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Pontiff Urges Christians to Defend Hope

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Says This Is a Proclamation of the Faith
Benedict XVI says that evangelization in today’s world implies following the example of the first Christians and combining proclamation with dialogue.
The Pope said this Tuesday during a question-and-answer session with 400 priests of the dioceses of Belluno-Feltre and Treviso, in the Church of St. Justina Martyr in Auronzo […]

Jul

26

Man Must Learn to Hear Truth, Says Pope

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Calls This Capacity the Person’s Majesty
The task of the Church is to develop the human person’s God-given ability to listen to the voice of truth, says Benedict XVI.
The Pope said this Tuesday during a question-and-answer session with 400 priests of the dioceses of Belluno-Feltre and Treviso, in the Church of St. Justina Martyr in Auronzo […]

Jul

26

Bishops Welcome Nurses Freed From Libya

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Justice Has Risen, Says Bulgarian Prelate
Bulgarian bishops expressed their satisfaction at the liberation of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who were accused of intentionally infecting Libyan children with the virus that causes AIDS.
The six health care workers were freed Tuesday thanks to an international negotiation. Though they had been found guilty and condemned […]

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26

Islamic Fundamentalists Protest Conference

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An Islamic leader condemned recent Muslim protests against a conference planned by the Carmelite Prayer Center.
Syafi’i Maarif, head of the Muhammadiyah, Indonesia’s second largest Islamic organization, said that police must protect everyone’s right to express their religious faith. The Carmelite center, named Lembah Karmel Cikanyere, in Cianjur Regency, West Java, was forced to postpone an […]

Jul

26

Papal Letter on Scouts

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LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO CARD. JEAN-PIERRE RICARD PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE ON THE OCCASION OF THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF THE FIRST SCOUT CAMP
To His Eminence Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard,
Archbishop of Bordeaux
President of the Bishops’ Conference of France
The first of August 2007 will mark the 100th anniversary of the […]

Jul

26

Criteria to Maintain the True Catholic Faith

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by St. Vincent de Lerins
I have continually given the greatest pains and diligence to inquiring, from the greatest possible number of men outstanding in holiness and in doctrine, how I can secure a type of fixed and, as it were, general, guiding principle for distinguishing the true Catholic Faith from the degraded falsehoods of heresy.And […]

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26

Message for World Youth Day 2008

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(VIS) - Benedict XVI’s Message for 23rd World Youth Day, due to be held in Sydney, Australia from July 15 to 20, 2008, has as its theme: “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses” (Acts of the Apostles 1, 8).
  The Message is dated […]

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26

Saint Joachim and Saint Anne

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St. Anne and St. Joachim are the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary. They spent their lives worshiping God and doing good. They had one great sorrow, however: God had not sent them any children. For years and years, Anne had begged the Lord to give her a child. She promised to consecrate the baby […]