⚓ El Buque Escuela Esmeralda continúa su recorrido por Norteamérica con próximas recaladas en Nueva York, Boston y Quebec, en el marco de su participación en Sail250, encuentro marítimo internacional que conmemora el 250° aniversario de la independencia de EE.UU.
Thanks for checking back in! Today is the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. As you know, Mary has tons of different names. One of the most famous is “Our Lady of Perpetual Help” and this is the original icon, here at St. Alphonsus Church. When I was a kid, our Archbishop, Cardinal Joseph Ritter, was given this Church as his titular Church. He asked all the kids of the archdiocese to donate pennies so he could renovate it in honor of our Blessed Mother. This place means a lot to me! @thegnewsroom
En víspera del 44.º aniversario de las primeras apariciones de Medjugorje, el cardenal Ernest Simoni asciende la colina de las apariciones
➡️ A pesar de sus 97 años y los dieciocho años de prisión que soportó bajo el régimen comunista albanés, ha ascendido la colina de las apariciones
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“Duc in altum”. –¡Mar adentro! –Rechaza el pesimismo que te hace cobarde. “Et laxate retia vestra in capturam” –y echa tus redes para pescar. ¿No ves que puedes decir, como Pedro: “in nomine tuo, laxabo rete” –Jesús, en tu nombre, buscaré almas?
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In a recent interview, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, former grand chancellor of the John Paul II Institute on Marriage and Family Life, confirmed the worst suspicions that many of us had.
He admitted that the changes he made at the Institute during the Pope Francis years were designed to initiate a "very profound" reform of the idea of the natural law.
Instead of absolute moral norms grounded in a keen understanding of the basic goods, he and his colleagues were proposing a moral theory rooted in historical discernment of subjective and cultural experience--not an "armchair theology" but one operating "within history and within people's lives."
This, of course, is the language of trendy postmodernism, and it is dangerous indeed.
Allow me to illustrate the principle with one example. Is slavery wrong?
Intrinsically wrong? Wrong no matter what public opinion polls say about it, no matter what the current consensus on it might be? I imagine any decent person would say yes.
But that yes is predicated upon precisely what the tradition calls the natural law and the basic goods. There are some values so fundamental that acts repugnant to them are by their very nature wicked.
If you want a highly articulate presentation of this idea, go to St. John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor.
If we say that this is just "armchair theologizing" and that morality is a function of ever-shifting cultural and experiential data, then why couldn't slavery be justified?
One of the very smartest persons that ever lived, the philosopher Aristotle, thought it was; extremely bright and morally upright persons in our country, well into the 19th century, thought it was permissible.
Who is to say whether the consensus might shift back again? Who is to say that "lived experience" might come to justify it?
What any truly coherent moral program requires is the very thing that Archbishop Paglia and his colleagues were endeavoring to eliminate, namely, absolute moral norms.
Ridding ourselves of these in the name of freedom or pastoral sensitivity actually renders moral discourse dysfunctional, just as relativizing the basic principle of logic would render any rational conversation impossible.
The Archbishop's interview, frankly, reminded me of the discussions I had at the Synod on Synodality with some of my German colleagues. Under the rubric of the development of doctrine, they were eager to relativize or radically change the principles undergirding classical morality. If this was and is truly the game, we have ventured onto perilous seas.
Link to the article below.
Chile tiene derecho a saber qué pasó con los niños haitianos. Si se comprueba que hubo tráfico de menores, significa que la corrupción caló en lo más profundo del Estado. Es hora de demostrar lo contrario, con investigaciones que lleguen hasta el fondo y sanciones ejemplares. Estamos frente a la máxima expresión de la crisis moral en Chile.
Acojo con satisfacción el acuerdo alcanzado entre la República Islámica de Irán y los Estados Unidos de América, que se firmará el viernes, como resultado alentador de un paciente trabajo de diálogo y de negociación. Expreso mi gratitud a los países que se han esforzado por favorecer el encuentro entre las partes y hacer posible dicho entendimiento. Espero que este acuerdo contribuya a reforzar la confianza recíproca, la seguridad y la estabilidad en Oriente Medio, y promueva caminos de diálogo y cooperación entre los pueblos.
Como chileno y militar en retiro, comparto absolutamente, la honesta opinión del autor de esta carta.
Nuestros ex soldados conscriptos no tienen ninguna responsabilidad en los hechos que se les pueda acusar.
No se entiende que la "justicia" los condene.
¡Basta de prevaricación!
On June 13, Catholics honor the memory of the Franciscan priest St. Anthony of Padua. Although he is popularly invoked today by those who have trouble finding lost objects, he was known in his own day as the “Hammer of Heretics” due to the powerful witness of his life and preaching.
St. Anthony's well-established holiness, combined with the many miracles he had worked during his lifetime, moved Pope Gregory IX – who knew the saint personally – to canonize him one year after his death.
“St. Anthony, residing now in heaven, is honored on earth by many miracles daily seen at his tomb, of which we are certified by authentic writings,” proclaimed the 13th-century Pope.
Read more: https://t.co/if26fcHcQ0