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Experts to Study Ministry to Dying

July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

A conference titled “At the Side of the Dying Person” will bring experts to the Vatican to consider orientations for accompanying people in their last moments of life. The Pontifical Academy for Life is organizing the two-day conference, which will be held in February. Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán, president of the Pontifical Council for Health [...]

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Benedict XVI Blesses U.S. Firefighters

July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Benedict XVI thanked a group of Seattle firefighters, in Lorenzago di Cadore to assist local forest rangers during the Pope’s stay in the region.
The Pope was on his way to Mirabello Castle on Sunday when he stopped today at the Church of Our Lady of Defense, on the outskirts of Lorenzago di Cadore. 
The Holy Father thanked [...]

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Prelate Warns of Chávez’s Totalitarian Agenda

July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Says Presidential Attacks Against Church a Smoke Screen
Archbishop Ovidio Pérez Morales says Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s attacks against clergy are a “sort of presidential custom,” and nothing more than a “smoke screen to hide something very serious.”
The archbishop, president of the Venezuelan bishops’ plenary council, responded Thursday to another barrage of attacks against the clergy, [...]

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Cardinal Mourns Bus Crash Victims in France

July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

26 Polish Pilgrims Dead, 14 Seriously Injured
Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard sent condolences to the bishops of Poland after a bus accident killed 26 Polish pilgrims in an Alpine Pass in southeast France.
The 47 pilgrims, accompanied by a guide and two drivers, were leaving the Shrine of Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette on Sunday when their bus crashed through a barrier [...]

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Benedict XVI’s Homily at Vespers for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul

July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

CELEBRATION OF FIRST VESPERS
OF THE SOLEMNITY OF THE HOLY APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL

HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
Basilica of St Paul Outside-the-Walls
Thursday, 28 June 2007
Your Eminences,
Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood,
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
At this First Vespers of the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul, let us commemorate with gratitude these two [...]

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