I do not wish to pronounce myself on Medjugorje from the point of view of a judgment of the Church. But I can only notice one thing, again and again: It is obviously an intensive missionary station of

lead to communion. From a moral point of view, conversion (which calls for a personal change) was replaced by revolution (change of structure). From a philosophical point of view, as a reaction against [...] destroyed by the Communists, but whose memory has remained rooted in the hearts of the people to the point that as soon as it was possible again, the faithful started going to those empty places where only

visit of a constant stream of pilgrims. During the Second World War, this affluence increased to the point that the image of Mary of Copper Street is now the most venerated Marian image in all Germany. __

it was the century of still another Jesuit, St Robert Bellarmin, whose "Controversies" refuted point by point the arguments of the Reform. This was the time of St Francis of Sales, the author of "Introduction

protestant missionaries, King Kamehameha III expelled the Catholics from the Islands. The turning point came on July 10, 1839 when the French frigate Artemise came into Honolulu Harbor and issued a manifesto [...] let their lives be swept into despair. Founded in 1990 by Rev. Thierry de Roucy, "Heart's Home" (Points Coeur) is an international non-profit Catholic organization. In the footsteps of Saint Damien, volunteers

Protestants and Muslims. [1] Moreover, the Virgin Mary is believed to have appeared in Ghana at a certain point in the past. It is said that the seer could smell the perfume of a flower, oftentimes a rose, before

(Espaly) was made in 1910, and its basilica, in 1918. Le Puy en Velay is one of the principal departure points for the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (Saint James' Way). It is know as an important place

all the Buddhist and Shintoist pilgrims who ascend the sacred mountain and sometimes affectionately point to the Blessed Virgin as a model of virtue... Tsuwano Catholic Church (near Hiroshima): Shrine of

anticlerical sentiment. Bloy suffered actual persecution that led him to the brink of poverty to the point that he acquired the nickname “the ungrateful beggar.” A militant journalist, Leon Bloy continued

n to the collective tenets of faith, their definition does not clearly emerge from the doctrinal point of view. This calls for a deeper understanding of Mary’s place in the Redemption from new Trinitarian [...] Trinitarian, Church and human perspectives. The comments in the “Osservatore Romano” make the point that these headings “fall a long way short of fundamental theological unanimity which, as far as doctrinal matters [...] not in respect of the subject matter itself, but in respect of the contents of the doctrine, thus pointing the direction in which dogma should be developed. [1] The ordinary Magisterium of the Pope and bishops