How and why Newman rejects the understanding of doctrinal development as new revelation.

The situation is compounded by the fact that this opposition does not spring from his neighbour, because it certainly is a purely internal conflict. And our difficulties do not end

William Carroll, converses with HUMANITAS REVIEW about his impressions of the positive reception of academics in some Chinese universities of the Thomistic philosophy. Thomas Aquinas’s commitment to the importance of reason

The environment in which family life and school life develop seem to impose models and suggestions that are stronger than the input from parents and teachers, dominant in a different

This theory is also supported by the many religious references in his works, which reveal that he had a good knowledge of the Catholic ritual and belief. On the same

Nearly fifty years ago, and almost a decade before being named bishop by Paul VI, the then priest and theology professor in Tübingen and later in Regensburg, Dr. Joseph Ratzinger,

Christ the Judge. [1] This impression of a terrifying Christ that condemns the reprobate to burning for eternity has lived on in the imagination of many of the faithful. However,

it has been a race: a staff of scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider [1] (LHC), built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN: Conseil Européen pour la

According to Prof. Dr. Siegfried Wiedenhofer from Frankfurt am Main, who was Ratzinger’s assistant from 1966 to 1977, this is a lecture from the Tübingen period (1966-1969). So far a

The French usually say “pardonner une faute” (literally: forgive a fault). This is not truly proper. One cannot forgive a fault, because a fault is a thing, not a person.

Let me get up front to the central claim of my article [1]: What is increasingly missing from the late-modern research university and the kind of training it offers is

Before, during, and after the First Vatican Council, Newman adumbrated what I think we can call a mini-theology of Councils of the Church, which has much relevance for our own

Tolkien and Modernity Was J.R.R. Tolkien a modern writer? The author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion is undoubtedly “modern” in the sense that he

A few weeks before Vatican Council II, Cardinal Siri invited Cardinal Frings, Archbishop of Cologne, to Genoa for a conference on the Church in the modern world. The elderly German

“Its end is the kingdom of God, which has been begun by God Himself on earth, and which is to be further extended until it is brought to perfection by

Address of His Holiness Paul VI to the Organizers and Members of the International Symposium on the Resurrection of Christ Saturday, April 4, 1970 We are most touched by the affectionate and

In this brief space it is impossible to do justice to all the themes developed in this monumental encyclical, whose purpose is to update Paul VI’s encyclical, Populorum Progressio, after

Normally the family communicates, almost by osmosis, the most basic moral experience. In its bosom each person, through the primary good of the affections, is “recognized” as such – the

Theodosius Dobzhansky, the great researcher and thinker who made fundamental contributions to the subject of evolution, stated: “Undoubtedly, the human mind clearly separates our species from non-human animals. […] Human

Ever since the beginning of his academic activity, Ratzinger has been interested in the problem of God. [1] In the 1959 lesson “The God of Faith and the God of

In the introduction to my speech* – which I entitled “Francis of Assisi, Sanctity for Times of Crisis” – I am going to talk about the discourse taking place at

John Paul II began his first encyclical with the words “Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of Man, is the Center and Purpose of Human History”. In doing so he fired a

The fact that Pontius Pilate, fainthearted mercenary, had the courage to answer the high priests’ request that he change the title, which he had ordered be put on the cross

Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, archbishop of Krakow, recalled details of that 10th of July 1979, when Pope John Paul II culminated his journey to Poland, unleashing an immense process of changes

The second of June 1980, John Paul II went to UNESCO in Paris, to deliver one of the most important and memorable speeches on human culture. Shortly afterwards he created

There is a widespread opinion to the effect that in the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, Dignitatis humanae, [1] the Catholic Church belatedly accepted principles that had by that

Love, love pulsating the temples,Love in man becomes thought and will:Teresa’s will to be in Andrew; Andrew’s will to be in Teresa.‘Tis strange yet necessary to distance a little from