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“Vocational Poverty” Linked to Youth Violence

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Prelate Presents Book on God’s Call in the Bible
One of the main forms of modern-day poverty is lacking a sense of meaning in life and a sense of vocation, says a Vatican official.
Archbishop Angelo Comastri, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica and the president of the Fabbrica di San Pietro, said this recently from Vatican Radio […]

Nov

9

Abortion Group Secretly Buys Denver Property

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Bishops Want Public to Know Truth About Planned Parenthood
Colorado bishops decried the secrecy that surrounded the new acquisition of new Planned Parenthood facilities in their state, and said the public deserves to know the truth about the organization.
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, Bishop Michael Sheridan of Colorado Springs and Bishop Arthur Tafoya of Pueblo issued […]

Nov

9

A Martyr’s Letter to His Girlfriend

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“Let My Memory Always Remind You There Is a Better Life”
Here is a translation of a letter from Bartolomé Blanco Márquez, written to his girlfriend from prison the day before he was executed during religious persecution in 1930s Spain. Márquez was beatified Oct. 28; the letter is published in the “Summarium Super Martyrio” of his […]

Nov

9

Papal Address to Catholic Pharmacists Congress

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ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
OF CATHOLIC PHARMACISTS
Consistory Hall
Monday, 29 October 2007
Mr President,
Dear Friends,
I am happy to welcome you, members of the International Congress of Catholic Pharmacists, on the occasion of your 25th Congress, whose theme is: “The new boundaries of the pharmaceutical act”.
The current development of an arsenal […]

Nov

9

Uniting Maturity in Faith with Study

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  At midday today in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall, Benedict XVI received a delegation from the Italian Catholic University Federation (FUCI) for the occasion of the organization’s 110 anniversary.
  FUCI, said the Pope, “has contributed to the formation of entire generations of exemplary Christians who have proved capable of translating the Gospel into life and […]

Nov

9

Lectio Divina as school of prayer among the Fathers of the Desert

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Note:  This is the translation of a talk given at the Centre Saint-Louis-des-Français,
in Rome, in November 1995
Scripture, school of life
The vocation of Antony, as it is described for us by Athanasius in his Life of Antony, is well known. One day the young Antony, who had been brought up in a Christian family of the […]