The Pope’s address to the Consistory, followed by a brief reflection and commentary from Biltrix
Tag Archives: Pope Benedict XVI
Still Haven’t Joined Twitter Yet? Here’s Why You Should 5
If you’re already on Twitter, you can drop all those phony papal accounts you’re following..
93K followers and counting… I’ll bet we can break 1M today
Pope Benedict XVI is officially on Twitter!
Relativism and the Decline of Religion in America 13
In 1996, Pope Benedict (then CDC prefect, Josef Cardinal Ratzinger) delivered an address to the Conference of Central American Bishops entitled, “Relativism: The Central Problem for the Faith Today” — a 10 page document I managed to summarize in 15 pages. I don’t intend another summary here.
The discourse’s title says it all: We’ve got a problem with the faith today, a central problem with a capital P — that doesn’t stand for Pool — and name of the problem is Relativism. To this effect, Ratzinger, while holding his finger on post-modern religion’s waning pulse, observed that: More…
Aggiornamento! — Hold That Thought… 15
If you thought aggiornamento was gourmet fettucini with peas, think again.
If you thought aggiornamento meant ditching the religious habit, not so fast!
Chick-fil-A vs. the Dictatorship of Relativism 30
Ah Yes! Tolerance! The one thing we cannot tolerate is intolerance.
The evangelization of culture is all the more important in our times, when a ‘dictatorship of relativism’ threatens to obscure the unchanging truth about man’s nature, his destiny and his ultimate good — Pope Benedict XVI, Glasgow Scottland, Sept. 16, 2010
Pope Benedict coined the expression “Dictatorship of Relativism” during his homily More…
Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul and the Tradition of the Pallium 9
Today in the city of Rome, 43 Archbishops, including 2 cardinals, received the pallium from Pope Benedict XVI during a ceremony at Saint Peter’s Basilica. Two other prelates, who were absent will receive the their palliums in their own dioceses. More…
ITALY: Earthquake in N. Central Italy and Bomb Attack on a school in S. Italy Reply
See on Scoop.it – BiltrixBoard
Pope Benedict prayed for Italy and the victims of two catastrophes that have struck the nation this weekend, one man made and one a natural calamity.
The first was a Saturday morning bomb attack on a Brindisi high school, which the Pope described as a “cowardly” act of “brutal violence”. More…
Why Have Children? 2
By Fr Joseph Tham, LC
As the month May rolls by, the smell of spring is in the air, and it is a month that motherhood is celebrated all over the word. For Catholics, it is also the month we celebrate the maternal closeness of Mary. It is therefore a strange contrast with some recent comments that surfaced about the irrationality of having children. More…
Habemus Papam! Wish Pope Benedict a Happy 7th Anniversary 1
HAPPY BIRTHDAY POPE BENEDICT! Reply
Viva il Papa!
Biltrix 