Church - 2000

'The Last Supper' by Leonardo Da Vinci. Wikimedia Commons

You Gave Me A Body

ChurchJoseph Ratzinger

The homily delivered on June 24th by the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the ordination of priests and deacons, in the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo in Rome.

Remarks by President George W. Bush at Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony Honoring John Cardinal O'Connor. White House photo by Eric Draper

The Big Apple’s Parish Priest

ChurchPaolo Mastrolilli

The death of the Archbishop of New York, a strong reference point for American Catholics. His Irish origin and his profound knowledge of the American environment.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith. Wikimedia Commons

In Praise of Reason

ChurchPatrick Bahners and Christian Geyer

Excerpts from an interview of the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by the German magazine Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on March 8, 2000.

Christopher Vath

The Birth of a Music

ChurchMaurizio Maniscalco

The New York community and music. A choir, a CD, and a school. Communicating a greater meaning with notes of music.

Fu Jen University in Taipei, Taiwan. Wikimedia Commons

From the Land to Taiwan

ChurchAndrea and Cecilia Baldelli, Valentina Zampetti

The Rimini Meeting's exhibition on Christianity's beginnings arrives in the Far East. The impressions of some university. Their amazed discovery of a new world.

Martin Luther. Wikimedia Commons

A Milestone

ChurchLaura Cioni

The Joint Declaration Catholics-Lutherans on the Doctrine of Justification by Faith, which was at the root of the Protestant Reformation against the Church of Rome. After 500 years of division, a truly ecumenical gesture.