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Future Priests Share Ugandan Refugee Life

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Rector Says It Roots Them in People’s Reality
The rector of a Ugandan seminary says it will not leave the refugee camp where it operates. Despite the dangers, the seminary has more applicants than it can accept.
Father Cosmas Alule, the rector of the seminary in Alokulu, told the group Aid to the Church in Need that […]

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Archbishop: Abortion Crushes African Culture

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Continent’s Challenge Is Defense of Life
Abortion is foreign to the African culture, and the attempt to promote it destroys the continent’s fundamental values, according to the secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Archbishop Robert Sarah spoke of the steps taken to liberalize abortion laws in Africa at a 5-day meeting in the Vatican […]

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England and Wales Celebrate Day for Life

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The Catholic Church in England and Wales celebrated its annual Day for Life on July 1st. This year’s event, titled “Blessed Is the Fruit of Your Womb,” featured over 500,000 leaflets available to parishioners explaining what the Church means by pro-life and highlighting the practical, emotional and spiritual care offered by the Church to women […]

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His Beatitude Chrysostomos II Visits Vatican City

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VISIT OF HIS BEATITUDE CHRYSOSTOMOS II
ARCHBISHOP OF NEW JUSTINIANA AND ALL CYPRUS
TO HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI

Saturday, 16 June 2007
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
Your Beatitude and Dear Brother,
I welcome you today with joy, hearing the words of the Apostle ring out in my heart: “May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live […]

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Grim Beginnings; Rome’s Duality

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Italians Mark Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul
By Elizabeth Lev
June 29 reigns as one of the most glorious holidays in Rome. For the solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, the basilicas of the two great martyrs are decked in all their finery. The freshly polished baldachin of St. Peter’s glistens, the marble floors of St. […]

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Ukraine Church Property Dispute Turns Violent

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Bishop Calls Attack Disgraceful
Property disputes in Ukraine have lead to the desecration of a church and violence against worshippers.
Bishop Stanislav Padewski of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhya, has denounced the attack in a Latin-rite Catholic church, calling it disgraceful.
Elderly women who were praying in the church June 27 were beaten and dragged out of it, Bishop Padewski […]

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Dominican Republic: Fundamental Objective Is the Family

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(VIS) - This morning in the Vatican, the Holy Father received prelates from the Conference of the Dominican Episcopate, who today completed their “ad limina” visit.
  “The fundamental aim of your pastoral ministry,” the Pope told the bishops, “must be to ensure that the truth about  Christ and the truth about man penetrate still more […]

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Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria

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Anthony was born in Italy in 1502. While he was still young, his father died. His mother encouraged Anthony in the special love he felt for the sufferings of poor people. Mrs. Zaccaria sent her son to the University of Padua so that he could become a doctor. He was only twenty-two when he graduated.
The […]

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Why Latin?

July 5, 2007 | 2 Comments

Pope Pius IX had it right when he said in Officiorum Omnium:
“For the Church, precisely because it embraces all nations and is destined to endure until the end of time… of its very nature requires a language which is universal, immutable, and non-vernacular.”
And so was Pope Pius XII, when he wrote in Mediator Dei:
“The use […]