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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 [...]

Jun

26

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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26

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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