Your Church Wants to Hear from You

Your Church Wants to Hear from You

Author: Michael J. Sanem

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2022-04-23

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 0814668178

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In October 2021, the Catholic Church officially began the largest consultative process in human history. The entire people of God, some 1.34 billion Catholics worldwide, were asked to participate in a process of listening and engagement together over the course of two years. Why embark on this incredibly novel, time-consuming, and expensive task? Because your church wants to hear from you. This booklet explains and explores why the leaders of the Catholic Church have discerned that the synodal path is what “God expects of the church of the third millennium.” This Synod on Synodality is not just another meeting. It is the beginning of a conversion process that is essential to the life of the church and its mission. And the Church needs you to carry it out.


Pope Francis and the Theology of the People

Pope Francis and the Theology of the People

Author: Luciani, Rafael

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1608337170

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A type of liberation theology, theology of the people emphasizes respect for the culture and popular religious expressions of the poor. This book by a Latin American theologian offers an overview of this theology and shows how it informs Pope Francis's agenda and ministry.


Understanding the Law

Understanding the Law

Author: Attorney Charles Jerome Ware

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1440111456

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The attorney-client relationship is one of the most important and delicate relationships in all of legaldom (if there is such a word). Lawyers cannot exist without clients. With rare exceptions, clients cannot make it without lawyers. The foundation of the attorney-client relationship is trust. Without the element of trust between the client and the attorney, the relationship simply will not work out. I am reminded of the story about the man who hated to worry about anything and went looking for a surrogate worrier. He approached a lawyer about the issue and said: Potential client: "I would like to retain your services. I'll give a thousand dollars if you will do the worrying for me." Lawyer: "That's fine. I'll do it. Now where's the thousand dollars?" Potential client: "That's your first worry." Trust works both ways in an attorney-client relationship. In order for an attorney to help the client, the attorney needs to know everything about the client's problem or issue. Most clients do not understand that, or simply ignore this point. In any event, few clients abide by it. To encourage clients to speak freely and reveal all to their lawyer concerning their problem or issue, the law grants an absolute attorney-client privilege. Whatever the client tells the lawyer about his or her case is secret and strictly confidential. Only with the client's expressed permission can the attorney reveal this secret and confidential information.


Torture of the Christian Martyrs

Torture of the Christian Martyrs

Author: Antonio Gallonio

Publisher: Olympia Press

Published: 2014-03-28

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1626575096

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The legendary treatise on how so many died at the hands of Roman and Pagan aggressors. In good Catholic fashion, the work is heavy on the descriptions, showing who and how and where they died, with attention paid to each and every sin, in graphic detail... with loads of illustrations.


Bioethics Matters

Bioethics Matters

Author: Moira McQueen

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-07-28

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0826435106

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Sets out Catholic teaching on hotly debated issues such as stem cell research, reproductive technologies, euthanasia and much more.


Still Interpreting Vatican II

Still Interpreting Vatican II

Author: Ormond Rush

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780809142859

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In this original book, Ormond Rush makes a significant contribution to the growing body of scholarship on Vatican II. He proposes that a comprehensive interpretation of Vatican II requires that the interpreter not only attempt a reconstruction of the "spirit" of the council emerging during the conciliar debates, but also take into account the various linguistic dimensions of the "letter" of the documents. Attention to genre, structure, rhetoric, intratextuality and intertextuality are all significant in reconstructing the "letter" of the council. In addition, he states that reconstruction of the "spirit" and "letter" must be supplemented by attention to another factor: the post-conciliar reception of the council from different contexts throughout the world over the last forty years. All three of these phases of interpretation must be kept in correlation. The book ends with a proposal for a reception pneumatology that calls for greater recognition of the work of reception as the work of the Holy Spirit of the council. Highlights: --fills a significant gap in the debate regarding Vatican II: clarity in the discussion regarding hermeneutical principles --no book in any language focuses specifically on the principles for interpreting Vatican II --calls for a more comprehensive approach that includes not only attention to the process of original formulation, but also to the texts in themselves --suggests a way through the current impasse in the interpretation of Vatican II +


An Unfinished Council

An Unfinished Council

Author: Richard R. Gaillardetz

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2015-10-28

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0814683347

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The Second Vatican Council has become an indispensable reference point for understanding Roman Catholicism today. Yet in spite of its impact, Vatican II was in many ways an unfinished council. The council bishops were able to establish key pillars in the construction of a new vision for the church of our time, but, for various reasons, they were not able to draw those pillars together into a coherent unified structure. This volume describes both the council’s building project itself and the challenges facing the church today if we are to complete the project begun fifty years ago.


Anthropotes

Anthropotes

Author: Nicola Reali

Publisher: Edizioni Studium S.r.l.

Published: 2024-03-26

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 8838254338

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DANIELE MENOZZI, Tra “cambiamento d’epoca” e “cambiamenti epocali”. le radici di un giudizio sul presente di papa Francesco / Between “epochal Change” and “epochal Changes”. The Roots of a Judgement on the Pre- sent by Pope Francis AGOSTINO GIOVAGNOLI, Papa Francesco e la storia della Chiesa dopo il vati- cano II / Pope Francis and the History of the Church after vatican II PHILIPPE BORDEYNE, le courage de l’incomplétude dans une Église syno- dale / The Courage of Incompleteness in a synodal Church ORIETTA RACHELE GRAZIOLI, Donne, sinodo e sinodalità / Women, synod and synodality MAURIZIO CHIODI, gender studies e teologia / genders studies and Theology SIMONA SEGOLONI RUTA, Il gender come categoria euristica in teologia. alcune linee di sviluppo / gender as a Heuristic Category in Theology. some lines of Development JAIME RODRIGUEZ DÍAZ , la “Recíproca complementariedad”: interpretación de efesios 5 desde las Catequesis sobre el amor Humano de Juan Pa- blo II / The “Mutual Complementarity”: Interpretation of ephesians 5 from John Paul II’s Catechesis on Human love CYRIL PASQUIER, Toothing-stones in Irenaeus of lyon to apprehend Mar- riage Today / addentellati in Ireneo di lione per comprendere oggi il matrimonio NICOLA REALI, Per una teologia pastorale del sacramento della penitenza / For a Pastoral Theology of the sacrament of Penance