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Pontifical Acts

October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Holy Father appointed:- Bishop Anthony Mancini, auxiliary of Montreal, Canada, as metropolitan archbishop of Halifax (area 21,770, population 564,583, Catholics 161,125, priests 80, permanent deacons 28, religious 260), Canada, and apostolic administrator of Yarmouth (area, 32,150 population 145,265, Catholics 37,105, priests 26, religious 20), Canada. The archbishop-elect was born in Mignano Monte Lugano, Italy [...]

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Vatican Museums: Exhibition on Apocalypse Inaugurated

October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

“Apocalypse: the Final Revelation” is the title of an exhibition inaugurated today in the Sistine Hall of the Vatican Museums.The event, which will run until December 7, has been organized at the initiative of the St. Florian Committee of the archdiocese of Udine, Italy. Its aim is to invite people “to reconsider the last book [...]

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Need For Politicians Inspired By Ideals

October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Made public today was the text of an address delivered by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, Ireland, at the United Nations headquarters in New York for the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s Encyclical “Populorum Progressio.”Archbishop Martin began his English-language talk by recalling how “it was the challenge of addressing the needs [...]

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Saint Luke

October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

It is generally believed that Luke was a gentile doctor. He was a good, kind man who came to know the Lord from the great apostle Paul. After he had become a Christian, he went everywhere with Paul. Luke was a great help to him in spreading the faith. The Bible calls Luke “the beloved [...]

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Bishops’ Aide Criticizes Abortion Study

October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Procedure That Always Kills Cannot Be Called Safe, She Says
WASHINGTON, D.C., OCT. 16, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Legalization of abortion is no guarantee that the procedure will be “safe,” says a U.S. bishops’ aide.
Deirdre McQuade, director of planning and information at the Pro-Life Secretariat at the U.S. bishops’ conference, criticized a study by the Guttmacher Institute and [...]

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