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Prelates: Couples Need Confidence to Become Parents

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European Bishops Propose Ways to Support Families
Young couples need more confidence in life so that they have the courage to become parents, the European bishops affirmed. And they proposed steps for the European Union to help bring this about.The Secretariat of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community presented Monday a working […]

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Saint Willibrord

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Willibrord was born in England in 658. He was educated for many years at an Irish monastery. Most of his life he was a missionary in lands which today are Germany, Holland, Luxemburg and Denmark. He had long had a great desire to preach the Gospel to the nonbelievers of those countries. At last, his […]

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Pope Expresses His Sadness at Road Accident in Portugal

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  Addressing Portuguese pilgrims who had participated in today’s general audience, Benedict XVI expressed his sadness at a recent road accident in Portugal which claimed the lives of 13 peoples and injured 24.
  “May the strong arm of the heavenly Father,” he said speaking Portuguese, “protect and console everyone. To the families affected by this […]

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St. Jerome: the Bible at the Center of Life

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  During his general audience this morning, the Holy Father dedicated his catechesis to St. Jerome. The audience was held in St. Peter’s Square in the presence of 40,000 people.
  St. Jerome, born into a Christian family around the year 347, “placed the Bible at the center of his life: he translated it into Latin, […]

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Hermits

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From the Catechism: C
Characteristics that all hermits seem to have in common:
“918 From the very beginning of the Church there were men and women who set out to follow Christ with greater liberty, and to imitate him more closely, by practicing the evangelical counsels. They led lives dedicated to God, each in his own way. Many […]

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The Way of Silent Love

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“We cannot be peaceful if we are restless, full of anxieties about
sins, weaknesses, the future, friends, everything. By contrast the
gospel invites us to have a certain lightheartedness, a
lightheartedness quite properly scandalous in the eyes of practical
people…”
–A Carthusian, “The Way of Silent Love (Carthusian Novice
Conferences) “, page 76

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