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Archbishop Chaput’s public calendar, Jan. 14-20, 2013
Posted on January 14th, 2013Thursday, Jan. 17
8:30 a.m. to 12 noon — Archdiocesan Finance Council,
Archdiocesan Pastoral Center
Saturday, Jan. 19
8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. — Archdiocesan Pastoral Council,
Archdiocesan Pastoral Center
Sunday, Jan. 20
3 p.m. – Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith Prayer Service,
St. Therese of the Child Jesus Church, Philadelphia
6:30 p.m. – Mass,
Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia
Young adults and ‘secrets of the heart’
Posted on January 11th, 2013
In an address to Catholic Campus ministers this week in Florida, Archbishop Charles Chaput described the daunting cultural landscape facing today’s young adults, which makes campus ministers’ task of sharing the faith a complicated one.
Too often the Church has held on to the same institutional patterns of organization, the same methods of preaching and teaching that worked in a religion-friendly past, but can’t and don’t work today. Young people in search of meaning won’t choose Jesus Christ if they constantly encounter a faith life of worn-out structures in various stages of decline.
Emerging adults are the future of Catholic life in flesh and blood, the key to triggering a chain reaction of conversion and new zeal in the Church. All Catholics need to be and make a fire on the earth that consumes human hearts with God’s love.
Archbishop Chaput’s public calendar, Jan. 7-13, 2013
Posted on January 7th, 2013Tuesday, Jan. 8
7 p.m. — Attend Legatus Meeting,
St. Charles Seminary, Wynnewood
Sunday, Jan. 13
6:30 p.m. — Mass,
Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia
Archbishop Chaput sends Christmas card to the faithful
Posted on December 20th, 2012
See Archbishop Charles Chaput’s Christmas greeting to everyone, along with a pledge of his prayers.
English martyrs call to today’s bishops in America: ‘Do not be afraid’
Posted on December 19th, 2012In the coming year, Catholic and other Christian leaders face tough choices concerning the HHS contraceptive mandate. They can refuse to comply and decline to pay the consequent fines, or try to pay them; they can divest themselves of institutions that the regulation will impact; they can seek some unexplored compromise or way of [...]
Archbishop Chaput’s public calendar, Dec. 3, 2012
Posted on December 3rd, 2012Monday, Dec. 3
2 p.m. - Day of Sanctification for Priests
St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Wynnewood
The new communities and the ‘New Evangelization’
Posted on November 30th, 2012
Archbishop Charles Chaput gave a talk Nov. 29 in Lima, Peru on the value and role of new religious movements in the Catholic Church.
“In an age of aggressive individualism and the isolation it breeds,” he says, “the new ecclesial movements offer two absolutely priceless gifts: community and purpose.”
Read the full text of his moving talk.
This Thanksgiving: Rekindling the fire of holiness
Posted on November 21st, 2012
The Church has many good reasons why people should believe in God, believe in Jesus Christ and believe in the beauty and urgency of her own mission. But she has only one irrefutable argument for the truth of what she teaches – the personal example of her saints.
Over this Thanksgiving weekend, or sometime during Advent, I have a homework assignment for you. I want you to rent or buy or borrow a copy of the 1966 film about Sir Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons. I want you to watch it with your family. Here’s why. More was one of the most distinguished scholars of his time, a brilliant lawyer, a gifted diplomat and a skilled political leader. Jonathan Swift, the great Anglo-Irish writer, once described him as the “person of the greatest virtue this kingdom (of England) ever produced.”
Renewing the Church and her mission in a Year of Faith
Posted on November 19th, 2012
Catholic Life Congress, Philadelphia
November 17, 2012
+Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
My comments today will be simple. I want to focus on just three points. The first point is where we are as a Church and as individual Catholics, given the current environment of our country. The second point is what we need to do about it. [...]
Fighting the good fight for religious freedom
Posted on November 16th, 2012Key people in this administration simply do not seem to believe in “religious freedom” in the sense the American Founders originally intended it – in other words, as a distinct human liberty and a priority human right. If we want to lead others to do the right thing; if we want to turn our country away from duplicity and toward real justice; then we need to do it without anger or fear or despair.
In his letters, St. Thomas More writes, “…you must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the wind.” The wind is the business of God. Success is the business of God. Our business is to fight the good fight.
Read more of the comments by Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M.Cap., as he accepted the annual Meese Award Nov. 16 in Washington, D.C., from the Alliance Defending Freedom, which specializes in legal defense of religious liberty.
