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A group of Catholics in Mexico City are inviting all religious and lay movements to join them Oct. 7 for Worldwide Rosary Day.
 
The main event will be hosted at the Basilica of Our Lay of Guadalupe in Mexico City, but organizers are asking all interested “religious and lay movements from around the world to organize […]

The blue-robed sisters known for their bookstores and publishing houses are gathered on the outskirts of Rome to study evangelization in the world of modern communications.
The Daughters of St. Paul, the women religious behind Pauline Books and Media, opened their general chapter on Wednesday. Seventy-one religious are taking part in the meeting.
According to a communiqué […]

Here is a translation of a commentary by the Pontifical Household preacher, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, on the readings from this Sunday’s liturgy.
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Be Modest in What You Do!
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sirach 3:19-21, 30-31; Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a; Luke 14:1, 7-14
 
The beginning of this Sunday’s Gospel helps us to correct a widely diffused prejudice: […]

Please pray for the following;
For the Pope’s intention that following Christ joyfully, all missionaries may know how o overcome the difficulties they meet in everyday life.
Creator of all life, help us to protect and respect the dignity of all life.
Holy Spirit, thank you for all the men, women and children who minister in our parish. […]

Please join us in prayers of thanksgiving! On Sunday Sister Laurel M O’Neal of Stillsong Hermitage will be making her perpetual profession of vows in the hands of her local Ordinary as a diocesan hermit under Canon 603. We also ask that you pray for those who are travelling to the liturgy from various parts of the country, that […]

By Edward Dowson
(1867-1900)

When this, our rose, is faded,
   And these, our days, are done,
In lands profoundly shaded
   From tempest and from sun;
Ah, once more come together,
   Shall we forgive the past,
And safe from worldly weather
   Possess our souls at last?

 

Or in our place of shadows
   Shall still we stretch an hand
To green, remembered meadows,
   Of that old pleasant land?
And vainly there […]

Aidan was a seventh-century Irish monk. He lived at the great monastery of Iona, which St. Columban had founded. St. Oswald became king of North England in 634. He asked for missionaries to preach to his pagan people. The first missionary to go soon came back complaining that the English were rude, stubborn and wild. […]

Holy Child Mary of the royal house of David, Queen of the angels,
Mother of grace and love, I greet you with all my heart.
Obtain for me the grace to love the Lord faithfully during
all the days of my life. Obtain for me, too, a great devotion
to you, who are the first creature of God’s love.Hail […]

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone told seminarians in Peru that their task is holiness, and that one of the ways to achieve it is by praying the rosary.
The Secretary of State said this Wednesday when visiting an archdiocesan seminary in Peru.
He recommended the rosary saying that, “in praying it, we follow His Holiness Benedict XVI, who recites […]

According to new statistics, the number of Irish women seeking abortions in Britain has fallen by almost 25% in the last six years.
The U.K. Department of Health released figures revealing the number of women allegedly giving Irish addresses in British abortion clinics had decreased by 540 between 2005 and 2006, the Irish Catholic reported.
The abortion […]

The chancellor of the Wenzhou Diocese has been released after 11 months of detainment. Father Paolo Jiang Sunian was released last Friday, Asia News reported. Father Jiang and the diocese’s vicar general, Father Peter Shao Zhumin, 46, were arrested together in Shenzhen in September 2006, shortly after their return from a pilgrimage to Europe. No […]

Pammachius was a distinguished Christian layman who lived in the fourth century. As a young student, he had become friends with St. Jerome. They remained friends all their lives and kept an ongoing correspondence. His wife was Paulina, the second daughter of St. Paula, another good friend of St. Jerome. When Paulina died in 397, […]

“A Pillar of Orthodoxy”
Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered today at the general audience in St. Peter’s Square. The reflection focused on St. Gregory of Nyssa.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters!
In the last few catecheses I spoke about two great doctors of the Church of the fourth century, Basil and Gregory […]

Benedict XVI’s move to allow for wider celebration of the Roman Missal of 1962 has received a positive reaction from the Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow.
“The recovery and valuing of the ancient liturgical tradition is a fact that we greet positively,” Alexy II told the Italian daily Il Giornale.
Benedict XVI’s apostolic letter “Summorum Pontificum,” […]

Jesus of Nazareth
by Pope Benedict XVI
Publisher: Doubleday
In this book, Pope Benedict XVI uses both the New and Old Testaments to confirm the Divinity of Christ, and gives us direction on how to increase our faith and expand our hope. He also confirms the catholicity of the Catholic Church and instills that our goal is to […]

St. John the Baptist was a cousin of Jesus. His mother was St. Elizabeth and his father was Zechariah. The first chapter of Luke’s Gospel tells of the wonderful event of John’s birth. Mark’s Gospel, chapter 6:14-29, records the cruel details of John the Baptist’s death. What harsh consequences John accepted for teaching the truth.
King […]

Urges Christians to Be Good Citizens
The liturgy should inspire Catholics to contribute to bettering the world with testimony and social action, says Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
Secretary of State Cardinal Bertone said this in a message sent on behalf of Benedict XVI to the 58th Italian National Liturgical Week, in progress in Spoleto through Friday.
“To live as […]

Says Decision Is Matter of Conscience
As a matter of conscience, and with great sadness, Cardinal Keith O’Brien announced his intention to resign from Amnesty International in protest of the organization’s policy supporting abortion.
The archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh communicated his decision today in a letter sent to the director of human rights organization in […]

They Fought the Good Fight
Orestes Brownson & Father Feeney
by Thomas M. Sennott
Publisher: Catholic Treasures
In this book we have compiled for us the writings of two great theologians that spent their life defending Catholic doctrine. They are Orestes Brownson and Father Feeney. And we can read their positions in their own words. These two men lived over […]

St. Augustine was born in Tagaste in modern Algeria on November 13, 354. This famous son of St. Monica spent many years in wicked living and in false beliefs. He was one of the most intelligent persons who ever lived. Augustine was brought up in a Christian atmosphere by his mother. Unfortunately, he became so […]

Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. He is the Wisdom of
the Father. If you thirst for the water of true wisdom, your soul may
drink from the Savior’s Wounds. St. John leaned upon the Heart of
Jesus and reposed there sweetly. It was from the Savior’s Heart that
he imbibed all his wisdom, which enabled […]

An abortion in Milan that killed a healthy twin fetus instead of her sibling with Down syndrome is a case of eugenics “imposing its law,” says L’Osservatore Romano.
After it was discovered that the unborn baby with Down syndrome survived, a successive abortion later ended her life.
The Vatican’s semi-official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano is reporting the story […]

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s dark night of the soul kept her from being a victim of the media age and exalting herself, says the preacher of the Pontifical Household.
Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa said this in an interview with Vatican Radio, commenting on previously unpublished letters from Mother Teresa, now made public in Doubleday’s book […]

Preparing a Game Plan for College Success
College-bound students need a three-pronged game plan to help them face the academic, financial and spiritual challenges of university life, says Curtis Martin.
Martin, president and founder of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), explained to ZENIT that “college is a make it or break it time for many […]

What is our prayer in this place hidden deep in the city?
How are we seeking to live out our days as our short time slips ever rapidly in to eternity?
Our prayer has evolved in to many things over these months.
In the Carthusian spirit one of both solitude and community.
So what is our prayer?
To seek the […]

It was in Tagaste, northern Africa, that this famous mother of St. Augustine was born in 332. She was brought up as a good Christian. Her strong training was a great help to her when she married the pagan Patricius. Patricius admired his wife, but he made her suffer because of his bad temper. Still […]

Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered today before reciting the midday Angelus with several thousand people gathered in the courtyard of the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters!
Even today’s liturgy proposes to us an illuminating and troubling phrase of Christ. During his last trip up to […]

Interfaith Panel Revisits Regensburg Lecture
Without love, faith will fall short of its goal, and reason will lack a foundation, concluded a professor of Islamic sciences during an interreligious reflection on Benedict XVI’s Regensburg address.
Wa’il Farouq, a professor of Islamic Sciences at the Coptic-Catholic Faculty of Sakini in Cairo, said this Wednesday during the Meeting for […]

Tells Local Parishes to Be on High Alert
The archbishop of Hyderabad condemned the back-to-back bombings that left 42 dead in the Southern Indian city, and warned nearby parishes to be on “high alert.”
Archbishop Marampudi Joji said that the local Church “condemns this terrorist attack in the strongest possible terms,” reported AsiaNews.
“It is horrendous that elements […]

He showed them his hands, and his side.
St. John 20: 20
Videte manus et pedes…; et ostendit eis latus. See and read in this book of life what I have done for you, says our Lord, look at the many lessons I have taught you. See My Feet, My Hands, and My Side. Behold this open […]

Elizabeth was born in 1773. As a little girl, her favorite game was building castles in the sand. Many years later, this holy French woman had to take charge of building convents for the order of nuns she founded. “I guess building was meant to be my business,” she joked, “since I started it so […]

SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
BENEDICT XVI
ANGELUS
Papal Summer Residence, Castel Gandolfo
Wednesday, 15 August 2007
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Today, we are celebrating the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is an ancient feast deeply rooted in Sacred Scripture: indeed, it presents the Virgin Mary closely united to her divine Son […]

Here is a translation of a commentary by the Pontifical Household preacher, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, on the readings from this Sunday’s liturgy.
* * *
Enter Through the Narrow Gate
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Isaiah 66:18-21; Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13; Luke 13:22-30
There is a question that has always nagged believers: Will there be many or few people saved? […]

The right to life is an inalienable and constitutive element of civil society and its laws, according to the secretary-general of the Southern African Bishops’ Conference. Father Vincent Brennan said this in a statement issued today that responds to the proposed legislation that would amend South Africa’s 1996 act legalizing abortion. The bill exempts maternity […]

Louis was born on April 25, 1214. His father was King Louis VIII of France and his mother was Queen Blanche. The story is told that when Prince Louis was small, his mother hugged him tightly. She said, “I love you, my dear son, as much as a mother can love her child. But I […]

“Bartholomew” was one of the first followers of Jesus. This apostle’s other name was Nathaniel. He came from Cana in Galilee. He became a disciple of Jesus when his friend Philip invited him to come and meet the Lord. Nathaniel received high praise from Jesus, who said, as soon as he saw him, “Here is […]

The underground Catholic bishop of Zheng Ding, in Hebei province, has been arrested again, reported a U.S.-based watchdog agency. The Cardinal Kung Foundation reported that Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo, 73, was arrested today by the Chinese public security and religious bureau. Asia News reported that the Chinese authorities arrested Bishop Jia to prevent him from […]

Here is a Vatican translation of Benedict XVI’s Aug. 12 address before praying the Angelus at Castel Gandolfo.
* * *
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The Liturgy on this 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time prepares us in a certain way for the Solemnity of Mary’s Assumption into Heaven, which we will be celebrating on 15 August. Indeed, it […]

Yesterday CWNews.com reported that in Louisiana, a Catholic gubernatorial candidate has protested opponents’ campaign ads that depict him as intolerant of Protestants.
Bobby Jindal, a Republican candidate, cited a television ad run by Democratic Party leaders in some heavily Protestant areas. The ad charges that Jindal thinks of Protestants as “scandalous, depraved, selfish, and heretical.”
The ad is […]

“Although a Good in Itself, Not an Absolute Good”
Here is a translation provided by the Vatican’s semi-official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, of Benedict XVI’s Aug. 5 address before praying the Angelus at Castel Gandolfo.
* * *
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Today, the 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Word of God spurs us to reflect on what our […]

This South American saint was born in Lima, Peru, in 1586. Her real name was Isabel, but she was such a beautiful baby that she was called Rose. She received the sacrament of Confirmation from St. Turibius, archbishop of Lima. We celebrate his feast on March 23. As Rose grew older, she became more and […]

Benedict XVI invited young people to put themselves under the protection of Mary. The Pope said this today at the end of the general audience in Paul VI Hall, on the memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. “We raise our gaze to heaven to contemplate the splendor of the Holy Mother of […]

Calls St. Gregory Nazianzen a “Great Teacher”
Benedict XVI says that prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst for us and our thirst for him, as St. Gregory Nazianzen said.
The Pope dedicated his reflection at today’s general audience to St. Gregory, a fourth-century bishop.
The Holy Father introduced the reflection saying that he would summarize some of […]

Says Astrology and Tarot Cards Reveal Fear of Future
Astrology, palm reading and tarot cards are superstitions that conceal a lack of trust in God’s providence, according to Archbishop Sean Brady.
Archbishop Brady of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, said this today while celebrating the Mass of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Ireland’s National […]

How can we spend this day in honor of Mary? We might want to whisper a Hail Mary when we are doing chore or walking, or spend some quiet time in a special place and pray the rosary.

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Pöttering Addresses Communion and Liberation Meeting
 Hans-Gert Pöttering addressed participants at a Communion and Liberation conference, telling them that Europe should be characterized by values.
The president of the European Parliament joined with John Waters, a columnist for the Irish Times, to discuss “What Identity for Europe?” on Sunday at the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples, hosted […]

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