CATHOLIC PEACEMAKING, 1991–2005: THE LEGACY OF POPE JOHN PAUL II

Papal Responses to the Holocaust: Contrast between Pope Pius XII and Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul Ii Lecture Series in Bioethics the Biological Revolution and the Myth of Prometheus

Next to the scientific revolution itself, the biological revolution is the greatest of all the purely human revolutions thus far. I say "purely human revolutions" because the greatest of all revolutions was that affected by Christianity. But since the latter consisted of Christ entering human history, it was revolution by Divine intervention and therefore belongs in a class by itself. I shall, ...

Lessons from Pope John Paul II: 'theology of the body' underpins health care.

In recognition of the fifteenth anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s encyclical

In recognition of the fifteenth anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Veritatis splendor, this issue of the Josephinum Journal of Theology opens with five essays touching upon the theme of moral action, which was perhaps the central concern of the encyclical. In particular, Veritatis splendor responded to a post conciliar situation in which traditional moral doctrines, such as the teach...

The Adventure of Phenomenology with John Paul II

To speak this evening on the phenomenology of John Paul II – this is my appointed task, graciously assigned to me by Sister Judith Kathryn when she established this Edith Stein lecture series. While I am grateful for the invitation to lecture at Immaculata University, we have a slight problem! I am a theologian, not a philosopher, and the late pope himself once wrote, “A Christian thinker, and ...