Vatican Radio Pope Francis on Wednesday evening addressed participants attending a meeting celebrating the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which was sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization. I offer a warm greeting to all of you and I thank Archbishop Fisichella for his kind words of introduction.

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The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Apostolic Constitution Fidei Depositum, by which Saint John Paul II, thirty years after the opening of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, promulgated the Catechism of the Catholic Church, offers a significant opportunity for taking stock of the progress made in the meantime. It was the desire and will of Saint John XXIII to call the Council, not primarily to condemn error, but so that the Church could have an opportunity at last to present the beauty of her faith in Jesus Christ in language attuned to the times.

This is a grace granted to the People of God, but it is also a task and a mission for which we are responsible, that of proclaiming to our contemporaries in a new and fuller way the perennial Good News. The Catechism is thus an important instrument.

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It presents the faithful with the perennial teaching of the Church so that they can grow in their understanding of the faith. But it especially seeks to draw our contemporaries — with their new and varied problems — to the Church, as she seeks to present the faith as the meaningful answer to human existence at this moment of history. Just before his passion and death, Jesus speaks to the Father of his obedience in having brought to fulfilment the mission entrusted to him.

His words, a kind of hymn to love, also contain the request that the disciples be gathered and preserved in unity cf. To know God, as we are well aware, is not in the first place an abstract exercise of human reason, but an irrepressible desire present in the heart of every person.


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This knowledge comes from love, for we have encountered the Son of God on our journey cf. Those who love long to know better the beloved, and therein to discover the hidden richness that appears each day as something completely new.

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For this reason, our Catechism unfolds in the light of love, as an experience of knowledge, trust, and abandonment to the mystery. In explaining its structure, the Catechism of the Catholic Church borrows a phrase from the Roman Catechism and proposes it as the key to its reading and application: Along these same lines, I would like now to bring up a subject that ought to find in the Catechism of the Catholic Church a more adequate and coherent treatment in the light of these expressed aims.

I am speaking of the death penalty. It must be clearly stated that the death penalty is an inhumane measure that, regardless of how it is carried out, abases human dignity. It is per se contrary to the Gospel, because it entails the willful suppression of a human life that never ceases to be sacred in the eyes of its Creator and of which — ultimately — only God is the true judge and guarantor.

No one ought to be deprived not only of life, but also of the chance for a moral and existential redemption that in turn can benefit the community. If we examine the moment of the narrator cleaning her Abuelita through her hands and what they do, we get so much: And the hands are key.


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    6. How do hands feature in novels from outside of the Victorian period? Hand studies in Victorian literature has only been a popular topic of inquiry for the last decade, if even. I enjoyed it immensely, and it gave me lots of food for though!

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    Thank you so much, Dr. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. I did want to make a few comments on topics outside of the imagery of hands in this piece.

    I feel as though there is something going on with the moths and moment in the tub and how they might refer to transformation. The tub as a cocoon. I like that this story uses moths instead of butterflies.

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    I wonder how, if it were butterflies, it might change the symbolism? There are other body parts that play a significant role in this story. I was disappointed about how little critical discourse was available on this text. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email required Address never made public.