Tag: Pope John Paul II

National Reconciliation Week is an opportunity to reflect on the path forward, writes ACU Vice-Chancellor and President.

Divine Mercy is not merely as a private devotion or historical curiosity, cocooned within the past. It is liturgically tied to the Resurrection for the whole church because it represents a deep unfolding of the Easter mystery

St John Paul II’s iconic visit to the Transfield steel factory is still remembered with awe by those who met him there. His spirit is still alive and active in Sydney—not least of all through his Theology of the Body, which will return in 2025 thanks to the partnership between the Sydney Centre for Evangelisation and the Theology of the Body Institute.

In 1984, Pope John Paul II travelled to Spain for the second time. He was only in the country for 16 hours and his only destination was the city of Zaragoza, where he prayed before the Virgin of Pilar.

Credit: Rome Reports The Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life and the John Paul II Foundation for Youth have organised a series of events...

The collection of memorabilia at the shrine of St John Paul II at East Gosford is growing thanks to a donation from a local family. Gerard Colreavy travelled to the Hawaii island of Maui in January to visit his sister Jill and retrieve one of his family’s treasures—a ciborium used by St John Paul II to hold Communion hosts at the 1986 open-air Mass at Randwick Racecourse.

In a recent article on the social doctrine of St John Paul II in the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica, Father Fernando de la Iglesia Viguiristi SJ, had this to say about one facet of John Paul’s epic 1991 encyclical, Centesimus Annus: “To the key question, ‘After the collapse of communism, is capitalism the only alternative left?’ Wojtyła [ie, John Paul II] replied ...

In the first chapter of Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy quoted an exasperated Congressman, John Steven McGroarty, who wrote an irritating constituent in these neatly acerbic terms: “One of the countless drawbacks of being in Congress is that I am compelled to receive letters from an impertinent jackass ...

Just days before his sudden death, Cardinal Pell went with his friend George Weigel to pay his respects to Benedict XVI. The rest is history.

As part of a series on St Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, The Catholic Weekly asked Fr Anthony Percy what it...

I love the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), but not to the exclusion of all other masses. Because of this, I don’t like Traditionis Custodes. Thankfully in Australia our bishops — like most bishops worldwide — have applied it with common sense and have left most TLM communities alone. I think Pope Benedict’s solution was better […]

Increasingly bitter polarisation is a problem, said Cardinal Pell in a recent interview.