Media

by Anita C. Crane CrisisCol.15 – #11, December 1997, pp. 39-42 The following from an interview dealing with the media: So the Church is growing more than we know? Yes. But you wouldn’t know it from the media. A person would not know that from the way that the media cover things. Let us pick […]

Vatican II, Inter Mirifica, 4 December, 1963 VATICAN COUNCIL II THE CONCILIAR AND POST CONCILIAR DOCUMENTSGENERAL EDITORAUSTIN FLANNERY, O.P. 1981 /Edition Chapter I It is the Church’s birthright to use and own any of these media which are necessary to useful for the formation of Christians and for pastoral activity. #3 It is essential that […]

by Father John A. Hardon, S.J Catholic Faith Vol. 1. #1, Sept/Oct 1995, pp. 7-10 At the heart of Christianity is the duty to proclaim the Gospel. The farewell message of Christ to His disciples was to proclaim the good news of salvation to the whole world. Needless to say, most of the world is […]

by Father John A. Hardon, S.J Our present meditation is still on the Second Commandment of the Decalogue on religious communication. You might ask yourselves what does this mean? It means that God wants us first of all to articulate our thoughts and desires to Him in prayer. And not only as we’ve seen, though […]

by Father John A. Hardon, S.J Before entering on our subject, it may be important to identify just what I plan to speak about. “Christianity and the Communications Revolution” is too comprehensive to be intelligible unless we narrow its focus, and, for our purpose, unless we somehow relate it to evangelization. I would therefore like […]

by Father John A. Hardon, S.J Our present conference is on how, how should Catholics be retrieved who have lost either their faith or they have at least lapsed from the practice of their Catholic religion. Our first conference, you remember, was on why, why has there has been such widespread abandonment of the Catholic […]

by Father John A. Hardon, S.J Not many years ago, it would have been a strange title for a lecture to ask, “What makes Catholic materials really Catholic?” The reason is obvious. Catholics were Catholics. They were not Protestants, or Mormons, or Jehovah’s Witnesses. But much has happened in the last thirty years. Nowadays there […]

by Father John A. Hardon, S.J The Catholic Faith magazine is the response to a request by His Eminence José T. Cardinal Sánchez, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy. The purpose of this magazine is to provide the faithful in English-speaking countries with an ongoing guide for the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Our […]