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On Wars Thought Holy

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Interview With Marco Meschini 
There is little similarity between the extremist concept of jihad as a holy war and the Christian Crusades, says a historian of the Middle Ages.
Marco Meschini, a professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, explains in his new book “Il Jihad e La Crociata” (The Jihad and the […]

Jun

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Melkite Leader Invites Neocatechumenal Way

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Proposes Establishment of a Branch in Galilee
The leader of the Melkite Greek Catholics of Galilee has proposed the establishment of a new “branch” of the Neocatechumenal Way to work specifically in the Eastern-rite Church.
In a recent letter sent to Father Rino Rossi, director of Domus Galilaeae — a project of the Neocatechumenal Way — Archbishop […]

Jun

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Pontifical Acts

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The Holy Father:
 - Appointed Fr. Luciano Capelli S.D.B., director of the Don Bosco Technical
School of Honiara, as bishop of Gizo (area 11,700, population 101,000,
Catholics 10,673, priests 6, religious 23), Solomon Islands. The
bishop-elect was born in Cologna di Tirano, Italy in 1947 and ordained a
priest in 1975. He succeeds Bernard Cyril O’Grady O.P., whose resignation
from the […]

Jun

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Corpus Christi

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Thursday of this week is the Feast of Corpus Christi. Saint Thomas Aquinas in the hymn Adoro Te Devote admirably explains the mystery of the Eucharistic Presence of Jesus Christ, the center of Christian life. This presence of Our Lord is imperceptible to the senses and can only be perceived by faith rooted in the authority […]

Jun

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Adoro Te Devote (Hidden God)

June 5, 2007 | 1 Comment

One of the five beautiful hymns St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) composed in honor of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament at Pope Urban IV’s (1261-1264) request when the Pope first established the Feast of Corpus Christi in 1264. The hymn is found in the Roman Missal as a prayer of thanksgiving after Mass. A partial indulgence […]

Jun

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Saint Boniface — Saint of the Day

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This great apostle of Germany was born in Wessex, England, between the years 672 and 680. When he was small, some missionaries stayed a while at his home. They told the boy all about their work. They were so happy and excited about bringing the Good News to people. Boniface decided in his heart that […]

Jun

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Good versus Best

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“Life’s most painful choices are not always between good and evil. If that were so there would be a lot fewer quitters. No, the most painful choices are often between the good and the best. In other words, the things that tempt us to abandon our goal are not always bad. More often than not […]