The Pope Is Here!
This week Pope Benedict XVI is visiting us in the United States. His visit is a great blessing to us and to our country. But what is Pope Benedict like?
Why’d he say that?
Our brains work that way. We make judgments about right and wrong. We look for causes. We try to figure things out. We do this because we are gifted with reason . Our reason is a small participation in God’s spirit.
Recently Pope Benedict XVI spoke about reason. His speech caused quite a controversy because of one of the quotes he used.
The Da Vinci Doubt
A doubt can be powerful. The devil used it against Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. He tried to make them doubt that God loved them. It worked. We’re paying for it. The Da Vinci Code, written by Dan Brown, may not be as smart a hoax as the devil’s lie in the garden, but it has confused many people.
No Longer Orphans: Our New Holy Father
Pope Benedict XVI speaks with the same firmness of faith, the coherence and confidence in Christ that we learned from John Paul II. He gives us confidence that adherence to Christ is our stronghold and message amidst confusion.
We are his legacy…
For all of us who are younger than 27, Pope John Paul II is the Holy Father who has shaped us in the Catholic faith more than anyone. We, the Catholic youth of the world, are his legacy.
Someone Deflected That Bullet
In 1917, Mary appeared in Fatima, Portugal to the 10-year-old Lucia dos Santos along with her two younger cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto. For the next six months, from May to October… John Paul II credits her prayers and the prayers that she helped stir in others with surviving an assassin’s bullet that by all normal circumstances should have killed him within seconds.
