John Paul II
How St. John Paul II Prayed for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
From his childhood, his father instilled in Karol a strong devotion to the Holy Spirit. He recalled his father telling him, “You don’t pray to the Holy Spirit enough. You ought to pray to him.” Karol, Sr., gave him a prayer book on the Holy Spirit, which he used throughout his life, and also taught […]
St. John Paul II and Democracy
John Paul II, whose teaching about the free and virtuous society in Centesimus Annus remains the pinnacle of Catholic social teaching on the democratic experiment… That is why St. John Paul taught that “democracy” can never be reduced to mere “majority rule.” + That is why John Paul also insisted that, of the three interlocking parts […]
The Family That Prays Together
5 Ways to Begin Praying the Rosary (and as a family too) Just start praying it. Use this guide and give it try. Instead of starting by praying full decades of Hail Marys, start by praying a “full” Rosary except only pray 1 Hail Mary instead of 10 per decade. Then over time, add more Hail […]
Love is always ‘becoming’
Love is never something ready made, something merely ‘given’ to man and woman, it is always at the same time a ‘task’ which they are set. Love should be seen as something which in a sense never ‘is’ but is always only ‘becoming’, and what it becomes depends upon the contribution of both persons and the depth of their commitment. […]
Love and Desiring Good For Another Person
The great moral force of true love lies precisely in this desire for the happiness, for the true good, of another person. This is what makes it possible for a man to be reborn because of love, makes him aware of the riches within him, his spiritual fertility and creativity: I am capable of desiring the good for another person, […]
Freedom and Truth
Here’s the point: freedom and truth are not extrinsic to one another. The truth isn’t incidental to the nature of freedom. For freedom to be free, it must stand in dialogical communion with the truth. Freedom has content. To round out the point, we aren’t made free in circumventing the truth. We’re made free on […]
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