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Pope Clarified Priorities, Says Expert

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Encouraged Prelates to Proclaim Christ
Benedict XVI told Latin American bishops that their priority is proclaiming Christ, says the director of a think tank that focuses on the Church’s social doctrine.
Stefano Fontana, director of the International Observatory Cardinal Van Thuân for the Social Doctrine of the Church, spoke with ZENIT about the Pope’s address at the […]

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Archbishop Named for Ottawa

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Benedict XVI named Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Halifax to lead the Archdiocese of Ottawa. He succeeds Archbishop Marcel Gervais, 75.
The Vatican press office also reported today that the Holy Father appointed Archbishop Gervais as apostolic administrator of Ottawa until his successor takes possession of the episcopal see.
Terrence Prendergast was born in Montreal in 1944. He […]

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Italy’s Family Day Gathers 1.5 Million

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Attendance Surpasses Expectations
Yesterday more than 1 million pro-family supporters gathered in the piazza of St. John Lateran in Rome to support marriage based on the relationship of a man and a woman.
The event marked the first Family Day in Italy, convoked by 450 family and Christian associations as part of a campaign to defend heterosexual […]

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1,000 U.S. Rabbis Hail Pro-Family Events

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More than 1,000 U.S. rabbis are joining in solidarity with pro-family gatherings this weekend in Rome and Warsaw.
Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman of the Rabbinical Alliance of America and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, representing some 1,000 rabbis, sent a statement of support Friday to organizers of a rally against […]

May

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Pope’s Address at Rosary Meeting

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“Remain in the School of Mary”
Here is a Vatican translation of the address Benedict XVI gave Saturday evening at the Shrine of Our Lady of Conceição Aparecida, after praying the rosary with priests, religious, seminarians and deacons of Brazil and the delegates of the 5th General Conference of the Episcopate of Latin America and the […]

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Benedicat XVI Concludes His Apostolic Trip to Brazil

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(VIS) - Shortly before 8 p.m. yesterday (1 a.m. this morning in Rome), Benedict XVI arrived at the international airport of Sao Paulo / Guarulhos where he was greeted by Jose Alencar Gomes da Silva, vice-president of the Federal Republic of Brazil, Archbishop Odilo Pedro Scherer of Sao Paulo, Bishop Luiz Gonzaga Bergonzini of Guarulhos, […]

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The Carthusian Schema

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Some have asked how do you read the Liturgy of The Hours (LOH)? What do the Carthusians use? Though this will not be a lesson on reading the LOH, it will cover a couple points. In what some call an “Office of 12 Lessons,” they have six psalms in the “First Nocturn” followed by four lessons, six […]

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The Hermit Priest

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By night and day keeping the solitary vigil of prayer.
Alone dwelling in the silence of a God closer to us than we are to ourselves.
In a world changing so fast clinging to the Holy Cross.
However many times the world revolves a cross always remaining the same.
Growing with Jesus into the mystery of God.
Graces feely given […]

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Théodore Dubois

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Théodore Dubois (1837 - 1924) was an important organist, composer and teacher of music on the Paris music scene during the late 1800’s. In 1861 he was awarded the prestigious Prix de Rome for composition. He studied at Reims and the Paris Conservatory where he later was the director from 1896 - 1905.
The composer of […]

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Saint of the Day - Saint Matthias

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St. Matthias was one of Our Lord’s seventy-two disciples. He had been a follower of Jesus during his public life. St. Peter asked the 120 people gathered in prayer to choose an apostle to replace Judas. This was very important because that man would be a bishop, as the other apostles were. He said it […]