Pope Paul III

Euthanasia is the triumph of selfishness.- Pope Francis. The scientific definition of the procedure is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. The topic of euthanasia is controversial and is often a point of argument, sometimes dividing religious beliefs. The Catholic Church often is part of the argument as the followers are admit on the opinion of God, that of which being against the matter. This opinion has evolved…

great help to him in the apostolates of Opus dei. As soon as the end of the world war was in sight he began to prepare apostolic work in other countries and in 1946 he moved to rome in order to obtain papal recognition for opus dei. On february 24 1947 pope pius XII granted Opus Dei the decree of praise. The headquarters of opus dei was fixed in rome to emphasize their aspirations. On june 26th 1975 Blessed Josemaria died of cardiac arrest before a picture of our…

a. Does What You Wear Say Anything About You as a Person? By Michael Gonchar, our personality shows from our clothes. Having Soccer jerseys, nose rings, flannel shirts, head scarves, tattoos and high-top sneakers can tell who you are. Beijing. In China people are sporting plastic decorations on their heads in the shape of vegetables, fruit and flowers. The green beans plastic put to the hair is a way to against the gray, stressed environment of the city. This expand the world, people doing…

Isabelle Anne Romero, of Filipino decent, standing 5’3 inches was born October 10th, 2001, in Fresno California. Isabelle lives with both her parents and her younger sister Natalie most of the year. However half of the year her grandparents who are from the Philippines come and stay with her family. When they are in town it’s an absolute treat to everyone because of the homemade egg rolls that they generously share with the entire community. Isabelle playing both comp and varsity volleyball,…

everything, that’s how the light gets in,” Peter McLaren engaged in an historical debate of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’ legacy after his death and established a parallel between Chavez’ death and the election of Pope Francis. The author expressed that the election of the new pope, who is a Jesuit, could cause a potential revolution in the Catholic Church much like Chavez caused in the political arena. Peter McLaren is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and works in…

When Pope Francis decided to canonize the Franciscan friar named Junipero Serra in September on the pope’s first to the United States, he knew that there would be controversy surrounding his decision. Father Serra was a friar who helped the Spanish mission in California settle and helped to convert the native population to Catholicism. However, the controversy comes from the way in which the friars and the missions went about converting the natives and the way in which they treated them is…

“Whenever our interior life becomes caught up its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor. God’s voice is no longer heard, the quiet joy of his love is no longer felt, and the desire to do good fades”. –Pope Francis, Evangelli Gaudium Part A: 9 Principles of Catholic Social Thought (CST): Dignity of the Human Person: In society, every human being is created with love within the eyes of God in which our ethnicity, gender, religion and physical…

August 15, 1917 , Blessed Oscar Romero was born. When he was just fourteen years old he knew he wanted to be a priest, so he started to study. Unfortunately, Oscar had to drop out to make money for his sick mother. Seven years later, during World War II he traveled to rome to study. Just when Oscar was thirty years old he became an ordained priest, and decided to travel back to his hometown, San Salvador. After twenty- eight years of hard work as a priest he became a bishop. In 1977 he was made…

The Catholic community in Vietnam is a part of the Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and the Roman Curia. Vietnam is a country with the proportion of Catholics ranked fifth in Asia. The Catholicism has been spread into Vietnam since the sixteenth century preaching from European missionaries. In the first half of the twentieth century…

Fasting is a Christian discipline for one who wants “to let go of an appetite in order to seek God on matters of deep concern for others, myself and the world” It is a discipline that is to be done for God and seen only by God. At the commencement of Bible College I understood fasting to be a practice that people in the church did in order to get God to hear their prayers and move on their behalf and answer the prayers that they had placed before Him during the time of fasting. It was…