Br. Charles Marie Rooney, O.P., on St. John Paul II's Call to Open Wide the Doors for Christ

"Forty years ago today, a clarion call rang from the celebrant's chair in Saint Peter's Square: 'Do not be afraid. Open, I say open wide the doors for Christ!' With those resounding words - so familiar now to myriad Catholics across the globe - Pope Saint John Paul II initiated a pontificate that for nearly 27 years would penetrate to the depths of the human heart and call all mankind to the greatness that is rightly his. For at the core of Saint John Paul's very being, forged by a lifetime of grave suffering, was a profound reverence for the cosmic drama of the human condition and an unyielding confidence in Jesus Christ, who alone knows what is in man (cf. Jn 2:25)."

In a recent commentary, Brother Charles Marie Rooney, O.P., reflected on this call of Pope John Paul II.

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Dominicana: Open Wide Those Doors (22 OCT 18)