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Papal Delegate Named for Fatima Event

August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Benedict XVI named Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, as his delegate to attend the closing celebrations marking 90 years since the last Marian apparition in Fatima.
The celebrations will take place Oct. 12-13, coinciding with the sixth Marian apparition to three Portuguese shepherd children: Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco.
Mary appeared to the children for the […]

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Cardinal Bertone Defends Politicians’ Conscience

August 16, 2007 | 1 Comment

Fields Questions During Visit to U.S.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone says that politicians should have the right to follow their conscience, even if their views are not in accord with the stance of their political party.
The Vatican secretary of state said this at a press conference during his visit last week to Nashville and the annual Knights […]

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Archbishop Defends Celibacy

August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Allowing priests to marry is not the answer to the shortage of priestly vocations, said Archbishop Philip Wilson in a new pastoral letter on celibacy.
Archbishop Wilson of Adelaide, who is also the president of the Australian bishops’ conference, wrote the letter for the National Vocations Awareness Week that began in his archdiocese Tuesday.
“You often hear […]

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Bishop R.J. Baker Named to Birmingham

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Benedict XVI named Bishop Robert Joseph Baker of Charleston, South Carolina, to lead the Diocese of Birmingham. The 63-year-old prelate will succeed Bishop David Foley, who retired from the Birmingham post in May 2005. Robert Baker was ordained in 1970, in Fostoria, Ohio. He earned a doctorate in dogmatic theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University […]

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Shrine Prepares for 150th Anniversary of Apparitions

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The Marian shrine of Lourdes is a second home for the bishops of France, according to the archbishop of Toulouse.
Archbishop Robert Jean Louis Le Gall, speaking at a Mass held at the shrine’s grotto on Wednesday, the feast of the Assumption, said that “the French bishops, in particular, love to return to Lourdes.”
He confirmed that […]

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Saint Stephen of Hungary

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St. Stephen was born around 969 in Hungary. This saint’s name had been Vaik. When he became a Christian at the age of ten, he was given the name of Stephen. At the same time, his father, the duke of Hungary, and many nobles also became Christians. However, when Stephen himself became king, the country […]

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The Heart of Jesus

August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

In me is all hope of life.
Ecclesiasticus 24: 25
“Longinus with a spear has opened for me the Side of Jesus Christ,” says St. Augustine. “I have entered into It, and there will I dwell in security and repose sweetly; there I am comforted with delights and fed with deliciousness. ” Yes, the Side of Jesus […]

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