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Father Cantalamessa on Jesus

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“Between History and … History”

JESUS US OF NAZARETH
BETWEEN HISTORY AND THEOLOGY
Talk given at a public debate held in Rome
12 May 2007
1. Jesus, between history and … history
It seems to me that, more basic than the alternative expressed in the title, “Jesus, between history and theology,” is the alternative, “Jesus, between history and history.” The notion of […]

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USCCB acknowledges Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum

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The Committee on the Liturgy of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) published, on the most recent issue of their newsletter the full text of the recent Apostolic Letter in the Form of “Motu Proprio” Summorum Pontificum on the Use of Preconciliar Liturgical Forms. The newsletter contains two additional sections: the first one records […]

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Summorum Pontificum - Mass Never Abrogated

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Dear Friends–
While we are very happy to see the Pope come out with the Motu Proprio for in this great act of what some people call “the freeing of the Tridentine Mass”, Rome has  admitted to the world that our parents,  friends and other fellow Catholics who began the Traditional movement even before it was called the […]

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Catholics Need to be Very Careful

July 14, 2007 | 1 Comment

Message from Fr. Enrique Rueda
 
We have had forty years of abuses and betrayals.  Now that the Holy See can read the writing on the wall (the progressive desintegration of the Church), there is a reaction.  They know that the traditional seminaries are full while the Novus Ordo seminaries are empty (Arlington had no ordinations this […]

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Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha

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Between the years 1642 and 1649, St. Isaac Jogues and the North American martyrs came from France. They were killed while evangelizing the Indians. Ten years after the death of St. Isaac Jogues, Kateri Tekakwitha was born in the same village where he had died. (We celebrate the feast of St. Isaac and the North […]

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Nine-Day Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel - Day 7

July 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

O Mary, Help of Christians, you assured us that wearing your Scapular worthily would keep us safe from harm. Protect us in both body and soul with your continual aid. May all that we do be pleasing to your Son and to you. (pause and mention petitions)
Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be.

Our Lady […]

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Archbishop: Zimbabweans Desperate for New Leader

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Report Accuses Mugabe of Violent Repression. Our people are desperate for President Robert Mugabe to relinquish power, said Archbishop Pius Ncube. Archbishop Ncube of Bulawayo said this Tuesday, while launching a report titled “Destructive Engagement: Violence, Mediation and Politics in Zimbabwe,” published by the Solidarity Peace Trust, a Church-based nongovernmental organization working for justice and […]

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Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

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Let all mortal flesh keep silence,
and with fear and trembling stand;
ponder nothing earthly minded,
for with blessing in his hand
Christ our God to earth descendeth,
our full homage to demand.
King of kings, yet born of Mary,
as of old on earth he stood,
Lord of lords in human vesture,
in the Body and the Blood
he will give to all the […]