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Metropolitan Archbishops Who Will Receive the Pallium

June 26, 2007 | 1 Comment

The pallium, worn by the Pope and archbishops, symbolizes the lost sheep that is found again, carried on the shoulders of the Good Shepherd, and the Lamb crucified for the salvation of humanity. It also symbolizes, in part, the Pope’s concession of authority and communion to heads of major local Churches.
Given below is a list […]

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Experts Emphasize Family’s Role in Europe

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Call for Putting the Person at Center Stage
The human person must be at the center of politics, culture and all aspects of life, says the Vatican secretary of state.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said this during the 7th Congress of Gniezno in western Poland, held June 15-17 and dedicated to the theme “Man: The Way for Europe.”
“European […]

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Prelate Decries India’s Abortions of Females

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Availing of modern medicine to determine the sex of babies and abort females is a crime against humanity, says the president of India’s episcopal conference.
Archbishop Oswald Gracias of Bombay spoke with Aid to the Church in Need about the widespread practice of aborting female babies in India, explaining that in that poverty torn country, parents […]

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Holy See Denounces Use of Cluster Bombs

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Holy See is appealing to the international community to adopt measures that will put an end to the bloodshed caused by cluster bombs.
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See’s permanent observer to the U.N. offices in Geneva, made that appeal during a June 19 speech at the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
The conference considered ways to […]

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Living for God Alone

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

To live for God alone is to wake each morning in His presence.
It is to except the beginning of each day as a tremendous gift.
A day when we receive God through the different things that will come our way.
Each communicating something of God in each person and each thing.
It is to breath in the fresh […]

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Apostleship of the Sea: Solidarity and Hope

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

(VIS) - “In Solidarity with the People of the Sea as Witnesses of Hope, through Proclamation of the Word, Liturgy and Diakonia,” is the theme of the 22nd World Congress of the Apostleship of the Sea, which is being held in Gdynia, Poland from June 24 to 29 under the patronage of the Pontifical Council […]

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Motu Proprio Concerning Election of the Supreme Pontiff

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Made public today was a “Motu Proprio,” written in Latin, with which the Holy Father Benedict XVI restores the traditional norm concerning the majority required for the election of the Supreme Pontiff. According to this norm, in order for the election of a new Pope to be considered valid it is always necessary to reach […]

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Saint Pelagius

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This boy martyr of Spain lived in the days when the Moors ruled part of his homeland. The Moors were fighting the Spanish Christians. Pelagius was only ten when his uncle had to leave him as a hostage with the Moors in the city of Cordova. He would not be allowed to go free until […]

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Novena to Saint Gerard - Day 2

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Saint Gerard, most generous saint, who from thy tenderest years didst care so little for the goods of earth, grant that I may place all my confidence in Jesus Christ alone, my true Treasure, who alone can make me happy in time and in eternity.
Say nine Hail Mary’s
V. Pray for us, O Saint Gerard R. […]

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When marriage became a ‘hate crime’

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

By GEORGE F. WILL
Marriage is the foundation of the natural family and sustains family values. That sentence is inflammatory, perhaps even a hate crime.
At least it is in Oakland, Calif. That city’s government says those words italicized here constitute something akin to hate speech, and can be proscribed from the government’s open e-mail system and […]

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Benedict XVI Notes 3 Issues That Need Study

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Addresses Representatives of Higher Education
Benedict XVI says the crisis of modernity arises from an attempt to separate the human person from his “full truth,” which includes his “transcendent vocation.”
The Pope said this Saturday when he received in audience in Paul VI Hall the participants in the European Meeting of University Professors.
Their four-day meeting, which ended […]

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The Search for Perfection

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Babies Eliminated as New Eugenics Gains Force
By Father John Flynn, L.C.
ROME, JUNE 25, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The desire for perfect babies combined with the possibilities of biotechnology is taking an ever-higher toll. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), and other forms of screening enable the detection of genetic defects, leading either to embryos being eliminated before implantation when […]

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Bishops’ Aide Decries Vote on “Exporting Abortion”

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The U.S. House of Representatives declined to preserve the Mexico City policy, a decision that a bishops’ representative called undermining the international consensus on abortion. The vote, held late last week, defeated a proposed amendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill. Without the amendment, the bill rescinds the Mexico City policy, which bans federal funding […]

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Apostle of the Gentiles Recognized by All Christians

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Year of St. Paul has ecumenical significance, according to the prior of the Benedictine abbey at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
The Year of St. Paul will be proclaimed by Benedict XVI on June 28, on the eve of the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, during an ecumenical celebration at the […]

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Women Religious in some 600 Convents are Praying for Religious Freedom

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Pope is expected to publish a letter to Chinese Catholics soon. No date has been set for its publication.
The women religious are praying “so that the Holy Father’s letter is well-received, China opens up to the Gospels and gives unrestricted religious freedom to all believers,” said Cardinal Ivan Dias. A letter signed by Cardinal […]

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New Archivist-Librarian Named for Vatican

June 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Raffaele Farina as Vatican archivist and librarian, and elevated him to the dignity of archbishop. Archbishop Farina, 73, currently holds the post of prefect of the Vatican Library. He succeeds Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, who was named the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

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