Tag Archives: John Paul II

Book Review: The Curé d’Ars by Françoise Trochu (With Extracts from the Book)

The relics of the Saint in the Basilica in Ars. Photo courtesy of Laifen. O St John-Marie-Baptiste Vianney! Who, what were you?! If I think back to my New Age days, I can still imagine answering such a question with words like: “Vast, cosmic, superhuman …” For words like “holy” or “saint” were not very [...]

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DVD Review: Witness to Hope

This is a powerful, effective, moving telling of the life of Ven. John Paul II with documentary footage and recollections by those who knew him. And based as it is on the comprehensive biography by George Weigel, it also comes with Weigel’s exhaustively thorough examination of Ven. John Paul II’s colossal effect on the twentieth [...]

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The Death Cult Progeny of the Enlightenment III

At the end of preceding segment, I turned to the subject of hope. For I share a world with many who are losing hope as to the sustainability of our present civilisation. And as I have written earlier in this little series, I myself have little hope in the prospects of creating an ultimately sustainable [...]

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Book Review: The Splendor of Faith by Avery Cardinal Dulles

This book can begin to render visible the enormous scope of the Mission of John Paul. But only begin …

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