Pilgrimage to Poland

October 12th, 2018 by Vox Cervi 1

Students from the ITI enjoyed a fruitful pilgrimage to Poland from October 5th through the 7th. Carefully organized by Fr. Juraj Terek and Piotr Drag (founding member of the ITI), the trip started with attending a conference co-sponsored by the conference of Polish bishops about European integration. The conference allowed students to grapple with current issues facing Europe in a professional setting. The ITI was well represented when students sought to clarify the discussion by …Read More

Summer Highlights

September 7th, 2018 by Vox Cervi 1

Leave it to ITI students to make the most of their summer break. The following is a roundup of some of the global adventures of returning students, which includes volunteering, teaching, and attending summer schools. Elizabeth Ielmini What I did: I taught English at the English Summer School (ESS) in Ukraine for the Ukrainian Catholic University. ESS is a summer camp held each year outside of Lviv for students attending the Ukrainian Catholic University. My …Read More

Schönborn: VfGH-Entscheidung zur Ehe verneint Wirklichkeit

December 18th, 2017 by Vox Cervi 1

5 Dezember 2017 Vorsitzender der Österreichischen Bischofskonferenz kritisiert Entscheidung des Verfassungsgerichtshofs, wonach Ehe künftig auch für gleichgeschlechtliche Paare möglich sein soll Wien (kath.net/KAP) Mit deutlicher Kritik hat Kardinal Christoph Schönborn auf die Entscheidung des Verfassungsgerichtshofs (VfGH) zur Ehe reagiert: “Es ist beunruhigend, dass sogar die Verfassungsrichter den Blick verloren haben für die besondere Natur der Ehe als Verbindung von Mann und Frau. Sie ist wie keine andere Beziehung geeignet, Kinder hervorzubringen, zu hüten und aufzuziehen …Read More

Truth Should Speak To Power

November 2nd, 2017 by Vox Cervi 1

Abortion is the gravest evil of our time and we all have a duty to be informed and be active in combating this great slaughter, be it through incessant prayer or through pro-life work, we can all make a difference. Two articles (also to be viewed as videos) by the Catholic British parliamentarian Lord David Alton and by Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King, commemorate the sad anniversary of 50 years of …Read More

This is a prayer John Paul II prayed every day – it became a habit when he was 11 years old

October 25th, 2017 by Vox Cervi 1

VENI, Creator Spiritus, mentes tuorum visita, imple superna gratia quae tu creasti pectora. COME, Holy Spirit, Creator blest, and in our souls take up Thy rest; come with Thy grace and heavenly aid to fill the hearts which Thou hast made. Qui diceris Paraclitus, altissimi donum Dei, fons vivus, ignis, caritas, et spiritalis unctio. O comforter, to Thee we cry, O heavenly gift of God Most High, O fount of life and fire of love, …Read More

Suffering for her Faith: Asia Bibi has spent more than 3,000 days in prison for blasphemy

September 25th, 2017 by Vox Cervi 1

Condemned to death in 2009 for insulting Islam, the Pakistani Catholic is still awaiting her final verdict. On June 14, 2009, Asia Bibi was thrown into jail. A year later she was sentenced to death for blasphemy, and since 2013, after two transfers, she has been languishing in one of the three windowless cells on death row in the southern province of Multan in the Punjab Penitentiary. A year after the Supreme Court of Pakistan postponed her …Read More

The Church doesn’t need our opinion, she needs our holiness

February 14th, 2017 by Vox Cervi 1

It is doubtful that the Holy Spirit needs the voice of every Catholic with a blog and a Twitter account to set things straight. A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,  but only in expressing his opinion. —Proverbs 18:2 We live in a world full of opinions. And the internet has amplified the number of opinions we hear each day. People who used to grouse about life to their best friend or next-door neighbors now have …Read More

The Most Important Person on Earth

December 22nd, 2016 by Vox Cervi 1

The Most Important Person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral—a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby’s body…The angels have not been blessed with such a grace. They cannot share in God’s creative miracle to bring new saints to Heaven. Only a human mother can. Mothers are closer to …Read More

Every life is worth living – A challenging and inspiring story

May 4th, 2016 by Vox Cervi 1

Saying Yes To Sara – a testimony by Catherine MacMillan I found out I was pregnant in the summer of 2009 when I was 18 years old. I had recently returned from a gap year in Africa and had a place at Glasgow University to study music. The course was due to start that September. Of course I did not feel ready to be a mother: I felt I was too young, I worried that I …Read More

Man and Woman in Marriage: Foundations of Society

January 19th, 2016 by Vox Cervi 1

There is nothing that can replace the bond of marriage between a man and a woman. In every faith and culture of the world, the complementarity of the two sexes united in a relationship of fidelity and fruitfulness (whether physical or spiritual) is the foundational building stone of society. The West, with its materialistic and relativistic approach to human life is the first culture in the history of mankind that deliberately and aggressively tries to …Read More