by John Freund, CM | Sep 10, 2012 | Church
The Vatican has teamed up with Apple to develop new hi-tech methods for communicating the works of Pope Benedict XVI to the world. “It represents an enormous step on the international stage because, as you know, internet goes beyond space and time,” said Father...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 1, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Benedict XVI offers six ideas aimed at fixing the financial system and rebuilding a new one that would be more humane and fair to all people. (Romereports.com) PRINCIPLE OF GRATUITOUSNESS The first is the ‘Principles of Gratuitousness’. It means that...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 26, 2012 | Church
In times of crisis and doubt it may be helpful to remember what has happened to those who walk through the door of faith… “In him who died and rose again for our salvation, the examples of faith that have marked these two thousand years of our salvation...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
Certainly a question for the many members of the Vincentian family who often find themselves in airports. Romereports.com writes “Benedict XVI met with airport chaplains and flight attendants to promote the ‘The New Evangelization in the Field of Civil...
by John Freund, CM | May 11, 2012 | Church
According to Rome Reports, the Pope is to attend a public performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in the opera house of La Scala in Milan. When I was ordained in 1965 clerics were forbidden to attend public spectacles in opera houses.
