The Happiest Day of Pope St. John Paul II’s Life
St. John Paul II called Faustina’s canonization and Divine Mercy Sunday the happiest day of his life — a summit moment of his papacy and personal mission.
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30 Years After John Paul II’s ‘New Feminism,’ Catholic Debate Heats Up
And with a new generation of young Catholic women attempting to navigate a society increasingly marked by both radical feminism on the one hand and a reactionary ‘manosphere’ on the other, it’s a debate in which the stakes are also undeniably high.
Why John Paul II Deserves to Be Called ‘the Great’
COMMENTARY: Looking at Pope St. John Paul II’s legacy in historical context underscores why so many people call him ‘John Paul the Great.’
Pope John Paul II 20 Years Later: ‘He Lives in Hearts’
Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz says the Polish Pontiff lives on in the hearts and memories of the many people who still feel connected to him today, and Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski says John Paul II changed Poland and the world.
John Paul II Embodied the Heroism of Christian Holiness
COMMENTARY: Let us heed the great pope’s oft-repeated words, “Be not afraid!” and with courage respond to his witness and intercession to make fully practical this call to holiness he spent his pontificate echoing and enfleshing throughout the world.
30 Years Ago Today, John Paul II Issued His Boldest Battle Cry for Life
COMMENTARY: The message of the landmark encyclical, ‘Evangelium Vitae’ is needed now more than ever.
Pontifical Academy for Life is Betraying its founder, JPII Biographer George Weigel Says
Weigel made the charge last week in his talk titled “St. John Paul II and Jérôme Lejeune: Two Lives at the Service of Life,” given as part of the second International Conference on Bioethics in Rome from May 17–18 in the Eternal City.
The Reason of Mary Wollstonecraft: Championing Women and Their Moral Formation
Ultimately, she placed her hope not in human reason, which she well knew was fallible, but in God’s eternal reason and his promises.
What Is Humanity’s Infinite Dignity?
COMMENTARY: We are not infinite as God is infinite, of course, but our dignity is not quantifiable and is indeed radically open-ended, as we are raised by way of participation into God’s inner life.
