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Search for in author OR full textWord matches: encyclical: 283 1 - Dec 2015 - Germany: Pope Francis deplores decline of Catholicism in Germany, AD2000 Report Repeating the words of this encyclical he said In fact every true missionary activity is always new. 2 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on sexuality, marriage and the family, AD2000 Report The report was presented to Pope Francis who will use it to prepare an authoritative statement perhaps an Encyclical on marriage and the family. 3 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Pope Francis’ challenge to American Catholics, AD2000 Report One of the more nuanced critiques was published in the online Fiscal Times under the headline The Popes Manifesto could destroy the US economy in commenting on his recent Encyclical Laudato Si (Praise be to God). 4 - Aug 2015 - Reflection: The doctrine of the Assumption, Pope Pius XII (Encyclical Mediator Dei) In the liturgical books which deal with the feast either of the Dormition or of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin there are expressions that agree in testifying that when the Virgin Mother of God passed from this earthly exile to heaven what happened to her sacred body was by the decree of divine Providence in keeping with the dignity of the Mother of the Word Incarnate and with the other privileges she had been accorded. 5 - Aug 2015 - 5: Greek Orthodox Church’s Encyclical on marriage, AD2000 Report The Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia Archbishop Stylianos has issued an encyclical supporting the universal definition of marriage in response to the push for same-sex marriage in Federal Parliament. 6 - Jul 2015 - Laudato Si: Pope Francis’ call for “dialogue” on environmental challenges, Peter Westmore In his second Encyclical Laudato Si Pope Francis has proposed a dialogue on the environmental problems facing the world and called on people to work together to solve the many challenges facing us in advancing human welfare and respecting the natural environment. 7 - Jun 2015 - Books: THE ENVIRONMENT, by Pope Benedict XVI, Paul Simmons 00) As Pope Francis prepares to release an encyclical on environmental questions there have been a number of analyses of the Holy Fathers previous writings on these subjects as well as criticism of the fact that he has sought advice from extreme environmentalists which sees man as an enemy of the natural order. 8 - Apr 2015 - Vocations: Australia's seminaries flourishing in 2015, Br Barry Coldrey Both were fully in harmony with Pope John Paul IIs Encyclical Pastores Dabo Vobis (I will Give You Pastors) concerning priestly formation. 9 - Mar 2015 - News: The Church Around the World He described the encyclical Humanae Vitae as a document that foresaw the negative consequences of birth control and the problem it could cause families in the future. 10 - Feb 2015 - Letters: The Church in China, Paul Simmons After the Catholic Patriotic Association was established Pope Pius XII issued an encyclical letter Ad Apostolorum Principis (At the Tomb of the Prince of the Apostles) which documented the persecution of Catholics in China and the attempts being made by the Catholic Patriotic Association to control Chinese Catholics. 11 - Dec 2014 - Economic justice: The Catholic Church explains sexual mores - with economics, Emma Green In the encyclical Rerum Novarum published in 1891 Pope Leo XIII endorsed trade unions. 12 - Oct 2014 - Do we construct the Church in our own image?, Fr Ken Clark Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Exeunte Iam Anno referred to the only way the one that all Catholics should follow which leads to holiness and Christ: Now the whole essence of a Christian life is to reject the corruption of the world and to oppose constantly any indulgence in it. 13 - Sep 2014 - Editorial: Don't pigeon-hole Pope Francis, Peter Westmore The clearest sign that this is not happening is that Cardinal Quinn traces this back to the Encyclical of Saint John Paul II Ut Unum Sint which the retired Cardinal described as clearly in rupture with the past and in many aspects revolutionary when it was no such thing. 14 - Aug 2014 - Pope Francis discusses the Church's moral teachings, LifeSiteNews In response to a question about Pope Paul VIs 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae which famously reiterated the Catholic Churchs long-standing opposition to artificial birth control the pope hailed the encyclical as prophetic and praised Paul VIs genius. 15 - Jul 2014 - Apps: Smartphone Catholic apps for all purposes, Peter Westmore Papal Encyclicals and Conciliar Documents. 16 - Jul 2014 - Life: a gift of inestimable value, Anne Lastman St John Paul II In his Encyclical Evangelium Vitae St John Paul II has written clearly about the Churchs teachings on the value of every human life. 17 - May 2014 - Cardinal Burke: The Gospel of Life in the defence of freedom, Cardinal Raymond Burke The following remarks take their inspiration from the Encyclical Letter Evangelium Vitae (On the Inviolable Good of Human Life) published by Blessed Pope John Paul II on the Feast of the Annunciation in 1995. 18 - Apr 2014 - Vocations: Australia's flourishing seminaries 2014, Br Barry Coldrey One of the first was Vianney College Wagga Wagga founded by Bishop Bill Brennan in 1992 and inspired by Pope John Paul IIs Encyclical Pastores dabo vobis concerning priestly formation. 19 - Apr 2014 - Marriage: Don't trust media reporting of Synod on marriage, Philip F. Lawler But in an interview in which he offered that clear defence of marriage - an interview in which he also praised Pope Paul VI for his controversial encyclical Humanae Vitae and offered a defence of the Churchs response to the sex-abuse scandal - how could a journalist conclude that the Popes vague offhand remarks on same-sex unions were the most newsworthy part of the interview? 20 - Feb 2014 - Letters: Spirit of Vatican II, Murray Cook I refer to the assertion by Dr Frank Mobbs that encyclicals by reigning popes need not be considered binding. 21 - Feb 2014 - iWitness 2013 retreat: another young Catholics success story, Br Barry Coldrey In 2013 the topics and speakers included: Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth Papal Encyclical) by Dr Ryan Messmore President of Campion College; The New Evangelisation and You by Archbishop Julian Porteous; Pope Benedicts Biblical Scholarship and Prayer by Professor Tracey Rowland; Recent Popes and Beyond by Cardinal George Pell; The Spirit of the Liturgy by Archbishop Paul Gallagher the Papal Nuncio; Saved in Hope by Dr Robert Tilley; Deus Caritas Est (God is Love) by Sr Mary Helen OP; and Lumen Fidei (Light of Faith) by Father Greg Morgan who is working on his PhD at Cambridge University. 22 - Dec 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au 90 ISBN 978-1-58617-852-9 Lumen Fidei Pope Francis Pope Francis first encyclical begun by Pope Benedict seeks to recover the luminous character of faith which is built into the human being and helps in distinguishing the good from the bad. 23 - Dec 2013 - Books: HOLY SEE, UNHOLY ME by Tim Fischer, John Barich The papal encyclical Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth) was released to coincide with the G8 meeting held in LAquila (8-10 July 2009). 24 - Dec 2013 - Letters: Errors, Peter D. Howard Such an attitude towards the Churchs definitive teaching against contraception also overlooks the fact that after nearly 2000 years of agreement the Anglican capitulation to contraception in 1930 at the Lambeth Conference was followed in the same year by Pope Pius XIs encyclical Casti Connubii which condemned contraception. 25 - Nov 2013 - Letters: Finding balance, Walter H. Kirk Many readers are obviously sensitive to any real or implied criticism of Pope Paul VIs encyclical Humanae Vitae. 26 - Nov 2013 - Letters: Pope misrepresented, C. O'Driscoll In a clear reference to the contraceptive mentality which is so prevalent in modern society he quoted the encyclical Caritas in Veritate Openness to life is at the centre of true development. 27 - Nov 2013 - Marriage: English bishop warns on same-sex marriage law, Bishop Philip Egan This has led to the contraceptive mentality Pope Paul VI spoke of so prophetically in his 1968 encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae and to the decline of marriage and now to its redefinition. 28 - Nov 2013 - Marriage: Humanae Vitae: for an excellent love, Anne Lastman This encyclical attempted to curb the sexual revolution and sought to convince Catholics that it is very sinful to contracept for this breaks the covenant promises made and opens the doorway for marriage to be destabilised. 29 - Nov 2013 - News: The Church Around the World EWTN News New papal encyclical on the way A new encyclical being written by Pope Francis will help address how to live out a vow of poverty in the modern world according to Cardinal Prosper Grech an Augustinian friar. 30 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Humanae Vitae, Ron Graham Dr Frank Mobbs rather cynical questioning of the justified validity of Paul VIs encyclical Humane Vitae is both troubling and troublesome. 31 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Exaggeration?, Noel Keith Roberts John Paul IIs monumental work The Theology of the Body highlights the prophetic nature of Paul VIs encyclical letter and encourages married couples to live up to its teaching. 32 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Dr Mobbs replies ..., Frank Mobbs the rejection of the encyclical lurched society into a condition of perhaps irretrievable morass; Humanae Vitae was a document emanating directly from the mind and heart of God (How does she know this? 33 - Sep 2013 - Letters: Anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Ken Bayliss A prayer issued with ecclesiastical approbation to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Humanae Vitae follows for readers interest: Eternal Father we beg pardon for the times we have offended You by sins of impurity when we have not regulated our lives in accordance with Your teaching so beautifully and simply expressed by Your Church (through Your Vicar Pope Paul VI in his encyclical letter Humanae Vitae). 34 - Sep 2013 - Frassati: The Holy Terror: a model for young Catholic men, Br Barry Coldrey He was active in the Catholic Student Federation Catholic Action and the Populare the forerunner of the Christian Democrats which promoted the Churchs social teaching based on the principles of Pope Leo XIIIs encyclical Rerum Novarum. 35 - Sep 2013 - Oasis: Finding rapprochement and peace among the Abrahamic religions, Patrick Byrne Pope Paul VIs 1964 encyclical Ecclesiam Suam reiterated the desire of the Church to dialogue with the non-Christian world. 36 - Sep 2013 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic World News Encyclical bridges pontificates The director of LOsservatore Ro mano Giovanni Maria Vian said Pope Francis encyclical Lumen Fidei could be considered a bridge between two successors of St Peter. 37 - Aug 2013 - Letters: Humanae Vitae, Frank Mobbs It is difficult to follow the reasoning of Anne Lastman as found in her praise of Pope Paul VIs encyclical Humanae Vitae ( Humanae Vitae: still prophetic after 45 years July AD2000) which classified the use of contraception as a sin. 38 - Aug 2013 - Sacra Liturgia 2013: Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith: interview on liturgy, Zenit News Service Cardinal Ranjith: Sacrosanc tum Concilium is a natural development for example of Mediator Dei the encyclical on the Sacred Liturgy of Pius XII and the process of reform which had been going on from the time of Dom Prosper Guranger author of The Liturgical Year in the 19th century. 39 - Aug 2013 - Lumen Fidei: The great gift of Faith: Pope Francis' first encyclical, Damian Wyld In the first encyclical of Pope Francis pontificate the Church has received something unique. 40 - Aug 2013 - Holy See announces canonisation of Blessed John Paul II, Peter Westmore He contributed to Paul VIs courageous encyclical Humanae Vitae in 1968 which reaffirmed the Churchs teaching on human sexuality and rejected artificial contraception. 41 - Aug 2013 - Editorial: Church's clear opposition to all same-sex unions It is also something close to the Holy Fathers heart as demonstrated by his strong opposition to the Argentine push for same-sex marriage and by his eloquent support of traditional marriage in the new encyclical Lumen Fidei. 42 - Jul 2013 - Letters: Guilt-free sin, Paul Voskulen There is so much hand-wringing and soul searching over the sexual abuse scandals in the Church and rightly so but few seem to recall the prophetic words of Pope Paul VI in his 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae. 43 - Jul 2013 - Musicae Sacrae: The essential role of music in the Mass, Ronan Reilly No one therefore will be astonished that always and everywhere even among pagan peoples sacred song and the art of music have been used to ornament and decorate religious ceremonies wrote Pius XII in his 1955 encyclical Musicae Sacrae. 44 - Jul 2013 - Cardinal Ouellet's Australian lecture: rediscover human nature, Owen Vyner Citing John Paul IIs encyclical on the dialogue between faith and reason Fides et Ratio Cardinal Ouellet addressed the need to move from human experience to its metaphysical and anthropological foundations. 45 - Jul 2013 - Paul VI: Humanae Vitae: still prophetic after 45 years, Anne Lastman The encyclical Humanae Vitae issued by Pope Paul VI in July 1968 is by far the most contested magisterial document ever. 46 - Jun 2013 - News: The Church Around the World First papal encyclical this year? 47 - Apr 2013 - News: The Church Around the World Years ago while researching Humanae Vitae Pope Paul VIs encyclical which reiterated the Churchs teaching against artificial contraception Eberstadt was amazed to find that the 1968 document had accurately predicted a wave of troubling social effects that would accompany the widespread use of birth control. 48 - Mar 2013 - Women priests and bishops: Anglicanism's crisis of identity, David Wetherell But Anglo-Catholics gained a measure of limited confidence from the Patriarch of Constantinoples encyclical to the Eastern Orthodox churches in 1922 provisionally recognising the validity of Anglican orders. 49 - Mar 2013 - Religious persecution occurs in democracies, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò In his 1991 encyclical Centesi mus Annus John Paul reminded us that totalitarianism attempts to destroy the Church or at least to reduce her to submission making her an instrument if its own ideological apparatus. 50 - Mar 2013 - STOP PRESS: Vale, Pope Benedict!, Peter Westmore He gave inspirational leadership through his three encyclical letters through his visits to many countries as pope through his extraordinary writings (including weekly sermons and three books on Jesus Christ) and in his administration of the Church where he had to deal with issues of major complexity including rebuilding relations with the Russian Orthodox Church establishing the Anglican Ordinariate the continuing scandal of sexual abuse and relations with governments which persecute the Church such as the Communist Party in China. 51 - Oct 2012 - Books: AN AMAZING LOVE, by Father Ken Barker, Br Barry Coldrey New evangelisation While Father Barker was preparing for his lifes ministry Pope John Paul II was making the new evangelisation a recurring theme in his writings including the encyclical Redemptoris Missio (1990) and the Apostolic Letters Tertio Millenio Adveniente (1994) and Novo Millennio Inuente (2001). 52 - Oct 2012 - The Year of Faith and true unity of faith, Cardinal Raymond Burke It is interesting to note that in his first Encyclical Letter Redemptor Hominis Blessed Pope John Paul II confronted the abuse of general confession and general absolution of the essentially personal encounter with Christ in the Sacrament of Penance reminding us both of the right of the penitent to such an encounter and the right of Christ Himself and that in his last Encyclical Letter Ecclesia de Eucharistia he urgently addressed abuses of the Churchs discipline regarding the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. 53 - Aug 2012 - Books: THE NEW EVANGELISATION: Issues and Challenges for Catholic Schools, Br Barry Coldrey However when Pope John Paul II proclaimed the need for a new evangelisation in the encyclical Redemptoris Missio (1990) his primary focus was on the de-Christianised West notably Europe Australia and North America. 54 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Transubstantiation, John Young Pius XII in his encyclical Humani Generis reaffirmed it noting that setting it aside leads to Christs Real Presence being thus reduced to a kind of symbolic communication . 55 - May 2012 - The Church's dogma of transubstantiation, John Young This was solemnly proclaimed by the Council of Trent in the 16th century and has been repeated in more recent statements including the encyclical letter Mysterium Fidei of Pope Paul VI and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 56 - Nov 2011 - Letters: First Parents, Fr Brian Harrison OS Moreover in this passage of the encyclical Arcanum Pope Leo is teaching that this wondrous act of God is part of the true origin of marriage ( vera matrimonii origo) and marriage of course supposes a fully formed man and woman. 57 - Nov 2011 - WYD Madrid: World Youth Day 2011: Experiencing Christ's presence, Dr Joe Santamaria But it must be built on a reawakening of the concept of the Domestic Church as described in John Paul IIs Encyclical Familiaris Consortio in which the Pope reminds us that the religious formation of the young is in the hands of the parents. 58 - Nov 2011 - The Lion of Munster: Blessed Cardinal von Galen: a voice against tyranny, Babette Francis Pius XIs encyclical In 1937 Pope Pius XI invited Bishop Clemens to Rome to discuss the situation in Germany and prepare the encyclical letter Mit brennender Sorge ( With Burning Anxiety) which attacked Hitlers regime publicly. 59 - Oct 2011 - Letters: Old or young earth?, Fr Brian Harrison OS Pope Leo XIII teaching about the revealed origin of marriage in the 1880 encyclical Arcanum declared that this is a certain truth - known to all Catholics and doubtful to no one. 60 - Aug 2011 - Reflection: The new evangelisation: 'missionary spirit' needed, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes In his 1990 encyclical on Mission Pope John Paul II spoke of the three faces of mission: the peoples the new evangelisation and pastoral activity. 61 - Aug 2011 - Exegesis: Genesis account of creation and fall: what does the Church teach?, John Young He declared: Original sin is the result of sin committed in actual historical fact by an individual man named Adam (Encyclical Humani Generis n. 62 - Jun 2011 - Books: MARRIAGE: The Rock on Which the Family is Built, by William E. May, Br Barry Coldrey This updated edition includes new chapters: Man and Woman He Created Them: Pope John Paul IIs Catechesis on Human Sexuality; and Pope Benedict XVI and Marriage the latter summarising Benedicts thoughts on marriage particularly as found in his first encyclical Deus Caritas Est. 63 - Jun 2011 - Archbishop Hickey: tribute to an outstanding Church leader, Brian Peachey Dissent In 1993 to counter the open dissent from the teaching in Pope Paul VIs Humanae Vitae he published a Pastoral Letter on the 25th anniversary of the encyclical clearly setting out the Churchs teaching against contraception. 64 - Apr 2011 - Books: TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF THE ENVIRONMENT, by Paul Haffner, Barry Coldrey Since then Benedict XVI has addressed the topic in three notable instances: the World Youth Day Sydney 2008 the Encyclical Caritas in Veritate and his 2010 message for the World Day of Peace. 65 - Feb 2011 - Science and Christian faith: the case for intelligent design, Babette Francis Pope Benedict XVI In Chapter Four of his most recent encyclical Caritas in Veritate Pope Benedict XVI writes: Nature expresses a design of love and truth. 66 - Dec 2010 - Catholic origins: Psychology and Christianity: need they be at odds?, Wanda Skowronska Wundt who was not a Catholic welcomed Father Pace commenting on Thomistic philosophy and its understanding of the human soul showing familiarity with the recently published encyclical of Pope Leo XIII Aeterni Patris. 67 - Dec 2010 - Congress for Life: Catholic orthodoxy: key to promoting the culture of life, Cardinal Raymond Burke A most tragic example of the lack of obedience of faith also on the part of certain bishops was the response of many to the Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae of Pope Paul VI published on 25 July 1968. 68 - Dec 2010 - Call to Holiness: Facing life issues in love and truth, Babette Francis A distinguishing feature of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI has been his emphasis on reason and truth: in his Regensberg lecture (2006) and his encyclical Caritas in Veritate (2009) the Pope reiterates that love must be combined with truth. 69 - Sep 2010 - Reflection: Accepting the reality of sin: a cornerstone of Christian faith, Fr Dennis Byrnes The late Pope John Paul II in his Encyclical Dominum et Vivificatem states: Conversion requires convincing of sin: it includes the interior judgement of conscience and this being a proof of the action of the Spirit of truth in mans inmost being becomes at the same time the start of a new grant of grace and of love: Receive the Holy Spirit. 70 - Sep 2010 - Ecclesial movements in the life of the Church, Bishop Julian Porteous In his encyclical letter Redemptoris Missio 1990 the Pope saw the movements as a true gift of God both for the new evangelisation and for missionary activity properly so-called (n. 71 - Jul 2010 - New apologetics for the new evangelisation Pope John Paul IIs Encyclical Letter Fides et Ratio) that faith must rescue reason from its own self-inflicted wound of scepticism. 72 - Jun 2010 - News: The Church Around the World This he explained quoting his Encyclical Caritas in Veritate is because without truth without trust and love for what is true there is no social conscience and responsibility and social action ends up serving private interests and the logic of power resulting in social fragmentation especially in a globalised society at difficult times like the present. 73 - Mar 2010 - News: The Church Around the World Pope Pius XIs 1937 encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge which was drafted by Cardinal Pacelli was considered by the Germans as a security threat. 74 - Mar 2010 - Annunciation: Benedict XVI: Mary's acceptance of the Divine Word This is the path along which I chose to launch mypontificateinviting everyone with my first Encyclical Deus Caritas Est to build up the Church in charity as a community of love. 75 - Feb 2010 - News: The Church Around the World Benedict also recalled that the supreme rule of faith of the Church in effect arises from the unity that the Spirit established between Sacred Tradition Sacred Scripture and the Magisterium of the Church in such reciprocity that they cannot subsist independently of each other as John Paul II explained in his encyclical Fides et Ratio. 76 - Dec 2009 - Letters: Stewardship, Peter Finlayson Chapter Ten Safeguarding the Environment in the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church published by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in 2004 together with paragraphs 48 to 52 in Caritas in Veritate Pope Benedict XVIs latest Encyclical provide us with sound principles to direct our environmental behaviour. 77 - Oct 2009 - News: The Church Around the World Evangelical leaders praise the Popes encyclical Benedict XVIs latest encyclical was praised in August by 68 Evangelical Protestant community leaders from the United States Canada England the Netherlands Sri Lanka and New Zealand. 78 - Aug 2009 - Caritas in Veritate: Benedict XVI's social encyclical: public life needs Christian principles, Michael Gilchrist Titled Caritas in Veritate (Love in Truth) Pope Benedict XVIs first social encyclical was released on 7 July the day before the Group of Eight began their international summit in LAquila Italy and three days before Benedicts scheduled first meeting with US President Obama. 79 - Jul 2009 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic News Agency Benedict XVIs new social encyclical imminent Benedict XVIs first social encyclical which will probably be called Veritas in Caritate (Truth in Charity) is likely to be released on 29 June the solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul according to a source from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. 80 - Jul 2009 - Editorial: The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June), Michael Gilchrist This was especially the case during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II as reflected in his encyclical Ut Unum Sint. 81 - Jun 2009 - Reflection: Pentecost and the power of the Holy Spirit for today, Fr Dennis W Byrnes In his Encyclical on the Holy Spirit Dominum et Vivificatum John Paul II offers us the consoling thought that In the midst of the problems disappointments and hopes desertions and returns of these times of ours the Church remains faithful to the mystery of her birth. 82 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Pontius Pilate, Grahame Fallon Indeed as John Paul II affirmed in the first words of his first Encyclical Redemptor Hominis (The Redeemer of Man 1979) Jesus Christ is also the centre of the universe and of its history. 83 - Jun 2009 - Cardinal Pell's UK interview: Liturgy, Missal translation, World Youth Day, Luke Coppen I was very pleasantly surprised that his first encyclical was on love. 84 - Apr 2009 - Letters: The Pill, Denise M. Cameron Viennas Catholic Archbishop Christoph Schouml;nborn has publicly admitted to being initially negative about the 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae condemning artificial contraception but now believes it was prophetic. 85 - Apr 2009 - Benedict XVI addresses a Vatican conference on evolution and Christianity, Michael Gilchrist Pope John Paul II whom Benedict quoted in his address had said the following on 22 October 1996 to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences: In his encyclical Humani Generis (1950) my predecessor Pius XII has already affirmed that there is no conflict between evolution and the doctrine of the faith regarding man and his vocation provided that we do not lose sight of certain fixed points . 86 - Mar 2009 - Books: Labour and Justice, by Gavan Duffy, Peter Westmore It was only in the 19th century some 45 years after Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto that the Catholic Church addressed these issues again in a comprehensive way through Pope Leo XIIIs encyclical Rerum Novarum (literally of new things). 87 - Dec 2008 - Letters: Evolution conference, Grahame Fallon Likewise in the first words of his first encyclical Redemptor Hominis (1979) Pope John Paul II affirmed that the Redeemer of Man - Jesus Christ - is also the centre of the universe and of its history which extends from the beginning to the end of time. 88 - Dec 2008 - Bishops' Synod on Bible concludes: Pope working on Apostolic Exhortation, AD2000 Report In this regard he thought an encyclical on the interpretation of Scripture in the Church would be opportune and coming from the Pope would carry more weight. 89 - Nov 2008 - Reflection: Purgatory: hope, mercy, love, Bishop Peter J. Elliott Purification Recently in his Encyclical Letter on Hope Spe Salvi 45- 47 Pope Benedict XVI focused on the judgement of God even the possibility of damnation. 90 - Nov 2008 - Foundations of Faith: God's gift of sex: building a civilisation of life and love, Catherine Sheehan Forty years ago during the sexual revolution of the 1960s Pope Paul VI wrote the encyclical Humanae Vitae in response to advances in reproductive technology and specifically the invention of the contraceptive Pill. 91 - Nov 2008 - History: Cardinal Stafford on Humanae Vitae: how dissenters tore the Church apart, Cardinal Francis Stafford This sets the scene for the tragic drama following the actual date of the publication of the encyclical letter on 29 July 1968. 92 - Oct 2008 - Eugenio Pacelli: The enduring legacy of Pope Pius XII: a 50th anniversary tribute, Fr John Walshe Pius XII addressed this with intelligence and deep faith and through his 41 encyclicals and over 1000 addresses and speeches he communicated authoritatively and sensitively to the people of his age and in a manner that enabled elucidation and deepening of thought in the years to come. 93 - Aug 2008 - Reflection: World Youth Day: bringing a message of hope to the secular culture, Fr Dennis Byrnes By contrast and in the context of World Youth Day Pope Benedict XVI has offered the world a message of Christian hope in his encyclical Spe Salvi: It is not the elemental spirits of the universe the laws of matter which ultimately govern the world and mankind but a personal God governs the stars that is the universe; it is not the laws of matter and of evolution that have the final say but reason will love - a Person. 94 - Aug 2008 - Letters: Timeless truths?, John Frey As an example Pius XII identified the Church of Christ with the Catholic Church in his encyclicals Mystici Corporis Christi (1943) and Humani Generis (1950) reflecting the traditional teaching of the Church: If we would define and describe this true Church of Christ - which is the One Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church - we shall find nothing more noble more sublime or more divine than the expression The Mystical Body of Christ (Mystici Corporis Christi 13). 95 - Aug 2008 - Benedict XVI reaffirms Humanae Vitae on its 40th anniversary, Pope Benedict XVI Paul VI published his Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae on 25 July 1968. 96 - Aug 2008 - Editorial: Humanae Vitae still a sign of contradiction, Michael Gilchrist In acknowledging the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae Pope Paul VIs Encyclical Letter on the Regulation of Births which was published on 25 July 1968 Benedict XVI described the document as a sign of contradiction and a significant show of courage in reasserting the continuity of the Churchs doctrine and tradition (see Benedict XVIs address page 7 in this issue). 97 - Jun 2008 - Books: RATZINGER'S FAITH: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, by Tracey Rowland, Michael E. Daniel It is thus no surprise that Benedict XVs first encyclical is named and explores the concept that God is Love (Deus Caritas Est). 98 - May 2008 - Books: NEWMAN'S APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE by Laurence Richardson, Philip Trower Available from Freedom Publishing) Disputes about the boundaries between faith and reason may not be a public hot potato but among those interested in the subject it usually generates a lot of emotional calories as can be seen from some of the responses to Pope John Paul IIs encyclical Fides et Ratio and Pope Benedicts comments in his Regensburg speech on the role of reason in the religion of Islam. 99 - May 2008 - Youth: Eucharistic devotions: revival in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey His statement was quoted verbatim over 1000 years later by Pope Paul VI in his 1967 encyclical Mysterium Fidei. 100 - May 2008 - Magisterium: When is it infallible?, John Young Euthanasia is one example: here they cite Pope John Paul II from the encyclical Evangelium vitae where he says the sinfulness of euthanasia is . 101 - Apr 2008 - Adult education: Sydney's Centre for Thomistic Studies, Donald G. Boland In his first encyclical Benedict XV made a point of saying: As regards matters in which without harm to faith or discipline - in the absence of any authoritative intervention of the Apostolic See - there is room for divergent opinions it is clearly the right of everyone to express and defend his own opinion. 102 - Apr 2008 - News: The Church Around the World Benedicts new encyclical to focus on social teaching Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone the Vatican Secretary of State has confirmed reports that Benedict XVI will soon release an encyclical on Catholic social teaching. 103 - Mar 2008 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on Lent: 'authentic conversion to the love of Christ', Pope Benedict XVI In the Encyclical Deus Caritas Est I dwelt upon this theme of love highlighting its two fundamental forms: agape and eros. 104 - Mar 2008 - News: The Church Around the World Cardinal Cordes referring to Benedict XVIs encyclical Deus Caritas Est said it was a response to a development in society whereby Catholic agencies have to be very careful not to lose their liberty taking money from donors who later try to introduce a mentality that does not correspond to ecclesiastical objectives. 105 - Feb 2008 - Books: WHEN MIGHT BECOMES HUMAN RIGHT:Essays on Democracy and the Crisis of Rationality, Tim Cannon Matlaacute;ry draws attention to Benedicts persistent call for a return to natural-law thinking in the secular West a call which is evident and authoritatively argued throughout his vast body of academic writing as well as in his encyclical Deus Caritas Est. 106 - Feb 2008 - Letters: True Church, John Frey The first is given by Pope Pius XII in his encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi which states (13) that this true Church of Jesus Christ is the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic and Roman Church the Mystical Body of Christ. 107 - Feb 2008 - Spe salvi: Benedict's second encyclical calls for a rediscovery of hope in Christ, Michael Gilchrist At noon on 30 November 2007 in Rome the Holy See released Benedict XVIs second encyclical Spe Salvi which proclaims the need for hope in modern society and the necessity for Christians to recover its true meaning. 108 - Dec 2007 - News: The Church Around the World The priest is controversial because in the 1960s he publicly dissented from Paul VIs encyclical Humanae Vitae and has since questioned Church teaching on homosexuality premarital sex euthanasia and in-vitro fertilisation. 109 - Nov 2007 - Letters: True Church?, John Frey Instead of stating that the Church of Christ is the Catholic Church - as Pope Pius XII did in his encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi (13) - Lumen Gentium says that the one Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church governed by the successors of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him. 110 - Oct 2007 - More of the same: Retired Sydney bishop calls for a radical overhaul of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist Pope Paul VIs encyclical Humanae Vitae which reaffirmed the Churchs ban on contraception is taken to task with the Bishop asking whether it is Gods will and indeed order that both the unitive and procreative aspects must necessarily be present in each act of sexual intercourse . 111 - Sep 2007 - Rome reaffirms Vatican II's teaching on 'one true Church', Frank Mobbs Preachers and conductors of seminars wax eloquent on the way Vatican II saw the light and abandoned the narrow and intolerant view of Christs Church that one finds in catechisms and in official documents such as Pius XIIs encyclical Mystici Corporis (1950). 112 - Aug 2007 - Books: Jesus of Nazareth: Baptism to Transfiguration, by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, Tim Cannon In his encyclical Deus Caritas Est Benedict suggested that true Christian discipleship which presumes a labour of love springs forth from a personal encounter with an event the real event of Christs Life Passion Death and Resurrection. 113 - Jul 2007 - Pastoral Plan: Cardinal Pell's blueprint for the future in the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist The Plan represents a response to John Paul IIs encyclical Novo Millennio Ineunte in which he urged all Catholics to start afresh with Christ and called for new pastoral initiatives adapted to the circumstances of each community. 114 - Jun 2007 - Reflection: Pentecost, the Holy Spirit and the Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes Binding together John Paul II in his encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia spoke of the Eucharist as the supreme sacramental manifestation of communion in the Church (36). 115 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: A tribute to natural family planning pioneer, Dr John Billings, RIP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott Anticipating and then responding to the courageous and prophetic encyclical of Pope Paul VI Humanae Vitae they have helped many thousands to love one another by maintaining the dynamic unity of the two dimensions of marriage - the gift of life and the gift of love. 116 - May 2007 - Documents: Benedict XVI's new document on the Eucharist - Sacramentum Caritatis, Michael Gilchrist It embodies the 50 propositions of the 2005 Synod of Bishops Benedicts own concerns about Eucharistic faith and practice and draws upon themes raised in John Paul IIs final encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia and Benedicts first encyclical Deus Caritatis Est. 117 - Apr 2007 - Books: Books available from AD2000 and Freedom Publishing He focuses especially on the true meaning of love anticipating his first encyclical as Benedict XVI. 118 - Apr 2007 - Books: The Way of Love: Reflections on Deus Caritas Est, Livio Melina and Carl Anderson, Tim Cannon A collection of unique and profound insights into the nature of Christian love THE WAY OF LOVE: Reflections on Pope Benedict XVIs Encyclical Deus Caritas Est Edited by Livio Melina and Carl A. 119 - Apr 2007 - Editorial: Benedict XVI's document on the Eucharist, Michael Gilchrist Sacramentum Caritatis follows John Paul IIs encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia (on a deepened appreciation of the central mystery of faith) Redemptionis Sacramentum (on correct liturgy) and Liturgiam Authenticam (guidelines for liturgical translations). 120 - Mar 2007 - Books: Order Books from freedompublishing.com.au He focuses especially on the true meaning of love anticipating his first encyclical as Benedict XVI. 121 - Mar 2007 - Leadership: The scandal of Australia's anti-life Catholic politicians, Marcel White Meanwhile Turnbull offers comments on his website about the latest papal encyclical the Eucharist and the liturgy and quotes passages from Scripture. 122 - Mar 2007 - Formation: Continuing growth of Sydney's Catholic Adult Education Centre, AD2000 Report A seminar on Rosarium Virginis Mariae which introduced the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary was so popular that it was repeated in numerous parishes in several dioceses as was a seminar on the encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia. 123 - Dec 2006 - Reflection: Jesus' law of love and the Ten Commandments, Fr Dennis Byrnes Pope Benedict XVI in the introduction to his encyclical Deus Caritas Est states: God is love and he who abides in love abides in God and God abides in him (1Jn 4:6). 124 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Infant Baptism The denial of that doctrine is commonplace but it is Catholic doctrine and its denial was condemned by Pope Pius XII in the encyclical Humani Generis (n. 125 - Dec 2006 - Editorial: The first Christmas, Peter Westmore Through his example he proved that God is love to use the title of Pope Benedicts first Encyclical. 126 - Oct 2006 - News: The Church Around The World This congress aims at putting into practice the wishes of John Paul II when he stated in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae that a great prayer for life is urgently needed a prayer which will rise up throughout the world. 127 - Aug 2006 - Reflection: The importance of early baptism, John Young But those words were deleted from the official AAS text of the encyclical; and in any case they could possibly be said of limbo which is a state of great natural happiness with natural knowledge and love of God. 128 - Aug 2006 - DIY Mass: Redemptionis Sacramentum revisited, Fr Martin Durham Dissent received an enormous boost when some hundreds of American theologians dissented from Pope Paul VIs encyclical Humanae Vitae (1968). 129 - Jul 2006 - Letters: Contraception, Richard Congram This encyclical was met with dissent from many liberal Catholics including priests long before the HIV/AIDS epidemic manifested itself. 130 - May 2006 - Editorial: Benedict XVI: love and truth are inseparable During his general audience on 5 April in St Peters Square in the presence of 30000 people Benedict XVI developed themes raised in his recent encyclical Deus Caritas Est including the inseparable roles of love and truth in building communion - the unified body of believers. 131 - Apr 2006 - Books: Fr Martin D'Arcy: Philosopher of Christian Love, by H.J.A. Sire, Michael E. Daniel Given that he was known as the philosopher of love a re-consideration of his career is timely in light of the release of Pope Benedicts encyclical Deus Caritas est. 132 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Church of England, Jim Turley For instance I have just finished reading the encyclical Deus Caritus Est. 133 - Apr 2006 - Conscience: Dissenters' appeal to Rome 'a real hoot' says Cardinal Pell, Michael Gilchrist Truth is supreme and as the encyclical Veritatis Splendor said conscience is the proximate norm. 134 - Mar 2006 - Books: Golden Priest, Wooden Chalice, by Fr Tim Norris, Michael Gilchrist Father Norris anticipates the thrust of Benedict XVIs first encyclical (see page 3) in his comments on the proper role of the Church in the public arena: Talking to people every day following their challenges and dilemmas and reading the newspapers to learn of the latest controversies over embryonic stem cells the possibilities of cloning and genetic engineering and so-called gay marriages I believe the need for the Church to be heard across the wider society has never been greater. 135 - Mar 2006 - Modernism: 'New Church' not true Church: what modernists believe, Pastor Remotus What may be called the first wave of modernism gathered force at the end of the 19th century and was identified and condemned in 1907 firstly in the Decree of the Holy Office Lamentabili and then in the Encyclical of Pope St Pius X Pascendi. 136 - Mar 2006 - News: The Church Around the World Speaking to 7500 people in the Paul VI auditorium the Pope called attention to the publication of his first encyclical Deus Caritas Est and the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. 137 - Mar 2006 - Documents: Benedict's first encyclical 'Deus Caritas Est' speaks to the heart of the Faith, Michael Gilchrist Benedict XVIs first encyclical Deus Caritas Est (God is Love) was released at the Vatican on 25 January. 138 - Mar 2006 - Editorial: The challenge facing Pope Benedict, Peter Westmore Benedict XVIs first Encyclical confirms his outstanding capacity to put forward a Christian alternative to a culture which rejects moral absolutes and has elevated personal choice into primacy of conscience. 139 - Feb 2006 - Books: Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, Peter Westmore The Churchs growing concern culminated with Pope Leo XIIIs great 1892 Encyclical Rerum Novarum (Concerning New Things) which analysed capitalist society and put forward a Christian alternative to free market capitalism and Marxist collectivism. 140 - Dec 2005 - The Eucharist: gift of an interventionist God, Chris Hilder Ecclesia De Eucharistia Encyclical Letter of Pope John Paul II 2003. 141 - Dec 2005 - Formation: St John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour, Fr John Cihak The pioneering Pope Blessed John XXIII even wrote an encyclical letter on St John Vianney recommending him as a model for diocesan priests to follow. 142 - Nov 2005 - Call to Holiness: Contemplating the Eucharistic Face of Christ, Christine McCarthy It is with him that John Paul II settled the last great encyclical of his pontificate Ecclesia de Eucharistia. 143 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell In 1993 Pope John Paul II wrote his beautiful and controversial encyclical on The Splendour of Truth. 144 - Sep 2005 - BOOKS: The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis, Thomas E. Woods Jr As Cardinal Pacelli he had played a central role in the drafting of Mit Brennender Sorge Pius XIs 1937 encyclical condemning Nazism. 145 - Sep 2005 - Interview: Benedict XVI and the power of the Eucharist, Fr John Corapi However it may be in what is arguably Benedict XVs most notable encyclical Humani Generis Redemptionem that we find a clue to the course Benedict XVI may be setting. 146 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Real Presence (letter), John Schmid For those who really believe that the Eucharist is the Body and Blood of Christ Pope Pius XIIs encyclical Mediator Dei provides a reminder that a suitable thanksgiving should be made after Mass: When the Mass which is subject to special rules of the liturgy is over the person who has received Holy Communion is not thereby freed from his duty of thanksgiving; rather it is most becoming that when the Mass is finished the person who has received the Eucharist should recollect himself and in intimate union with The Divine Master hold loving and fruitful converse with Him. 147 - Jul 2005 - Living Stones: Church architecture: can a sense of the sacred be recovered?, Christian Xavier How many parishioners would have read what Pope Pius XII wrote in his great encyclical on the liturgy Mediator Dei (62) in which he states that one would be straying from the straight path were he to wish the altar restored to its primitive table-form; were he to want black excluded as a color for the liturgical vestments; were he to forbid the use of sacred images and statues in churches; were he to order the crucifix so designed that the divine Redeemers body shows no trace of His cruel sufferings? 148 - Jul 2005 - Rockhampton: Year of the Eucharist: a time for clear thinking, AD2000 REPORT Johns chapter 6) the Catechism of the Catholic Church Pope John Paul IIs encyclical on the Eucharist Ecclesia de Eucharistia his Apostolic Letter Mane Nobiscum Domine and from the works of saints like Francis of Assisi Alphonsus Ligouri Peter Julian Eymard and Padre Pio to mention just a few. 149 - Jul 2005 - News: The Church Around the World A number of Catholic publications he said ignored the fact that there was dissent from the encyclical; a greater number highlighted the dissent and put the encyclical in a subordinate position. 150 - Jun 2005 - Reflection: Cardinal Nguyen van Thuan: witness to the priesthood and Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes If we can say the whole Church lives from the Eucharist as I affirmed in my recent Encyclical we can say the same thing about the ministerial priest . 151 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Pre-Vatican II myths, Douglas V. Boyle I still have my well-worn Bible which contains the encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII on The Study of Holy Scripture and the indulgences granted by Pope St Pius X to members of associations for the spreading of the reading of the text of the Holy Gospels. 152 - Jun 2005 - The previous Pope Benedict and his quest for world peace, R.J. Stove His first encyclical Ad Beatissimi (November 1914) sounded and developed the same theme. 153 - Jun 2005 - The Catholic Church's dissenters miss the boat, Chris Hilder To the dissenters it appeared they could in effect throw a papal encyclical back in the Popes face with impunity. 154 - Jun 2005 - He was my Pope, too: a Lutheran's appreciation of John Paul II, Uwe Siemon-Netto What other world leader - spiritual or secular - understood so profoundly how hollow and bankrupt the Soviet empire was so much so that this tireless writer never bothered to pen an encyclical against Marxism-Leninism because he knew it was moribund? 155 - Jun 2005 - Editorial: Corpus Christi - the Body of Christ It has a particular significance this year which Pope John Paul II dedicated to the Blessed Eucharist and which was the subject of one of his last encyclical letters Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church from the Eucharist). 156 - May 2005 - Books: Remembering Pope John Paul II 95 You Are Peter Olivier Clment Renowned Eastern Orthodox theologian Olivier Clment responds to Pope John Paul IIs call in his encyclical Ut Unum Sint for a common reflection on the function of the papal primacy. 157 - May 2005 - Letters: Private revelations, Anne Boyce With regard to Fides et Ratio it is a very attractive encyclical which it has been said has caught the attention of the world. 158 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Good news, Geoff Storey The Alliance is a positive response to the Holy Fathers Encyclical Letter Ecclesia de Eucharistia the Holy Sees document Redemptionis Sacramentum and the Australian Bishops Conference Pastoral Letter on the Eucharist. 159 - Apr 2005 - Exploding myths about the 'pre-Vatican II' Church, John Young His successor Benedict XV in his 1920 encyclical Spiritus Paraclitus again commended the Society of St Jerome for putting into the hands of as many people as possible the Gospels and the Acts so that every Christian family may have them and become accustomed to reading them . 160 - Mar 2005 - Books: DOLLFUSS: An Austrian Patriot, by Fr Johannes Messner, Alice von Hildebrand However he saw that only a philosophy based on Christian principles and following the precepts of the wonderful encyclical of Pius XI Quadragesimo Anno could build a dam to protect Austria. 161 - Feb 2005 - Religious Life: Faith and Reason: for a true renewal in religious life and the Church, Sr Mary Augustine OP Pope John Paul IIs Encyclical Fides et Ratio suggests the solution to the problems of both extremes. 162 - Feb 2005 - Editorial: Year of the Eucharist: a time to get serious, Michael Gilchrist It is timely that Pope John Paul II issued an Encyclical on the Eucharist in 2004 called for a Year of the Eucharist from October 2004 to 2005 and approved a document - Redemptoris Sacramentum - identifying incorrect practices in the Churchs Liturgy for priests and bishops to address. 163 - Oct 2004 - Books: The Two Wings Of Catholic Thought, edited by D.R. Foster, J.W. Koterski SJ, Br Christian Moe FSC Of all Pope John Pauls encyclicals possibly Fides et ratio (1998) is the most significant. 164 - Oct 2004 - The Pope's Encyclical on the Eucharist, Sr Mary Augustine OP Time for an examination of conscience by religious orders The Holy Fathers recent encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia is a gem of Eucharistic teaching which would if it were read by us religious reconnect us with its timeless truths of both doctrine and praxis. 165 - Sep 2004 - Mass Attendance: Where have all the worshippers gone?, Fr Martin Durham The Pope underlines this in his encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia: The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice . 166 - Aug 2004 - News: The Church Around the World The Cardinal referred to the Encyclical Letter Evangelium vitae with reference to judicial decisions or civil laws that authorise or promote abortion or euthanasia. 167 - Aug 2004 - Pope's representative reminds Australian religious leaders on liturgy abuses, Archbishop Francesco Canalini The Supreme Pontiff with his Encyclical Letter Ecclesia de Eucharistia and most recently with the Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum has intended to call the attention of the universal Church on the matter that stands at the centre of the Churchs life (n. 168 - Jul 2004 - Eucharistic Adoration: heart of evangelisation, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM The Holy Father in his recent encyclical on the Eucharist speaks out in very urgent language about the liturgical abuses that are detrimental to the authentic mission of our Church. 169 - Jul 2004 - Pastoral Letter: The secular challenges to our faith: how to respond, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett His Encyclical Letter Ecclesia de Eucharistia is addressed to every Catholic. 170 - Jul 2004 - Liturgy: New improved English Mass translation nears completion, Michael Gilchhrist These include the Popes encyclical on the Eucharist with its emphasis on the centrality of the Eucharist and its strong criticism of liturgical abuses. 171 - Jun 2004 - News: The Church Around the World Cardinal Pell noted that the document had been prepared at the express request of Pope John Paul II as he announced in his beautiful recent encyclical letter Ecclesia de Eucharistia. 172 - May 2004 - New liturgy document: Rome affirms right of laity to complain about abuses, Michael Gilchrist The Instruction is a sequel to the Holy Fathers Encyclical letter Ecclesia de Eucharistia and is to be read in continuity with the letter. 173 - Apr 2004 - Events: Chesterton conference to be held in Melbourne, Tony Evans Distributism was inspired by Christian social principles propagated in Pope Leo XIIIs encyclical Rerum Novarum and endorsed in later encyclicals culminating in Centesimus Annus (1991). 174 - Feb 2004 - Books: The Rosary : Chain of Hope, by Benedict J. Groeschel CFR, Michael E. Daniel Nevertheless the witness of Pope John Paul and his encouragement to pray the rosary have given the devotion new impetus indications of this being the recent Year of the Rosary and the encyclical letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae through which he promulgated the new set of Luminous Mysteries. 175 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Christ's gift, Wendy Francis a treasure of surpassing value as Pope Paul VI described the Eucharist in the opening paragraph of Mysterium Fidei his Encyclical Letter of 1965. 176 - Feb 2004 - Human life: precious from conception, Fr Angelo Serra SJ This inhuman situation was recalled in the encyclical Evangelium Vitae of John Paul II: Some try to justify abortion by claiming that the product of conception at least until a certain number of days cannot yet be considered a personal human life. 177 - Feb 2004 - Liturgy: 'Excellent start' on accurate English Missal translation, AD2000 REPORT The goals of translation are clearly laid out in the carefully crafted Instruction Liturgiam authenticam; and signal inspiration and encouragement is found in the encyclical on the Mass Ecclesia de Eucharistia. 178 - Dec 2003 - Books: You Are Peter, by Olivier Clément, Peter Westmore In that year the Pope issued an Encyclical letter Ut unum sint (That they may be one) in which he requested a dialogue within the Catholic Church and between Christians on the future exercise of the Petrine office as a means of bringing together the disparate components of Christianity. 179 - Oct 2003 - Liturgical Time Bombs In Vatican II, by Michael Davies, Michael Gilchrist The Popes recent encyclical on the Eucharist - which Davies quotes from - is a case in point. 180 - Oct 2003 - Why Catholic teaching on marriage is 'good news' for all humanity, Eamonn Keane In the introduction to his encyclical Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason) Pope John Paul II speaks of how human beings are drawn by nature to ask ultimate questions such as: Who am I? 181 - Oct 2003 - Youth: Thomas More Winter School in Sale Diocese has Eucharistic focus, Michael Casanova John Morrisseys history tour ended with Vatican II and the Popes latest encyclical. 182 - Oct 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000 According to the report - which has not been confirmed by the Vatican - the new text will be the document to which Pope John Paul II referred in his encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia when he said that new juridical norms concerning the liturgy would soon be forthcoming from the Roman Curia. 183 - Oct 2003 - After 25 years: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Michael Gilchrist One need only refer to his recent encyclical on the Eucharist. 184 - Sep 2003 - Abridged Papal encyclicals available, Fr M. Durham An abridged version of Pope John Paul IIs recent encyclical on the Eucharist Ecclesia de Eucharistia has been printed in the Rockhampton diocesan monthly journal The Review. 185 - Sep 2003 - Letters: New Mass (letter), Philip Robinson Pope John Paul IIs latest encyclical Ecclesia De Eucharistia repeats concerns he expressed in Dominicae Cenae a Holy Thursday letter addressed to bishops and priests in February 1980. 186 - Sep 2003 - Understanding the Catholic Liturgy since Vatican II, Dom Alcuin Reid OSB And in his April 2003 Encyclical Letter Ecclesia de Eucharistia he lamented the dark clouds of unacceptable doctrine and practice that have eclipsed the celebration of the Sacred Liturgy since the Second Vatican Council. 187 - Sep 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000 Catholic World News Australian conference on Humanae Vitae Overseas and Australian speakers address pro-life pro-family themes Pope Paul VIs encyclical Humanae Vitae was published on 25 July 1968. 188 - Aug 2003 - Letters: Pantheism (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan When Pope Pius XII published his encyclical Humani Generis in 1950 every perceptive reader knew that one of its main targets was Teilhardism. 189 - Aug 2003 - Priesthood: Clerical celibacy 'for the sake of God's Kingdom': the Church's teaching, John Young Pius XII later confirmed that this was solemnly defined as a dogma of faith by the Holy Council of Trent and explained in the same way by all the Holy Fathers and Doctors of the Church (Encyclical Sacra virginitas n. 190 - Jul 2003 - Brisbane Synod ends: Archbishop Bathersby to announce pastoral programs, AD2000 REPORT Now with the recent release of Pope John Paul IIs encyclical on the Eucharist - including a call for an end to liturgical abuses - it is more urgent than ever for Australias dioceses including Brisbane to make this an explicit pastoral priority. 191 - Jul 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000 au Academic symposium on Petrine ministry A response to papal encyclical Ut Unum Sint An academic symposium on the Petrine Ministry organised by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity took place in Rome from 21-24 May. 192 - Jun 2003 - Books: From Physics to Metaphysics, by Fr Francis J. Selman, Michael Casanova Father Francis Selmans book From Physics to Metaphysics meets the call Pope John Paul II made in his encyclical Faith and Reason for a return to metaphysics as a foundation for teaching theology. 193 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Teilhard de Chardin (letter), Grahame Fallon As Pope John Paul II said in the first words of his first encyclical Redemptor Hominis (1979) the Redeemer of Man Jesus Christ is also the centre of the universe and of its history. 194 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Eucharistic encyclical and the priesthood (letter), John Kelly In his most recent encyclical Ecclesia De Eucharistia Pope John Paul II has provided priests and laity with a profound and inspiring definition of the intrinsic relationship between Christ the Eucharist and the Church; and of the priests identity intimately connected with these saving realities. 195 - Jun 2003 - The environment: rediscovering the balanced Catholic perspective, Michael Casanova In his latest encyclical on the Eucharist which is profoundly at the heart of our faith the Pope also says to us: The Christian vision . 196 - Jun 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000 Zenit News Service European bishops praise Popes Eucharist encyclical A treasure that cannot be neglected reduced or manipulated Church leaders in Europe are endorsing the norms designed to guarantee respect for the Eucharist as spelled out by John Paul II in his latest encyclical. 197 - Jun 2003 - Liturgy: John Paul's new encyclical on the Eucharist targets liturgical abuses, Michael Gilchrist On Holy Thursday 17 April 2003 Pope John Paul II released his 14th encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia formally signing it during the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lords Supper in St Peters. 198 - May 2003 - News: The Church Around the World Pope signs encyclical on Eucharist Document recalls the intrinsic value and importance of the sacrament By the time this edition of AD2000 becomes available the new papal encyclical on the Eucharist will have been promulgated by Pope John Paul II on 17 April. 199 - Apr 2003 - Ecumenism: Christian unity: major obstacles still remain, David Schutz As the encyclical Ut unum sint makes clear even if the role of the pope were to be rethought the Catholic ecumenical vision will always include the papacy. 200 - Apr 2003 - News: The Church Around the World The Holy Father will also publish an encyclical on the Eucharist on 17 April with a Vatican doctrinal note to accompany the encyclical. 201 - Apr 2003 - Editorial: Good news on the liturgy, Peter Westmore On Holy Thursday Pope John Paul II will release a new encyclical his first since 1998 which will deal with the centrality of the Mass and Holy Communion in the life of the Church. 202 - Mar 2003 - Liturgy: The Mass is the same sacrifice as the Cross, Msgr. Peter J. Elliott One sacrifice made present The prevalent view today was taught by Pope Paul VI in his magnificent encyclical on the Eucharist Mysterium Fidei. 203 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Forgiveness (letter), John Schmid Non-repentance is mentioned in both of the Popes encyclical letters. 204 - Dec 2002 - Letters: 'Misandry' (letter), Name and address supplied With great wisdom it has been said: Belief in God is the unshakeable foundation of all Christian order and responsibility on Earth (vide Pope Pius Xls encyclical letter Atheistic Communism). 205 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Church "renovation" (letter), B. Tooley The encyclical Mysterium Fidei written by Pope Paul VI during the Second Vatican Council states liturgical laws prescribe that the Blessed Sacrament be kept in churches with the greatest honour and in the most distinguished position. 206 - Oct 2002 - Bishop Power: Church teachings need to be 're-examined', AD2000 REPORT Bishop Power added: It is significant that none of these documents are papal writings and their spirit and letter are in sharp contrast to Pope John Pauls 1995 Encyclical On Christian Unity (Ut unum sint) and his apostolic letters for the opening and closing of the year of great jubilee (Tertio millennio adveniente and Novo millennio ineunte) which consistently call upon the teaching of Vatican II. 207 - Jul 2002 - Books: A Pope and a Council on the Sacred Liturgy, by Aidan Nichols OP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott In 1948 Pope Pius XII issued the encyclical letter Mediator Dei proposing classical teaching on divine worship. 208 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Abortion (letter), George F. Simpson In his encyclical The Gospel of Life the Pope says that these women have a very special role in spreading the pro-life message. 209 - Jul 2002 - Interview: George Weigel: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Zenit News Service Part of the work that John Paul II will leave us to do is to resolve several large questions that have been left unresolved by the upheaval in ecclesiology that began with the early liturgical movement and the encyclical Mystici Corporis which shaped the Second Vatican Councils complex teaching on the Church and that has defined much of the unsettled character of the Councils reception. 210 - Jun 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000 He claims their spirit and letter are in sharp contrast to Pope John Pauls 1995 Encyclical on Christian unity (Ut unum sint) and his apostolic letters for the opening and closing of the year of great jubilee (Tertio millennio adveniente and Novo millennio ineunte) which consistently call upon the teaching of Vatican II. 211 - May 2002 - Letters: Transubstantiation (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan SM Pope Paul explicitly rejected these new explanations in his encyclical Mysterium Fidei issued in 1965 and solemnly reaffirmed the doctrine defined by the Council of Trent. 212 - Apr 2002 - Adelaide Thomas More Centre address: The key elements of Catholic Action today, Archbishop Philip Wilson Turning to what he termed the principle of dialogue - as set out in Pope Paul VIs first encyclical Ecclesiam Suam (1963) - Archbishop Wilson explained that while we are bearers of truth and committed to our Faith in dealing with people of other beliefs and practices we should avoid a superior attitude adopt a stance of personal humility and be ready to listen. 213 - Mar 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II: St Joseph's renewed significance for the Church, Br Christian Moe FSC In Pope John Pauls thinking - as set out in his 1989 encyclical Redemptoris Custos (On the Person and Mission of Saint Joseph in the Life of Christ and of the Church) - St Joseph is set squarely within the plan of redemption. 214 - Mar 2002 - Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration spreads throughout the world, Fr Douglas Harris At the height of the Second Vatican Council Pope Paul VI wrote a prophetic encyclical titled Mysterium Fidei. 215 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Human evolution, Fr Brian Harrison OS According to your correspondent John Schmid (November AD2000) Pope Leo XIII in his 1880 encyclical Arcanum merely gives a description of creation as in the Bible without thereby implying anything either for or against the theory of human evolution. 216 - Feb 2002 - US Conference: 'Newman's Idea of a University', Msgr Michael J. Wrenn Even earlier Pope Leo XIII in his acclaimed encyclical Longinqua Oceani Spatia (6 January 1895) referred to McMahon: Nor is it long since we were appraised that thanks to the liberality of a pious priest a new building has been constructed in which young men clerics as well as lay are to receive instruction in the natural sciences and in literature . 217 - Dec 2001 - Books: De Lubac's writings in English translations, Tracey Rowland The intensity of the debates which followed culminated in Pope Pius XIIs encyclical Humani Generis. 218 - Nov 2001 - Letters: St Thomas Aquinas, Valentine Gallagher As Mr Michael Casanova observes Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Fides et Ratio lauds St Thomas Aquinas as an authentic model and guide for all who seek the truth (September AD2000). 219 - Nov 2001 - Letters: Catholic teaching, John Schmid Leo XIII did not even mention evolution in his encyclical Arcanum on Christian marriage. 220 - Nov 2001 - Letters: A response on the Creation of Man, Gerry Keane He claims as doubtless the passage I refer to in Pope Leo IIIs 1880 encyclical Arcanum Divinae Sapientiae is the one in which Leo wrote of God making man from the slime of the earth on the sixth day. 221 - Oct 2001 - Letters: Papal teaching (letter), John Young He refers to the 1880 encyclical of Leo XIII Arcanum Divinae Sapientiae but without quoting it. 222 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Church teachings (letter), Gerry Keane Leo XIII in the encyclical Arcanum Divinae Sapientiae (1880) taught that the first parents Adam and Eve were specially created and the body of Eve was created from a portion of Adams body. 223 - Sep 2001 - Successful Thomas More Centre Winter School in Brisbane, Sidney Rofe Br Chris Pritchard provided an inspirational conclusion with his talk on the encyclical Novo Millennio Ineunte from which the theme of the Winter School was drawn. 224 - Sep 2001 - News: The Church Around the World Edith Steins role in papal encyclical Linked to Pius XIs document against anti-Semitism A letter by Edith Stein warning about Nazism inspired Pope Pius XI to write the encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge against the anti-Semitism in Hitlers Germany according to a recent TV documentary. 225 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Evolution/Original Sin (letter), John Schmid I would urge people to read: Catechism of the Catholic Church sections 388-390; Humani Generis Pope Pius XIIs encyclical sections 35-38; In the Beginning by Cardinal Ratzinger Third Homily (Creation and Evolution) and Fourth Homily (Original Sin); Questions People Ask by Rev Dr Leslie Rumble MSC section 28. 226 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Radical feminists (letter), Dr T.R. White He also quoted extensively from Pope John Paul IIs encyclical Redemptoris Missio. 227 - Aug 2001 - After 14 years: why does AD2000 continue?, Michael Gilchrist But as John Paul II observed in his 1998 Encyclical Faith and Reason: A legitimate plurality of positions has yielded to an undifferentiated pluralism based on the assumption that all positions are equally valid which is one of todays most widespread symptoms of the lack of confidence in truth. 228 - Jul 2001 - Basic Ecclesial Communities, Archbishop Leonard Faulkner In fact specific mention is made of Basic Ecclesial Communities in Pope John Paul IIs 1990 Encyclical Letter Redemptoris Missio on the Permanent Validity of the Churchs Missionary Mandate. 229 - Apr 2001 - Books: 'Contraception: The Hidden Truth' by Christine de Stoop, Katie Forster Pope Paul VI prophesied all these abuses in 1968 in his encyclical realising that once contraception became commonplace the slippery slide would continue. 230 - Nov 2000 - The right to work: central to the Catholic Church's social teaching, Patrick Byrne Pope John Paul II points out in his encyclical Laborem Exercens that human work is the key probably the essential key to the whole social question. 231 - Nov 2000 - Fr Francis Harman RIP: bioethicist of distinction, Dr Joseph Santamaria At this stage there was a furious debate within the Church over the issue of birth control which had its origins in the dissent which followed the promulgation of the encyclical Humanae Vitae. 232 - Oct 2000 - Archbishop Pell: social justice for today's family, Archbishop George Pell Lecture 24 of his course of commercial law is a brilliant exposition of Catholic social teaching foreshadowing Rerum Novarum the 1891 encyclical of Pope Leo XIII by over forty years and antedating the Communist Manifesto in its attention to the social question. 233 - Oct 2000 - News: The Church Around the World Pius IX was the Pope of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and Vatican I and John XXIII the Pope of the encyclical Pacem in Terris and Vatican II. 234 - Aug 2000 - 'We Shall Overcome': 'liberal' Catholicism after Vatican II, Norm Yodgee This encyclical dealing with the procreation of human life rather like the Vietnam war acted as a symbol and a summary of all that was wrong with the established order. 235 - Jul 2000 - News: The Church Around the World The conference will provide an opportunity for Roman Catholics Eastern Orthodox Eastern Catholic and Oriental Orthodox Christians to gather and discuss the quest for unity from various perspectives with an eye to Pope John Paul IIs apostolic letter Orientale Lumen and encyclical Ut Unum Sint (both of 1995). 236 - May 2000 - Books: 'The Ever-Illuminating Wisdom of St Thomas Aquinas' by Peter Kreeft et al, Tracey Rowland Its focus is a defence of the 1993 encyclical Veritatis Splendor and a refutation of the arguments of Richard McCormick against the existence of moral absolutes. 237 - Apr 2000 - Indulgences and the Millennium Jubilee Year, Neil Coup Development Indulgentiarum Doctrina expressed clearly for our times the Churchs understanding of its treasury by tracing the development of the terminology in Tradition from the fourteenth until the sixteenth centuries citing Clement VI (1291-1352) Jubilee Bull: Unigenitus Dei Filius (1343); Sixtus IV (1414-84) encyclical: Romani Pontificis; and Leo X (1475- 1521) decree: Cum Postquam. 238 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Abortion (letter), Patrick V. Healy On 23 April 1996 the Holy Father said: In the encyclical Evangelium Vitae I recalled how on the one hand present day society has developed increasing sensitivity to human rights but on the other has not succeeded in applying them to the defence of the weakest. 239 - Nov 1999 - Religious Education: 'Gospel of life' in Melbourne's new RE curriculum, Msgr Peter J. Elliott The title of Pope John Pauls encyclical letter Evangelium Vitae of 25 March 1995 simply means the Gospel of Life. 240 - Nov 1999 - New international Catholic university opens Internet campus, AD2000 Report The university became the institutional embodiment of the conviction that faith and reason are compatible and indeed reinforce one another as the Popes recent encyclical Faith and Reason underlines. 241 - Nov 1999 - St Vincent's drug injecting rooms: 'monumental spiritual blindness', Fr John Walter PP Truly prophetic are the words of John Paul II in Veritatis Splendor (The Splendour of Truth) his masterpiece moral encyclical that we are currently risking the rise of a new totalitarianism. 242 - Oct 1999 - News: The Church Around the World He studied Pope Leo XIIIs 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum in great detail particularly the Pontiffs proclamation of the right of all men and women to organise in associations to defend their dignity as workers. 243 - Jul 1999 - Ecumenism: New ARCIC document on Papal authority, Peter Westmore In his encyclical Ut Unum Sint (95-96) John Paul II invited leaders and theologians of other churches to engage with him in a fraternal dialogue on how the particular ministry of unity of the Bishop of Rome might be exercised in a new situation. 244 - Jun 1999 - St Thomas Aquinas: philosopher for our time, Fr G.H. Duggan SM The release of Pope John Paul IIs encyclical Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason) last year has prompted discussions on the role of philosophy in the life of the Church and in particular the status of St Thomas Aquinass writings. 245 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World Dublins Archbishop on contraception Remarks on family planning attacked in Irish mass media Archbishop Desmond Connell of Dublin prompted a storm of protest and criticism following his address early in March at St Patricks College Maynooth in which he defended the teaching of Pope Paul VIs encyclical Humanae Vitae while pointing out the negative effects of the widespread acceptance of contraception: Approval of contraception logically extends the blessing of moral approval to the sexual revolution which has resulted in the chaos of broken families co-habitation promiscuity uncertainty about the limits that define the nature of the family. 246 - Apr 1999 - 1999 Thomas More Summer School: another resounding success Dr Hayden Ramsay a young philosopher from Scotland (and a seminary lecturer and adviser to Archbishop Pell on philosophical matters) spoke on Faith and Reason: a Philosophy for Life based on the Holy Fathers new encyclical. 247 - Apr 1999 - Presenting Catholic apologetics to a wider Australian public, AD2000 Report In the first two weeks of December 1998 by way of a positive response to the papal encyclical Faith and Reason Raymond de Souza the Founder and Director of WAs first lay apostolate to promote Catholic apologetics St Gabriel Communications conducted a speaking tour of the eastern States. 248 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World This chapel could well serve as a focal point for the fostering of Eucharistic adoration in the Ballarat Diocese in line with Pope Pius XIIs famous encyclical Mediator Dei (129-133). 249 - Feb 1999 - 'Absolute Truth': another media 'job' on the Catholic Church, Michael Gilchrist An early betrayal of the Council we are then informed came with Pope Paul VIs encyclical Humanae Vitae. 250 - Dec 1998 - The right to work: what does the Catholic Church teach?, Bishop Kevin Manning Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Laborem Exercens (LE) or On Human Work (n. 251 - Dec 1998 - John Paul II's new encyclical 'Faith and Reason' analysed, Hayden Ramsay Reviving the great tradition of Catholic philosophy Why should the Pope choose to mark the twentieth anniversary of his pontificate with an encyclical letter on philosophy? 252 - Dec 1998 - Cardinal Ratzinger presents John Paul II's latest encyclical, Michael Gilchrist Faith and Reason assails modern philosophys nihilism Pope John Paul IIs 13th and latest encyclical - Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason) - was presented at the Holy Sees Press Office by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on 15 October (see analysis on pp. 253 - Oct 1998 - Pope John Paul II: the impact of his twenty-year pontificate, Peter Westmore In the ecclesiastical sphere he inherited a church racked by division in the wake of the Second Vatican Council restoring order to its teaching with the drafting of a number of important encyclicals notably Veritatis Splendor (The Splendour of Truth). 254 - Sep 1998 - Archbishop Pell: 'Humanae Vitae' teachings 'are not an optional extra', Michael Gilchrist In a pastoral letter titled On Life and Love to mark the 30th anniversary of Pope Paul VIs encyclical Humanae Vitae on 24 July 1998 Melbournes Archbishop George Pell re-stated the Catholic Churchs continuing opposition to contraception and called for society to take stock of the costs of the sexual revolution made possible by the pill. 255 - Aug 1998 - Pope's new Apostolic Letter puts theological dissenters on notice Moral doctrines Moral doctrines in the second category included the illicitness of euthanasia taught in the Encyclical Letter Evangelium Vitae and of prostitution and of fornication. 256 - Oct 1996 - Reflection: Mediator Dei: Recovering the 'vital impulse' of the liturgical movement, Bishop Basil Meeking (Christchurch, New Zealand) Encyclical To illustrate that the Pope also pointed to the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council. 257 - Jul 1996 - Books: 'Critics on Trial - An Introduction to the Catholic Modernist Crisis', O'Connell, Fr John Parsons No wonder that in his encyclical Pascendi of 1907 St Pius X called Modernism not so much a heresy as the synthesis of all heresies. 258 - May 1996 - Books: 'Redefining The Church: Vision and Practice', Richard Lennan ed, Fr Ephraem Chifley OP Fr Gleeson feels that there is some disquiet about the encyclical Veritatis Splendor in that it appears to curtail the responsibilities and rights of individual consciences beginning with the statement of John Paul II in the encyclical that the Churchs teachings are always and only at the service of conscience. 259 - Mar 1996 - Examining the impact of Vatican II after 30 years, Fr John Parsons In 1964 in his first encyclical he wrote: At the present time it is no longer a matter of ridding the Church of this or that particular heresy or of certain specific disorders. 260 - Nov 1995 - Evangelium Vitae - Catholicism, the media and the 'culture of death', Bishop George Pell The Popes encyclical Gospel of Life The release of Pope John Paul IIs encyclical Gospel of Life earlier this year was timely in view of the growing pressures in Australia - already successful in the Northern Territory - to legalise euthanasia. 261 - Jul 1995 - Understanding the terms of the euthanasia debate, Peter Coghlan Key statements from the Popes Gospel of Life encyclical Pope John Paul IIs encyclical Evangelium Vitae was issued in March 1995. 262 - Dec 1994 - An Open Letter to the Manly Seminary staff, Fr Brian Harrison OS Like the encyclical Veritatis Splendor it is rooted in what progressive Catholic thinkers like Bernard Lonergan and John Courtney Murray have described pejoratively as the classicist world-view but which is in reality nothing other than what the Church has traditionally called the perennial philosophy. 263 - Sep 1994 - New edition of Fr Richard McBrien's 'Catholicism': but dissent still remains, James Likoudis 966-967) while the Popes teaching on the relationship between individual conscience and the magisterium as set forth in the same encyclical is distorted; the theory of fundamental option censured by the Pope in Reconciliatio et Paenitentia (1984) is still proposed (p. 264 - Jun 1994 - Fr Hubert Jedin's 1968 'Letter to the German Bishops', Fr Hubert Jedin This crisis became broadly visible during the Catholic Day at Essen during which the encyclical Humanae Vitae was regarded not as a starting-point but as an object of anxiety and as the flashpoint. 265 - Apr 1994 - Making sense of 'Veritatis Splendor', Bishop Kevin Manning The Encyclical Veritatis Splendor released on 5 October 1993 was six years in the writing. 266 - Feb 1994 - Can liturgical 'reform' be reformed?, Simon Matthews Pius XIIs encyclical letter Mediator Dei is a clear and authoritative statement that the aims of the movement were central to the mind of the Church. 267 - Feb 1994 - The state of Catholicism after 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria The Encyclical Veritatis Splendor which was issued by Pope John Paul II in October 1993 was reportedly eight years in preparation. 268 - Nov 1993 - Thomas More Centre Lecture: Janet Smith champions Church's moral teaching, Dr Janet Smith Dr Smiths visit coincided with release of the new Papal Encyclical Veritatis Splendor and as a result she received considerable media coverage including a front-page spread in The Australian and an interview on ABC-TVs 7. 269 - Nov 1993 - In the aftermath of 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria More than one writer has pointed out that in a total of 179 pages the Popes most recent Encyclical contained 15 lines on contraception. 270 - Nov 1993 - Editorial: The Pope: for or against him?, B.A. Santamaria The primary importance of the Popes most recent Encyclical lies naturally in its contents: namely his reassertion of one of the primordial Catholic beliefs that there exists a set of fundamental moral truths which are binding on the conscience of Catholics which the personal conscience may not override. 271 - Sep 1993 - Archbishop Hickey's Pastoral Letter - 'Humanae Vitae' 25th anniversary, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey Archbishop Barry Hickey of Perth Western Australia celebrated a special Mass in St Marys Cathedral Perth on Sunday 25th July to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Pope Paul VIs encyclical Humanae Vitae which has been the target of continued criticism from within the Church ever since its release. 272 - Sep 1993 - Lincoln, Nebraska - how to fill seminaries with vocations, Fr T.I. Thorburn The Diocese of Lincoln propagates the Churchs teaching concerning marriage and sexuality as taught by Pope Paul VI in his encyclical Humanae Vitae. 273 - Jun 1992 - Monika Hellwig visits Australia, Michael Gilchrist Defender of Charles Curran When in 1985 the Vatican finally took action to silence dissenting moral theologian Fr Charles Curran (who had taught that in some circumstances adultery premarital sex homosexual acts and other such activities could be justified and who had organised American theologians against Pope Pauls encyclical Humanae Vitae in 1968) Monika Hellwig signed a joint letter defending Currans standing as a Catholic theologian. 274 - Dec 1991 - Editorial: Can the internal schism be solved?, B.A. Santamaria The issue which emerged once again with the publication of the draft of the new Universal Catechism will certainly be projected once again and even more decisively when the Pope publishes the long-awaited Encyclical on the fundamental principles of Catholic morality. 275 - Oct 1991 - The priesthood: one layman's view, B.A. Santamaria In his recent encyclical Redemptoris Missio or in its English translation The Permanent Value of the Churchs Missionary Mandate Pope John Paul confronted these misrepresentations of the Churchs position: As a result of the changes which have taken place in modern times and the spread of new theological ideas he writes some people wonder: Is missionary work among non-Christians still relevant? 276 - Jun 1991 - Encyclical: John Paul II's Memorial to 'Rerum Novarum': a summary of 'Centesimus Annus', B.A. Santamaria Pope John Paul II has marked the hundredth anniversary of the 1891 publication of Leo XIIIs first Encyclical on the Christian organisation of society Rerum Novarum (Of new things) with his new Encyclical Centesimus Annus (The hundredth year). 277 - Feb 1991 - Robert Hugh Benson - Christianity and Modernism, Sr Mary St. Rita RSM Pope Pius X signed Pascendi Gregis - probably the longest encyclical ever written - on 8 September 1907. 278 - Mar 1990 - New Zealand: tensions between Rome and the Bishops, John Kennedy OBE In New Zealand as elsewhere the classic example is the teaching so clearly pronounced in Pope Paul VIs great encyclical Humanae Vitae. 279 - Sep 1989 - Three problems for Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist The Archbishop contended that Catholic systems of education had failed to teach the specific doctrines of the Church both on faith and morals along with their rational and historical underpinnings and to stock and train the memory as directed in Pope John Paul IIs encyclical Catechesi Tradendae s. 280 - Feb 1989 - Editorial: Who are the educational 'experts'?, B.A. Santamaria Will it go to those who deliberately ignored the content of the encyclical Catechesi Tradendae from the moment of its publication? 281 - Nov 1988 - The issues facing Australian Catholicism, Bishop George Pell The 1968 encyclical of Pope Paul Vl Humanae Vitae against artificial contraception was another catalyst for upheaval. 282 - Jul 1988 - 'Humanae Vitae' twenty years after, B.A. Santamaria According to his own account a copy of the encyclical had been obtained by Fr Charles Curran some days before its presentation to the media and even before its distribution to the bishops. 283 - May 1988 - John Paul II's new social encyclical, Sollicitudo rei socialis, B.A. Santamaria The new encyclical Sollicitudo rei socialis which can be broadly translated as The concern (of the Church) for the Social Order was designed by its author Pope John Paul II to mark the twentieth anniversary of the encyclical Populorum Progressio.