Author Archive for Michael J. Miller

Michael J. Miller is a free-lance translator, editor and writer for the Catholic press. He translated two books by Joseph Ratzinger, Church, Ecumenism & Politics: New Endeavors in Ecclesiology (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2008) and Europe Today and Tomorrow (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2008).

YOUCAT Repackages the <em>Catechism</em> for World Youth Day 2011
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YOUCAT Repackages the Catechism for World Youth Day 2011

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American Catholics of a certain age can remember The Baltimore Catechism, a concise, systematic presentation of the faith in questions and answers, which was published in carefully graded editions for parochial schoolchildren.  In the postconciliar years, when “experiential” methods of religious education were in vogue, textbooks came to resemble magazines with more color photography than […]

Finding a Lampstand: A Review of Archbp. Chaput’s <em>Render Unto Caesar</em>
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Finding a Lampstand: A Review of Archbp. Chaput’s Render Unto Caesar

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Cardinal Justin Rigali announced at a news conference this morning [July 19, 2011,] that Pope Benedict XVI has named Archbishop Charles J. Chaput O.F.M. Cap. as the 13th Bishop and 9th Archbishop of Philadelphia. Archbishop Chaput [currently of the Archdiocese of Denver] will be Installed on Thursday, September 8, 2011, the feast of the birth […]

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Bl. Peter To Rot – Defender of Matrimony

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One of the patron saints of World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney, Australia, was Blessed Peter To Rot, a native son of Papua New Guinea.  A second-generation Catholic during the evangelization of his Southern Pacific island in the early twentieth century, he was an exemplary husband, father and catechist.  In 1945 he suffered martyrdom at […]

Swiss Cardinal at the Helm of Catholic Ecumenism
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Swiss Cardinal at the Helm of Catholic Ecumenism

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Looking ahead to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD) started a Luther Garden in Wittenberg and invited each of the Lutheran Churches worldwide and also their ecumenical dialogue partners to plant a tree “as a sign of reconciliation and mutual understanding”.  In one of his […]

Exploitation: Legal Protections for Human Embryos Eroding in France
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Exploitation: Legal Protections for Human Embryos Eroding in France

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The cold weather in recent months seems to have brought a flurry of news stories about embryos.  In October the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the inventor of in vitro fertilization.  In November the journal Human Reproduction published a study in which researchers at the University of Barcelona implanted silicon […]

Three Years after <em>Summorum Pontificum</em>
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Three Years after Summorum Pontificum

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In his letter accompanying the 2007 Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI invited the bishops to report in three years on their experiences in implementing the new liturgical legislation, which is designed to make Mass celebrated according to the 1962 Missal more widely available.   Last fall the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei began to review […]