Papacy

The following conference is one of a second series of retreat conferences given by Father John A. Hardon S.J. Father Hardon is professor of theology and teaches at the pontifical institute for advanced studies and Catholic doctrine at Saint John University in New York. Father is well known as a lecturer, retreat master, and author. […]

Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Conference by Father John A. Hardon, S.J. The Papal Primacy has become a scandal to those who refuse to believe that Christ has chosen Peter and his successors to be the rock on which the Savior has built His Church. It is the rock of faith by which the mysteries […]

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. This will be the so far longest sustained theme of the retreat on the Church. We have seen how the Israel of old was already the Church in embryo. With the coming of Christ, He began forming the Church when He called the apostles. We saw that essential to […]

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. We have seen at some length how the first major crisis on papal authority arose with the rise of Protestantism. We might almost say that, at the heart of Protestantism, is an organized protest against the the teaching authority of the Bishop of Rome. Once the Protestant leaders deny […]

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. St. Cyprian (210-258), Bishop of Carthage in Africa and martyr, is one of the earliest and most outspoken defenders of papal primacy. Converted to Christianity in his early thirties, and serving for ten years as bishop of Carthage, he died for the faith during the persecution of Emperor Decius. […]