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 Pope Benedict XVI prays in the Co-Cathedral of Sansepolcroa, Italy, accompanied by Archbishop Riccardo Fontana of the Diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, during the pope's pastoral visit May 13. (CNS photo/Giampiero Sposito, Reuters) (May 14, 2012)
Papal Address on Contemplating the Cross "The contemplation of the Crucified is the work of the mind, but it is unable to soar the heights without the support, without the force of love" ROME, MAY 14, 2012 (Zenit.org).- During Benedict XVI's one-day apostolic visit Sunday, the La Verna stop was cancelled due to inclement weather. Nonetheless, here is a translation of the address that the Holy Father had prepared for the occasion. Dear brothers and sisters: may the Lord give you peace! To contemplate the Cross of Christ! We have come as pilgrims to the Sasso Spicco of La Verna where "two years before his death" (Celano, Vita Prima, III, 94: FF, 484) St. Francis had the wounds of the glorious passion of Christ impressed upon his body. His journey as a disciple brought him to a union with the Lord so profound that he shared even the outward signs of His supreme act of love on the Cross. ... To continue reading, click HERE. |
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 George Weigel - Biblical illiteracy and Bible Babel May 9, 2012 - One of the disappointments of the post-Vatican II period has been the glacial pace of the growth in Catholic biblical literacy the Council hoped to inspire. Why the slow-down? Several reasons suggest themselves. The hegemony of the historical-critical method of biblical study has taught two generations of Catholics that the Bible is too complicated for ordinary people to understand: so why read what only savants can grasp? Inept preaching, dissecting the biblical text with historical-critical scalpels or reducing Scripture to a psychology manual, has also been a turn-off to Bible-study. Then there is the clunkiness of the New American Bible, the pedestrian translation to which U.S. Catholics are subjected in the liturgy: there is little beauty here, and the beauty of God’s Word ought to be one of its most attractive attributes. But it was not until I read “Our Babel of Bibles” by Baylor University’s David Lyle Jeffrey, published in the March/April 2012 issue of Touchstone, that I began to understand that the proliferation of modern biblical translations and editions is also part of the problem. Not only are there a plethora of different translations from which to choose; as Dr. Jeffrey points out, there are now “niche” Bibles: |
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