Marriage and family in Ecumenical Councils - There's nothing the Dean
of of Church History at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Jesuit Norman Tanner,
doesn't know about Ecumenical Councils . The title of his most recent book, with its
bright red dust jacket featuring St Peter's Basilica , to be published on April 21
is a give away in this respect : it's "New Short History of the Catholic Church".That's
why when the Faculty of Canon Law at this University, this year's hosts of the
2011 'Dies Academicus' or Academic Day , decided to focus on the theme of marriage
and family, Professor Tanner was asked to speak on this issue linking it to the
Ecumenical Councils of the Church . The Prayer Life of John Paul II -
Benedict XVI is about to begin his annual spiritual exercises which have as focus
this year : "The Light of Christ at the heart of the Church - John Paul II and the
theology of saints ". We pick up on this theme and bring you a feature focusing
on the prayer life of this Polish Pontiff as witnessed by one of his closest advisors
... Ad recessum ire - Spiritual exercises in the Vatican began in 1929,
the year of the Lateran Pacts. Our popular 'Latin Lover' , Carmelite Father Reginald
Foster speaks to us about the Latin of the Apostolic Constitution: 'Summorum
Pontificum' in which Saint Ignatius was proclaimed Patron of Spiritual Exercises.
Father Foster claims his students would go crazy over the beginning of a document
like this ...