by John Freund, CM | Sep 3, 2011 | Vincentian Family
“We will see how Vincent de Paul, his teaching and his life were centuries ahead of the Church’s magisterium.” Thus writes Sister María Pilar López, DC and she offers proof in a very insightful and challenging article “The Prophetic Dimension of the...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 6, 2011 | Church
Ten of Japan’s sixteen bishops are gathering Aug. 6 for their annual commemoration of humanity’s first use of an atomic bomb in an act of war and the first since the March meltdowns at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant following a 9.0 magnitude...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 8, 2011 | Church
We’re in the middle of the biggest communication shift since the advent of the printing press. Facebook has over 500 million users. Two billion YouTube videos are watched every day. And last year alone, Americans sent 1.8 trillion text messages. What does this all...
by John Freund, CM | May 7, 2011 | Church, Evangelization
(Zenit.org).- Evangelization in a world of communications technology is the biggest challenge the Vatican is facing today, according to Archbishop Celli, the president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. “We should ask ourselves to what degree...
by Beth | Feb 23, 2011 | Church
Benedict XVI is proposing a journey with the Word of God this Lent and a deepening in the mystery of baptism. The Pope’s Lenten Message was released with a theme from Colossians: “You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with...
