Pope Benedict and the Sexual Abuse Crisis
As head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and as pope, there is no escaping the fact that Pope Benedict has played an historically pivotal and personal role in the Vatican's response to the sexual abuse crisis. To that end, Pope Benedict XVI and the Sexual Abuse Crisis is a groundbreaking, critically objective review of the Pope's real response to victims, abusers, bishops, media, and the millions of Catholics worldwide who continue to be justifiably horrified by the scandal. Filtering out the motivation and misunderstandings of the Pope's critics, Greg Erlandson and Matthew Bunson's first and foremost objective was dedication to the exposure of the truth - no matter how difficult to face - and let the Pope's record speak for itself.
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Marriage
Is marriage the foundation of family life? Many people today would say, ???No!??? Others would say, ???Yes!???, but they would define ???family??? and ???marriage??? in ways at odds with how the words have been used almost throughout human history. In this revised and expanded edition of Marriage: The Rock on Which the Family is Built , internationally-renowned theologian William E. May makes the case for marriage's foundational role for family, with marriage defined as the union of one man and one woman. Drawing on Pope John Paul II's ???theology of the body???, he explains the person-affirming, love-enabling, life-giving, and sanctifying nature of marriage. He shows how marriage is necessarily a complementary union of man and woman and how this rules out the idea of ???same-sex??? marriage. ''May argues, drawing on Popes Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, that marriage fully respects the equal dignity of husband and wife as persons, while recognizing their unique, exclusive, enduring, complementary contributions to their union. Likewise, he shows how marriage honors the truth that each new human life brought about by sexual union is a person equal in dignity to his mother and father. What's more, both reason and revelation are used to show that only the family, founded on marriage as an enduring, mutually-exclusive union of one man and one woman, provides the proper context for begetting and raising children. ''Reproductive technologies are also critically examined and the author argues that human beings ought to be begotten in an act of spousal love, not made through in vitro fertilization. Furthermore, the role of the family as the ???domestic church???, a community of holiness, is explored. This expanded edition includes new chapters: ???*Man and Woman He Created Them': Pope John Paul II's Catechesis on Human Sexuality??? and ???Pope Benedict XVI and Marriage,??? the latter summarizing Benedict's thought on marriage, particularly as found in his first encyclical Deus Caritas Est . Also included is Pope John Paul II's ???Letter to Families???.' ' William E. May is Emeritus Michael J. McGivney Professor of Moral Theology at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C., and Senior Fellow, Culture of Life Foundation. The author of numerous works in moral theology and ethics, he has served on the Vatican's International Theological Commission and was also a consultor to its Congregation for the Clergy.
Gold Filled Pope Benedict XVI Pendant w/ Chain
Gold filled Pope Benedict XVI pendant, comes on a gold-filled lite curb chain. The pendant measures 3/4 x 1/2" and comes gift boxed.
The Fathers Volume II
Let us now devote our attention to the Apostolic Fathers; that is, to the first and second generations in the Church subsequent to the Apostles. And thus, we can see where the Church's journey begins in history." -- Pope Benedict XVI The Fathers of the Church exhorted believers in the face of persecution while fighting heresies and misunderstandings. They were theologians and philosophers, orators and pastors, leaders and problem solvers, martyrs and heroes. In Volume II of this popular series of papal talks on the Fathers of the Church, Pope Benedict focuses on St. Leo the Great through St. Bernard. He carefully explains their rich history and the vital role each one played not only in preserving the Church at the time, but also in anchoring the Church of today as well as the future.
