by SrDeniseSickinger | May 14, 2021 | Evangelization, Justice, Pope Paul VI
The new working class and the Pope’s duty to be an “advocate of the poor” Fifty years ago, ‘Octogesima adveniens’ was published. In it, Pope Paul VI spoke about the exodus toward the large urban centers, about the dignity of women and the pluralism of political options. He criticized Marxist and liberal ideologies and defended the “duty-right” of the Church to express itself regarding social issues. By Andrea Tornielli Octogesima adveniens contains prophetic words regarding those people whom the author’s successor, Pope Francis, today calls “the discarded”. It is a realistic analysis regarding the major imbalances and the consequences of the exodus toward the large urban centers. It criticizes Marxist ideology and its atheistic materialism, but also takes to task that liberal ideology that would prevail less than twenty years later, thus definitively opening the way toward turbo-capitalism. The year 1971 was running its course when on 14 May, Pope Paul VI recalled the eightieth anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum with an apostolic letter addressed to Cardinal Maurice Roy, the Archbishop of Quebec and President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. The papal document — which covers poverty, development and political obligations — should be read through the...
by SrDeniseSickinger | May 29, 2020 | Pope Paul VI
Hoy celebramos a San Pablo VI, el Papa que defendió la vida y la familia con su encíclica Humanae Vitae y que llevó a término el Concilio Vaticano II. Source: Hoy celebramos a San Pablo VI, el Papa santo que defendió la vida y la...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Aug 6, 2019 | Pope Paul VI
Un día como hoy, el 6 de agosto de 1964, el Papa Pablo VI publicó la primera encíclica de su pontificado: Eclesiam suam, sobre el “mandato” de la Iglesia en el mundo contemporáneo. Source: Un día como hoy el Papa Pablo VI publicó su primera encíclica: Eclesiam...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Feb 7, 2019 | Pope Paul VI
La Iglesia Católica celebrará la memoria del Papa San Pablo VI el 29 de mayo en el Calendario General Romano, según ha establecido el Papa Francisco mediante un Decreto de la Congregación del Culto Divino y de la Disciplina de los Sacramentos datado el 25 de enero de 2019 y difundido este miércoles 6 de febrero. Source: La Iglesia anuncia la fecha de la fiesta de San Pablo...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Oct 21, 2018 | Pope John Paul II, Pope Paul VI
A Igreja está celebrando, neste 22 de outubro de 2018, o 40º aniversário do solene início do pontificado de São João Paulo II. Ele tinha sido eleito quase uma semana antes, em 16 de outubro, e, par… Source: Os 40 anos da eleição de São João Paulo II: 1978, o “Ano dos 3...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Oct 14, 2018 | Pope Paul VI
En septembre 1965, le magazine américain Time consacrait sa couverture à Paul VI, le « révolutionnaire réticent « (Reluctant Revolutionnary). « À la différence de L… Source: Paul VI, un témoin crédible de l’Évangile dans son...
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