October 16, 2024 marked the forty-sixth anniversary of the election of Pope St John Paul II. We all remember his words spoken from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica on Monday, October 16, 1978: We are all still saddened after the death of our...
I saw Pope John Paul II in person a few times in my life. It was during two troublesome spring times in Miami, 1980 and 1981. There was lot of crime and urban unrest. Not yet married and contemplating doing so, in 1980 I thought of visiting my Uncle...
If there is one issue of Catholic moral teaching that has wasted more time and energy of the faithful in the pews, it is the death penalty. Acceptance and approval of capital punishment within the Catholic Church has varied throughout history...
