Pope Benedict XVI in America

from Traces #5, 5/1/08

The Pope Showed America the Face of Christ

The heart and the person. Legality and justice. Religious freedom and the role of the Church. On the Pontiff’s return from the United States, we asked Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Holy See’s “Foreign Minister,” to provide an assessment of the visit. He accepted, explaining why the Successor of Peter “embodies the message that he brings: Christ is our hope”

edited by Davide Perillo

An Extraordinary Lesson of Method

From the bishops in search of answers about evangelization to the more skeptical and distant non-Catholics, everyone was surprised by a fact: a human encounter

by Lorenzo Albacete

A Choir of Friends Singing for the Pope

On April 19th the CL Choir was invited to perform for the Pope during the Youth Rally at St. Joseph’s Seminary Yonkers, New York

by Santiago Ramos

Speech to the UN

Human rights, “the fruit of unchanging justice”

In his address to the UN, the Pope returned to an issue which is widely discussed. And he went to the heart of it, continuing the journey begun at Regensburg

by Stefano Alberto

In Service of the Truth, the Pope Educates the Heart of Man

The University of Notre Dame Law Professor (and President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights) gets to the root of the Pontiff’s UN speech

edited by Santiago Ramos

By visiting the United Nations, the Holy Father continued a tradition that was started by Pope Paul VI in 1965, and succeeded by Pope John Paul II in 1979 and 1995. Pope Benedict’s message was both traditional and novel in content. Paolo Carozza, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, and recently appointed President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, helps us to parse the different ideas in the Pope’s speech.

The Holy Father Speaks at the United Nations

There Are No Human Rights Without Christ
When Pope Benedict XVI addressed the United Nations General Assembly on April 18th, he was continuing a tradition that began in 1965. Mario Ramos-Reyes, Professor of Philosophy at Kansas City Community College, writes about Pope Benedict’s contribution to this tradition

by Mario Ramos-Reyes, PhD