Here’s the rundown for the latest edition of Origins: CNS Documentary Service dated Dec. 13:
To come to know God — the true God — means to receive hope, says Pope Benedict XVI in “Spe Salvi,” his second encyclical. Today many people seek redemption through science and politics rather than through religion, he notes. But technology [...]
Here’s the rundown for the latest edition of Origins: CNS Documentary Service dated Dec. 6:
Muslim scholars have proposed that love of God and neighbor be the basis for a dialogue with Christians. Key to the outcome of such a dialogue, says the Vatican’s U.N. ambassador, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, is whether the understanding of these terms [...]
Here’s the rundown for the latest edition of Origins: CNS Documentary Service dated Nov. 29:
The U.S. bishops’ quadrennial statement on politics and elections, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility from the Catholic Bishops of the United States,” rejects politics based on “powerful interests, partisan attacks, sound bites and media hype” and [...]
Here’s the rundown for the latest edition of Origins: CNS Documentary Service dated Nov. 22:
Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., outgoing president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, reflects on the leadership and authority of bishops. (Subscribers: Click here)
The situation in Iraq “remains unacceptable and unsustainable” says a statement approved by the U.S. bishops, who [...]
The latest edition of Origins: CNS Documentary Service went to press on time last week, but I forgot to tell readers here what’s in it. Here’s the lineup for the edition dated Nov. 15:
The church’s “new” Code of Canon Law — now almost 25 years old — has proved a positive, flexible tool in dealing [...]
Another edition of Origins CNS Documentary Service is online and in the mail. Here’s what’s in the new edition dated Nov. 8:
The “new evangelization” demands that the church first cover the psychological and sociological distances that separate it from the pluralistic postmodern world to which it is sent. This will undoubtedly bring death to a certain [...]
Another edition of Origins CNS Documentary Service is online and in the mail. Here’s what’s in the new edition dated Nov. 1:
The English-speaking Catholic bishops from Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria call for the opening of “new doors” in dialogue between Catholics and Muslims. “We want to deepen our dialogue so that we can [...]
Another edition of Origins, CNS Documentary Service, for more than 35 years the primary source for church texts, is in the mail and posted online. Here’s what’s in the edition dated Oct. 25:
If Muslims and Christians are not at peace, the world cannot be at peace, an international group of Muslim leaders and scholars say in a [...]
This week’s Origins: CNS Documentary Service returns to texts from the Catholic Theological Society meeting as well as a speech by the pope on European culture and the “crisis of modernity.” The details:
Two experts examine issues behind the sexual abuse crisis in the U.S. church. Mercy Sister Sharon Euart, a canon law consultant, looks at [...]
Interesting stuff in this week’s Origins: CNS Documentary Service:
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor of Westminster, England, takes a wide-ranging look at Muslim-Christian relations in a post-Sept. 11 world. (Subscribers: click here)
Three lay theologians examine the U.S. bishops’ 2005 text on lay ecclesial ministry: H. Richard McCord recalls the text’s development (subscribers: click here); Edward Hahnenberg asks whether [...]
