundations of Faith: How do Catholics relate to non-Christians?, Fr Dudley Perera OMI
Assisi meeting Pope John Paul II initiated another move of calling leaders of world religions to pray together.
214 - Apr 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope John Paul II beatified Mary MacKillop in 1995 saying she embodied the best of Australia and its people.
215 - Mar 2010 - Reflection: Mary in medieval art: an expression of the Church's faith, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
It was in her womb that Christ was formed (Pope John Paul II Rosarium Virginis Mariae 10).
216 - Mar 2010 - Foundations of Faith: What the Second Vatican Council really said, John Young
I would argue on the contrary that Vatican II was an excellent Council and that if its directives were faithfully followed there would be a springtime for the Church such as Pope John Paul II hoped for.
217 - Mar 2010 - Year for the Priest: English-speaking clergy: first ever international conference, Fr Glen Tattersall
And so with John Paul II (of blessed memory) and with one voice we say to you: May theLord lavish his rewards upon you!
218 - Feb 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-89870-798-4 A Life with Karol Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz This intimate affectionate portrait of Pope John Paul II by his longtime secretary and confidant reveals fascinating new details about the opinions hopes fears and dramatic life of the late Pontiff.
219 - Feb 2010 - Preparation time: New Missal translation nears completion: a window of opportunity, Michael Gilchrist
Ten years earlier Pope John Paul II approved the publication of Liturgiam Authenticam which set out guidelines for correct vernacular translations of the Missal from its official Latin.
220 - Feb 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict also recalled that the supreme rule of faith of the Church in effect arises from the unity that the Spirit established between Sacred Tradition Sacred Scripture and the Magisterium of the Church in such reciprocity that they cannot subsist independently of each other as John Paul II explained in his encyclical Fides et Ratio.
221 - Dec 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
95 ISBN 978-0-89870-798-4 A Life with Karol Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz This intimate affectionate portrait of Pope John Paul II by his longtime secretary and confidant reveals fascinating new details about the opinions hopes fears and dramatic life of the late Pontiff.
222 - Dec 2009 - Books: IMAGES OF HOPE, EUROPE TODAY AND TOMORROW, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
John Paul II who was elected Pope in 1978 three years later appointed Cardinal Ratzinger Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith a position he would retain until his own election as Pope twenty-four years later.
223 - Dec 2009 - Letters: Women priests, Ken Bayliss
Fifteen years is too long for feminists and their fellow travellers to continue disobeying the definitive judgment of Pope John Paul II in 1994 that the Church has no authority to allow the ordination of women.
224 - Dec 2009 - Victoria: Abortion evil: pro-life forces need to be united, John Morrissey
Gwen Winterscheidt and Rosemary Woods of the John Paul II Centre for Family amp; Life Centacare Brisbane concluded the afternoon with a report on the Walking with Love program in Brisbane parishes.
225 - Dec 2009 - Ut Unum Sint: Benedict XVI eases way for Anglicans wishing to 'cross the Tiber', Michael Gilchrist
My fellow bishops have indeed signed the Catechism of the Catholic Church and made a statement about the ministry of the Bishop of Rome reflecting the words of Pope John Paul II in his letter Ut Unum Sint.
226 - Nov 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
00 ISBN 0-89870-888-5 Stories of Karol Gian Franco Svidercoschi This book tells the personal story of the future Pope John Paul II from the perspective of his early life and the memories of his family and friends.
227 - Nov 2009 - Books: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane, Tracey Rowland
It was in part against the Jansenist attitude to sexuality that John Paul II composed his series of lectures known as the theology of the body and the Jansenist attitude to liturgy - that the more mundane it is the better - continues to plague the Church in countries like Australia and the United States where Jansenist Irish clergy were influential.
228 - Nov 2009 - Letters: Dissenting views, John Schmid
Earlier Pope Paul VI had published Inter Insigniores (1976) which stated the impossibility of women priests while Pope John Paul II published Ordinatio Sacerdotalis in 1994.
229 - Nov 2009 - Foundations of Faith: 'O happy fault': the Christian doctrine of original sin, Noel Roberts
John Paul II observed in Centesimus Annus (25) that the doctrine of original sin is essential to understanding human reality: Moreover man who was created for freedom bears within himself the wound of original sin which constantly draws him towards evil and puts him in need of redemption.
230 - Nov 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Spitzer SJ during a conference in September at the John Paul II Center for the New Evangelization in Denver Colorado.
231 - Nov 2009 - Climate change alarmism: a new 'religion' for Christians?, John Morrissey
Incidental references to the environment in the encyclicals of John Paul II were freely invoked together with a number of references to care for the earth in Benedict XVIs homilies during World Youth Day in Sydney in 2008.
232 - Oct 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
00 ISBN 0-89870-888-5 Stories of Karol Gian Franco Svidercoschi This book tells the personal story of the future Pope John Paul II from the perspective of his early life and the memories of his family and friends.
233 - Oct 2009 - Priesthood: Why the Catholic Church cannot ordain women, Kathleen Wood OAM
In response in 1994 Pope John Paul II issued the Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis confirming that Christs example and the Churchs constant and universal tradition have determined that ordination to the priesthood is for men alone.
234 - Oct 2009 - Seminary Life: Spiritual direction at Sydney's Good Shepherd Seminary, Fr Paul Glynn SM
In one Holy Thursday message to priests John Paul II gave them a simple and powerful piece of advice.
235 - Oct 2009 - Episcopacy: Bishop Luc Matthys: on being a bishop, Bishop Luc Matthys of Armidale
It does not feel like ten years ago that Pope John Paul II sent me to Armidale to become its ninth bishop.
236 - Oct 2009 - Priestly Identity: Renewing the priesthood in the Year for Priests, Fr Anthony Denton
Into this situation have come the positive effects of the Pontificate of John Paul II with a prodigious output of papal teaching on topics that most effect the day to day belief of Catholics: the Eucharist the sacrament of Penance the centrality of faith in Christ the meaning of suffering to name but a few.
237 - Sep 2009 - Reflection: The centrality of the tabernacle, Bishop John M. D'Arcy
Pope John Paul II noted that a heightened sense of mystery and a deeply theological reverence have guided the Churchs Eucharistic devotion throughout her history: The designs of altars and tabernacles within church interiors were often not simply motivated by artistic inspiration but also by a clear understanding of the mystery.
238 - Sep 2009 - Letters: Women priests, Name and Address Supplied
Regarding the query of Kevin McManus (July AD2000) the statement rejecting the ruling of Pope John Paul II on the matter of women priests was signed by the then Superior-General of the Sisters of St Joseph (Brown).
239 - Sep 2009 - Letters: Galileo, David Walker
On the contrary my article was more favourable to the Church than the Church has been to itself as revealed in the recent publication of the findings of the commission set up by Pope John Paul II published as Galileo and the Vatican.
240 - Aug 2009 - Magisterium: Authentic Catholicism: neither progressive nor conservative, Fr Martin Durham
As the late Pope John Paul II often stated and the present Pope has often repeated Catholic dogmatic teachings on faith and morals are matters of objective truth irrespective of whether one is progressive or conservative on other questions.
241 - Aug 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
He has worked as editor of the magazine Thomist and was the founding director of the intercultural forum at the John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington DC.
242 - Aug 2009 - Caritas in Veritate: Benedict XVI's social encyclical: public life needs Christian principles, Michael Gilchrist
Caritas in Veritate is the first social encyclical since 1991 when Pope John Paul IIs Centesimus Annus marked the centenary of Pope Leo XIIIs Rerum Novarum.
243 - Jul 2009 - Letters: Women priests, Kevin McManus
Readers may recall that during the pontificate of John Paul II and following his infallible ruling on the impossibility of women priests the heads of womens religious orders in Australia released a statement rejecting the Popes ruling.
244 - Jul 2009 - History: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust: revisiting Jewish sources, Fr Michael Butler
Incidentally the same Edith Stein was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 1998.
245 - Jul 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Galileo: heretic or hero? What are the facts?, Noel Roberts
In October 1992 Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled.
246 - Jul 2009 - Life Marriage Family: The secular culture's flawed view of sexuality, Bernard Toutounji
Pope John Paul II wisely noted in his philosophical work Love and Responsibility that as beautiful as the act of sexual intercourse is there are more opportunities within the sexual relationship than in most other situations of treating a person as an object of use - sometimes without even realising it.
247 - Jul 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
The last social encyclical Centesimus Annus was published by Pope John Paul II in May 1991.
248 - Jul 2009 - Editorial: The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June), Michael Gilchrist
This was especially the case during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II as reflected in his encyclical Ut Unum Sint.
249 - Jun 2009 - Reflection: Pentecost and the power of the Holy Spirit for today, Fr Dennis W Byrnes
In the Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Oceania Pope John Paul II wrote: Through the power of the Holy Spirit the Church in Oceania is praying for a new Evangelisation of peoples who today hunger for Christ .
250 - Jun 2009 - Books: Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs, by Peter Kreeft, Michael Daniel
Available from Freedom Publishing) Perhaps one of the greatest fruits of John Paul IIs papacy was the release of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
251 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Pontius Pilate, Grahame Fallon
Indeed as John Paul II affirmed in the first words of his first Encyclical Redemptor Hominis (The Redeemer of Man 1979) Jesus Christ is also the centre of the universe and of its history.
252 - Jun 2009 - Youth: Forming a new generation of pro-life leaders, Patrick Langrell
We young people have to be willing to be in the words of John Paul II a sign of contradiction to the culture and modern times - to stand up and call what is wrong wrong.
253 - Jun 2009 - Events - July: Australian Catholic Students Association: continuing spiritual impact, Br Barry Coldrey
Dr James Franklin University of NSW will speak on the topical issue of Regulating Capitalism: Economics with Social Justice and Dr Tracey Rowland Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family will also address the gathering.
254 - May 2009 - Inter-faith dialogue: Jewish leader defends Pope over Bishop Williamson controversy, AD2000 Report
Rabbi Levin particularly defended the Pope saying he was the genius behind the moves of the late Pope John Paul II to reconcile the Church with the Jewish community.
255 - Apr 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for April
LeVoir This valuable analysis of Pope John Paul IIs writings on sexuality marriage and family in the modern world is once more available.
256 - Apr 2009 - Books: RENDER UNTO CAESAR:Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life, Charles Chaput, Tim Cannon
The lives of Dr Martin Luther King Jr St Thomas More Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II and many others are woven by the author into a message which is genuinely inspirational.
257 - Apr 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass and private devotions in Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
Whatever the reasons for the eclipse of devotions among many Catholics Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have sought to correct the secularising trend in the Church on many levels.
258 - Apr 2009 - US Catholic universities: how not to observe Lent
Students who are required to take two courses in Theology are rarely if ever introduced to something like Pope John Paul IIs Theology of the Body.
259 - Apr 2009 - Benedict XVI addresses a Vatican conference on evolution and Christianity, Michael Gilchrist
In his address Benedict said there was no opposition between faiths understanding of creation and the evidence of the empirical sciences as he quoted from Popes Pius XII and John Paul II.
260 - Mar 2009 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
LeVoir This valuable analysis of Pope John Paul IIs writings on sexuality marriage and family in the modern world is once more available.
261 - Mar 2009 - Books: THE BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN, by Jacques Jomier OP, Tim Cannon
Several chapters have been re- translated from the original French and a number of chapters have been appended including relevant (though brief) commentaries on the relationship between Islam and the Catholic Church by Cardinal Francis Arinze and the late Pope John Paul II.
262 - Mar 2009 - The family and the culture of death: a challenge for Christians, Fr Dennis Byrnes
The passing late last year of the Abortion Law Reform Bill in the Victorian State Parliament reminded me of Pope John Paul IIs belief that a new cultural climate has been developing in our society one that justifies certain crimes against life in the name of individual freedom.
263 - Mar 2009 - Obituary: Fr Richard Neuhaus (1936-2009): bringing the Gospel to public life, Fr Raymond J. De Souza
With the obvious favour of Pope John Paul II Father Neuhaus and his colleagues articulated a new confident Catholicism which sought less to adapt to the secular culture as it did to challenge it with a fresh application of the Catholic tradition.
264 - Mar 2009 - Lefebvrists: Benedict XVI's bold move for Church unity, Michael Gilchrist
In a decree dated 21 January Benedict XVI lifted the excommunication pronounced on four bishops - Bernard Fellay Bernard Tissier de Mallerais Richard Williamson and Alfonso de Galarreta - consecrated by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1988 for his Society of St Pius X (SSPX) in defiance of Pope John Paul II.
265 - Feb 2009 - Books: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Pope Benedict XVI, Siobhan Reeves
Vatican II Regarding the legacy of Pope John Paul II Benedict says It was in this very century (20th) which was opposed to the faith of the Church that the Lord gave us a series of great popes; hence a spiritual inheritance that I would say historically strengthened the truth of the primacy of the successor of Peter.
266 - Feb 2009 - Vibrant retreat: Young adult ministry builds on WYD: iWitness Conference in Sydney, Br Barry Coldrey
After lunch Father Tony Percy the new Director of the Seminary of the Good Shepherd in Homebush addressed sexual morality taking Pope John Paul IIs Theology of the Body as his guide.
267 - Feb 2009 - Culture of death: US bishops confront Barack Obama's sweeping abortion agenda, Paul Kengor
The consequences for what Pope John Paul II termed a Culture of Life will be disastrous.
268 - Feb 2009 - The Statement of Conclusions: any signs of progress after ten years?, Michael Gilchrist
His predecessor John Paul II was very clear in his expectations of the Australian bishops in 1999: I earnestly recommend to your prayer and reflection to your responsibility and action the document which summarises your meetings with the various Dicasteries of the Holy See .
269 - Dec 2008 - Letters: Evolution conference, Grahame Fallon
Likewise in the first words of his first encyclical Redemptor Hominis (1979) Pope John Paul II affirmed that the Redeemer of Man - Jesus Christ - is also the centre of the universe and of its history which extends from the beginning to the end of time.
270 - Dec 2008 - 'Catholic literature': what does this mean?, David Birch
11) Pope John Paul II reiterated the position of the Second Vatican Council on a renewed relationship between the Church and culture with immediate implications for the world of art by referring to the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes which stressed the great importance of literature and the arts in human life stating that: They seek to probe the true nature of man his problems and experiences as he strives to know and perfect himself and the world to discover his place in history and the universe to portray his miseries and joys his needs and strengths with a view to a better future (Gaudium et Spes 62).
271 - Nov 2008 - Books: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane, Tim Cannon
Section two entitled Popes and other mortals features commentaries by the author on both the late Pope John Paul II and our current Pope Benedict XVI considered within the context of the expectations of and challenges facing the modern Church.
272 - Nov 2008 - Foundations of Faith: God's gift of sex: building a civilisation of life and love, Catherine Sheehan
Theology of the Body This theme is elaborated on beautifully in Pope John Paul IIs collection of addresses titled The Theology of the Body.
273 - Nov 2008 - Anima Women's Network: giving 'heart' to women of faith, Anna Krohn
Twenty years ago Pope John Paul II wrote in his Apostolic Letter on the Dignity and Vocation of Women (Mulieribus Dignitatem): From the beginning of Christs mission women show to him and to his mystery a special sensitivity which is characteristic of their femininity.
274 - Nov 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
All former papal consultants appointed when Archbishop Piero Marini led the office of Liturgical Celebrations under Pope John Paul II have not had their appointments renewed.
275 - Oct 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
50 Love and Responsibility Pope John Paul II Drawing on his own pastoral experiences as a priest and bishop in Poland before he became Pope John Paul II Karol Wojtyla produced an eloquent and resourceful defence of Catholic teaching on sexual morality and family life.
276 - Oct 2008 - Eugenio Pacelli: The enduring legacy of Pope Pius XII: a 50th anniversary tribute, Fr John Walshe
He has left a Marian legacy to the Church that few could equal even his successor and ardent servant of the BVM Pope John Paul II.
277 - Oct 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Recent Marian apparitions and the life of the Church, Br Barry Coldrey
Pope John Paul II expressed the significance of Our Ladys appear- ances in his personal religious life: It has been my custom to make pilgrimages to the shrine of Our Lady starting with my earliest youth.
278 - Oct 2008 - Response: Archbishop Bathersby's concerns over rebel Brisbane parish, Michael Gilchrist
This is not unusual considering that criticism at St Marys has even been directed against Pope John Paul II .
279 - Sep 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
50 Love and Responsibility Pope John Paul II Drawing on his own pastoral experiences as a priest and bishop in Poland before he became Pope John Paul II Karol Wojtyla produced an eloquent and resourceful defence of Catholic teaching on sexual morality and family life.
280 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Faith: alive and well! - A pilgrim's progress, Catherine Sheehan
Live music was played and there were several performances throughout the week of Pope John Paul IIs play The Jewellers Shop which explores love between men and women and the vocation of marriage.
281 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: World Youth Day 2008: what the media missed, Deborah Baker
One of many highlights for me was attending along with 3000 others the Christopher West presentations on Pope John Paul IIs Theology of the Body.
282 - Aug 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
50 Love and Responsibility Pope John Paul II Drawing on his own pastoral experiences as a priest and bishop in Poland before he became Pope John Paul II Karol Wojtyla produced an eloquent and resourceful defence of Catholic teaching on sexual morality and family life.
283 - Aug 2008 - Priesthood: St Louis: another US vocations success story, AD2000 Report
After the death of Pope John Paul II Waldman decided the priesthood was indeed his calling and Burke since then installed in St Louis invited Waldman to Kenrick.
284 - Jul 2008 - Liturgy: Why Paul VI saw liturgical abuses as the 'smoke of Satan', Cardinal Virgilio Noe
Archbishop Noe who was also the Vaticans top liturgist under Pope John Paul I and during the early years of the pontificate of John Paul II is now retired and at the age of 86 his health is failing.
285 - Jul 2008 - WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008: Authentic Catholicism: a fertile ground for vocations to flourish, Fr Anthony Denton
However it has more to do with the general challenge by both John Paul II and Benedict XVI to live the faith in an authentic way rather than being explicitly aimed at encouraging vocations.
286 - Jun 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
Included are the poems plays essays letters and diaries of writers like Sophocles Plato Augustine Dante Shapespeare Dostoyevsky and John Paul II.
287 - Jun 2008 - Books: RATZINGER'S FAITH: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, by Tracey Rowland, Michael E. Daniel
Upon his appointment as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith he assumed the role of John Paul IIs henchman relentlessly pursuing and persecuting those whom he and his backward looking and insular thinking peasant boss from Poland believed had defected even slightly from their vision of Church including Ratzingers former associates and allies.
288 - Jun 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
The Letter outlines the Churchs position citing John Paul IIs words in Evangelium Vitae that all unborn human beings have the right to life.
289 - May 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
95 Crossing the Threshold of Hope John Paul II Available again this best-seller goes to the heart of the late John Paul IIs personal beliefs on the existence of God the dignity of man pain suffering and evil eternal life and relations between Catholicism and other faiths.
290 - May 2008 - Books: NEWMAN'S APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE by Laurence Richardson, Philip Trower
Available from Freedom Publishing) Disputes about the boundaries between faith and reason may not be a public hot potato but among those interested in the subject it usually generates a lot of emotional calories as can be seen from some of the responses to Pope John Paul IIs encyclical Fides et Ratio and Pope Benedicts comments in his Regensburg speech on the role of reason in the religion of Islam.
291 - May 2008 - Letters: Cosmic Liturgy, Grahame Fallon
Pope John Paul II exclaimed (Ecclesia de Eucharistia n.
292 - May 2008 - Youth: Eucharistic devotions: revival in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey
Pope John Paul II encouraged the liturgy and traditional devotions.
293 - May 2008 - Magisterium: When is it infallible?, John Young
Euthanasia is one example: here they cite Pope John Paul II from the encyclical Evangelium vitae where he says the sinfulness of euthanasia is .
294 - Apr 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
90 Miracles of John Paul II Pawet Zuchniewicz The author who is a prominent Polish journalist commentator and author provides a compelling account of the power of prayer and of the miracles believed to have occurred through the intervention of John Paul II 194 pages Hardback $39.
295 - Apr 2008 - Books: THE ENEMY WITHIN: Radical Feminism in the Christian Churches, Catherine Sheehan
This calls to mind the words of the late Pope John Paul II in Crossing the Threshold of Hope that feminism in liberal societies can be considered a reaction to the lack of respect accorded to each woman (p.
296 - Apr 2008 - Letters: Binding document - On Ordinatio Sacerdotalis responsum ad dubium (1995), George Simpson
Ordinatio Sacerdotalis arguably represented an infallible teaching from Pope John Paul II with its doctrinal content constituting part of the Churchs deposit of faith.
297 - Apr 2008 - Adult education: Sydney's Centre for Thomistic Studies, Donald G. Boland
Pope John Paul II in an address to Catholic youth endorsed the value for our own day of St Thomas thought.
298 - Apr 2008 - Legal Year homily: Truth and the law: legal should also mean moral, Bishop Peter Elliott
Bishop Elliott is an Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne and Director of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family.
299 - Apr 2008 - Apostolic journey: Pope's Washington visit will address key issues, Peter Westmore
He is expected to confirm the application of John Paul IIs 1990 Apostolic Constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae which set out the ground rules for Catholic higher education institutions.
300 - Apr 2008 - Progress report: AD2000's worldwide outreach via the Internet, Francis Young
In one sense her mission is simple and clear: to propose once again to human society the entire gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ (John Paul II Ecclesia in Oceania 18).
301 - Apr 2008 - Human rights: Cardinal Joseph Zen: conscience of China, Peter Westmore
It was one of the desires of Pope John Paul II to visit China to see freedom of religion in China but unfortunately his wish remained unfulfilled.
302 - Apr 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict dispensed with the established waiting period once before for the cause of John Paul II.
303 - Mar 2008 - Books: GOD AND CAESAR: Religion, Politics, and Society, by Cardinal George Pell, Catherine Sheehan
Dr Pell argues that a secular democracy is based on fear while democratic personalism as articulated by John Paul II is based on hope.
304 - Mar 2008 - Letters: 'Re-ordered' churches, Brian Tooley
Pope John Paul II said many times that the Blessed Eucharist is the source and summit of our Faith.
305 - Mar 2008 - Vocations: The priesthood: a special relationship with Christ, Fr Pat Stratford
In fact worldwide the number of men training to be priests increased by 73 percent from 63882 in 1978 to 110583 in 2000 during the reign of Pope John Paul II.
306 - Mar 2008 - 40 Years On: Vatican II at its mid-life crisis, Br Barry Coldrey
Contraception Thus in 1968 Pope Paul VI against the advice of a majority of a theological commission rejected any relaxation of the Churchs ban on artificial contraception unleashing a storm not fully calmed today while in 1983 John Paul II denounced a strand in Liberation Theology as practised mainly in Latin America.
307 - Mar 2008 - Tribute: B.A. Santamaria: ten years on, Cardinal George Pell
A strong admirer and defender of Pope John Paul II he would have welcomed the election of Pope Benedict and the quality of his writing and teaching.
308 - Feb 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 and Freedom Publishing
These writings include the poems plays essays letters and diaries of writers like Sophocles Plato Augustine Dante Shapespeare Dostoyevsky and Pope John Paul II.
309 - Feb 2008 - Books: WHEN MIGHT BECOMES HUMAN RIGHT:Essays on Democracy and the Crisis of Rationality, Tim Cannon
There is a fascinating summary of the diplomatic activity of the Holy See under Pope John Paul II with whom the author worked closely in a diplomatic capacity for several years.
310 - Feb 2008 - Letters: Poor communication, Don Gaffney
When Bishop Morris appeared in the Courier Mail wishing for the right to ordain women as priests I wrote to him that surely the Church had always taught that this was an impossibility and this teaching had been repeated definitively by John Paul II and restated by Benedict XVI.
311 - Feb 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
The document states at the outset (quoting Pope John Paul II) Every person has the right to hear the Good News.
312 - Dec 2007 - Books: THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD AND WOMEN by Sara Butler MSBT, Paul Woodbury
Available from Freedom Publishing) Despite Pope John Paul IIs dir- ective in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (1994) that debate on the possibility of women priests should cease since the Church had no authority from Christ in this regard the issue continues to be raised.
313 - Dec 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
In 1986 Pope John Paul II removed him from his teaching position at Catholic University in Washington DC.
314 - Dec 2007 - Liturgy: Australian archbishops report progress with new English Mass translations, Michael Gilchrist
Steady progress continues towards completed revisions to the English language Mass translations in line with Pope John Paul IIs guidelines in Liturgiam Authenticam which called for greater accuracy and sense of the sacred in the texts.
315 - Dec 2007 - Editorial: Liturgy: light at the end of the tunnel, Michael Gilchrist
As the report on page 3 indicates two Australian archbishops are playing a major role in improvements to the Novus Ordo English translation while a third Cardinal Pell is chairman of the Vox Clara Committee which oversees the drafting process to ensure it remains in line with John Paul IIs guidelines in Liturgiam Authenticam.
316 - Nov 2007 - Internet 'Singing Catechism': catechesis for the 21st century, Fr James Tierney
It fulfils the requirement of Pope John Paul II that a family catechism be clear brief and easily assimilated by all and includes six of his seven categories for memorisation (not his fifth the liturgical texts which are readily available elsewhere).
317 - Nov 2007 - Prayer: John Paul II and the Rosary, Fr. M. Durham
But it is not too late to call to mind the inspiring 2002 Apostolic letter of the late Pope John Paul II Rosarium Virginis Mariae.
318 - Nov 2007 - Letters: Petition
This is in clear opposition to Pope John Paul IIs instruction in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis that the question of women priests was no longer open for discussion.
319 - Nov 2007 - Letters: Teachings rejected by Bishop Robinson, Kevin McManus
It was precisely to address such views as Bishop Robinsons that Pope John Paul II issued his Apostolic Letter Ad Tuendam Fidem in 1998.
320 - Nov 2007 - Liturgical Abuse: Trinitarian language lost in Brisbane Scriptures, Michael Apthorp
Redemptionis Sacramentum issued at the request of Pope John Paul II made clear that local bishops must act promptly to eliminate any abuses - which lay people have the right to bring to their attention.
321 - Nov 2007 - News: The Church Around The World
In 2001 the Vatican ended years of speculation about the third secret with the announcement by Pope John Paul II that the message confided by the Virgin Mary to the seers of Fatima was a prophetic vision describing a struggle between the Catholic Church and a totalitarian system culminating in an attempt on the life of the Pope.
322 - Oct 2007 - Letters: Bishop Robinson, Fr Edward P. Evans
Subsequently Pope John Paul II spoke strongly to the Australian Bishops during their ad limina visit about the disorders in their dioceses giving them a list of 14 points that they were expected to correct.
323 - Oct 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
John Paul II only revealed it in 2000 and said it referred to the 1981 assassination attempt on himself.
324 - Sep 2007 - New Age: Centering Prayer and other spiritualities: are they Catholic?, Wanda Skowronska
Are there any nights screening videos of Mother Teresa Pope John Paul II or the great missionary Saint Francis Xavier?
325 - Sep 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Known for his close relationship to John Paul II Cardinal Lustiger sought enthusiastically to implement the new evangelisation in an increasingly secular France.
326 - Sep 2007 - Pastoral Letter: NSW and ACT Bishops call for a shake-up in Catholic education, Michael Gilchrist
The Bishops cite Pope John Paul IIs call in Redemptoris Missio (1990) for a new evangelisation to preach the Gospel anew in previously Christian communities which were falling away from the Gospel in the face of secularisation and other cultural change.
327 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Study leave, Eamonn Keane
In 2002 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) issued with the approval of Pope John Paul II a Doctrinal Note on Some Questions Involving the Participation of Catholics in Political Life.
328 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Catholic politicians, Patricia Halligan
The far-sightedness and wisdom of John Paul IIs long reign is beginning to bear fruit in abundance and we thank God for it.
329 - Aug 2007 - Society: Defending faith and reason in public life, Eamonn Keane
Shortly before he died Pope John Paul II left us a beautiful book titled Memory and Identity which was a compilation of reflections by him on some of the most challenging issues with which he had to engage.
330 - Aug 2007 - World Congress of Families: grass roots ecumenism at work, Babette Francis
I found it delightful that speaker after speaker at the WCF opening ceremony quoted Pope John Paul II.
331 - Aug 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Steinbock while praising the influence of women in the Church quoted Ordinatio Sacerdotalis in which John Paul II declared that the Church has no authority to ordain women.
332 - Aug 2007 - Lex orandi: Benedict XVI's liturgical armistice: 'Summorum Pontificum', Fr Glen Tattersall
Here is a bold assertion by the way that faith worship and culture belong together - and a hint perhaps that the new evangelisation pioneered by John Paul II must look back to Gregory the Greats methods for inspiration.
333 - Jul 2007 - Priesthood: Praying for priests: The Society of Christ Priest and Victim, Barry O'Brien
The late Pope John Paul II when he was a seminarian training for the priesthood in Poland regularly prayed the Litany of Christ Priest and Victim.
334 - Jul 2007 - Poetry: A legacy of virtue: the remarkable Craig sisters, Fr John Lea McDaniels FSSP
The Fraternity was founded in Rome in 1988 with the blessing of Pope John Paul II to maintain the Latin liturgical heritage and established in Australia in 2000 in the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
335 - Jul 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency John Paul II and revival of UK vocations The Catholic Church of England and Wales has seen an increase in the number of men entering seminaries to study for the priesthood since the death of John Paul II in 2005.
336 - Jul 2007 - Interview: He could no longer explain why he wasn't Catholic, Tim Drake and Francis Beckwith
Looking back the beginning of my return to the Church though I didnt realise it at the time probably occurred at a conference on John Paul II and Philosophy at Boston College (BC) in February 2006.
337 - Jul 2007 - Pastoral Plan: Cardinal Pell's blueprint for the future in the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
The Plan represents a response to John Paul IIs encyclical Novo Millennio Ineunte in which he urged all Catholics to start afresh with Christ and called for new pastoral initiatives adapted to the circumstances of each community.
338 - Jun 2007 - Reflection: Pentecost, the Holy Spirit and the Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Binding together John Paul II in his encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia spoke of the Eucharist as the supreme sacramental manifestation of communion in the Church (36).
339 - Jun 2007 - New Zealand Catholic college's intellectually challenging RE program, Bernard Moran
In the second semester Year 13 studies Theology beginning with the relationship between philosophy and theology including an analysis of Pope John Paul IIs Fides et Ratio.
340 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: A tribute to natural family planning pioneer, Dr John Billings, RIP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Of course John Billings would immediately point out that each person is unique and unrepeatable as the Servant of God Pope John Paul II so frequently proclaimed.
341 - May 2007 - Letters: Ecumenical councils, Peter D. Howard
The suicide of Europe due to contraception and abortion its aging population and its secularism all point to the correctness of Paul VIs Humanae Vitae and the need for both faith and reason as Pope John Paul II so beautifully taught.
342 - May 2007 - Vocations: New religious communities flourishing in the United States, Fr James Lloyd
Most of them have not been blighted by the wild adolescent binges we saw in the post-Vatican II period but have been invigorated by the charismatic appeal of Pope John Paul II and his interpretation of modern feminism as a way for women to express Christian values.
343 - May 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
In 1998 Pope John Paul II asked German clergy to stop issuing certificates indicating that they had counselled pregnant women considering an abortion.
344 - May 2007 - Documents: Benedict XVI's new document on the Eucharist - Sacramentum Caritatis, Michael Gilchrist
It embodies the 50 propositions of the 2005 Synod of Bishops Benedicts own concerns about Eucharistic faith and practice and draws upon themes raised in John Paul IIs final encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia and Benedicts first encyclical Deus Caritatis Est.
345 - Apr 2007 - Books: Books available from AD2000 and Freedom Publishing
Daily Lenten Meditations Pope John Paul II This compact book contains John Paul IIs reflections on the Scripture readings for each day of Lent from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday.
346 - Apr 2007 - Books: Catholic Thought Since the Enlightenment, by Aidan Nichols OP, Michael Daniel
Fr Nichols concludes by arguing that the Catholic Church then led by John Paul II with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger as his assistant ended the millennium with its intellectual house relatively in order (p.
347 - Apr 2007 - Books: The Way of Love: Reflections on Deus Caritas Est, Livio Melina and Carl Anderson, Tim Cannon
It is in response to this important document that the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family has published The Way of Love: Reflections on Pope Benedict XVIs Encyclical Deus Caritas Est.
348 - Apr 2007 - St Faustina: The Divine Mercy apostolate: a spirituality to transform the world, Eva Kimnes
Despite this in most churches there was a strong devotion to the Divine Mercy and to Pope John Paul II with pictures and sculptures of both prominently displayed inside the churches where people knelt and spent time in prayer after Masses.
349 - Apr 2007 - Book Launch: B.A. Santamaria and Australian Catholicism: Cardinal Pell's tribute, Cardinal George Pell
AD2000 tapped into the revival of Catholic life led by Pope John Paul II becoming part of a world-wide web of orthodoxy spreading information and ideas bringing encouragement to those struggling in isolation and so reminding the Roman authorities that there did exist in Australia some local capacity to continue the struggle to improve our situation.
350 - Apr 2007 - Editorial: Benedict XVI's document on the Eucharist, Michael Gilchrist
Sacramentum Caritatis follows John Paul IIs encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia (on a deepened appreciation of the central mystery of faith) Redemptionis Sacramentum (on correct liturgy) and Liturgiam Authenticam (guidelines for liturgical translations).
351 - Mar 2007 - Books: Order Books from freedompublishing.com.au
95 Miracles of John Paul II Pawel Zuchniewicz The author a Polish journalist and commentator has gathered together compelling accounts of miracles believed to have occurred through the intervention of Pope John Paul II.
352 - Mar 2007 - Media: The Rosary of the Virgin Mary - 4 DVD or 4 CD set, Michael Gilchrist
Confraternity of Christ the Priest Thurgoona NSW) In the introduction to Pope John Paul IIs Rosarium Virginis Mariae we read: The Rosary of the Virgin Mary which gradually took form in the second millenium under the guidance of the Spirit of God is a prayer loved by countless Saints and encouraged by the Magisterium.
353 - Mar 2007 - Books: The Glory of These Forty Days, by Fr James Tolhurst, Michael Gilchrist
The Glory of these Forty Days like its predecessor is compact but generous in its wide cross section of the Churchs treasury of spiritual writings including of course the Gospels but also the works of such luminaries as St Ambrose Thomas agrave; Kempis Tertullian St Leo the Great John Paul II and many others.
354 - Mar 2007 - Formation: Continuing growth of Sydney's Catholic Adult Education Centre, AD2000 Report
The series began early in 2002 with a seminar on Pope John Paul IIs Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Oceania featuring Archbishop George Pell the then Father (now Bishop) Julian Porteous and Selina Hasham.
355 - Feb 2007 - Reflection: Why the Church must continue to uphold priestly celibacy, Fr Pat Stratford
While the number of ordinations to the diocesan priesthood has been on the increase in many parts of the world since 1978 the year John Paul II became Pope at the same time vocations have decreased in the West.
356 - Feb 2007 - Books: BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM: Five Reflections on the History of the Church, Sr Mariana Handley
Writers such as Alasdair MacIntyre Hans Urs von Balthasar and John Paul II form the basis of a text which uses the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the typology of Irenaeus to renew in our times the story of salvation and our role in manifesting God to the world.
357 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Catholic dolls, Anne Cramer
We have six at present: Mother Teresa Saint Th rse Pope John Paul II The Child Jesus Our Lady of Guadalupe and Mary Our Lady of Grace.
358 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Limbo?, Lawrence R. Hurley
Meanwhile it appears Pope John Paul II referred the question to a theological commission whose advice has not yet been issued.
359 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Shared guilt, Errol Duke
If this occurs then the springtime of the Faith that John Paul II anticipated may eventually come to pass.
360 - Feb 2007 - The Church and the environment: address the moral pollution first, Wanda Skowronska
Pope John Paul IIs 1990 World Day of Peace statement much neglected by eco-theologians says as much: When man turns his back on the Creators plan he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order.
361 - Feb 2007 - Priesthood: Orthodox priests in a divided Church, Fr John Trigilio
Prior to the papacy of John Paul II the other group in the seminary was indeed loyal to the Magisterium and obedient to the Roman Pontiff.
362 - Dec 2006 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 Arms of Love Carmen Marcoux Arms of Love presents the truth about Christian intimacy based on John Paul IIs Theology of the Body.
363 - Dec 2006 - Books: COME, LORD JESUS:Reflections on the Advent and Christmas Seasons, James Tolhurst, Michael Gilchrist
The spiritual contributors represent a whos who of the Churchs saints and scholars from St Irenaeus and St Thomas Aquinas to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and Pope John Paul II.
364 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Vatican guidelines on Holy Communion for politicians, Vincent Bemowski
This is a grave error (Pope John Paul II Los Angeles speech to US bishops 16 September 1987).
365 - Dec 2006 - Religious Life: Tyburn Sisters' communities spread around the world, Tess Livingstone
Just a few weeks old at that stage the Tyburn Sisters Roman Convent came about as a result of a promise made to the late Pope John Paul II by Mother Mary Xavier McMonagle the orders Mother General.
366 - Dec 2006 - 'Lost!' controversy: Archbishop Bathersby's reply, AD2000 Report
All follow John Paul IIs document on priestly formation Pastores Dabo Vobis.
367 - Dec 2006 - Benedict XVI challenges 'de-Christianisation' of society, Michael Gilchrist
Benedict told the Swiss bishops that the meeting was in some way the conclusion of their ad limina visit of February 2005 because on that occasion it had not been possible to accomplish one of the essential parts of the process the meeting with John Paul II.
368 - Nov 2006 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 Arms of Love Carmen Marcoux Arms of Love presents the truth about Christian intimacy based on John Paul IIs Theology of the Body.
369 - Nov 2006 - Books: St John Bosco, St Dominic and the Rosary, St Thérèe of Lisieux, Siobhan B. Reeves
Theacute;rse Martin was canonised in 1925 by Pius XI and declared a Doctor of the Church by John Paul II in 1997.
370 - Nov 2006 - Television: EWTN: now affordable and accessible in Australia, Moira Kirkwood
Vocations of the lsquo;John Paul II generationrsquo; are flourishing.
371 - Nov 2006 - Education: The Spirit of Generation Y: the challenge for Catholic schools, Cardinal George Pell
Pope John Paul II should have the last word from his message at the start of the third Christian millennium: lsquo;Duc in altum!
372 - Oct 2006 - Book Launch: Lost! Australian Catholics Today, by Michael Gilchrist
Australian Catholics Today (hardback 200 pages) Michael Gilchrists new book on the state of the Catholic Church in Australia comes almost exactly 20 years after the launch of his Rome or the Bush at the time of Pope John Paul IIs visit to Australia in 1986.
373 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Early baptism, Frances McEniery
I also assure John that when John Paul II spoke of these babies as living in the Lord he was referring to the beatific vision and not to limbo.
374 - Oct 2006 - News: The Church Around The World
In an interview in August with the Italian daily Il Giornale Cardinal Bertone said he favoured a reorganisation of the Roman Curia pointing out that the last significant changes in the Vaticans administrative structure came early in the pontificate of John Paul II.
375 - Sep 2006 - Books: Advancing the Culture of Death, by Peter Hung Manh Tran, Peter Westmore
Following the approach of John Paul II he also argues that faith is consonant with reason and shows how protecting the life of every one of us serves the ultimate good of society however difficult it might appear to be in particular cases.
376 - Sep 2006 - Clergy: ACCC Annual Conference focuses on theology of Benedict XVI, AD2000 Report
Dr Tracey Rowland Associate Professor and Dean of the John Paul II Institute in Melbourne gave three papers one drawn from her forthcoming Oxford University Press book Keys to the Theology of Benedict XVI another on Benedict and the Second Vatican Council and a third on Augustine in the Theology of Benedict XVI.
377 - Sep 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
The United States Catholic Catechism for Adults available from USCCB Publishing is an adaptation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1992.
378 - Aug 2006 - Reflection: The importance of early baptism, John Young
John Paul IIs words to mothers who have had an abortion (Evangelium vitae n.
379 - Aug 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing
Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing Theology of the Body for Beginners Christopher West In his latest book Christopher West provides a short accessible summary of John Paul IIs revolutionary teaching exploring the links between sex and the deepest questions of human existence.
380 - Aug 2006 - Letters: What Is The Eucharist?, Rosanna Sherman
So we gathered all the papers together and sent them to John Paul II for his information because To those who believe no explanation is necessary to those who dont none is possible.
381 - Aug 2006 - DIY Mass: Redemptionis Sacramentum revisited, Fr Martin Durham
It is just over two years since the promulgation with the approval of Pope John Paul II of the Vatican instruction on the Eucharist Redemptionis Sacramentum (25 March 2004).
382 - Aug 2006 - Scripture and Tradition: sources of divine revelation, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Women priests In our own day John Paul II settled the dispute about the ordination of women to the priesthood in the same way.
383 - Aug 2006 - What makes a Catholic university 'Catholic', Father John Coughlin
Ex Corde Ecclesiae is an apostolic constitution issued by Pope John Paul II in 1990.
384 - Aug 2006 - Teen STAR: Sex education for young adults: a pro-life approach, Jacinta Cummins
On 30 June 2006 the Australian Family Association was privileged to host Dr Hanna Klaus who was visiting from Washington DC and teaching her course at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
385 - Aug 2006 - Canberra-Goulburn: Archbishop Coleridge: Benedict's first Australian appointment, Anh Nguyen
In 1998 he was called to the Vatican to work in the Secretariat of State where he had regular contact with John Paul II.
386 - Aug 2006 - Music: Benedict XVI seeks a greater sense of the sacred in church music
However following years of opposition to his musical approach he was dismissed in 1997 and replaced by a choirmaster thought to be better suited to John Paul IIs musical preferences.
387 - Aug 2006 - Liturgy: The new Missal translation: Archbishop Hart's progress report, Michael Gilchrist
The bishops of England and Wales have also voted to accept the new translation drafted as a result of a 2001 directive by Pope John Paul II.
388 - Aug 2006 - Editorial: Falling Mass attendances and liturgical reform, Michael Gilchrist
Likewise the so-called reform of the reform of the liturgy bringing it more into line with what John Paul II and Benedict XVI have repeatedly called for might attract or retain those people who have been repelled by banal trivialised liturgies.
389 - Jul 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing
Theology of the Body for Beginners Christopher West In his latest book Christopher West provides a short accessible summary of John Paul IIs revolutionary teaching exploring the links between sex and the deepest questions of human existence.
390 - Jul 2006 - Books: Theology of the Body for Beginners, by Christopher West, Jacinta Cummins
God always bestows special and unique graces in times of great chaos and it seems no mere coincidence that John Paul II was installed after the advent of the sexual liberation and the widescale acceptance of the Pill.
391 - Jul 2006 - Books: Hell and Other Destinations, by Piers Paul Read, Francis Phillips
Perhaps that is why he has reluctantly assumed the mantle of a minor prophet towards our aphrodisiac society as John Paul II described it.
392 - Jul 2006 - Re-mythologising: Narnia - faith and fiction: The parallel world of C.S.Lewis, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Father Calabria was beatified in 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
393 - Jul 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
He made his remarks in the Synod Hall at the Vatican to participants in a conference marking the 10th anniversary of Vita Consecrata the apostolic exhortation by John Paul II that concluded the work of the bishops Synod on consecrated life.
394 - Jun 2006 - Books: Letters to a Young Catholic, by George Weigel, Michael Daniel
The author George Weigel is one of the leading authorities on the Catholic Church and perhaps best known for his biography on the late John Paul II Witness to Hope.
395 - Jun 2006 - Liturgy: Catholics at prayer: why we stand and kneel, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
The memorable Year of the Eucharist promulgated by the late John Paul II gave an inspiring boost to Eucharistic Adoration.
396 - Jun 2006 - The John Paul II Institute after five years, AD2000 Report
The John Paul II Institute in Melbourne is about to celebrate its fifth anniversary following its opening in July 2001 by Cardinal Alphonse Trujillo.
397 - Jun 2006 - Education: Why do CEOs use Groome's RE method?, AD2000 Report
Regarding papal authority and the way it was exercised by John Paul II Sr Fiedler says in the introduction to Rome Has Spoken Within the Church his doctrinal orthodoxy and repression of dissent have threatened free theological development.
398 - Jun 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
The response to John Paul IIs death touched many including Diannah Hedgebeth who made a profession of faith was confirmed and received First Communion at St Michaels Church in Newark New Jersey.
399 - May 2006 - Books: On The Way To Jesus Christ, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Jacinta Cummins
Available from AD Books) Following the election and installation of a quiet German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the successor to John Paul II the former Cardinals books have soared in popularity both in his homeland and around the world briefly dethroning the Harry Potter books from number one on the best sellers list.
400 - May 2006 - Books: The Victory Of Reason, by Rodney Stark, Michael Gilchrist
The European constitution - fortunately rejected by France and Holland to date and still languishing - makes no mention of Europes Christian roots despite John Paul IIs efforts in the years before his death in 2005.
401 - May 2006 - Catholicism-lite's Church of convenience, Paul A. Wagner
These clerics of the Church of Catholic Convenience made their understanding of New Testament history patently clear on American television when for example following Pope John Paul IIs approval of Mel Gibsons traditional Catholic movie The Passion of the Christ they apologised for the Pope and condemned the movie.
402 - May 2006 - Benedict's first twelve months: 'We Are Church' delivers its verdict, Michael Gilchrist
Nostalgia Like similar groups that have come and gone with claims to be keeping alive the spirit of Vatican II during the long years of John Paul IIs reactionary pontificate We Are Church sounds for all the world like a group of nostalgic 60s hippies.
403 - May 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Fr Aidan Nichols Oxford appointment Fr Aidan Nichols OP has been appointed the John Paul II Lecturer in Theology at Oxford University.
404 - May 2006 - Papacy: Benedict completes his first twelve months as Pope, Fr Ephraem Chifley
The anniversary of the death of John Paul II on 2 April 2005 is also a good time to reflect on the new papacy.
405 - Apr 2006 - Books: Mother Angelica, by Raymond Arroyo, Stephen Hitchings
According to Cardinal Oddi John Paul II said: EWTN is the key to restoring the Roman Catholic Church in America.
406 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Courageous example, Arnold Jago
When Lejeune died on Easter Sunday 1994 Pope John Paul II commented: If God called him from this earth on the very day of Christs Resurrection it is difficult not to see a coincidence in this sign.
407 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Religious education, Saskia Ebejer
Our young people (thanks in part to John Paul II and World Youth Day) dont want to swallow this nonsense any more.
408 - Apr 2006 - 1973 Decree: A Fourth Rite of Reconciliation for Queensland?, AD2000
Contrary to what some have asserted Pope John Paul II did not relax the requirements for use of the so-called Third Rite of Reconciliation (communal rite with general absolution) in or around 1998.
409 - Apr 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Despite the fact that John Paul II ruled definitively on the matter the CRC lobbies numerous times in the brief for women priests.
410 - Mar 2006 - Books: Golden Priest, Wooden Chalice, by Fr Tim Norris, Michael Gilchrist
Cardinal George Pell who opened the Pope John Paul II building at St Kevins in 2004 commented: No wonder people are already saying Thank God Ive been alive while John Paul II and Benedict XVI were Popes and Father Tim Norris was parish priest of Geebung.
411 - Mar 2006 - Letters: St John Vianney, Maureen Wright
The new evangelisation that was so dear to John Paul II can only be successful when we have holy priests.
412 - Mar 2006 - Letters: The Eucharist, Jim Howe
What a wonderful article on the Eucharist (December/January AD2000) by Chris Hilder to follow so closely on the closing of the glorious Year of the Eucharist instituted by Pope John Paul II.
413 - Mar 2006 - Media: Archbishop Hickey presents the Christian message on TV, Daniel Tobin
As the late Pope John Paul II put it: The special message before you is to find ways to ensure the voice of the Church is not marginalised or silenced in the modern era of the media.
414 - Mar 2006 - The distribution of Holy Communion past and present: an historical survey, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
The Vatican Instruction On Certain Questions Regarding the Collaboration of the Non-Ordained Faithful in the Sacred Ministry of Priests promulgated at the direction of Pope John Paul II in 1997 is quite specific: Extraordinary ministers may distribute Holy Communion at Eucharistic celebrations only when there are no ordained ministers present or when those ordained ministers present at a liturgical celebration are truly unable to distribute Holy Communion.
415 - Mar 2006 - Vocations: Dominican Sisters: religious vocations continue to rise in Nashville, Tracey Rowland
Dr Tracey Rowland is Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
416 - Mar 2006 - Modernism: 'New Church' not true Church: what modernists believe, Pastor Remotus
Pope John Paul II and the former Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) have been stalwart defenders of the traditional and orthodox tenets of the Catholic Faith and consequently have been subjected to bitter opposition and attacks by clergy religious and laity who have the modernist mindset.
417 - Mar 2006 - Editorial: The challenge facing Pope Benedict, Peter Westmore
John Paul II attempted to overcome the influence of the secular culture by speaking directly to the faithful through an exhausting program of missionary journeys to every corner of the world by-passing the filter of the mass media.
418 - Feb 2006 - Books: For the Life of the World:St Maximilian and the Eucharist, by Fr Jerzy Domanski, Michael Gilchrist
The book was first written at the time of Maximilians canonisation by John Paul II in 1982.
419 - Feb 2006 - Books: Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, Peter Westmore
Available from AD Books) The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church is the long-awaited summary of the Catholic Churchs social teachings a project initiated by Pope John Paul II and continuing the Churchs long-standing commitment to analyse economic political and social realities and put forward the principles on which a just society is based.
420 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Wrong chord? (letter), John Daly
In particular I had consulted Tra Le Sollecitudini Sacrosanctum Consilium Musicam Sacram and Pope John Paul IIs Chirograph for the centenary of Tra Le Sollecitudini.
421 - Feb 2006 - Priestly vocations: the key role of bishops, John Mallon
John Paul II Their youthful rebellion is engaged in the battle against the world the flesh and the devil.
422 - Dec 2005 - Reflection: Journey of the Magi and the search for truth, Cardinal George Pell
She wrote beautifully on the role of women 75 years ago and was influential on John Paul II.
423 - Dec 2005 - Books: Good News About Sex And Marriage, by Christopher West, Kerrie Allen
It has been said that John Paul IIs Theology of the Body is like a time-bomb waiting to go off in the third millennium of the Church.
424 - Dec 2005 - Books: The Cube and the Cathedral, by George Weigel, John Ballantyne
George Weigel - a distinguished Roman Catholic theologian from America and author of the international bestseller Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II - offers a compelling diagnosis of Europes long-term civilisational crisis which he argues first became lethally evident in World War I.
425 - Dec 2005 - Letters: Evangelisation, Michael Dunlea
John Paul II did for he learned it from Campus Crusade evangelists as a young priest and adapted those techniques to a movement he called Oasis to evangelise Polish youth.
426 - Dec 2005 - The Eucharist: gift of an interventionist God, Chris Hilder
Ecclesia De Eucharistia Encyclical Letter of Pope John Paul II 2003.
427 - Dec 2005 - Formation: St John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour, Fr John Cihak
In his approachability Father Vianney exemplified what the late Pope John Paul II has written in our time: It is important that the priest should mould his human personality in such a way that it becomes a bridge and not an obstacle for others in their meeting with Jesus Christ the Redeemer of man (Pastores Dabo Vobis n.
428 - Dec 2005 - Episcopacy: Archbishop Chaput of Denver: America's plain-speaking Pope's man, Peter J. Boyer
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver is a compact sixty-year-old of Native American descent whose manifest loyalty to the Pope and Magisterium makes him an exemplar of a group of American bishops who have been called the John Paul II bishops.
429 - Dec 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican Information Service Priests journal article disparages John Paul II An article in the Spring 2005 issue of The Swag official journal of the National Council of Priests of Australia presents a dismissive assessment of the pontificate of the late John Paul II.
430 - Nov 2005 - Books: Stem Cells, by Norman M. Ford and Michael Herbert, Kerrie Allen
In the concluding chapter Father Ford draws upon the teaching of the Catholic Church from biblical theological and philosophical writings including those of John Paul II.
431 - Nov 2005 - Letters: Vatican II and Benedict XVI, Jim Howe
Benedict XVI has certainly stressed his intention to carry on the work of John Paul II.
432 - Nov 2005 - Call to Holiness: Contemplating the Eucharistic Face of Christ, Christine McCarthy
For twenty four years Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was Pope John Paul IIs closest collaborator.
433 - Nov 2005 - Sister Miriam Duggan: the Church's response to AIDS, Anh Nguyen
She believes John Paul IIs Theology of the Body forms a basis on which a sound sex education can be built.
434 - Nov 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Broader use of the Latin Mass likely Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez the former Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship is a member of the Ecclesia Dei commission set up by Pope John Paul II to serve the needs of Catholics who favour the Latin Mass.
435 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell
In 1993 Pope John Paul II wrote his beautiful and controversial encyclical on The Splendour of Truth.
436 - Oct 2005 - Books: A Beautiful Story to be Told: The Legion of Mary in Oceania 1932-2005, Michael Gilchrist
Some of the chapter titles include Beginning the Legion in Australia 1932-1942 Outpost in New Guinea Legion in Parish Life 1960-1970 and Vatican II to Pope John Paul II 1965-1978.
437 - Oct 2005 - Books: What is Opus Dei?, by Dominique le Tourneau, Michael Gilchrist
During the pontificate of John Paul II it was evident that Opus Dei was held in particularly high regard by the Holy Father as a paragon of orthodoxy at a time of widespread theological dissent within the Church.
438 - Oct 2005 - Dies Domini: Armidale Diocese promotes Sunday observance, Bishop Luc Matthys
The program is based on John Paul IIs Apostolic Letter (31 May 1998) Dies Domini On Keeping the Lord s Day Holy.
439 - Oct 2005 - Juventutem: Young Latin Mass Catholics attend World Youth Day, Fr Glen Tattersall
Echoing the sentiments expressed by Pope John Paul II in his Apostolic Letter Ecclesia Dei of 1988 Archbishop Hart spoke of the spiritual and theological treasure house which our Western liturgical tradition constitutes.
440 - Oct 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope John Paul II responded by announcing that the traditionalist group had committed a schismatic act incurring the penalty of excommunication for Archbishop Lefebvre and the bishops (including Bishop Fellay) he had ordained.
441 - Oct 2005 - Benedict XVI speaks out on the crisis of faith in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
In his long-time role as Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith under John Paul II he had occasion to study vast quantities of documentation on key problem areas.
442 - Sep 2005 - Books: More good reading from AD Books
95 A Companion to Veritatis Splendor James Tolhurst Father Tolhurst who is a member of the Birmingham Oratory sets out in simple non-technical language the theological and ethical thinking behind John Paul IIs important document.
443 - Sep 2005 - A religious response to evil ideologies, John Rego
In his final book Memory and Identity Pope John Paul II wrote about challenging the evil ideologies of the last century: Evil and good co-exist as illustrated in the parable of the wheat and the tares (Matthew 13).
444 - Sep 2005 - Education: Catholic schools of the future, Br John Moylan CFC
Pope John Paul II clarified the primary purpose of Australian Catholic schools simply and powerfully in his millennial message to 100000 Catholic school students and their teachers who were assembled in Stadium Australia Sydney on St Patricks Day 17 March 2000.
445 - Sep 2005 - News: The Chuch Around the World
Benedict then turned to the pilgrimage made by Pope John Paul II in 1982 to Santiago de Compostela where he performed a solemn European act during which he pronounced these memorable words: I bishop of Rome and pastor of the Universal Church from Santiago address to you old Europe a cry full of love: Return to yourself!
446 - Sep 2005 - Events: Sydney to host World Youth Day 2008, AD2000 REPORT
World Youth Day begun at a time when Pope John Paul II had established his reputation as a charismatic figure with a special appeal to young people has always drawn enormous crowds.
447 - Sep 2005 - Editorial: Support the 2005 Fighting Fund!, Peter Westmore
Santamaria in 1988 it has played a vital role in upholding the truths of the Faith and supporting Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI in defending the Church from its opponents.
448 - Aug 2005 - Books: More Good Reading from AD Books
It provides a rare opportunity for us to meet John Paul II in his former years through a personal encounter as a friend and a person.
449 - Aug 2005 - John Paul II: a Jewish appreciation
To our Christian brothers it is with emotion mixed with infinite sadness that the Jews of France learnt that God has recalled to Himself Pope John Paul II.
450 - Aug 2005 - Benedict XVI's pontificate: the possibilities, Damian Thompson
Even so it is a revealing detail suggesting that despite shared roots in folk Catholicism Benedicts intellectual history has little in common with that of John Paul II.
451 - Aug 2005 - Campus Life: Cardinal Pell's program for a Catholic culture at Sydney's universities, Stephen Lawrence
A six week course in the Theology of the Body of Pope John Paul II which I teach every year - the next beginning on 7 September - provides the key opportunity to deal with the two questions he poses: Who are we?
452 - Aug 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
A suggestion was put to John Paul II that a compendium be prepared in order to meet two essential objectives: conciseness and a focus on essentials.
453 - Jul 2005 - Books: Letters To a Young Catholic, by George Weigel, David Birch
Available from AD Books) With the Twentieth World Youth Day in Cologne on 16-21 August this year scheduled to be the first overseas visit of Pope Benedict XVI it is timely to consider the latest book from George Weigel (perhaps best known for his Witness to Hope: The Biography of John Paul II) in which he composes 14 letters specifically aimed at young Catholics who like many of their older counterparts may well be wondering what it means to be a Catholic today.
454 - Jul 2005 - Letters: Latin-English Hymnbook and CD, Veronic Brandt
Since the passing of Pope John Paul II a hymnbook (A New Book of Old Hymns in Latin and English 2004) and accompanying CD have had to be updated with a few modifications.
455 - Jul 2005 - Living Stones: Church architecture: can a sense of the sacred be recovered?, Christian Xavier
As Pope John Paul II reminded us: The particular gift of each of the Churchs members must be wisely and carefully acknowledged safeguarded promoted discerned and coordinated without confusing roles functions or theological and canonical status.
456 - Jul 2005 - Man of the Year: How John Paul II converted a 'Time' journalist, NewsMax.com
After years of covering Pope John Paul II up close and personal now retired Time magazine Vatican correspondent Wilton Wynn converted to Catholicism.
457 - Jul 2005 - Vocations: John Paul Il's Milwaukee connection, Fr John Walter
Only a few in the know would appreciate that the late Holy Father Pope John Paul II spoke English with a Milwaukee accent.
458 - Jul 2005 - Rockhampton: Year of the Eucharist: a time for clear thinking, AD2000 REPORT
Johns chapter 6) the Catechism of the Catholic Church Pope John Paul IIs encyclical on the Eucharist Ecclesia de Eucharistia his Apostolic Letter Mane Nobiscum Domine and from the works of saints like Francis of Assisi Alphonsus Ligouri Peter Julian Eymard and Padre Pio to mention just a few.
459 - Jul 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic Voice Israel honours Pope John Paul II Israel has honoured Pope John Paul II with a commemorative stamp Israels embassy to the Holy See announced on 20 May.
460 - Jul 2005 - Christianity: Church challenges secular culture of Europe, Peter Westmore
In 2004 Pope John Paul II tried to have reference to Europes Christian foundations included in the new EU Constitution but was rebuffed by the politicians who drafted it led by former French President Valery Giscard dEstaing who chaired the convention that drafted the constitution.
461 - Jun 2005 - Reflection: Cardinal Nguyen van Thuan: witness to the priesthood and Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes
The life of the late Cardinal Nguyen van Thuan (1928-2002) was a true and well-credentialled witness to the words of the late Holy Father Pope John Paul II: We were born from the Eucharist.
462 - Jun 2005 - Books: John Paul the Great, edited by William Oddie, John R. Barich
Why John Paul II has been the authentic interpreter of Vatican II JOHN PAUL THE GREAT Edited by William Oddie (CTS and The Catholic Herald London 2003 186pp hardback $39.
463 - Jun 2005 - Events: Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul, Fraternity of St Peter
On Sunday 26 June at St Aloysius Caulfield the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul will be celebrated with a tribute to Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
464 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Revolt manifesto, P. Gartland
Vatican II was a move in the right direction but since then the late John Paul II tried to turn back the clock and reassert the control of the Vatican over the Church.
465 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Unchanging teachings, Greg O'Regan
Prior to the death of John Paul II there was a view that he should resign or retire on health grounds.
466 - Jun 2005 - Letters: New Pope, Deidre Lyra
The coverage and tributes given by our local newspapers on the death of Pope John Paul II needs commendation reflecting the life and work of a truly great man.
467 - Jun 2005 - Letters: John Paul the Great?, Patrick Ryan
Whilst we are bound in charity to pray for the repose of the soul of our beloved John Paul II would it not also be appropriate for us to pray that in the foreseeable future Karol Wojtyla may be raised to the honours of the altars so that we have a new saint whom we may address as Pope Saint John Paul the Great?
468 - Jun 2005 - Papal awards for WA Catholic politicians, Hugh Ryan
Two retired West Australian State MPs may be the last people to have received the Papal Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (for the Church and the Pontiff) from Pope John Paul II.
469 - Jun 2005 - The Catholic Church's dissenters miss the boat, Chris Hilder
With the passing of Pope John Paul II and the election of Pope Benedict XVI it has been interesting to watch the same old dissenters appearing in the media - and none more so than the ubiquitous Paul Collins.
470 - Jun 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
This is the fourth time since Pope John Paul II issued Ex Corde Ecclesiae the apostolic constitution on Catholic universities that a bishop has declared a historically Catholic college or university to be no longer Catholic.
471 - Jun 2005 - He was my Pope, too: a Lutheran's appreciation of John Paul II, Uwe Siemon-Netto
Now that John Paul II is gone I am even more of an orphan than the Christians in the Roman church.
472 - Jun 2005 - Habemus Papam: Benedict XVI charts course as successor to John Paul II, Michael Gilchrist
The choice of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI after a very brief conclave was welcome news for Catholics keen to see the reforms of Pope John Paul II consolidated.
473 - Jun 2005 - Editorial: Corpus Christi - the Body of Christ
It has a particular significance this year which Pope John Paul II dedicated to the Blessed Eucharist and which was the subject of one of his last encyclical letters Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church from the Eucharist).
474 - May 2005 - Books: Remembering Pope John Paul II
Memory and Identity Pope John Paul II Using the encounters at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo where conversations took place with leading intellectuals Pope John Paul II addressed in his last book many of the questions which arose from these discussions.
475 - May 2005 - Letters: God's Champion, Robert Garrett
It is with sadness but also with joy that we say farewell to Gods champion Pope John Paul II the visible head of the Catholic Church the church founded by Jesus Christ.
476 - May 2005 - St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, a spiritual oasis in London, Tess Livingstone
The practical work of the School of Mission program and of St Patricks itself Father Sherbrooke explains is inspired by Pope John Paul IIs call for parishes to be intra ad extra - contemplative at heart with a missionary outreach.
477 - May 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope John Paul IIs moral influence in US A poll conducted by ABC News in March found that more American Catholics saw their moral views influenced by Pope John Paul II than they did two years ago.
478 - May 2005 - 'Santo Subito': the impact of John Paul II, Peter Westmore
It is a measure of the extraordinary impact of Pope John Paul II that over a million people filed past his open coffin in St Peters Basilica before the massive queue was closed off to allow his funeral Mass to take place.
479 - May 2005 - Editorial: Challenges facing John Paul II's successor Benedict XVI, Michael Gilchrist
As the present issue of AD2000 goes to press a conclave of the Churchs eligible elector cardinals (those under 80) has been underway to choose a successor to Pope John Paul II.
480 - Apr 2005 - Books: Religious resources for 2005
Memory and Identity Pope John Paul II Using the encounters at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo where conversations took place with leading intellectuals Pope John Paul II addresses in his latest book many of the questions which arose from these discussions.
481 - Apr 2005 - Australia prepares for World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne, AD2000 Report
This will be a major disappointment to himself and the participants given the deep spiritual bond between John Paul II and young Catholics privileged to encounter him.
482 - Apr 2005 - Editorial: Pope's suffering a potent Easter witness, Michael Gilchrist
No other public figure has had his deteriorating physical condition and sufferings on such prolonged public display as Pope John Paul II.
483 - Mar 2005 - Dissent: Notes from a theology unit at Australian Catholic University
Pope John Paul II published Ex Corde Ecclesiae in 1990 calling on bishops conferences to ensure the orthodoxy of Catholic institutions of higher education and their faculties.
484 - Mar 2005 - Vocations: Australian diocesan seminary numbers continue to increase, Michael Gilchrist
Much of this reform was outlined by Pope John Paul II in Pastores dabo vobis published a few weeks after this seminary was inaugurated.
485 - Mar 2005 - Editorial: Pray for John Paul II ..., Peter Westmore
Throughout the world there have been many expressions of concern for Pope John Paul II following his hospitalisation for influenza.
486 - Feb 2005 - Books: Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way, by John Paul II, Richard Egan
A new set of reflections by John Paul II: further insight into a faith-filled soul RISE LET US BE ON OUR WAY Pope John Paul II (Warner Books 2004 230pp $29.
487 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Society of St Pius X (letter), Anthony Bono
If the SSPX is seen as a problem the onus is on all bishops to ensure that the liturgical abuses identified in Redemptoris Sacramentum are eliminated without delay and that Latin Masses are made more widely available to those preferring them as Pope John Paul II has requested.
488 - Feb 2005 - Religious Life: Faith and Reason: for a true renewal in religious life and the Church, Sr Mary Augustine OP
Pope John Paul IIs Encyclical Fides et Ratio suggests the solution to the problems of both extremes.
489 - Feb 2005 - Editorial: Year of the Eucharist: a time to get serious, Michael Gilchrist
It is timely that Pope John Paul II issued an Encyclical on the Eucharist in 2004 called for a Year of the Eucharist from October 2004 to 2005 and approved a document - Redemptoris Sacramentum - identifying incorrect practices in the Churchs Liturgy for priests and bishops to address.
490 - Dec 2004 - Reflection: Today is born to us a Saviour of the world, Pope John Paul II
This is the edited text of Pope John Paul IIs Christmas Midnight Mass homily of 24 December 1999.
491 - Dec 2004 - Books: Architects of the Culture of Death, by Donald DeMarco and Benjamin Wiker, Jodie Brown
The Personalism of John Paul II is an illuminating thread that runs through Architects serving as a hopeful antidote.
492 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Liturgical development (letter), Msgr Peter J. Elliott
The Indult of Pope John Paul II for the celebration of the pre-conciliar rite specifies the use of the last edition of the Tridentine Missal authorised by Blessed Pope John XXIII in 1962.
493 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Seminary reforms (letter), Fr Peter Thompson CM
Much of this reform has been outlined by Pope John Paul II in Pastores dabo vobis published a few weeks after this seminary was inaugurated.
494 - Dec 2004 - Archbishop Fulton Sheen: 25th anniversary, Martin Tobin
The Society is endeavouring to carry out Pope John Paul IIs directive to all concerned: The special message before you is to find ways to ensure the voice of the Church is not marginalised or silenced in the modern era of the media.
495 - Dec 2004 - Administration: Cardinal Pell: Church administrators must put Christ's mission first, Cardinal George Pell
This is exactly what Pope John Paul II has been telling us must not happen.
496 - Dec 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
It was issued by Pope John Paul II on 15 August 1990 and provides general norms to assist Catholic colleges and universities in fulfilling the Churchs requirements.
497 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Church teaching (letter), Carmel Pittari
Is there a difference between the openness Pope John Paul II urges us to have and having an open mind?
498 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Unchanging Mass? (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan SM
I notice that Monsignor Elliott writes of priests who use the indult of Pope John Paul II to celebrate Mass according to the last edition of the pre-Vatican II Missale Romanum.
499 - Nov 2004 - Obituary: RIP Michael Davies - The passing of a true defender of the Faith, Michael Foley
Perhaps no other single person promoted the cause of the Latin Mass as effectively as he did through his lectures and prolific writings which helped pave the way for Pope John Paul IIs Indult of 1988.
500 - Nov 2004 - Morning Mass: Finding some 'head space': an alternative approach, David Birch
My plea if I may seeks to echo Pope John Paul IIs challenge in 1998 to move beyond whatever misunderstandings there have been and to reach the proper point of balance especially by entering more deeply into the contemplative dimension of worship which includes a sense of awe reverence and adoration which are fundamental attitudes in our relationship with God.
501 - Nov 2004 - Education: Where secular humanism is triumphing over the Gospel, Fr John Walter
What actually has been happening is that all too many have accepted what John Paul II has dubbed the soft options of the Gospel.
502 - Nov 2004 - Deer Park: Transforming our secular culture: the role of women, Marcia Riordan
No wonder Pope John Paul II calls it a culture of death for it is marked by materialism consumerism and the inroads of the sexual revolution.
503 - Nov 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Pope John Paul IIs new Apostolic Letter Pope John Pauls Apostolic Letter Mane Nobiscum Domine (Stay with us Lord) addressed to the bishops clergy and faithful of the Church on the occasion of the October 2004-October 2005 Year of the Eucharist was presented on 8 October in the Holy See Press Office by Cardinal Francis Arinze.
504 - Nov 2004 - Ad limina: The Pope calls for strong leadership from New Zealand's Bishops, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul II called for New Zealands bishops to exercise strong leadership in the face of a continuing erosion of faith and the inroads of secularism.
505 - Oct 2004 - Books: The Ceremonies Of The Roman Rite Described, Fortescue,O'Connell, Alcuin Reid, Msgr. Peter J. Elliott
What Dom Alcuin has achieved is first of all making available an accurate guide for those who use the indult of Pope John Paul II to celebrate Mass according to the last edition of the pre-Vatican II Missale Romanum authorised in 1962 by Blessed John XXIII.
506 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Graham Greene (letter), Thomas A. Watkin
Sherry next notes Greenes proclaimed doctrine of doubt highlighting this sceptical characteristic by adverting to the stir Greene caused in 1989 by suggesting Pope John Paul II lacked a necessary quality - doubt.
507 - Oct 2004 - Society: Why marriage should receive greater government support, Michael Casanova
We need to take up Pope John Paul IIs words that ours is the task of contributing with the light of the Gospel to Eacute; a world fully in harmony with Gods plan (Ecclesia de Eucharistia 20).
508 - Oct 2004 - Books: Be Not Afraid: Cardinal George Pell's new book to be launched in November
Update In the month of the Holy Rosary in 2002 Pope John Paul II announced the creation of a new set of Mysteries to be used in praying the Rosary.
509 - Oct 2004 - Liturgy: Why priests should stick to the Mass texts, Bishop T.J. Paprocki
The fact that the Supreme Legislator the Holy Father wants the law of the Church to be followed is clearly stated in the Apostolic Constitution of Pope John Paul II Sacrae Disciplinae Leges promulgating the 1983 Code of Canon Law: Finally by their very nature laws are to be observed.
510 - Oct 2004 - University: International Movement of Catholic Students Australia, Aaron Russell
Other speakers included Dr Tracey Rowland Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Patrick Quirk Associate Professor Ave Maria Catholic Law School Eamonn Keane and the movements chaplin Fr Gregory Jordan SJ.
511 - Oct 2004 - News: The Church around the World
Need to evangelise US culture says Pope In a meeting with bishops from the northeastern US on 1 September Pope John Paul II underlined the need for the evangelisation of culture.
512 - Oct 2004 - Today's non-practising young Catholics: are Church conservatives to blame?, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul II with his uncompromising approach to doctrines and morals has had an obvious appeal for many young people evident in particular during World Youth Days.
513 - Sep 2004 - Mission: Sydney seminary's evangelisation program revitalises parish, Bishop Julian Porteous
The Apostolic Exhortation of Pope John Paul II Pastores Dabo Vobis presents the rich biblical image of shepherd as the overarching motif for priestly ministry.
514 - Sep 2004 - Sydney Catholic Adult Education Centre courses prove popular, Peter Holmes
As Pope John Paul II said: The future is in your hearts and in your hands.
515 - Sep 2004 - Mass Attendance: Where have all the worshippers gone?, Fr Martin Durham
To deal with this situation Pope John Paul II has repeatedly called for the need of a new evangelisation.
516 - Aug 2004 - The Catholic Church and the Greens: why?, Tony Kearney
Pope John Paul II some time ago had requested that Catholics generally become more environmentally active.
517 - Aug 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Spanish policies on family concern Pope Pope John Paul II hinted at misgivings over the policies of the new Spanish Government as he welcomed its new ambassador on 18 June 18.
518 - Aug 2004 - Pope's representative reminds Australian religious leaders on liturgy abuses, Archbishop Francesco Canalini
The Papal Nuncio to Australia Archbishop Francesco Canalini devoted the latter part of his Mass homily at the annual gathering of the 120 leaders of Australian religious congregations in Brisbane in mid-June to reminding them of Pope John Paul IIs concerns about liturgical abuses.
519 - Aug 2004 - Editorial: New challenges for Catholic education, Peter Westmore
John Paul II emphasised that it was of utmost importance that Catholic institutions remain Catholic in their self-understanding and Catholic in their identity.
520 - Jul 2004 - Letters: The power of one (letter), Brian Harris
The power of one can be amazing such persons as: The Holy Father Pope John Paul II who lived under the Nazis and the Communists and saved poor Jews at the risk of his own life.
521 - Jul 2004 - Pastoral Letter: The secular challenges to our faith: how to respond, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
One of the clearest messages which Pope John Paul II gave to the Bishops of Australia when we met with him during our ad limina visit last March was this: Do everything in your power to challenge your people to rediscover and to strengthen the Christian observance of Sunday with their faithful presence each week at Sunday Mass at its heart.
522 - Jul 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope John Paul II receives Polish President Poles asked to remind Europe of its Christian roots On 18 May on his 84th birthday Pope John Paul received Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski his wife and an entourage of fellow Poles.
523 - Jun 2004 - Books: More new titles for 2004 from AD Books
Louis and Zeacute;lie were declared Venerable by Pope John Paul II in 1994.
524 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Faith and reason (letter), John Kelly
Happily with the establishment of Campion College and the progress of the John Paul II Institute students now have the opportunity to experience an academically and spiritually edifying alternative to the post-modern relativism and ideological restrictiveness that in many of our educational institutions undermine both faith and reason as well as the complementary relationship between the two characteristics of the Catholic tradition.
525 - Jun 2004 - Theology of the Body: Why the silence on the Church's moral teachings?, Audrey Dillon
While the Churchs teachings on sexuality have been constantly and clearly articulated by Pope John Paul II they rarely reach Catholics in classrooms or pews.
526 - Jun 2004 - Marriage: Statistics highlight the precarious state of marriage and family, AD2000 REPORT
Marriage is worthy of support commented John Paul II in his address to the Roman Rota earlier this year because of the objective good that every conjugal union and every family represents.
527 - Jun 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
US Bishops ad limina visit Pope insists on proper seminary training Meeting on 6 May with a group of American bishops from Detroit and Cincinnati making their ad limina visit Pope John Paul II highlighted the duty of bishops to build an ever closer relationship with your priests and to ensure the seminaries provide proper training particularly in preparing young men for a life of celibacy.
528 - May 2004 - Books: ANGLICANS AND ORTHODOX: Unity and Subversion (1559-1725), by Judith Pinnington, Tracey Rowland
Dr Tracey Rowland is the Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (Melbourne).
529 - May 2004 - Priesthood: Pope's World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Fr Paul Stuart
Pope John Paul II sends a Message to us all for the 41st World Day of Prayer for Vocations in the month of May: Serve Christ in his Church.
530 - May 2004 - Ethics: Denial of food and water to patients is 'genuine euthanasia': John Paul II, Michael Casanova
In a blunt and hard-hitting statement on 19 March 2004 to 400 participants at a conference in Rome Pope John Paul II condemned the removal of feeding tubes from patients in a persistent vegetative state calling it genuine euthanasia by omission.
531 - May 2004 - Australian Bishops' ad limina: strong leadership needed to confront secularism
Sunday Mass Pope John Paul II was clearly conscious of the challenges facing the bishops when he addressed them on 26 March.
532 - May 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
In fact during John Paul IIs pontificate the number of major seminarians has virtually doubled the secretary of the Congregation for Clergy Archbishop Csaba Ternyak said when presenting to the press the Popes Holy Thursday Letter to Priests.
533 - May 2004 - New liturgy document: Rome affirms right of laity to complain about abuses, Michael Gilchrist
Signed by Cardinal Francis Arinze Prefect of the Congregation the document has been mandated by Pope John Paul II.
534 - May 2004 - Editorial: May: the month of Mary, Mother of God, Peter Westmore
During his 26 year pontificate John Paul II has frequently reminded us that the month of May is in a particular way dedicated to Mary the Mother of God.
535 - Apr 2004 - Theology: Fr Aidan Nichols to lecture on von Balthasar in Melbourne, Tracey Rowland
Fr Aidan Nichols the Prior of Blackfriars Cambridge will be a Visiting Professor at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne from 19-30 April 2004.
536 - Apr 2004 - Events: Chesterton conference to be held in Melbourne, Tony Evans
Other talks at the conference will be given by Dr Tracey Rowland Dean of the John Paul II Institute Karl Schmude who heads a committee to establish the Catholic liberal arts institution Campion College and the well-known Melbourne journalist and broadcaster Paul Gray.
537 - Apr 2004 - Books: Archbishop Hart launches new book on Dr Mannix - Daniel Mannix: Wit and Wisdom, Archbishop Dennis Hart
The remarkable work of Pope John Paul II with youth and the flowering of young people deeply loyal to the faith and conscious of the role of the Church in their lives will find Mannixs story fascinating inspiring and a tremendous encouragement.
538 - Apr 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Popes new Apostolic Letter 40th anniversary of Vatican II liturgy document The text of Pope John Paul IIs latest Apostolic Letter has recently become available in an English translation.
539 - Mar 2004 - Books: AD Books - More new titles for 2004
95 New Saints and Blesseds of the Catholic Church Ferdinand Holbck In this second volume of a series the lives and deaths struggles and triumphs of those raised to the honours of the altar by Pope John Paul II are briefly portrayed.
540 - Mar 2004 - Books: Archbishop Fulton Sheen : A Man for All Media, by Gregory Joseph Ladd, Michael Gilchrist
Sheen finish fourth behind Pope John Paul II Mother Teresa and Padre Pio.
541 - Mar 2004 - Virtue ethics: Challenging our contemporary culture's flawed worldview, Hayden Ramsey
He has worked on the personal staff of Archbishops Pell and Hart in Melbourne and is now Academic Research Fellow in the Archdiocese of Sydney and Professor of Philosophy at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family.
542 - Mar 2004 - World AIDS Day: A Cardinal, AIDS and the BBC, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
BBC Panorama had a message: the Church of John Paul II is not only out of touch with the enlightened world on sex poverty population and birth control but the Vatican knows little about HIV/AIDS.
543 - Mar 2004 - USA: Pro-abortion politicians put on notice, AD2000
The document concluded: John Paul II continuing the constant teaching of the Church has reiterated many times that those who are directly involved in lawmaking bodies have a grave and clear obligation to oppose any law that attacks human life.
544 - Mar 2004 - Ad limina 2004: The 'Statement of Conclusions' five years on, Michael Gilchrist
Each bishop will have a personal meeting with Pope John Paul II and with the heads of various Vatican congregations.
545 - Mar 2004 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
French bishops ad limina visit to Rome Popes blunt message on vocations decline In the latest in a series of blunt messages to visiting bishops from France Pope John Paul II spoke of the alarming decline in the number of priests serving the Church in that country.
546 - Mar 2004 - Red Mass Homily: Can Lawyers Be Saints?, Bishop Anthony Fisher
For perhaps better than any other he showed us how we can integrate a full legal-professional and family life with a personal life of prayer and principle (cf John Paul II Motu Proprio Proclaiming St Thomas More Patron of Politicians (2001) 76; CDF On Participation of Catholics 1).
547 - Feb 2004 - Reflection: The ministerial priesthood: 'truly a gift from God', Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
Pope John Paul II in Pastores Dabo Vobis states: Brother priests we want to express our appreciation to you who are our most important collaborators in the apostolate.
548 - Feb 2004 - Books: AD Books - Fresh book titles for the New Year
95 John Paul II Speaks to Youth This official commemorative volume tells the story in words and photos of World Youth Day 1993 as well as previous World Youth Day celebrations in Spain Poland and Argentina.
549 - Feb 2004 - Books: The Beginner's Book Of Chant, by a Benedictine monk, Paul Russell
Pope John Paul II emphasises that all liturgical music must convey a sense of reverence and appreciation for the sacred and that Gregorian chant is especially important in this regard.
550 - Feb 2004 - Human life: precious from conception, Fr Angelo Serra SJ
This inhuman situation was recalled in the encyclical Evangelium Vitae of John Paul II: Some try to justify abortion by claiming that the product of conception at least until a certain number of days cannot yet be considered a personal human life.
551 - Feb 2004 - Melbourne and Sydney initiatives to educate adults in the Catholic faith, Peter Holmes
The future is in your hearts and in your hands (John Paul II).
552 - Feb 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Papal document on liturgical music It must be reverent accentuate the sacred In a new document released on 4 December 2003 Pope John Paul II emphasises that liturgical music must convey a sense of reverence and appreciation for the sacred.
553 - Dec 2003 - Reflection: 'Jesus Christ: the door of our salvation' : the meaning of Christmas, Pope John Paul II
Christmas Message Urbi et Orbi by Pope John Paul II 25 December 1999.
554 - Dec 2003 - Books: You Are Peter, by Olivier Clément, Peter Westmore
Available from AD Books) Olivier Cleacute;ment one of the leading theologians from the Greek Orthodox tradition has written this concise reflection on the Orthodox Churchs understanding of the exercise of the papal office as a contribution to the debate inaugurated by John Paul II in 1995.
555 - Dec 2003 - EVENTS: Adore 2004: a Eucharistic Congress for youth
Last years Adore 2003 was held in Omaha Nebraska with Archbishop Elden Curtiss celebrating the opening Mass reminding the young people of Pope John Paul IIs call for them to be apostles of the third millennium who will keep the spirit of Jesus alive in the world.
556 - Dec 2003 - VOCATIONS: Melbourne's 'Hearts on Fire' vocations congress a success, Fr Paul Stuart
Finally Archbishop Hart closed the Congress with a Mass in the packed cathedral that also celebrated John Paul IIs 25th Jubilee as our Pope.
557 - Dec 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Profile of new cardinals 96 percent of eligible voters were named by John Paul II The number of cardinals eligible to vote in a papal election now stands at 135 - 15 more than the limit imposed by Pope Paul VI in 1975 and reaffirmed by Pope John Paul II in 1996.
558 - Dec 2003 - John Paul II's 25th anniversary: the impact of his teachings, Cardinal George Pell
George Weigel the American author of the best biography of the present Pope Witness to Hope claims that John Paul II came to realise that history is driven by ideas ideals and the moral commitment of people to their versions of culture which are always more powerful in the long run than politics or economics or armies.
559 - Nov 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!
95 Stories of Karol Gian Franco Svidercoschi Countless biographies have been written about Pope John Paul II.
560 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Missionaries of God's Love congregation flourishes in Canberra, Mary Pidcock
We have a strong vision under the grace of the new evangelisation called for by Pope John Paul II especially in working with young people.
561 - Nov 2003 - Melbourne on course despite brain drain, Fr Paul Stuart
His deep concern for the pastoral support and intellectual formation of Christians on matters to do with human life sexuality and marriage saw him bring the John Paul II Institute to Melbourne.
562 - Nov 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
In July and August Pope John Paul II made a point of emphasising Europes Christian heritage during every Sunday audience insisting that the political leaders of the European Union must safeguard an essential part of the spiritual and cultural patrimony.
563 - Nov 2003 - John Paul II elevates Archbishop George Pell to the College of Cardinals, Michael Gilchrist
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 at 10:30 am in St Peters Square John Paul II held a public ordinary consistory for the creation of 30 new cardinals and on the following day presided at a Eucharistic concelebration with the new cardinals on whom he bestowed the cardinals ring.
564 - Nov 2003 - Editorial: Anglicanism at the crossroads, Peter Westmore
In a meeting with Archbishop Williams in Rome Pope John Paul II warned him that new and serious difficulties in Catholic-Anglican relations had emerged as a result of the decisions.
565 - Oct 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!
95 Stories of Karol Gian Franco Svidercoschi Countless biographies have been written about Pope John Paul II.
566 - Oct 2003 - Books: I The Lord Am With You Always: Prayers and Meditations for Eucharistic Adoration, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Mrs McCarthy has skilfully selected appropriate sections that call us to pray before the monstrance and tabernacle adoration Pope John Paul II wants to see everywhere.
567 - Oct 2003 - Orthodox US Catholic colleges and universities continue to flourish, Julia Duin
Instead they are gravitating towards a new breed of college that aims to attract students who place Gods truth moral absolutes and loyalty to Pope John Paul II above parties sexual hookups and winning football programs.
568 - Oct 2003 - Why Catholic teaching on marriage is 'good news' for all humanity, Eamonn Keane
In the introduction to his encyclical Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason) Pope John Paul II speaks of how human beings are drawn by nature to ask ultimate questions such as: Who am I?
569 - Oct 2003 - Melbourne Archdiocese responds to John Paul II's Year of the Rosary, AD2000 Report
The Melbourne Archdiocese has responded to Pope John Paul IIs request in his Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae to celebrate the period from October 2002 to October 2003 as the Year of the Rosary by producing a new program to foster the Rosary in Catholic primary and secondary schools.
570 - Oct 2003 - Saints: The Beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
On October 19 2003 Pope John Paul II will celebrate the ancient ritual of the Catholic Church in St Peters Square Rome to beatify Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
571 - Oct 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
According to the report - which has not been confirmed by the Vatican - the new text will be the document to which Pope John Paul II referred in his encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia when he said that new juridical norms concerning the liturgy would soon be forthcoming from the Roman Curia.
572 - Oct 2003 - After 25 years: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Michael Gilchrist
As the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul IIs accession to the See of Peter - on 16 October 1978 - approaches it is timely to consider albeit very briefly his impact to date on the Church and world.
573 - Sep 2003 - Reflection: A Christian response to bereavement: Jesus' ministry to the sick and dying, Fr Dennis Byrnes
The Gospel of life is something tangible and personal for it proclaims the very person of Jesus Christ whose spirit dwells within us (Pope John Paul II Evangelium Vitae).
574 - Sep 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!
95 Love and Responsibility Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) This is a book that may revolutionise the sexual revolution.
575 - Sep 2003 - Abridged Papal encyclicals available, Fr M. Durham
An abridged version of Pope John Paul IIs recent encyclical on the Eucharist Ecclesia de Eucharistia has been printed in the Rockhampton diocesan monthly journal The Review.
576 - Sep 2003 - Letters: New Mass (letter), Philip Robinson
Pope John Paul IIs latest encyclical Ecclesia De Eucharistia repeats concerns he expressed in Dominicae Cenae a Holy Thursday letter addressed to bishops and priests in February 1980.
577 - Sep 2003 - Pope John Paul II calls for greater use of Latin, Denis Murphy
In May 2003 Pope John Paul II set up a new Vatican commission to restore the use of Latin in the Church.
578 - Sep 2003 - Understanding the Catholic Liturgy since Vatican II, Dom Alcuin Reid OSB
At his General Audience of 26 February this year Pope John Paul II stated: It is necessary to discover and to live constantly the beauty of prayer and of the Liturgy.
579 - Sep 2003 - Events: Hearts On Fire Vocations Congress for Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger
The event has the support of Pope John Paul II.
580 - Sep 2003 - Catholic summer conferences in the United States: signs of hope, Richard Egan
S Lewis the comparative explanations of the Fall in John Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas or the philosophy of the conjugal act in the teaching of John Paul II.
581 - Sep 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The beatification will take place on 19 October the same day the Church celebrates the silver anniversary of John Paul IIs pontificate as well as World Missions Sunday.
582 - Sep 2003 - New auxiliary bishops appointed to the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul IIs naming of Fathers Anthony Fisher OP and Julian Porteous to fill two vacancies in Australias senior Archdiocese of Sydney - with their episcopal ordinations due on September 3 - is of particular significance.
583 - Aug 2003 - JESUS: According to the Gospel of Luke (CD-ROM and Book), Roberta Wilson
In addition this excellent film created for the Great Jubilee of the year 2000 has been highly approved and recommended by Pope John Paul II: I invoke Gods blessing upon this initiative and I cordially impart to you the Apostolic Blessing.
584 - Aug 2003 - Books: The Divine Primacy: The Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy, Fr Peter Knowles OP
) In Australia Eastern monastic families are sparsely scattered; Europe fares better but in our days it is the USA that provides a place for many genuine monastic foundations (both Orthodox and Eastern Catholic): they profess the life that Pope John Paul II praised so highly in his document Orientale Lumen.
585 - Aug 2003 - Priesthood: Clerical celibacy 'for the sake of God's Kingdom': the Church's teaching, John Young
More recently Pope John Paul II has insisted on the same thing asserting that consecrated virginity is certainly superior to marriage (LOsservatore Romano English edition 19 April 1982 pp.
586 - Aug 2003 - Is Pope John Paul II canonising too many saints?, Michael Casanova
In the course or his pontificate from 1978 until today John Paul II has beatified 1299 persons 1029 of whom were martyrs while he has canonised 464 of whom 401 were martyrs.
587 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell
Ironically Pope Pauls affirmation of the unitive and procreative goals of marriage set the scene for Pope John Paul IIs theology of the body which speaks so powerfully to young adults today.
588 - Aug 2003 - US research survey: younger priests are generally more orthodox, AD2000
Asked whether they considered John Paul IIs views on moral issues generally to be too liberal too conservative or about right less than one percent of all respondents said they found the Holy Father too liberal.
589 - Aug 2003 - Bioethics: End-of-life decisions: the moral issues at stake, David Perrin
When Pope John Paul II visited Australia he constantly urged Australians to fight the culture of death and to work for life.
590 - Aug 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The Irish Catholic Pope John Paul IIs next book To deal with his personal and pastoral experience as a bishop Pope John Paul II is at work on another autobiographical book.
591 - Aug 2003 - Documents: Ecclesia in Europa - Pope challenges Christians to re-evangelise Europe, Michael Gilchrist
In his latest Apostolic Exhortation Pope John Paul II issues the following challenge: Europe as you stand at the beginning of the third millennium open the doors to Christ!
592 - Jul 2003 - Books: Europe: The Exceptional Case: Parameters Of Faith In The Modern World, Anthony Cappello
The challenge is to engage in the new evangelisation proclaimed by Pope John Paul II.
593 - Jul 2003 - Letters: New Mass (letter), Peter D. Howard
Those bishops who have renewed seminary formation in keeping with Pope John Paul IIs Pastores Dabo Vobis and keep the dissenters away from re-forming their older priests have faithful priests who adhere to the rubrics preach well and thus celebrate and re-present a valid licit and holy sacrifice for all who wish to join with them.
594 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Success in WA (letter), Deidre Lyra
Christopher is not only young but a young man who espouses the views and wisdom of our venerable Pontiff John Paul II and the traditions of our Catholic Church.
595 - Jul 2003 - TMC: Adelaide Thomas More Centre Autumn School a success, Emma Benz
The school took as its title The Hope that is in you from Pope John Paul IIs 1985 address to youth Dilecti Amici.
596 - Jul 2003 - Brisbane Synod ends: Archbishop Bathersby to announce pastoral programs, AD2000 REPORT
The largely lay delegation called for this purpose by Archbishop Bathersby reflected the thinking of Pope John Paul II in his letters (Christifideles Laici 1988 Novo Millenio Ineunte 2000) and in the decentralised episcopal synods of the 1990s to which the Pope had invited lay delegates.
597 - Jul 2003 - Orthodox Anglicans close ranks to preserve faith, Nigel Zimmermann
Major strides towards the reunification of Gods people into one ecclesial structure have been made by Pope John Paul II.
598 - Jul 2003 - Events: Seeking the face of Christ through the arts: Carnivale Christi goes national, Nicholas Rynne
Pope John Paul II has said: The Church has always believed that in a certain sense the infinite beauty of God is reflected in the different expressions of art which direct the mind so to speak toward Him.
599 - Jul 2003 - Books: AD2000 to distribute Ignatius Press titles in Australia from July, Peter Westmore
In addition to publishing the works of Pope John Paul II Ignatius has also published works by some of the best known contemporary lay Catholics including George Weigel Scott Hahn Karl Keating and Joseph Pearce as well as the works of Archbishop George Pell Cardinal Ratzinger Aidan Nichols OP Henri de Lubac Fr Benedict Groeschel and Mother Angelica founder of the Eternal Word Television Network.
600 - Jul 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Catholic World News No peace without respect for life John Paul II addresses Italian Movement for Life On 22 May Pope John Paul II received members of the Italian Movement for Life which he said for 25 years since 22 May 1978 when abortion was made legal in Italy has never ceased to work in the defence of human life one of the central values of the civilisation of love.
601 - Jul 2003 - Editorial: The pivotal roles of Saints Peter and Paul, Michael Gilchrist
His choice by Jesus as the Rock on which he would build the Church established a fresh tradition that has extended to the present Vicar of Christ in John Paul II.
602 - Jun 2003 - Books: From Physics to Metaphysics, by Fr Francis J. Selman, Michael Casanova
Father Francis Selmans book From Physics to Metaphysics meets the call Pope John Paul II made in his encyclical Faith and Reason for a return to metaphysics as a foundation for teaching theology.
603 - Jun 2003 - Books: Culture and the Thomist Tradition : After Vatican II, by Tracey Rowland, Fr Peter Joseph STD
Available from the Central Catholic Bookshop in Melbourne (03) 9639 0844 and Gleebooks Glebe Sydney (02) 9660 2333) This book by the Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne begins with a study of the treatment of culture in part II of the Conciliar document Gaudium et Spes.
604 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Teilhard de Chardin (letter), Grahame Fallon
As Pope John Paul II said in the first words of his first encyclical Redemptor Hominis (1979) the Redeemer of Man Jesus Christ is also the centre of the universe and of its history.
605 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Brisbane Synod (letter), Alistair Barros
Pope John Paul II has boldly engaged it.
606 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Holy Orders (letter), Francis Vrijmoed
I would like to comment on the letter Infallible by Fr John Crothers PP in which he observes that John Paul IIs statement on womens ordination Ordinatio Sacerdotalis has never been proclaimed as an infallible statement by the Holy Father.
607 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Four conditions (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan SM
I am afraid Father Crothers is mistaken in holding that when Pope John Paul II in his Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis declared that the Church has not the power to confer the Christian priesthood on any woman he was not exercising his prerogative of personal infallibility.
608 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Eucharistic encyclical and the priesthood (letter), John Kelly
In his most recent encyclical Ecclesia De Eucharistia Pope John Paul II has provided priests and laity with a profound and inspiring definition of the intrinsic relationship between Christ the Eucharist and the Church; and of the priests identity intimately connected with these saving realities.
609 - Jun 2003 - Laity: The role of lay Catholics in a time of crisis, Mary Ann Glendon
Mrs Glendon a Harvard law professor was John Paul IIs representative at the 1995 World Conference on Woman in Beijing.
610 - Jun 2003 - The environment: rediscovering the balanced Catholic perspective, Michael Casanova
In the light of these what is the particular approach of Catholic teaching and of Pope John Paul II to the environment?
611 - Jun 2003 - Interview: Vatican II and the liturgy, 40 years later, Zenit News Service
He is episcopal vicar for religious education professor at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family and a parish priest in the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
612 - Jun 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
John Paul IIs address on globalisation Calls for new constitutional organisation for adequate regulation Pope John Paul II addressed the issue of The Governance of Globalisation when he met with some 70 scientists writers philosophers economists sociologists and jurists members of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences on 2 May.
613 - Jun 2003 - Liturgy: John Paul's new encyclical on the Eucharist targets liturgical abuses, Michael Gilchrist
On Holy Thursday 17 April 2003 Pope John Paul II released his 14th encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia formally signing it during the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lords Supper in St Peters.
614 - May 2003 - Reflection: St Francis on individual confession and receiving Holy Communion, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
Commenting on the widespread decline in a sense of sin and of the relevance of Christian values Pope John Paul II in a post-synodal exhortation Reconciliatio et Paenitentia (1984) argued that secularism has been the principal factor as it has regarding the weakened urge to confess to a priest.
615 - May 2003 - Books: Our books are the cheapest!
95 The Parish Community Fr Adolfo Raggio (ed) A useful guide on the role of the parish with contributions from Pope John Paul II Chiara Lubich and Fr Silvano Cola.
616 - May 2003 - Review: Spending The Day With Mary: The Rosary on CD and Tape, Joe Padero
Available from AD Books) In October of 2002 Pope John Paul II announced the year of the Rosary and introduced a new set of mysteries.
617 - May 2003 - Review: The Mysteries of Light: Rosary for Children and Youth on cassette, Colleen McGuinness-Howard
au) Responding to Pope John Paul IIs Rosarium Virginis Mariae Perth Catholic Productions the producers of The Rosary for Children and The Rosary for Youth have released another significant contribution to the world of Catholic prayer and education with the Mysteries of Light also known as the Luminous Mysteries.
618 - May 2003 - Letters: Definitive teachings (letter), Jerome Gonzalez
With reference to Father Crothers letter in your April 2003 issue I should like to point out that the Holy See has again recently stated that such definitive teachings from a Pope to be held by all of the faithful (as Pope John Paul II declared in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis) are irreformable.
619 - May 2003 - Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan (1928-2002): How faith survived in a Communist prison, Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan
To counter the Ministers surprise I replied You see Mr Minister I have been in prison for three pontificates: Paul VI John Paul I John Paul II.
620 - May 2003 - Brisbane archdiocesan synod: challenges needing to be addressed, Peter Howard
Among important proposals which were thereby excluded were reform of the Brisbane seminary along the lines set out in John Paul IIs Pastores Dabo Vobis and the Statement of Conclusions along with a crusade for vocations; a renewal of Catholic school teacher formation in the Churchs teachings on faith and morals based on the Catechism; and in Catholic schools the rejection of content and methodology contrary to doctrine and John Paul IIs Catechesi Tradendae.
621 - May 2003 - Surge in priestly vocations confounds secular culture, Joanne Grainger
It is through commitment to God through our mission here on earth to be saints of this new millennium that Pope John Paul II has challenged each to consider his or her vocation as not only as a God given gift but as the ultimate source of love and freedom.
622 - May 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope signs encyclical on Eucharist Document recalls the intrinsic value and importance of the sacrament By the time this edition of AD2000 becomes available the new papal encyclical on the Eucharist will have been promulgated by Pope John Paul II on 17 April.
623 - May 2003 - Events: Carnivale Christi 2003 - A tale of four cities, Anthony McCarthy
The opening will feature a premiere and once only performance of The Jewellers Shop by Karol Wojtyla - once a young polish actor who in 1978 was elected Pope and took the name John Paul II.
624 - Apr 2003 - Books: Newman, by Avery Dulles SJ, Peter Westmore
He was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2001 at the age of 82.
625 - Apr 2003 - Letters: Infallible? (letter), Fr John Crothers PP
In a recent letter entitled Infallible teaching George Simpson asks why many Catholics do not recognise John Paul IIs statement on womens ordination Ordinatio Sacerdotalis as infallible.
626 - Apr 2003 - Ecumenism: Christian unity: major obstacles still remain, David Schutz
John Paul II has written: The greater mutual understanding and the doctrinal convergences already achieved between us which have resulted in an affective and effective growth of communion cannot suffice for the conscience of Christians who profess that the Church is one holy catholic and apostolic.
627 - Apr 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Possibility of Synod on the Eucharist in 2004 John Paul II wants to purify worship of deformations At his regular weekly public audience on 26 February Pope John Paul II focused on the need for reverence and beauty in the liturgy.
628 - Apr 2003 - Editorial: Good news on the liturgy, Peter Westmore
On Holy Thursday Pope John Paul II will release a new encyclical his first since 1998 which will deal with the centrality of the Mass and Holy Communion in the life of the Church.
629 - Mar 2003 - Letters: Third rite (letter), Norm Power
On 2 May 2002 Pope John Paul II issued an apostolic letter Misericordia Dei (The Mercy of God) to clarify the laws of the Church regarding general absolution.
630 - Mar 2003 - Letters: New springtime (letter), Errol P. Duke
Yet as Pope John Paul II has often stated a new springtime is about to emerge and in the same hope and joy let us fervently unite to re-rail the Church for the future in the most loving and orthodox way that Jesus Christ would wish.
631 - Mar 2003 - The media and evangelisation, Moira Kirkwood
Pope John Paul II has stated as recently as March 2002: The special challenge before you is to find ways to ensure that the voice of the Church is not marginalised or silenced in the modern arena of the media.
632 - Mar 2003 - Good priest, bad priest - my faith remains, Frank Mobbs
I am reminded of what Pope John Paul II said in his address to priests in Melbourne in 1986 We priests are only the earthenware vessels that hold this treasure and the longer a man has the privilege of serving as a priest the more aware he becomes of human limitations and failures.
633 - Mar 2003 - Vatican tells politicians: Don't hide your light, Michael Casanova
Some do not see that Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish as John Paul II wrote in 1998.
634 - Mar 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Catholic World News Pope John Paul II on liturgical fidelity Bishops need to show discernment Pope John Paul II during an ad limina visit by bishops from Brazils Southern Region I spoke about popular devotions the Eucharist authentic liturgy and inculturation in Brazils multi-ethnic society.
635 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Eamonn Keane responds (letter)
Pope John Paul II alluded to this when he told a group of US Bishops that methodologies used to renew catechesis have to respond to the nature of the faith as truth received (LOsservatore Romano 3nbsp;Junenbsp;1998).
636 - Feb 2003 - Perth Rosary Tape authors' successful US visit, Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Prior to their trip Pope John Paul II had released his new document on the Rosary where he added five new Mysteries of Light and proclaimed October 2002 to October 2003 as the Year of the Rosary.
637 - Feb 2003 - John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne: a progress report, AD2000 Report
The John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family was opened in July 2001 by Cardinal Trujillo.
638 - Feb 2003 - Events: Europe's most influential Catholic lay association coming to Melbourne, Anthony Cappello
In May 2002 Pope John Paul II addressed the SantEgidio Community asking its members to revive in each of you the commitment for the promotion of justice and peace in every environment.
639 - Feb 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Mother Teresa is due to be beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003.
640 - Feb 2003 - Vocations: Sydney seminary growth based on orthodoxy, fidelity, Fr Julian Porteous
They look particularly to Pope John Paul II the only pope they have ever known as representing what they seek from the Church - strong and courageous ideals a countercultural ethical position and a strongly transcendental vision of faith.
641 - Dec 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II on Christmas: 'the mystery of humanity redeemed by Christ', Pope John Paul II
This is the edited text of Pope John Paul IIs Christmas 2000 homily.
642 - Dec 2002 - Books: Beyond the Blue Glass: Catholic Essays on Faith and Culture, Aidan Nichols OP, Tracey Rowland
In addition to running a priory and publishing several books a year he also lectures in Oxford and Cambridge and in 2004 will be a Visiting Professor at the John Paul II Institute in Melbourne.
643 - Dec 2002 - Books: Barb of Fire: Twenty Poems of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, Michael Daniel
Barb of Fire is an excellent and accessible introduction to the thought and spirituality of these two writers both of whom were beatified by John Paul II.
644 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Forgiveness (letter), John Schmid
Pope John Paul II in Dominum et Vivificantem (1986) quotes Mark 3.
645 - Dec 2002 - Brisbane Synod 2003: a leadership challenge, Peter D. Howard
Fidelity to truth So far there is a singular lack of strategies to re-evangelise the ecclesial community first before mission or to have true dialogue based on listening to and accepting the interpretations of the Magisterium as required by John Paul IIs Reconciliatio et Paenitentia.
646 - Dec 2002 - Thomas Groome: his influence on religious education continues, Eamonn Keane
For example when Pope John Paul II issued Ad Tuendam Fidem which he said was intended to protect the faith of the Catholic Church against errors arising especially from among those dedicated to the various disciplines of sacred theology Groome responded to it by saying it was a pretentious attempt by the present Pope to stifle conversation and dialogue adding I read the blessed thing and without being too melodramatic I was on the verge of tears.
647 - Dec 2002 - Books: Biography of Archbishop Pell launched in Melbourne: author interviewed
Around 250 people were present as Professor Anthony Fisher OP of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family launched the book.
648 - Dec 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Tenth anniversary of new Catechism International Catechical Congress held in Rome On 11 October Pope John Paul II received 220 participants at the International Catechetical Congress which celebrated the 10th anniversary of the original edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the fifth anniversary of the Latin edition.
649 - Dec 2002 - New Vatican Instruction on priesthood: the challenge to be another Christ, AD2000 Report
The Vatican document follows closely the line indicated by John Paul II in his Allocution to the Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for Clergy in November 2001 and this is included as an introduction.
650 - Dec 2002 - Editorial: Christmas 2002: the state of the Church, Peter Westmore
We have many things going for us: in Pope John Paul II a spiritual leader who has personally confronted and defeated regimes based on rejection of God and provided answers to modern societys contested issues.
651 - Nov 2002 - Books: A Generation Betrayed: Deconstructing Catholic Education, by Eamonn Keane, John Young
When John Paul II issued his Apostolic Letter Ad Tuendam Fidem which made changes in the Code of Canon Law aimed at protecting Catholic doctrine against current errors Groome responded: Its a pretentious attempt by the present Pope to stifle conversation and dialogue.
652 - Nov 2002 - Books: The New Faithful: Why Young Adults are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy, Michael Gilchrist
The successful World Youth Days inspired by John Paul II certainly confirm this conclusion.
653 - Nov 2002 - Letters: Radical feminism (letter), Gordon Southern
I am disappointed to see limited Church resources diverted to this publication which could be fairly described as a manifesto of undisguised radical feminism (as opposed to a truly Catholic feminism as found for example in the teaching of Pope John Paul II and in the writings of St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross).
654 - Nov 2002 - Catholic schools: restoring a sense of sin, Br John Moylan CFC
In November 1998 at the wish of Pope John Paul II a meeting was held between various Vatican Congregations the Archbishops of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Chairs and Secretaries of various Conference Committees.
655 - Nov 2002 - Sydney Archdiocese courses on 'Catechism', Fr John Flader
As Pope John Paul II wrote in his Apostolic Exhortation Catechesi Tradendae in 1979 Catechesis is intimately bound up with the whole of the Churchs life.
656 - Nov 2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaria Escriva canonised at Papal Mass in Rome, AD2000 Report
Before a multitude of more than 350000 people that packed St Peters Square and the Via della Conciliazione John Paul II proclaimed Josemaria Escrivagrave; de Balaguer a saint during a Mass on 6 October 2002.
657 - Nov 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Popes tribute to Cardinal Van Thuan Heroic herald of the Gospel of Christ Pope John Paul II presided on 20 September in St Peters Basilica at the funeral of Vietnamese Cardinal Francois-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan who died on 17 September at age 74 after a long struggle with cancer.
658 - Nov 2002 - Editorial: The essential role of saints in the Church, Michael Gilchrist
During the pontificate of John Paul II the importance of saints has been particularly emphasised with an unprecedented number of canonisations representative of almost every corner of the globe.
659 - Oct 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 Abba Pater Pope John Paul II The first music recording to embody the voice of Pope John Paul II.
660 - Oct 2002 - Books: The Courage to be Catholic, by George Weigel, Michael Novak
Available from AD Books) George Weigel a Roman Catholic theologian and one of Americas leading commentators on religion and public life is the author of the highly acclaimed international best-seller Witness to Hope: The Biography of John Paul II and numerous other books including The Truth of Catholicism and The Final Revolution.
661 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Archbishop Pell (letter), Eamonn & Patricia Keane
Todays world is characterised by a clash between what Pope John Paul II calls the culture of life and the culture of death.
662 - Oct 2002 - US billionaire promotes orthodox teaching, Zenit News Service
I founded Legatus an organisation of Catholic business leaders in 1987 after receiving an inspirational meeting with Pope John Paul II.
663 - Oct 2002 - Bishop Power: Church teachings need to be 're-examined', AD2000 REPORT
One can only hope that Pope John Paul IIs vision will prevail.
664 - Oct 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
John Paul II meets with Brazilian bishops Importance of sound seminary formation On 5 September Pope John Paul II received a group of prelates from the National Conference of Bishops of the Eastern Region of Brazil who had just completed their ad limina visit.
665 - Oct 2002 - Editorial: Positive developments in liturgy, Michael Gilchrist
The Vox Clara Committee was set up by Pope John Paul II on 20 April 2002 with Archbishop George Pell as its chairman in order that an approved English translation of the new Roman Missal according to the guidelines of Liturgiam Authenticam be completed as soon as possible.
666 - Sep 2002 - Music: CD specials from AD Books
95 Abba Pater Pope John Paul II The first music recording to embody the voice of Pope John Paul II.
667 - Sep 2002 - John Paul II and World Youth Day in Toronto: an Anglican perspective, David Warren
In a characteristically astute column carried by UPI the Lutheran writer Uwe Siemon-Netto explained the phenomenon of John Paul II; how he appeals more to the young than to many of their parents: Why are they not put off by the fact that he is barely audible and keeps dabbing spittle from his mouth?
668 - Sep 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
This law is a step toward the day when America fully becomes in the words of Pope John Paul II a hospitable a welcoming culture said the President to resounding applause.
669 - Aug 2002 - Books: Abortion And Martyrdom, edited by Aidan Nichols, Tracey Rowland
This is consistent with the statement of John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae that the rejection of human life in its various forms is really the rejection of Christ and with the judgement of Philippe Jobert OSB that because Christ is a martyr in them the aborted infants assuming their deaths as his own they are really martyrs in Christ.
670 - Aug 2002 - Letters: Dissent (letter), Clair Tieppo
There has never been and is no licit dissent as Pope John Paul II has confirmed: It is sometimes claimed that dissent from the Magisterium is totally compatible with being a good Catholic and poses no obstacle to the reception of the sacraments.
671 - Aug 2002 - New program to apply Papal teachings in Melbourne Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
A new two-year program or pastoral focus for the Melbourne Archdiocese based on Pope John Paul IIs Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte (2001) was launched on 24 May with the release of a pastoral letter by Archbishop Denis Hart and his celebration of Mass in St Patricks Cathedral preceded by a 24 hour prayer vigil organised by Catholic Youth Ministry.
672 - Aug 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
In order to give direction to the consciences of the Catholic faithful and dispel any doubts which may have arisen the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith wishes to recall the teaching of the Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis of Pope John Paul II which states that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Churchs faithful (n.
673 - Aug 2002 - Liturgy: New English Missal: Vatican sets guidelines for ICEL, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul II is determined to have as soon as possible a satisfactory English translation of the new Roman Missal (Third Edition) the Latin text of which was presented to him on 18 March 2002.
674 - Jul 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II clarifies Vatican II teaching on lay and priestly roles, Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul IIs address to the bishops of the Antilles on 7 May during their ad limina visit concentrated on the deep complementarity - not identity - of the roles of priests and laity in the Church.
675 - Jul 2002 - Cardinal Avery Dulles: US Jesuits need 'wake-up call', Michael Gilchrist
Especially under the restorationist regime of Pope John Paul II the Church has stubbornly rejected the democratic reforms that are needed.
676 - Jul 2002 - Interview: George Weigel: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Zenit News Service
Two congresses on The Pontificate of John Paul II: Achievements and Prospects were held on 21-22 February and 18-19 April at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum in Rome.
677 - Jul 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Statistics for Catholic Church 1978-2000 New Yearbook due for publication soon With publication due shortly of the Statistical Yearbook of the Church - prepared by the Churchs Central Statistics Office and containing information up to the year 2000 - a communique was made public in May illustrating variations on all continents between 1978 the year in which John Paul II began his pontificate and 2000.
678 - Jul 2002 - Saints: Padre Pio canonised: "a model of the priesthood" (John Paul II), Paul MacLeod
For Pope John Paul II who met Padre Pio personally while he was a student in Rome (Our dear Padre Pio as he referred to him) the canonisation ceremony must have recalled his own experience of the saints intercession.
679 - Jun 2002 - Reflection: A reason for mercy: healing post-abortion trauma, Anne R. Lastman
Pope John Paul II in Salvifici Doloris (Apostolic Letter On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering 1984) states that joy comes from the discovery of the meaning of suffering.
680 - Jun 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II Published under the authority of the Vatican this convenient volume brings together Pope John Pauls inspiring reflections and illuminating words of hope peace love compassion and spirituality in a beautiful edition to treasure.
681 - Jun 2002 - Books: The Travels of Friar Odoric, 14th Century journal of Blessed Odoric of Pordenone, Anthony Cappello
Indeed his travels seem a distant echo the words of Pope John Paul II: Be not Afraid.
682 - Jun 2002 - Books: 'Right And Reason: Ethics in theory and practice', by Fr Austin Fagothey SJ, Michael Casanova
We admire people like Archbishop Sheen Pope John Paul II and Bob Santamaria.
683 - Jun 2002 - Pope John Paul II on Catholic Action (from Ecclesia in Oceania), Pope John Paul II
From John Paul IIs letter to the Church in our region: Ecclesia in Oceania November 2001.
684 - Jun 2002 - Following our baptismal calling takes courage - Chrism Mass homily, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
Present among us is the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church whose origin is in Jesus Christ the anointed of the Father chief cornerstone of the whole structure which he founded on Peter the Rock whose successor is our Holy Father Pope John Paul II.
685 - Jun 2002 - Moral leadership of American hierarchy under scrutiny at Rome meeting, Philip Lawler
Pope John Paul II summoned the American cardinals to Rome to discuss two scandals.
686 - Jun 2002 - Sydney initiative to strengthen Catholic influence at university, Robert Haddad
This centre otherwise known as the John Paul II Student Resource Centre (JP 2) is located immediately next to the main University campus (Level One 245 Parramatta Rd Broadway).
687 - Jun 2002 - Neocatechumenal Way setting up its second Australian seminary, Richard Egan
Although this is sometimes described as one of the New Movements which have been welcomed by Pope John Paul II as making a crucial contribution to the new evangelisation it differs from the other movements in that participants in the Neocatechumenal Way do not in fact form a particular association.
688 - Jun 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Popes Apostolic Letter on Sacrament of Penance Misuse of general absolution addressed On 2 May in the Holy See Press Office Cardinals Joseph Ratzinger and Jorge Arturo Medina Esteacute;vez and Archbishop Julian Herranz presented John Paul IIs Apostolic Letter In The Form Of Motu Proprio Misericordia Dei: On Certain Aspects of the Celebration of the Sacrament of Penance.
689 - Jun 2002 - Liturgy: New English Missal: Archbishop Pell to chair international Vox Clara committee, Michael Gilchrist
To this end on 20 April Pope John Paul II announced the setting up of a new body representative of the worlds English-speaking bishops conferences - called the Vox Clara Committee.
690 - May 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II Published under the authority of the Vatican this convenient volume brings together Pope John Pauls inspiring reflections and illuminating words of hope peace love compassion and spirituality in a beautiful edition to treasure.
691 - May 2002 - General absolutions continue in the Toowoomba Diocese, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul II during his address on 14 December 1998 to all the Australian bishops gathered in Rome for the Synod of Oceania lent further emphasis to the Statements directive while the Australian bishops at their conference in April 1999 in embracing the Statement of Conclusions agreed specifically that the Third Rite should be kept strictly within the conditions laid down by Canon Law.
692 - May 2002 - Catholicism in Australia: facing the challenges of Western secularism, Archbishop George Pell
With the election of Pope John Paul II they got exactly what they asked for and the opposite of what they wanted - which was a mandate for further liberalisation.
693 - May 2002 - Liturgy: New edition of the Roman Missal released: vernacular translations to come, Michael Gilchrist
This edition was approved by Pope John Paul II in January 2000 with the 100-page introduction containing the rubrics for liturgical celebrations published in August 2000.
694 - Apr 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II Published under the authority of the Vatican this convenient volume brings together Pope John Pauls inspiring reflections and illuminating words of hope peace love compassion and spirituality in a beautiful edition to treasure.
695 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Gem of a priest (letter), Patrick Nathan
Father Byrne taught that everyone is subject to the authority of the Church from Peter to John Paul II.
696 - Apr 2002 - Australian version of Maltese Marian shrine of Ta' Pinu
The image of Our Lady Ta Pinu was crowned in 1935 by Cardinal Alessio Lepicier after a special Papal Decree of Pope Pius XI; and Pope John Paul II in 1990 after concelebrating Mass at the Shrine decorated the same image by five golden stars studded with precious stones.
697 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne TMC: The rights and responsibilities of laity in the Catholic Church, Archbishop Denis Hart
This has always been the faith of the Church but it is fair to say that it was one of the 20th century Churchs greatest achievements to breathe new life into this idea of the lay apostolate - and it has of course been the overwhelming desire of Pope John Paul II to have every Catholic understand this and to live out their Christian lives to the fullest.
698 - Apr 2002 - Adelaide Thomas More Centre address: The key elements of Catholic Action today, Archbishop Philip Wilson
And Pope John Paul IIs recent Novo Millennio Ineunte (At the Beginning of the New Millennium) also shed light on the requirements for those involved in Catholic action today - a call to the Gospel and for local churches to be schools of prayer.
699 - Apr 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
New Vatican Yearbook Large increase in seminarians under John Paul II The number of seminarians worldwide has grown by 73 percent during Pope John Paul IIs pontificate with the greatest increase in Africa and Asia according to the latest Vatican Yearbook or Annuario which was presented to the Pope in February.
700 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne 'Sexuality Directives' put parents first, Anthony Cappello
Writing in 1981 in Familiaris Consortio Pope John Paul II reaffirmed the trusted role of parents as first educators when he stated: Sex education which is a basic right and duty of parents must always be carried out under their attentive guidance whether at home or in educational centres chosen and controlled by them.
701 - Mar 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II: St Joseph's renewed significance for the Church, Br Christian Moe FSC
But Joseph as we see repeatedly in Matthews Gospel rose up and did what the Lord had asked of him: going from Nazareth to Bethlehem from Bethlehem to Egypt from Egypt back to Bethelehem from Bethlehem to Nazareth - doing became the beginning of Josephs way says John Paul II.
702 - Mar 2002 - Books: Fatima Handbook, by Leo Madigan, Catherine Sheehan
This was promised by Our Lady following the renewal of the consecration of the world to her Immaculate Heart by Pope John Paul II in Rome in 1984.
703 - Mar 2002 - Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration spreads throughout the world, Fr Douglas Harris
Pope John Paul II in his letter On the Mystery and Worship of the Eucharist (1980) wrote: The Church and the world have a great need for Eucharistic adoration.
704 - Mar 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
New Australian bishops appointed Wagga Wagga and Brisbane vacancies filled Pope John Paul II has accepted the resignation of Bishop William of Wagga Wagga following a long illness and appointed Monsignor Gerard Hanna as the new Bishop.
705 - Mar 2002 - St Thérèse's relics make Australian pilgrimage, Mother Teresa OCDM
To honour and commemorate the beatification of Theacute;regrave;se of Lisieux on 29 April 1923 the people of Brazil designed and offered to Theacute;regrave;se the beautiful Reliquary which now holds her earthly remains and which has been on Pilgrimage round the world since 1997 when Pope John Paul II proclaimed her Doctor of the Universal Church.
706 - Mar 2002 - Editorial: Selecting and forming future priests, Michael Gilchrist
During his address to participants Pope John Paul II pointed out that the psychological sciences should be integrated into the framework of a candidates overall formation safeguarding the value of and time dedicated to spiritual guidance.
707 - Feb 2002 - Reflection: NCC Mass of Thanksgiving: Archbishop Hart's homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
And now with the years end approaching Pope John Paul II has presented to the peoples of our region a new document Ecclesia in Oceania the best of all spiritual Christmas presents just what we need to refresh ourselves and to help us see the way forward for the New Year.
708 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Overcoming evil, Mary Beaumont
The Message of Pope John Paul II published in an English edition of LOsservatore Romano reminds us of the truth and wisdom of Christs teaching Be not overcome by evil but overcome evil with good.
709 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Liturgical abuses, Michael Baker
In April 1980 with the approval of Pope John Paul II the Congregation for Sacraments and Divine Worship issued an instruction on the liturgy Inaestimabile Donum to address the varied and frequent liturgical abuses being reported from different parts of the Catholic world.
710 - Feb 2002 - Catholic schools and 'youth spirituality', John Kelly
Senior students leaving Catholic schools should be expected to be familiar with more than just the names of Socrates Plato Aristotle Augustine Aquinas Rousseau Hume Kant Hegel Feuerbach Marx Heidegger Derrida and Pope John Paul II.
711 - Feb 2002 - The Church in South Korea: dynamic and fast-growing, Pat O'Brien
In 1984 Pope John Paul II visited Korea and canonised 103 martyrs including these two priests.
712 - Feb 2002 - Books: 'Meaninglessness' and today's Western culture, Archbishop George Pell
He has a sure touch on matters theological - Im not sure whether this has been assisted or retarded by his lack of formal training in theology - and he has travelled deep into enemy territory deep into what Pope John Paul II has called the culture of death.
713 - Feb 2002 - US Conference: 'Newman's Idea of a University', Msgr Michael J. Wrenn
In his address on the Venerable Cardinal John Henry Newman whose book The Idea of a University helped define Catholic higher education Dulles asserted that Newman would have enthusiastically embraced the efforts of Pope John Paul II to restore closer unity between Catholic colleges and universities and the Church.
714 - Feb 2002 - Melbourne Archdiocese: positive trend in priestly vocations continues, Fr Paul Stuart
A stronger and more enduring understanding of the nature and uniqueness of the Catholic priesthood based on who and what the priest is and not just what he does functionally was at the base of the Pelline reforms and John Paul IIs Pastores Dabo Vobis was the map for the reforms.
715 - Feb 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
Opus Dei founder to be canonised John Paul II to set date Josemaria Escrivagrave; de Balaguer founder of Opus Dei (along with Padre Pio and Juan Diego) will soon be canonised saints following John Paul IIs approval on 20 December 2001 of three decrees recognising miracles attributed to their intercession.
716 - Dec 2001 - New Titles from AD Books
00 My Dear Young Friends: Pope John Paul II Speaks to Teens John Vitek Editor This book a collection of 52 weekly reflections invites young people to read and act on Pope Johns inspiring addresses to them.
717 - Dec 2001 - Books: 'Meaninglessness: The Solutions of Nietzsche, Freud and Rorty' by Michael Casey, Anthony Cappello
Its author Dr Michael Casey is a sociologist on the staff of the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney and Permanent Fellow in Sociology and Politics at the Australian Campus of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family.
718 - Dec 2001 - Books: De Lubac's writings in English translations, Tracey Rowland
The following overview of some of the currently available writings of Cardinal Henri de Lubac (1896-1991) - translated into English - is provided by Dr Tracey Rowland Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne (trowlandjp2institute.
719 - Dec 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Russians hopeful of Papal visit Book on John Paul IIs Fatima link launched in Moscow A new book describing John Paul IIs deep connection with Fatima was presented in Moscow last October.
720 - Dec 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops' statement, Michael Gilchrist
Next Bishops should foster the first task of lay people namely to bear witness to the Gospel in the world through their commitment to family social cultural and political life and through their presence at the heart of what Pope John Paul II has called the modern areopagus public square particularly through their work in the media or in encouraging respect for Gods creation and in organised apostolates in the important struggle for justice and solidarity.
721 - Nov 2001 - Books: 'Pardon And Peace: A Sinner's Guide to Confession', by Fr Francis Randolph, Christopher Quinn
These unhappy phenomena explain the many calls for a revival in the practice of individual confession with which the pontificate of Pope John Paul II has been permeated.
722 - Nov 2001 - Books: My Dear Young Friends: Pope John Paul II Speaks to Teens on Life, Love, Courage, Mary-Jane Donnellan
MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: Pope John Paul II Speaks to Teens on Life Love and Courage edited by John Vitek (St Marys Press 2001 126pp $16.
723 - Nov 2001 - Letters: St Thomas Aquinas, Valentine Gallagher
As Mr Michael Casanova observes Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Fides et Ratio lauds St Thomas Aquinas as an authentic model and guide for all who seek the truth (September AD2000).
724 - Nov 2001 - Letters: A response on the Creation of Man, Gerry Keane
The private statements of John Paul II have to be seen in light of weightier Papal encyclical teachings.
725 - Nov 2001 - Pastoral letter: Taking up John Paul II's concerns about the Sacrament of Penance, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
In his Apostolic Exhortation following the 1984 Synod Reconciliatio et Paenitentia Pope John Paul II spoke of the Sacrament of Penance being in crisis and entering into .
726 - Nov 2001 - Brisbane liturgy director calls Vatican document "a betrayal", Michael Gilchrist
The ultimate authority for Liturgiam Authenticam is Pope John Paul II who as stated in the document in an audience granted to the Cardinal Secretary of State on 20 March 2001 approved this Instruction and confirmed it by his own authority ordering that it be published and that it enter into force on the 25th day of April of the same year.
727 - Nov 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Liturgy needs a profound sense of the sacred John Paul II addresses Congregation for Divine Worship The liturgy of the Catholic Church must never be reduced to a merely aesthetic exercise nor should liturgical ceremonies be seen as instruments toward pedagogical or ecumenical ends Pope John Paul II told the members of the Congregation for Divine Worship who met in Rome in September.
728 - Nov 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops: Bishops called to courageous witness to the Faith, AD2000
On 30 September in St Peters Basilica Pope John Paul II presided over a solemn opening Mass with 247 bishops from around the world for the inauguration of the 10th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.
729 - Nov 2001 - Editorial: Synod of Oceania document imminent - 'Ecclesia in Oceania', Peter Westmore
In those Exhortations John Paul II addressed the challenges facing the Church in particular parts of the world including the role of bishops clergy and lay people in the Church the call to evangelisation and conversion and the centrality of the Churchs sacramental life including frequent reception of the sacraments of Penance and Holy Communion.
730 - Oct 2001 - Letters: Cult (letter), Wal Maggs
It is not they who have erred from the true Church they believe but the rest of us who flock to the same Mass as approved and celebrated by the Pope John Paul II.
731 - Oct 2001 - Letters: Papal teaching (letter), John Young
John Paul II stated: .
732 - Oct 2001 - Education: Mass attendance: a key measure of Catholic schools' effectiveness, Br John Moylan CFC
As Pope John Paul II taught in a 1998 apostolic letter Dies Domini the obligation of celebrating the Sunday Eucharist is not an arbitrary law imposed by the Church but an indispensable element of our Christian identity.
733 - Oct 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Lay and priestly roles are distinctive says Vatican Cardinal Sodanos Letter for Italian Liturgical Week The need to avoid both the clericalisation of the laity and the secularisation of priests is the essence of a letter signed by the Vatican Secretary of State on behalf of John Paul II.
734 - Oct 2001 - Editorial: Liturgy: light at the end of the tunnel, Michael Gilchrist
The Vatican Instruction Liturgiam Authenticam published earlier this year with the endorsement of Pope John Paul II sets clear guidelines for the production of sound tasteful vernacular translations of Mass texts.
735 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Church teachings (letter), Gerry Keane
In the 1994 Catechism approved by John Paul II polygenism was effectively rejected (see para 360 footnote 226 reference to the RSV Book of Tobit 8:6: Thou madest Adam and gavest him Eve his wife as a helper and support.
736 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Aquinas (letter), Michael Casanova
We see in his letter that St Thomas is valued by Leo XIII (last century) by the old Canon Law (1918) and by John Paul II (1979).
737 - Sep 2001 - Letters: BECs (letter), Marie Kennedy
Quoting Pope Paul VI and John Paul II the Archbishop shows that the said communities aim at building and strengthening parishes with special concern for non-practising Catholics.
738 - Sep 2001 - Why today's secular culture is anti-Catholic, James Hitchcock
Yet the greatest humanist in the world today in terms of someone who uses the term and has written extensively and profoundly on the subject is clearly Pope John Paul II.
739 - Sep 2001 - Successful Thomas More Centre Winter School in Brisbane, Sidney Rofe
He reminded the group of Pope John Paul IIs words to the World Youth Day crowds as he headed towards the Holy Door that we must make a radical choice for faith and life and accept the stupendous task of becoming morning watch-men at the dawn of the new millennium.
740 - Sep 2001 - The John Paul II Cultural Centre opens in Washington DC, Alex Sidhu
The John Paul II Cultural Centre Washington DC is the most recent attempt by the Catholic Church in the United States to present the rich history and traditions of the Church through both age-old and contemporary means.
741 - Sep 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Service New Archbishop of Newark appointed Bishop Myers of Peoria to lead one of the USAs largest archdioceses Pope John Paul II in July named Bishop John J.
742 - Sep 2001 - Archbishop Hart's reception at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne - Homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
Increasingly secular society is impelled to move towards what Pope John Paul II calls a culture of death where life is being valued only as useful when it is productive.
743 - Aug 2001 - Reflection: Clerical celibacy: Giving ourselves up completely to God and the people He loves, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
In the words of Pope John Paul II: Celibacy is essentially a greater love for Christ and for ones neighbour.
744 - Aug 2001 - Letters: St Thomas Aquinas (letter), Valentine Gallagher
In his essay Faith Reason and Humility published in The Priest (May 2001) Professor Peter Forrest quotes John Paul IIs Fides et Ratio in which the Pope states: The Church has no philosophy of her own nor does she canonise any one particular philosophy in preference to others.
745 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Radical feminists (letter), Dr T.R. White
He also quoted extensively from Pope John Paul IIs encyclical Redemptoris Missio.
746 - Aug 2001 - Letters: BEC success stories (letter), Errol P. Duke
Having been involved in its initiation at grass-root levels I can assure you that its aims have been totally in tune with Vatican II and Pope John Paul IIs wishes that it will lead to many strayed/careless Catholics returning to active parish life - and especially the Sunday Eucharist.
747 - Aug 2001 - US bishops implement papal teaching on Catholic universities, Charles E. Rice
The constitution on Catholic higher education Ex Corde Ecclesiae issued by John Paul II in 1990 went into effect in the United States in May.
748 - Aug 2001 - Denver Archdiocese: the future of Catholicism, David Scott
St Vincents is a lively symbol of the new kind of Catholic Church that is emerging in Denver eight years after Pope John Paul II celebrated World Youth Day here and predicted a new springtime of faith.
749 - Aug 2001 - After 14 years: why does AD2000 continue?, Michael Gilchrist
As John Paul II explained at its heart was a mistaken idea of individual freedom and conscience.
750 - Aug 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
John Paul IIs visit to Ukraine Asks Orthodox forgiveness for past Catholic errors Commenting on John Paul IIs visit to Ukraine between 23-27 June former Prime Minister Victor Yushchenko said the Holy Father could be an example to the Ukrainian people as they consolidated their democracy with his message of tolerance forgiveness and patience.
751 - Aug 2001 - Melbourne's new Archbishop receives Pallium from John Paul II, AD2000 Report
Under leaden skies with lightning thunder and rain in St Peters Square on the evening of 28 June 2001 Archbishops George Pell and Denis Hart each received the Pallium from Pope John Paul II - along with 34 other archbishops from around the world.
752 - Jul 2001 - Books: The Gift of the Rosary: How to make and How and Why to Pray, by Brian Peachey, Barry Morgan
The Popes have consistently repeated this message particularly John Paul II who says it was her intervention that saved him from assassination in 1981.
753 - Jul 2001 - Basic Ecclesial Communities, Archbishop Leonard Faulkner
In fact specific mention is made of Basic Ecclesial Communities in Pope John Paul IIs 1990 Encyclical Letter Redemptoris Missio on the Permanent Validity of the Churchs Missionary Mandate.
754 - Jul 2001 - AD2000 makes impact on the Internet, Francis Young
In his message for the 35th World Communications Day on Sunday 27 May 2001 Pope John Paul II reflected on the positive capacities of the Internet to carry religious information and teaching beyond all barriers and frontiers.
755 - Jul 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
It is one of many projects by the St Gabriel Communications Apostolate in response to Pope John Paul IIs call to re-evangelise the baptised and contains a dialogue between Raymond de Souza and his wife Theresa with two nuns in Perth.
756 - Jul 2001 - New Vatican guidelines call for sound, accurate liturgy translations, Michael Gilchrist
Issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and signed by Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez it was approved by Pope John Paul II and became effective on 25 April 2001.
757 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'The Doctors of the Church' by Bernard McGinn, Angela Joseph
On 19 October 1997 Pope John Paul II named Thrse of Lisieux a Doctor of the Church thus raising this enclosed Carmelite nun to the ranks of the premier instructors of Christianity.
758 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'Blessed Columba Marmion: a Short Biography' by Mark Tierney OSB, Michael Daniel
Blessed Columba Marmion is a short biography of the famous Irish Benedictine Abbot of Maredsous in Belgium one of the most influential spiritual writers of the 20th century who was beatified by John Paul II on 3 September 2000.
759 - Jun 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
The Little Brother of Jesus took humility poverty and the charity of Christ to the Tuaregs of the Sahara presenting himself as a universal brother of Christians Jews and Muslims said Cardinal Jos Saraiva Martins prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints as he presented John Paul II with the conclusion of the Churchs investigation to verify de Foucaulds heroic virtues.
760 - Jun 2001 - Archbishop Pell installed in Sydney, Michael Gilchrist
Following Pope John Paul IIs announcement on 26 March that Dr George Pell was to become the eighth Archbishop of Sydney a magnificent ceremonial liturgy on the evening of 10 May saw him formally installed as the new Archbishop in St Marys Cathedral.
761 - Jun 2001 - Editorial: Church reform: from Stage One to Stage Two, Michael Gilchrist
au) Correction/apology (reprinted from AD2000 October 2001) In the course of my editorial of June 2001 entitled Church Reform: From Stage One to Stage Two I wrote that apart from the case of Queensland there are bishops totally comfortable - in practice as well as in principle - with the leadership and teachings of Pope John Paul II.
762 - May 2001 - Books: 'Prayers From The Heart: for the Feasts of the Year', Joanna Bogle, Mary-Jane Donnellan
As Pope John Paul II said: There is a need for heralds of the Gospel who are experts in humanity who have a profound knowledge of the heart of present-day man participating in his joys and hopes anguish and sadness and who are at the same time contemporaries in love with God.
763 - May 2001 - Books: 'Becoming Fire' by Fr Ken Barker mgl, Peter Westmore
He is optimistic that the new springtime prophesied by John Paul II will be achieved through the actions of Christians who respond to the gift of Gods love to become fire and transform a world which - despite its material riches - is spiritually barren.
764 - May 2001 - Letters: Enlightening book (letter), Br Con Moloney CFC
This is not only a biography of Pope John Paul II but also a detailed account of the problems facing the Church in the many countries so far visited by our Holy Father.
765 - May 2001 - Letters: Scripture truth (letter), Mary Beaumont
These views are not in harmony with those of Pope John Paul II in his Apostolic letter Novo Millenneo Ineunte (At the Beginning of the New Millennium).
766 - May 2001 - US professor defends papal teaching on universities, Charles E. Rice
Australian Catholics continue to await a response from Australian Catholic University to John Paul IIs 1990 Apostolic Constitution on Catholic Universities - Ex Corde Ecclesiae.
767 - May 2001 - New WA Catholic schools document stresses orthodoxy
The document which was released in March 2001 has a strong focus on the need for Catholic schools to be inspired by the spirit of John Paul IIs new evangelisation and supersedes the 1993 Mandate and Terms of Reference.
768 - May 2001 - The Church in Germany: John Paul II expresses serious concerns, Catholic World News
Pope John Paul II has written a personal letter to all of the cardinals of Germany warning them in unusually blunt language about the condition of the Catholic Church in their country.
769 - May 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
John Paul II on necessity of individual confession Priests should be generous ministers of the Sacrament of Penance During his annual meeting with members of the Apostolic Penitentiary the penitentiary fathers of the patriarchal basilicas of the city and the participants in the annual course on the internal forum John Paul II emphasised that Jesus is the sole and necessary mediator of eternal salvation and deriving from this was the necessity with regard to eternal salvation of those means of grace instituted by Jesus which are the Sacraments.
770 - Apr 2001 - Reflection: Giving witness to the Gospel of Life, Rebecca van Rensburg
Just as our Heavenly Father gave us the gift of His life in our souls so too are we called to return our love to God and in doing so we will in the words of John Paul II appreciate and achieve the deepest and most authentic meaning of life: namely that of being a gift which is fully realised in the giving of self.
771 - Apr 2001 - Letters: Inaccuracy (letter), Fr Michael Kalka PP
I was surprised to read the gross inaccuracy presented in the third paragraph of your March article New cardinals to continue John Paul IIs Agenda.
772 - Apr 2001 - Thomas More Centre Summer School 2001: "Building a Culture of Life", Michael Daniel
It took place at the University of Melbourne with its overall theme Building a Culture of Life which took its impetus from John Paul IIs call for Catholics and others of goodwill to resist the culture of death - as manifested in euthanasia and abortion on demand.
773 - Apr 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Martyrs of Spanish Civil War recognised Beatification in St Peters Pope John Paul II presided at beatification ceremonies for 233 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War in St Peters Square on 11 March.
774 - Apr 2001 - John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family to open in July 2001, AD2000 Report
Perhaps the most important event in the recent history of Australian Catholic higher education is set to occur in July 2001 with the official opening of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
775 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Appeal from India (letter), Kevin L. Fernandes
We as a body with the name Family of Faith Foundation have been officially recognised and warmly encouraged by Archbishop Ivan Dias of Bombay (just made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II).
776 - Mar 2001 - The surprise Cardinal: Fr Avery Dulles SJ, Zenit News Service
After the news of his nomination as cardinal by John Paul II Father Avery Dulles wondered how to balance his modest black-garbed life as a Jesuit scholar with the red-decked ceremony of his new role as cardinal; Father Dulles 82 was one of the surprises of the 44 new cardinals that John Paul II created in a consistory on 21 February.
777 - Mar 2001 - Cardinal Ratzinger on 'Third Secret' of Fatima
Included in the document is an introduction by Archbishop Bertone the original texts of the first second and third parts of the secret Pope John Paul IIs letter dated 9 April 2000 to Sister Lucia - the sole survivor of the three children who witnessed the Fatima apparitions in 1917 - and a theological commentary by Cardinal Ratzinger (summarised on this page).
778 - Mar 2001 - How monastic life can reinvigorate the Church, Fr Peter Knowles OP
Monastic witness As well as the encomium he gave in Orientale Lumen for Eastern monasticism Pope John Paul II recently in an exhortation to the churches of the Americas spoke glowingly to about a thousand Bishops on the subject of the Eastern Catholic Churches and included these words: The Eastern Churches have a duty to maintain their own disciplines in order to give witness to an ancient doctrinal liturgical and monastic witness.
779 - Mar 2001 - Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter ordinations
The Fraternity is a Society of Apostolic Life set up by Pope John Paul II dedicated to the celebration of the traditional Latin liturgy.
780 - Mar 2001 - ACU theology: how orthodox, how accountable?, Michael Gilchrist
And in one of the more bizarre readings in the collection titled Daughters of the Church: the Four Theresas Sr Mary Collins OSB incredibly equates the stature of dissenting American nun Sr Theresa Kane - who confronted John Paul II during his first visit to the United States in 1979 with a call for women priests - with that of Mother Teresa of Calcutta St Teresa of Avila and St Thrse of Lisieux.
781 - Mar 2001 - Seminary numbers up in orthodox US dioceses, Michael S. Rose
St John Vianney Theological Seminary is decidedly rooted in the theology of Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger.
782 - Mar 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
John Paul II affirms permanence of marriage Addresses Roman Rota Pope John Paul II met with judges of the Roman Rota on 1 February and in his address told them marriage should be understood as a natural reality not just a proprietary institution of the Christian faith.
783 - Mar 2001 - New cardinals to continue John Paul II's agenda, AD2000 Report
On 21 February 2001 in St Peters Square Pope John Paul II created 44 new cardinals who will ensure that his program continues into the 21st century.
784 - Mar 2001 - Editorial: ACU theology: prompt action needed, Peter Westmore
This is also a universal issue evidenced in the declaration Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990) by Pope John Paul II.
785 - Feb 2001 - Successful Thomas More Spring School in Wagga, Paul Sheehan
Familiar names from past Thomas More Schools included Tracey Rowland on The Theology of Culture according to John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger and Mary-Louise Fowler on Motherhood in a Post-Feminist Society.
786 - Feb 2001 - The "priest shortage": natural or artificial?, Larry A. Carstens
In 1994 Pope John Paul II issued his apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued its 1995 Responsum ad Dubium.
787 - Feb 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Popes third visit to Australia planned Scheduled for second half of 2001 According to recent newspaper reports Pope John Paul II plans to make his third visit to Australia in the second half of 2001 with major functions to take place in capital cities including Sydney and Melbourne.
788 - Feb 2001 - Bishop Wilson of Wollongong to be the future Archbishop of Adelaide, AD2000 Report
After a lengthy period of uncertainty Pope John Paul II has appointed Wollongongs Bishop Philip Wilson as the co-adjutor Archbishop of Adelaide to succeed Archbishop Leonard Faulkner when he retires at the end of this year.
789 - Feb 2001 - Tasmanian priest to be Lismore's new bishop, AD2000 Report
ON 9 DECEMBER 2000 Pope John Paul II announced the appointment of Tasmanian priest Fr Geoffrey Jarrett as the successor to Lismores Bishop John Satterthwaite.
790 - Dec 2000 - Books: 'John Paul II's Book of Mary', compiled by Margaret R. Bunson, Anthony Cappello
John Paul IIs Book of Mary compiled by Margaret R.
791 - Dec 2000 - Letters: The Church in China (letter), Francis Vrijmoed
30am Sunday Mass in English celebrated by a local Chinese priest last September in the state-controlled Roman Catholic Cathedral in Guangzhou (formerly Canton) the General Intercessions began with Lord we pray for our Holy Father Pope John Paul II Bishop James Lin and all the priests in China .
792 - Dec 2000 - New Australian women's religious order, Sr Carmel Doherty
The order identifies itself with Pope John Paul IIs framework for religious as set out in The Consecrated Life (1996).
793 - Dec 2000 - Australian Foundation to back new Pontifical University
On 29 May last year Pope John Paul II received the administrators faculty staff and students of Holy Cross and in his address noted the universitys purpose as to seek and promote the truth with intellectual honesty and respect for Revelation .
794 - Dec 2000 - G.K. Chesterton: fresh and accessible today, Dale Ahlquist
Our honeymoon was spent in Italy and we happened to be in Rome on the day of the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II.
795 - Dec 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Popes 22nd anniversary celebrated Jubilee year busiest of his pontificate Pope John Paul II celebrated the 22nd anniversary of his papal election on Monday 16 October.
796 - Dec 2000 - Jubilee Congress of Families: Rome report, Anthony Cappello
Pope John Paul II then addressed the enthusiastic crowd on a warm autumn afternoon.
797 - Dec 2000 - ACU - when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' be implemented?, Michael Gilchrist
Meanwhile ACU and the Australian bishops also have to come to grips with Pope John Paul IIs 1990 Apostolic Constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae designed to ensure the worlds Catholic universities (especially the large number in the United States) are Catholic in more than name only.
798 - Dec 2000 - Editorial: At the end of the Year of Jubilee: an audit, Michael Gilchrist
There is no doubt that Pope John Paul II remains one of the most respected and admired of world leaders.
799 - Nov 2000 - Books: Casta Meretrix: An Essay on the Eccesiology of St Ambrose, Cardinal Biffi, Michael Daniel
Available from Ignatius Press (07) 3279 7415) Much has been made this year of the Confession of sins and asking for forgiveness by Pope John Paul II on 12 March of this year in which he asked forgiveness for mistakes made by Church members.
800 - Nov 2000 - Books: A CD-ROM 'Virtual Tour' of St Peter's Basilica, Catherine Sheehan
The architectural plans for the Seat of Peter dating back to the fourth century along with a timeline of the Popes from Peter to John Paul II can also be viewed.
801 - Nov 2000 - Science and Christianity: can they co-exist in the new millennium?, Stephen Hitchings
As Pope John Paul II has pointed out truth cannot contradict truth; Faith can never conflict with reason (Address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences 1996).
802 - Nov 2000 - The Great Jubilee: reaffirming the spiritual power of indulgences, Catherine Cavanagh
Pope John Paul II places the gaining of a Jubilee Indulgence in the context of entering into the spiritual communion of the Body of Christ knowing that in the spiritual realm people do not live for themselves alone each indulgence gained becoming a gift of grace for the whole Church.
803 - Nov 2000 - The right to work: central to the Catholic Church's social teaching, Patrick Byrne
Pope John Paul II points out in his encyclical Laborem Exercens that human work is the key probably the essential key to the whole social question.
804 - Nov 2000 - Toowoomba's 'Creating Our Future' - or a recipe for further decline?, Michael Gilchrist
While some innocuous references to John Paul II and Vatican II can be found here and there much of Creating Our Future could easily be the brainchild of a committee of almost any non-Catholic religious denomination.
805 - Nov 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Defend and promote doctrinal unity Pope John Paul II addresses 1500 bishops On 8 October in St Peters Square Pope John Paul II presided at a Eucharistic celebration for the first ever Jubilee of Bishops.
806 - Nov 2000 - Canonisation of 120 Chinese martyrs: has much changed under communism?, AD2000 Report
On 1 October Pope John Paul II canonised 120 Chinese martyrs at an impressive ceremony in St Peters Rome.
807 - Nov 2000 - Editorial: Pope John Paul II on the Eucharist, Michael Gilchrist
In a general audience in September held in the presence of 35000 pilgrims in St Peters Square John Paul II began a series of catechetical addresses on the Eucharist that great yet humble celebration of divine glory as he described it.
808 - Oct 2000 - An authentic Christian spirituality grounded in objective revelation, Michael Daniel
The following day when Pope John Paul II received pilgrims in St Peters Square who had participated in the beatification ceremony he told them he hoped that Blessed Columba Marmion might help us all to live the Christian life ever more intensely and to have an ever deeper understanding of our membership in the Church the mystical Body of Christ.
809 - Oct 2000 - How orthodox are Australian Catholic University's professorial staff?, Eamonn Keane
However in his 1983 Apostolic Exhortation Reconciliatio et Paenitentia Pope John Paul II rejected the theory of fundamental option as presented in Gascoignes book.
810 - Oct 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
In response to some criticisms - inside and outside the Church - of Pope John Paul IIs decision to beatify Pius IX as well as bracketing his beatification with that of John XXIII the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints Archbishop Jose Saraiva Martins pointed out on Vatican Radio that John XXIII had great esteem for Pius IX.
811 - Oct 2000 - 'Dominus Jesus' reaffirms Catholic Church's claims to truth, AD2000 Report
A new doctrinal statement - Dominus Jesus - authorised by Pope John Paul II affirms the Catholic Churchs teaching that it is the one true Church of Jesus Christ.
812 - Sep 2000 - Rome's International Eucharistic Congress: 'an unforgettable week', Christine McCarthy
The Eucharistic Congress was solemnly opened by Pope John Paul II with the celebration of Vespers adoration and Benediction in the Piazza of St Peters.
813 - Sep 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The Forums theme came from John Paul IIs Letter on pilgrimages to places linked with salvation history (29.
814 - Sep 2000 - Rome calls for new emphasis on the sacred at Mass, AD2000 Report
This instruction which replaces the 1975 edition that set out detailed guidelines for celebrating the Novus Ordo Mass was approved on Holy Thursday by Pope John Paul II.
815 - Aug 2000 - 'We Shall Overcome': 'liberal' Catholicism after Vatican II, Norm Yodgee
In September John Paul II will beatify Pope John XXIII.
816 - Aug 2000 - Cardinal Ratzinger on 'Third Secret' of Fatima
Included in the document is an introduction by Archbishop Bertone the original texts of the first second and third parts of the secret Pope John Paul IIs letter dated 9 April 2000 to Sister Lucia - the sole survivor of the three children who witnessed the Fatima apparitions in 1917 - and a theological commentary by Cardinal Ratzinger (summarised on this page).
817 - Aug 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope on wider acceptance of Petrine ministry Feast of Sts Peter and Paul celebrated with Greek Orthodox representatives On 29 June as he celebrated the feast of Sts Peter and Paul along with representatives from the Greek Orthodox Church Pope John Paul II issued a plea for all Christians to recognise the importance of the papal ministry as a service of unity to the people of God.
818 - Jul 2000 - New Zealand bishops endorse register of same sex couples, Richard Egan
In the meantime Pope John Paul II on 25 May formally welcomed New Zealands new ambassador to the Holy See Christine Heather Bogle.
819 - Jul 2000 - Australian bishops' response to 'Woman and Man' report, Michael Gilchrist
In 1994 following release of the Popes apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis which restated Church teaching on a male-only priesthood the ACLRI National Executive responded in a public letter: We write to express our dismay and disappointment at the recent Apostolic Letter of the Holy Father Pope John Paul II specifically in so far as it prohibits further discussion of the ordination of women.
820 - Jul 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
In his address John Paul II said Faith does not fear reason.
821 - Jul 2000 - New campus of John Paul II Institute set to open in Melbourne, AD2000 Report
Archbishop George Pell of Melbourne has appointed Very Rev Dr Anthony Fisher OP as Director of the Melbourne Campus of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family.
822 - Jul 2000 - Editorial: Orthodoxy the 'wave of the future', Michael Gilchrist
The announcement (see page 3) that an Australian campus of the John Paul II Institute is to open in Melbourne in twelve months time with Fr Anthony Fisher OP as its Director is another welcome development to add to what has occurred in recent years at the seminaries in Perth Wagga Wagga and Melbourne.
823 - Jun 2000 - How Catholics can help rebuild Christian culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Read John Paul IIs apostolic exhortation from 1981 On the Family - Familiaris Consortio is the Latin title.
824 - Jun 2000 - One of the great bishops of modern times, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul II has named Bishop Edward Egan of Bridgeport Connecticut as the new Archbishop of New York.
825 - Jun 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The Catechisms preparation was entrusted by John Paul II to the Archbishop and the Council over which he presides.
826 - Jun 2000 - Archbishop Hickey reins in abuses in Sacrament of Penance, AD2000 Report
It finishes by quoting Pope John Paul IIs prayer that one of the fruits of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 be the general return of the Christian faithful to the sacramental practice of Confession.
827 - May 2000 - Reflection: Mary's divine motherhood: central to God's plan of salvation, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
Pope John Paul II in Redemptoris Mater reminds us that Mary receives life from him to whom she herself in the order of earthly generation gave life as a Mother.
828 - May 2000 - Books: 'The Legacy of Pope John Paul II' ed. Geoffrey Gneuhs, Anthony Cappello
THE LEGACY OF POPE JOHN PAUL II: His Contribution to Catholic Thought Edited by Geoffrey Gneuhs (Crossroads Publishing Company 2000 127pp RRP $24.
829 - May 2000 - Letters: Reply to Fr Frank Brennan (letter), Richard Egan
Pope John Paul II insists (Evangelium Vitae 58) that we call abortion by its proper name.
830 - May 2000 - Understanding the Incarnation, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Pope John Paul II stands firmly in this living tradition where faith and reason come together in dynamic harmony.
831 - May 2000 - The priesthood: John Paul II's Holy Thursday Letter sets guidelines, Pope John Paul II
In his Letter to Priests for Holy Thursday 2000 Pope John Paul II restates orthodox Catholic teachings on the meaning and role of the priesthood and Eucharist that have been de-emphasised in some quarters of the Church.
832 - May 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Chinese prelates death John Paul IIs tribute to Cardinal Kung John Paul II was deeply saddened when he received the news of the death in March of Cardinal Ignatius Kung (Gong) Pin-mei.
833 - May 2000 - Editorial: Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul IIs latest Holy Thursday Letter to Priests (see page 7) sets out aspects of the priesthood and Eucharist which he sees as most in need of re-emphasis.
834 - Apr 2000 - Indulgences and the Millennium Jubilee Year, Neil Coup
When publishing the Papal document Incarnationis Mysterium (29 January 1998) proclaiming this Great Jubilee Year of 2000 Pope John Paul II announced many special Jubilee indulgences.
835 - Apr 2000 - Impressive gathering of young people attend TMC Summer School, Michael Daniel
After lunch the participants welcomed His Excellency Bishop Scola Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical Lateran University and the John Paul II Family Institute.
836 - Apr 2000 - John Paul II calls for recovery of the true spirit of Vatican II, AD2000 Report
Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger each gave addresses.
837 - Apr 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
New Archbishops for Westminster Birmingham Pope makes key UK appointments in February John Paul II has named Bishop Cormac Murphy-OConnor new Archbishop of Westminster and Bishop Vincent Nichols Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster since 1992 as the new Archbishop of Birmingham.
838 - Mar 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
John Paul IIs address to Roman Rota Indissolubility of marriage affirmed On 21 January 2000 Pope John Paul II received members of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota - as has been his annual practice.
839 - Mar 2000 - English language Mass translation reform: should ICEL be wound up?, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul II has often expressed his concern for accurate and beautiful liturgical translations.
840 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Conflicting views (letter), Joseph Said
As a Catholic priest and prominent public figure Fr Brennan has a responsibility to ensure that his statements reflect fully the beliefs and teachings of the Catholic Church especially in the area of abortion which has contributed greatly to what Pope John Paul II has termed a culture of death.
841 - Feb 2000 - Books: 'Rome Reshaped: Jubilees 1300-2000' by Desmond O’Grady, Michael Daniel
OGrady argues that Pope John Paul II links the former initiative to the Old Testament Jubilee practice of cancelling all debts.
842 - Feb 2000 - Tom Monaghan: the tycoon who sold his assets to serve the Church, Patrick Ward
This is an association of Catholic Chief Executive Officers which he was inspired to set up in 1987 after meeting with Pope John Paul II.
843 - Feb 2000 - Defending the faith against secularism and relativism, Bishop Kevin Manning
Popular journals newspapers and media have described Pope John Paul IIs theology as disturbing old- fashioned theocratic right-wing rigid and anachronistic and question whether he is fit to lead the Church into the new Millennium.
844 - Feb 2000 - The comunità: a new form of monastic life for Australia, Peter Westmore
It has also been welcomed by Pope John Paul II.
845 - Feb 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Church News German bishops in Rome Pope expresses his concerns During a 20 November meeting with a group of German bishops Pope John Paul II promised to use clear and direct language on a number of topics including Church involvement in abortion counselling the role of women in the Church the distinction between laity and clergy and the all-male priesthood.
846 - Feb 2000 - Legionaries of Christ: new order for a new millennium, Peter Westmore
Pope John Paul II has recently drawn attention to the works of the new apostolic movements in the Church and strongly endorsed them.
847 - Dec 1999 - Reflection: Christmas: John Paul II's thoughts on the eve of the Jubilee, Pope John Paul II
A General Audience Address given by Pope John Paul II in which he continued his catechesis on Jesus Christ and the Great Jubilee.
848 - Dec 1999 - History: The Crusades: separating myth from reality, Zenit News Service
Vittorio Messori the journalist who interviewed John Paul II in Crossing the Threshold of Hope pointed out in a recent article in the respected Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that it was the Enlightenment that first cast a black legend shadow on the Crusades using it as a weapon in its psychological war against the Roman Catholic Church .
849 - Dec 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Synod of Europe concludes Popes men dominate elections for post- synodal council Hopes among media commentators and the Churchs liberals that Cardinal Carlo Martini of Milan might succeed John Paul II as Pope were dampened following the close of the Synod of Europe late in October.
850 - Dec 1999 - Stress Christianity's uniqueness says Pope, Father Bernardo Cerveller
Father Bernardo Cerveller director of the Vaticans Fides news agency has provided a commentary on Pope John Paul IIs latest apostolic exhortation Ecclesia in Asia released on 6 November 1999.
851 - Dec 1999 - Editorial: Christianity: a new millennium's challenges, Michael Gilchrist
In it Pope John Paul II cautions local Churches and missionaries not to allow the unique status of Christianity to be compromised in the interests of cultural accommodation.
852 - Nov 1999 - Religious Education: 'Gospel of life' in Melbourne's new RE curriculum, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Pope John Paul II warned of this individualism before the Cairo Conference on Population and Development because it is the basis of the ruthless secularist ideology that has permeated the major United Nations meetings of this last decade of the millennium.
853 - Nov 1999 - Piers Paul Read on the future of the Church, Piers Paul Read
What of the role of John Paul II?
854 - Nov 1999 - New international Catholic university opens Internet campus, AD2000 Report
ICU states that it is dedicated to embodying the ideal of a Catholic university as set out in Pope John Paul IIs 1990 Apostolic Letter From the Heart of the Church (Ex Corde Ecclesiae).
855 - Nov 1999 - St Vincent's drug injecting rooms: 'monumental spiritual blindness', Fr John Walter PP
Truly prophetic are the words of John Paul II in Veritatis Splendor (The Splendour of Truth) his masterpiece moral encyclical that we are currently risking the rise of a new totalitarianism.
856 - Nov 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Given this state of affairs Pope John Paul II has convoked the second Continental Episcopal Synod in European history.
857 - Nov 1999 - The Church's vital role in future of East Timor, Peter Westmore
Foremost among them has been Bishop Carlos Belo an East Timorese national and Salesian priest appointed by John Paul II as Apostolic Administrator in Dili.
858 - Oct 1999 - Apostleship of the Sea: the Stella Maris Seafarers' Centre, AD2000 Report
Pope John Paul II summed up the challenge of the Apostleship of the Sea as follows: In fulfilling this mission to seafarers you face a most challenging and difficult task.
859 - Oct 1999 - Spanish academic revives speculation about authenticity of the Holy Grail, Zenit News Service
The author finally brings together the negative publicity and damage it has been subjected to since then as well as its use by John Paul II during a Mass celebrated in Valencia in November 1992.
860 - Oct 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Pope to visit New Delhi in November Solemn closing of the Synod of Bishops for Asia Pope John Paul II is scheduled to visit India between 5-9 November according to Archbishop Alan Basil De Lastic of New Delhi in a letter sent to Indias 141 Bishops.
861 - Oct 1999 - Catholic objections to the 'morning-after' pill, Maria Luisa Di Pietro
With abortion wrote John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae n.
862 - Aug 1999 - Archbishop Pell celebrates traditional Latin Mass in St Patrick's Cathedral, Gerard McManus
Since the Ecclesia Dei decree of 1988 when Pope John Paul II granted full freedom for the Tridentine Rite throughout the world the traditional Latin Mass has thrived particularly in Western countries such as the United States and France.
863 - Aug 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican statement on episcopal conferences Truths ratified by Magisterium cannot be voted on Cardinal Lucas Moreira Neves Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops issued a letter in June on the role of Episcopal Conferences as a response to John Paul IIs motu proprio of last year Apostolos Suos.
864 - Jul 1999 - Reflection: John Paul II: how the arts and Christian faith nourish each other, Pope John Paul II
Extracts from Pope John Paul IIs Letter to Artists (EWTN Vatican Update 23 April 1999).
865 - Jul 1999 - Jacques Maritain: modern philosophy in the tradition of St Thomas Aquinas, E. J. Borich
In this regard he was no different from John Paul II.
866 - Jul 1999 - A successful French seminary that follows the Curé of Ars tradition, Francis Davidson
He came again in 1986 this time as Pope John Paul II.
867 - Jul 1999 - Liturgy: An American parish's formula for success, Judy Trajanyi
Father Majoros knows of course that the people he preaches to are among the most faithful to Rome and more likely to applaud rather than disagree with pronouncements from Pope John Paul II.
868 - Jul 1999 - Ecumenism: New ARCIC document on Papal authority, Peter Westmore
While ARCICs role arose from a general concern by Pope Paul VI and the then Archbishop of Canterbury to address differences between their respective Churches John Paul II has encouraged responses from other Christians as to how the issue of Papal authority might be resolved.
869 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News De facto unions not an alternative to marriage Popes address to Pontifical Council for the family On 4 June Pope John Paul II received the participants of the 14th plenary session of the Pontifical Council for the Family who have been reflecting on the theme Paternity of God and Paternity in the Family.
870 - Jun 1999 - St Thomas Aquinas: philosopher for our time, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
The release of Pope John Paul IIs encyclical Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason) last year has prompted discussions on the role of philosophy in the life of the Church and in particular the status of St Thomas Aquinass writings.
871 - Jun 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Popes Letter to Artists Catholic Faiths themes for inspiration In a letter to artists released by the Vatican on 23 April Pope John Paul II writes that creative work should give rise to awe and enthusiasm for life adding that these are qualities which the men of today and tomorrow will need to confront and overcome the crucial challenges that loom on the horizon.
872 - Jun 1999 - Pope John Paul II denounces 'ethnic cleansing', rejects war in Yugoslavia, Catholic World News
In a letter addressed to the bishops of Yugoslavia on 20 April Pope John Paul II expressed his profound affliction over the tragic humanitarian situation in that country and said that he will not cease his efforts to calls all parties to negotiate.
873 - May 1999 - Reflection: John Paul II: Christ provides the answer to the mystery of human suffering, Pope John Paul II
Edited text of Pope John Paul IIs Message of 24 January 1999 at the Adolfo Lopez Mateos Hospital in Mexico City.
874 - May 1999 - Association of Catholic Families: meeting challenges to today's family, Chris and Mary Clare Meney
In a very special way Pope John Paul II has called upon Catholic families to do just that: to associate in order to serve one another to evangelise other families to challenge the culture of death to be a sanctuary of life and builders of a community of life and love.
875 - May 1999 - US Dominican nun brings the 'New Cosmology' to New Zealand, Bernard Moran
Likewise intriguing was the sanguine attitude of the New Zealand bishops fresh from the Synod of Oceania in Rome and their ad limina visits to Pope John Paul II.
876 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
New Bishop of Armidale appointed by Rome Vacancy filled by Melbournes Cathedral Administrator On 17 March 1999 Pope John Paul II appointed as the new Bishop of the northern NSW Diocese of Armidale the Very Rev Luc Matthys Administrator of St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne.
877 - May 1999 - Vocations: Confronting today's vocations crisis, Fr Paul Stuart
I have great hope in the springtime that Pope John Paul II is shepherding us towards.
878 - Apr 1999 - 1999 Thomas More Summer School: another resounding success
He encouraged Summer School participants to read Pope John Paul IIs encyclicals.
879 - Apr 1999 - Extending general absolution: why such a move is out of the question, Fr Peter Joseph
Speaking to the Penitentiaries of Rome on 23 February 1981 Pope John Paul II said the teaching of the Council of Trent about the necessity of integral confession of mortal sins is still in force in the Church and always will be.
880 - Apr 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Kissling finished the presentation by attacking the Catholic Church and Pope John Paul II.
881 - Apr 1999 - Adelaide Archdiocese on the brink over general absolutions, AD2000 Report
The joint statement was endorsed by Pope John Paul II during a meeting with all the Australian bishops at the end of their ad limina visits to Rome last December.
882 - Mar 1999 - A Polish priest's story: how I survived the Nazi occupation, Fr Marcel Pasiecznik
Last year on the anniversary of our liberation from Dachau April 29 I concelebrated with 28 other priest-survivors at a Mass presided over by Pope John Paul II in Poland.
883 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
In June 1985 10000 signatures were received by Pope John Paul II and in October 1994 a list of 40000 names from women in the US Canada Australia England Holland and other countries were given to the Holy Father.
884 - Mar 1999 - John Paul II's successful fourth visit to Mexico, AD2000 Report
Reflecting these sentiments was the release during the papal visit of Ecclesia in America (The Church in America) a 140-page wide-ranging document by John Paul II containing proposals made at the end of the Synod of Bishops for America held in November and December 1997.
885 - Feb 1999 - Liturgy: Cardinal Ratzinger on the old and the new Mass, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
On 23-26 October 1998 the tenth anniversary of Pope John Paul IIs motu proprio Ecclesia Dei was celebrated in Rome by thousands of supporters of the traditional Latin Mass (Missal of 1962).
886 - Feb 1999 - 'Absolute Truth': another media 'job' on the Catholic Church, Michael Gilchrist
During Pope John Paul IIs concluding address on 14 December 1998 to members of the Australian Conference of Bishops on their ad limina apostolorum visit to Rome late in 1998 (see pp 3-5) the Holy Father had occasion to comment on the role of the mass media: Unfortunately the teaching of the Magisterium is sometimes met with reservation and questioning a tendency sometimes fuelled by media interest in dissent or in some cases by the intention to use the media as a kind of strategem to force the Church into changes she cannot make.
887 - Feb 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Padre Pio to be beatified Miraculously cured woman to attend St Peters ceremony Padre Pio will be beatified by Pope John Paul II on Sunday 2 May 1999 in a celebration in Saint Peters Square.
888 - Feb 1999 - John Paul II throws down the gauntlet to Australia's bishops, AD2000 Report
As John Paul II rather tellingly remarked in his closing address to the Australian bishops: Until recently the Catholic community in Australia knew nothing but consistent growth .
889 - Dec 1998 - Reflection: The mystery of Christmas confronts a sceptical world, Fr Robert J. Batule
Pope John Paul II calls losing your life the law of the gift.
890 - Dec 1998 - The right to work: what does the Catholic Church teach?, Bishop Kevin Manning
Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Laborem Exercens (LE) or On Human Work (n.
891 - Dec 1998 - Pope John Paul II calls for more 'balance' in the reformed liturgy, AD2000 Report
The visit of a group of American Bishops for their ad limina visit to Rome in October provided Pope John Paul II with an opportunity to once again express his concerns about the current state of the liturgy.
892 - Dec 1998 - News: The Church Around the World
This was done by Pope John Paul II in union with all bishops throughout the world on 25 March 1984.
893 - Dec 1998 - Cardinal Ratzinger presents John Paul II's latest encyclical, Michael Gilchrist
Faith and Reason assails modern philosophys nihilism Pope John Paul IIs 13th and latest encyclical - Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason) - was presented at the Holy Sees Press Office by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on 15 October (see analysis on pp.
894 - Oct 1998 - Teresa-Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein): new Carmelite Saint, Tracey Rowland
However there is nothing in her work which is not consistent with the teaching of Pope John Paul II on matters pertaining to women and indeed many of the Popes statements in these areas sound like a paraphrase of Edith Stein.
895 - Oct 1998 - Pope John Paul II: the impact of his twenty-year pontificate, Peter Westmore
Among the great Popes of the modern era John Paul II has been outstanding in his influence on both church and state over the twenty years of his pontificate.
896 - Sep 1998 - Pope John Paul II's new Apostolic Letter on Bishops' Conferences, Apostolos Suos, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul IIs latest apostolic letter Apostolos Suos On the Theological and Juridical Nature of Episcopal Conferences was released officially at the Vatican in July 1997 having been earlier signed by the Pope on 21 May the Feast of the Ascension.
897 - Aug 1998 - Pope's new Apostolic Letter puts theological dissenters on notice
Pope John Paul II has adopted a tougher line on theological dissent in the Catholic Church.
898 - Jun 1998 - New Texts the key to reshaping religious education, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Lewis Daniel Mannix Mother Teresa Bob Santamaria and still with us our beloved Pope John Paul II.
899 - Apr 1998 - AD2000's tenth anniversary: an appraisal, Peter Westmore
Every major doctrinal controversy has been the subject of informed analysis as have the major statements of Pope John Paul II without doubt the greatest Christian apologist of the age.
900 - Jul 1997 - Which Catholic women will the Australian bishops listen to?, Michael Gilchrist
Because women were unlikely to be admitted to the priesthood under Pope John Paul II my emphasis they should concentrate on increasing their voice within the Churchs administration.
901 - Jul 1997 - Editorial: Unity is Strength: Division is Death
But it is at least important that they should understand what is at stake and place the unity of their prayers behind John Paul II.
902 - Mar 1997 - Brisbane's Banyo seminary: zero recruits is 'not a cause for alarm', Michael Gilchrist
These were based on a pastoral letter of Pope John Paul II and included increased periods of retreat changes to daily devotions more meditation and recollection and a more intensive study of the Churchs forms of public worship.
903 - Oct 1996 - How the new Catechism can impact on the secular culture, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
In the Apostolic Constitution Fidei Donum which introduced the Catechism the Holy Father Pope John Paul II stated that it was a sure norm for teaching the faith that it was an instrument for promoting unity within the Church and it would provoke a renewal of the Church in the Holy Spirit that it would be a symphony of the faith that it would lead to a deeper faith in Jesus Christ and would be a compendium and sure reference for local catechetical texts.
904 - Jun 1996 - Michael Davies' Australia / NZ tour - The Catholic liturgy: where is it headed?, Michael Gilchrist
In 1980 Pope John Paul II issued an apology to the entire Church in Dominicae Cenae for the liturgical abuses which had accompanied the post-Vatican II liturgical renewal.
905 - May 1996 - Books: 'Redefining The Church: Vision and Practice', Richard Lennan ed, Fr Ephraem Chifley OP
Fr Gleeson feels that there is some disquiet about the encyclical Veritatis Splendor in that it appears to curtail the responsibilities and rights of individual consciences beginning with the statement of John Paul II in the encyclical that the Churchs teachings are always and only at the service of conscience.
906 - Nov 1995 - Post-conciliar renewal? Some Queensland snapshots, Michael Gilchrist
This wonderful change has been given the name transubstantiation in the Church; nor any mention that in the words of Pope John Paul II the Eucharist is above all else a sacrifice (Dominicae Cenae 9).
907 - Nov 1995 - Evangelium Vitae - Catholicism, the media and the 'culture of death', Bishop George Pell
The Popes encyclical Gospel of Life The release of Pope John Paul IIs encyclical Gospel of Life earlier this year was timely in view of the growing pressures in Australia - already successful in the Northern Territory - to legalise euthanasia.
908 - Oct 1995 - Books: The Battle for the American Church (Revisited), by Msgr George A. Kelly, Michael Gilchrist
As an experienced parish priest and university professor (St Johns University New York) Msgr Kelly was well-equipped to diagnose the state of the Catholic Church in the United States at the start of John Paul IIs pontificate.
909 - Sep 1995 - Editorial: Catholic doctrines and moral teachings: the time for enforcement is overdue, B.A. Santamaria
The spokesman reportedly stated that the recent Letter Of Pope John Paul II to Women (29 June 1995) represented a whole new mood emerging on the part of the Church in regard to womens rights but that any re-opening of the issue of womens ordination would probably not occur until reconciliation conversion and repentance with regard to the way the Church had treated women had taken place.
910 - Aug 1995 - Blessed Edith Stein (1891-1942): The most significant German woman this century, Mary O'Neill
Edith Stein beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987 was a Jewish convert to Catholicism and one of the better-known victims of the World War II Nazi Holocaust.
911 - Aug 1995 - Fr Paul Collins: seeking a new green constituency?, Michael Gilchrist
83) and the totalitarian inquisition of Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger (p.
912 - Jul 1995 - Understanding the terms of the euthanasia debate, Peter Coghlan
Key statements from the Popes Gospel of Life encyclical Pope John Paul IIs encyclical Evangelium Vitae was issued in March 1995.
913 - Apr 1995 - Catholicism: 'revealed by God, not devised by man', Fr Graham Leonard (former Anglican Bishop of London)
He was recently received in audience by Pope John Paul II in Rome.
914 - Dec 1994 - An Open Letter to the Manly Seminary staff, Fr Brian Harrison OS
I was saddened to learn from the content of your recent book The New Catechism: Analysis and Commentary compiled and published in your role as faculty members of the Catholic Institute of Sydney that most of you are very far from accepting the Catechism as that sure norm for teaching the faith which Pope John Paul II declares it to be in the Apostolic Constitution Fidei Depositum.
915 - Sep 1994 - New edition of Fr Richard McBrien's 'Catholicism': but dissent still remains, James Likoudis
The moral theory of proportionalism (as developed by Fr Richard McCormick) is defended despite its rejection by Pope John Paul II in Veritatis Splendor (pp.
916 - Aug 1994 - Not all religious are dissenters: Christian Brother writes, Br John B. Stephenson CFC
I stand with Christ in the person of His Spirit-guided Vicar Pope John Paul II.
917 - Aug 1994 - Religious orders, associations refuse to accept 'definitive' Papal teaching
In his Apostolic Letter of 22 May Pope John Paul II declared that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the faithful.
918 - Apr 1994 - Making sense of 'Veritatis Splendor', Bishop Kevin Manning
Acknowledging that honest attempts have been made since Vatican II to renew moral theology Pope John Paul II notes that doubts and various objections about the Churchs moral teaching have arisen and there has been a general and systematic calling into question of traditional moral doctrine on the basis of anthropological and ethical concepts e.
919 - Mar 1994 - The new Catechism and Cardinal Newman, Archbishop Eric D'Arcy
Guard the deposit (1 Tim 6:20) Guard the noble deposit (2 Tim 1:14): how Newmans words anticipate the opening of the Apostolic Constitution with which Pope John Paul II gave the CCC to the Universal Church.
920 - Feb 1994 - Reflection: The Immaculate Conception: Mary’s unique holiness, Br Christian Moe FSC
Pope John Paul II for example in making his Angelus address on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in 1988 declared The dogma of the Immaculate Conception is a marvellous synthesis of the Christian faith.
921 - Feb 1994 - The state of Catholicism after 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
The Encyclical Veritatis Splendor which was issued by Pope John Paul II in October 1993 was reportedly eight years in preparation.
922 - Nov 1993 - Brompton Oratory, London: Keeping Catholic tradition alive, Simon Matthews
Papal teaching such as Pope John Paul IIs Veritatis Splendor is welcomed and commended to the faithful.
923 - Nov 1993 - Thomas More Centre Lecture: Janet Smith champions Church's moral teaching, Dr Janet Smith
As for the unitive meaning of the sex act she said Pope John Paul II shows that contraception also frustrates this end.
924 - Nov 1993 - Editorial: The Pope: for or against him?, B.A. Santamaria
Uren have chosen publicly to cast doubt on the binding authority of the Encyclical and therefore of its author Pope John Paul II.
925 - Sep 1993 - Archbishop Hickey's Pastoral Letter - 'Humanae Vitae' 25th anniversary, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
Later this year Pope John Paul II will issue a new encyclical Veritatis Splendor (The Splendour of the Truth) which will affirm the right and duty of the Church to proclaim the changeless Revelation on which its moral teachings rest.
926 - May 1993 - 'The Catechism of the Catholic Church': Confronting the post-Christian world, B.A. Santamaria
On 8 December last Pope John Paul II solemnly promulgated The General Catechism of the Catholic Church.
927 - Mar 1993 - Books: A review of the 'Catechism of the Catholic Church' (French Edition), Fr Peter Joseph
In this respect in its breathing with both lungs of East and West as Pope John Paul II desires the new Catechism surpasses the Catechism of 1566.
928 - Oct 1992 - Reflection: Fatima - after seventy-five years, Bishop George Pell
The apparitions were eventually approved by the Church and both Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II have visited Fatima on pilgrimage.
929 - Apr 1992 - Whence Ecumenism? The Vatican and ARCIC, Michael Davies
It had received warm encouragement from Pope John Paul II.
930 - Apr 1992 - Problems of modern Biblical scholarship, B.A. Santamaria
If this firm exercise of Papal authority had been insufficient in September 1987 John Paul II closed the argument in emphatic terms in his address to the US Bishops in Los Angeles: As I have stated .
931 - Feb 1992 - The Pope's agenda - overcoming the obstacles, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul IIs agenda for the Catholic Church as it approaches its third millennium includes goals of renewing Catholicism in the true letter and spirit of Vatican II (in the context of the Churchs 2000 year tradition) and of strengthening unity and orthodoxy.
932 - Oct 1991 - France and the revival of traditional Catholicism, Dr Geoffrey Hull
For this reason enjoying the right confirmed by the Holy Father John Paul II in the Motu Proprio of 2nd July 1988 the liturgical books in use in this House are according to the Vatican Edition of 1962.
933 - Jun 1991 - Encyclical: John Paul II's Memorial to 'Rerum Novarum': a summary of 'Centesimus Annus', B.A. Santamaria
Pope John Paul II has marked the hundredth anniversary of the 1891 publication of Leo XIIIs first Encyclical on the Christian organisation of society Rerum Novarum (Of new things) with his new Encyclical Centesimus Annus (The hundredth year).
934 - Feb 1991 - How religion fares in the U.S.A. - Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, Michael Gilchrist
In other words Pope John Paul II Cardinal Ratzinger and Cardinal OConnor are expounding the wrong model.
935 - Apr 1990 - Architects of failure on the offensive: US theologians 'pan' new Catechism, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul II had established a Commission for the Preparation of a Catechism for the Universal Church in 1986 following the recommendation of the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops.
936 - Mar 1990 - New Zealand: tensions between Rome and the Bishops, John Kennedy OBE
In it layman Des Swain assails the Curia and snidely puts John Paul II down while those who urge the Church to hasten slowly and to apply the true spirit of Vatican II are written off as blind traditionalists opposed to the freedom and growth of the individual.
937 - Feb 1990 - Books: Archbishop Oscar Romero: a modern martyr - 'Romero: a Life', by James Brockman, Paul Gray
Pope John Paul II made at least two speeches within days of the assassination condemning the crime and praising the Archbishops work.
938 - Feb 1990 - Thomas Aquinas College, California: a model of Catholic higher education, Michael Gilchrist
While in the US in 1988 I was informed by local experts that barely 5 per cent of Catholic colleges and universities could be described as fully on-side with Pope John Paul II and having thoroughly orthodox theology departments - whatever the standards of their secular areas might be like.
939 - Dec 1989 - Challenging the atmosphere and agenda of secularist Australia, Karl Schmude
The American nun Mother Angelica who runs a Catholic television network has shown the power of the electronic media to reach people; and Pope John Paul II is adept at using the media - particularly on his international visits - to bypass official bureaucratic channels and speak directly to minds and hearts the world over.
940 - Nov 1989 - Thomas More and today's crisis in faith and morals, John Finnis
Thus Trent John Paul II the Churchs millennial sacramental practice the New Testament the tradition of the Two Ways - of Life and Death - which we find even earlier than most of the New Testament.
941 - Nov 1989 - Teaching Christian doctrine in Catholic primary schools, Gerard Gaskin
On 16 October 1979 Pope John Paul II issued his Apostolic Exhortation Catechesi Tradendae.
942 - Sep 1989 - Christianity: new threats in the aftermath of the fall of Communism, Paul Johnson
Paul Johnsons intellectual odyssey has taken him from the editorship of the leftist New Statesman to being a staunch defender of Christian values and a biographer of Pope John Paul II.
943 - Sep 1989 - Three problems for Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
The Archbishop contended that Catholic systems of education had failed to teach the specific doctrines of the Church both on faith and morals along with their rational and historical underpinnings and to stock and train the memory as directed in Pope John Paul IIs encyclical Catechesi Tradendae s.
944 - Jun 1989 - Australian Catholicism's one million "lost": a sociological analysis, B.A. Santamaria
Or has it become something else in the course of an evolution which even so great a Pope as John Paul II is incapable of reversing?
945 - Mar 1989 - Who do they think they are?, B.A. Santamaria
The theologians - or whoever organised them since 163 signatures do not converge spontaneously - had come to the conclusion that if John Paul II were given another ten years of life the appointments made over that decade would settle the issue against them.
946 - Oct 1988 - A Catholic university for Australia: surely not modelled on Notre Dame?, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul II has made several emphatic and unambiguous pronouncements about what a Catholic university should be.
947 - Sep 1988 - 'Putting the essence of the Faith in doubt' (Jean Guitton), B.A. Santamaria
Relationship On 31 May John Paul II addressed a number of the US bishops on their ad limina visit to the Holy See.
948 - Jul 1988 - Growth of a 'new church': the Dutch experiment, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul II had signalled in 1980 that he intended to treat Holland as a high priority in his long-term program of what Paul Johnson called the Catholic Restoration.
949 - May 1988 - Cardinal Ratzinger: defender of the Faith, Andrew Greenwich
By choosing one of the major theologians of our time writes the German philosopher Robert Spaemann to head that ministry which in the Church has responsibility for ensuring the integral transmission of the faith Pope John Paul II has changed the face of the Congregation.
950 - May 1988 - John Paul II's new social encyclical, Sollicitudo rei socialis, B.A. Santamaria
The new encyclical Sollicitudo rei socialis which can be broadly translated as The concern (of the Church) for the Social Order was designed by its author Pope John Paul II to mark the twentieth anniversary of the encyclical Populorum Progressio.
951 - Apr 1988 - A kingdom divided in itself, B.A. Santamaria
Although no less American in the style of their religiosity persons of this persuasion take their lead on matters of spiritual and moral substance for the most part from orthodox Roman Catholicism as articulated by John Paul II.
952 - Dec 1987 - about: About AD2000
the strengthening of orthodoxy through John Paul IIs leadership the leadership of new bishops the rise of new movements in the Church and the consolidation of a determined laity are what constitute the beginning of a revival.
953 - Nov 2015 - Salvation: "All Israel will be saved": Romans 11:26, Andrew Sholl
954 - Sep 2015 - Apostolic Letter: Pope Francis proclaims Year of Mercy, AD2000 Report
955 - Jul 2015 - Books: THE MYTH OF HITLER’S POPE, by Rabbi David G. Dalin, Paul Simmons
956 - Apr 2015 - Pilate's inscription on the Cross, Andrew Sholl
957 - Feb 2015 - The Eighteen Benedictions of Judaism ... and Christianity, Andrew Sholl
958 - Jul 2014 - Reflection: The Pope meets ICEL: a bishop's reflection on Vatican II, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
959 - Nov 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
960 - Feb 2013 - Grace: Indulgences: relics of the past or still Church teaching?, John Young
961 - Oct 2012 - Liturgical Music: Vatican II: Singing nourishes faith ... raises minds to God, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
962 - May 2012 - The Church's dogma of transubstantiation, John Young
963 - Feb 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
964 - Dec 2011 - Letters: Devotion to Mary, Cedric Wright
965 - Dec 2011 - Catholic Literature: Robert Hugh Benson and Christ's Second Coming, Br Christian Moe FSC
966 - Sep 2011 - Reflection: Proper church etiquette: a public witness of faith, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
967 - Jul 2011 - What attracts converts to the Catholic Church?, Fr F.E. Burns
968 - Feb 2011 - Reflection: The great but neglected harvest of inactive Catholics, Joseph Agius
969 - Oct 2010 - Letters: Pastoral Council?, Peter D. Howard
970 - Sep 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
971 - Sep 2010 - Letters: A rejoinder to John Young, James Bogle
972 - Aug 2010 - The Mass: why we should focus on its essence, Fr John O'Neill PP
973 - Mar 2010 - Conversion: Paul Fitzgerald: my spiritual journey, Paul Fitzgerald
974 - Dec 2009 - Vatican II: Yves Congar, Vatican II, ecumenism: finding the right balance, Andrew Kania
975 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Liturgy reform, Paul Martin
976 - Sep 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
977 - Jun 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Last Things: death, judgment, Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, Br Barry Coldrey
978 - Jun 2009 - Cardinal Pell's UK interview: Liturgy, Missal translation, World Youth Day, Luke Coppen
979 - Mar 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
980 - Nov 2008 - Reflection: Purgatory: hope, mercy, love, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
981 - Sep 2008 - Liturgy: No smoke without fire: Benedict XVI and true liturgical reform, David Birch
982 - Jul 2008 - Religious faith and the power of music and song, Andrw Kania
983 - Jun 2008 - Letters: Ordinary Magisterium, Peter D. Howard
984 - Apr 2008 - WYDSYD08: World Youth Day Sydney: look for the wider trend, Joanna Bogle
985 - Feb 2008 - Letters: Vatican II, Anthony Bono
986 - Nov 2007 - Music: Cherished Hymns of the Forefathers - 2DVD and CD set, Peter Donald
987 - Oct 2007 - Truth: And the Light shines in the darkness: the meaning of true ecumenism, Andrew Kania
988 - Oct 2007 - More of the same: Retired Sydney bishop calls for a radical overhaul of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
989 - Oct 2006 - Modernism's 'second wave' continues to impact on the Church, Fr Martin Durham
990 - Sep 2006 - History: The Counter Reformation and the Jesuits, John Morrissey
991 - Sep 2006 - Conscience: AD2000 interviews Cardinal Pell, Cardinal George Pell
992 - Apr 2006 - Conscience: Dissenters' appeal to Rome 'a real hoot' says Cardinal Pell, Michael Gilchrist
993 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Relic of the '70s, Don Gaffney
994 - Mar 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
995 - Feb 2006 - Liturgical Music: The spiritual impact of Msgr. Richard Schuler's priestly leadership and example, Fr John T. Zuhlsdorf
996 - Nov 2005 - Reflection: The concrete character of Christianity, John Young
997 - Nov 2005 - Letters: Myths exploded, Nola Viney
998 - Sep 2005 - BOOKS: The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis, Thomas E. Woods Jr
999 - Jul 2005 - Reflecton: The soul: what reason and revelation tell us, John Young
1000 - May 2005 - Reflection: Pope John Paul II and the redemptive power of suffering, Fr Paul Stuart
1001 - May 2005 - Books: Sacred and Secular Scriptures / The Catholic Revival in English Literature, David Birch
1002 - May 2005 - The Da Vinci Code and the itching ears syndrome, John Young
1003 - Apr 2005 - Reflection: Pope John Paul II: 'In the risen Christ all creation rises to new life', Pope John Paul II
1004 - Feb 2005 - Reflection: Archbishop Hart: Pope John Paul II and the Year of the Eucharist, Archbishop Denis Hart
1005 - Sep 2004 - Books: More new titles from AD Books
1006 - Aug 2004 - Carnivale Christi: Whatever happened to beauty in art?, Paul Fitzgerald
1007 - Aug 2004 - Catholic politicians and informed conscience, Bishop Michael Sheridan
1008 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Priestly vocations (letter), Monsignor Robert Egar
1009 - Jun 2004 - Education: Chavagnes en Paillers: a Catholic college with a Catholic culture, Paul Russell
1010 - May 2004 - Education: The religious character of Catholic schools: how can it be enhanced?, Br Paul Macrossan CFC
1011 - Feb 2004 - Modern church design: 'Spank the architect!', Paul Mees
1012 - Nov 2003 - Letters: Vatican II, Peter D. Howard
1013 - Sep 2002 - The 1960s 'cultural revolution': from self-sacrifice to self-fulfillment, Fr Gregory Jordan
1014 - Aug 2002 - Helping Catholic school students to love the Church, Br John Moylan CFC
1015 - Jun 2002 - How John Paul II's 'new springtime' came to an American parish, Elizabeth A. Wittman
1016 - May 2002 - 'The Resurrection in the university' - IMCSA National Conference in Sydney, Nicholas Rynne
1017 - Apr 2002 - Documents: John Paul II on the Catholic Faith in our region, Pope John Paul II
1018 - Mar 2001 - Books: Why the hopes of the Council Fathers of Vatican II are yet to be realised, Michael Daniel
1019 - Dec 2000 - Reflection: The coming of Christ on earth, Pope John Paul II
1020 - May 2000 - How the future John Paul II saved a Jewish girl's life, Zenit News Service
1021 - Feb 2000 - Reflection: Private revelations: "Keep to what is countenanced by the Church", Fr Peter Joseph
1022 - Aug 1999 - How a Canadian church was saved from destruction, Paul Likoudis
1023 - Jul 1999 - Religious education reform in the Melbourne Archdiocese under attack, John S. Webster
1024 - Dec 1998 - John Paul II's new encyclical 'Faith and Reason' analysed, Hayden Ramsay
1025 - Jul 1996 - Father Joseph Fessio's lecture tour of Australia, Mark First
1026 - Apr 1996 - Vatican II, 1962-1965 - The next 30 years: to bring about a Catholic revival, Fr John Parsons
1027 - Mar 1996 - Examining the impact of Vatican II after 30 years, Fr John Parsons
1028 - Nov 1995 - Lord Ripon (1828-1909) - II - How to base political life on Christian principles, Fr John Parsons
1029 - Oct 1995 - Lord Ripon (1828-1909) - I - How to base political life on Christian principles, Fr John Parsons
1030 - Sep 1995 - Alexander Rzewuski (1893-1983): The Catholic Church viewed with 'fresh eyes', Fr Peter Knowles OP
1031 - Apr 1995 - New Melbourne R.E. Guidelines: an improvement on the old, Michael Gilchrist
1032 - Nov 1994 - Vatican moves to save high altars: a bit late in the day, Simon Matthews
1033 - Jun 1992 - Monika Hellwig visits Australia, Michael Gilchrist
1034 - Oct 1991 - The priesthood: one layman's view, B.A. Santamaria
1035 - Jun 1990 - Books: 'Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century', Fr John Parsons
1036 - Jun 1989 - How the liturgy fell apart: the enigma of Archbishop Bugnini, Michael Davies
1037 - Nov 1988 - The issues facing Australian Catholicism, Bishop George Pell
1038 - Apr 1988 - Books: The Desolate City: The Catholic Church in Ruins, by Anne Roche Muggeridge, Michael Gilchrist