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A Word from CTU
What is happening to our world? It has been assaulted by the tsunamis that devastated parts of Japan last week and the countries around the Indian Ocean (2004), the tragic Hurricane Katrina (2005), floods in Australia that covered an area the size of France and Germany combined (2011), and the earthquakes that destroyed Northeastern Japan and Christchurch, New Zealand (2011). Many people believe that God is punishing us for our sins. Is this true?
March 24, 2011
Fr. Robin Ryan, CP gave this talk on "Young Adults and the Catholic Church" at the Symposium "Moving Forward in Hope", sponsored by the National Religious Vocation Conference (NRVC) at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, on September 17, 2010. The presentation was also published in origins (November 11, 2010 - Volume 40 - Number 23)
January 27, 2011
At the end of each conference we ask our young adult participants to answer to this question: "Which new questions did the conference raise for you?" Our participants have replied many times that they discovered how positive it was for them to ask the right questions in their discernment process and that being able to express what they needed was a step forward in their journey. We would like to share the wisdom of our participants with our readers and have summarized the "Big Questions" in six categories.
July 30, 2010
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 4: 9-10)
We asked some of our partners and CoC alums what was helpful for them to respond to God’s love and calling in their lives. We’d like to start with four principles that Robin put together for a talk he gave on this year’s Days of Reflection.
July 23, 2009
The German Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner (1904-1984) was known for his rather dense, academic theological writings. But he also authored a number of meditative spiritual writings that are very inspiring and thought-provoking for our life with God.
June 19, 2009
What better place could there be to talk about the gift of inner peace than the beautiful beaches of North Palm Beach, Florida? Invited by the Diocese of Palm Beach, Fr. Robin Ryan was one of the key note speakers at a retreat for diocesan priests.
One of the talks is entitled: “I Leave You Peace, My Peace I Give you”: The Gift of Peace in the Life of a Priest
May 18, 2009
Go Out to All the World is the title of a talk, given by Fr. Robin Ryan on the occasion of the Convocation of Religious in the Diocese of Phoenix on April 24-26, 2009.
April 28, 2009
"The movements and new communities, providential expressions of the new springtime brought forth by the Spirit with the Second Vatican Council, announce the power of God's love which in overcoming divisions and barriers of every kind, renews the face of the earth to build the civilization of love". This is how John Paul II, in the homily of the Mass for Pentecost, Sunday May 31st 2000, blessed the representatives of the more than 50 ecclesial Movements who had gathered in Rome for their first World Congress. Afterwards, on the eve of Pentecost, they participated at a prayer Vigil with the Pope which was attended by at least 280,000 people.
March 26, 2009
This is the final installment of an eight-part series that reflects on fundamental Catholic beliefs as expressed in the Creed. In the seventh part of this series we explored Christian belief in the resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of the body. Here we examine other themes in the Christian vision of final fulfillment.
January 31, 2008
Recently the idea of limbo has been in the news. Various media organizations have reported on a 2007 document issued by a commission of theologians specifically chosen to advise the Vatican on matters of doctrine (the International Theological Commission). For some Catholics, this episode has resulted in a bit of confusion.
January 31, 2008
