Biography of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, was born at Marktl am Inn, Diocese of Passau (Germany) on 16 April 1927 (Holy Saturday) and was baptised on the same day.His faith and the education received at home prepared him for the harsh experience of those years during which the Nazi regime pursued a hostile attitude towards the Catholic Church. From 1946 to 1951 he studied philosophy and theology in the Higher School of Philosophy and Theology of Freising and at the University of Munich. He received his priestly ordination on 29 June 1951. In 1953 he obtained his doctorate in theology with a thesis entitled "People and House of God in St Augustine’s Doctrine of the Church". Four years later, under the direction of the renowned professor of fundamental theology Gottlieb Söhngen, he qualified for University teaching with a dissertation on: "The Theology of History in St Bonaventure". From 1962 to 1965 he made a notable contribution to Vatican II as an "expert"; being present at the Council as theological adv
Pope Francis in Ciudad Juarez within earshot of El Paso
(Vatican Radio) On Wednesday 17th of Feburay Pope Francis is going to celebrate Holy Mass in Ciudad Juarez on the border between Mexico and the United States right across from El Paso where Monsignor Arturo Bañuelas serves as parish priest at St Marks'. And where like many others on the Texan border he's involved in pastoral ministry to migrants. Veronica Scarisbrick asks him how he views this highly symbolic celebration in a place which has seen so much death and destruction.
Przewodniczący Episkopatu: Wielki Post pomaga zrozumieć wspólnotowy wymiar wiary
Każdy z nas winien być świadomy, że drogi pokuty nie podejmuje w pojedynkę, ale razem z braćmi i siostrami w Kościele. Chrystus przyszedł, by rozproszone dzieci Boże zgromadzić w jedno – mówił w Środę Popielcową w katedrze poznańskiej abp Stanisław Gądecki. Metropolita poznański zachęcał wiernych do modlitwy i czynnej miłości.
Franciszek posłał Misjonarzy Miłosierdzia: dłonie leczące rany
„Obyście pomogli otworzyć drzwi serc, żeby przezwyciężyć wstyd i nie uciekać od światła. Niech wasze ręce błogosławią i pocieszają jak ojcowskie dłonie i niech leczą rany”. Tymi słowami Papież rozesłał na świat ponad tysiąc Misjonarzy Miłosierdzia. Uczynił to w czasie liturgii Środy Popielcowej, która wyjątkowo nie była sprawowana w bazylice św. Sabiny na Awentynie, tylko w Watykanie przy relikwiach świętych spowiedników: Pio z Pietrelciny i Leopolda Mandića. Było to już drugie spotkanie Franciszka z Misjonarzami miłosierdzia. Wczoraj przyjął on ich na specjalnej audiencji.
Missionary of Mercy: called to be icons of Church's embrace
(Vatican Radio) Fr. John Paul Mary of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word is just one of the many hundreds of priests commissioned on Ash Wednesday evening as a Missionary of Mercy. He spoke with Ann Schneible for Vatican Radio about the significance of his new mission for himself and in the life of the Church and the world.
