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Confraternities Urged Toward “Ecclesial Maturity”

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Council President Notes Old Charisms Shouldn’t Be Forgotten
The president of the Pontifical Council of the Laity encouraged religious brotherhoods and confraternities in Spain to tend toward “ecclesial maturity.”
Cardinal-designate Stanislaw Rylko said this Wednesday as he presided over the opening Mass for the 2nd International Congress of Brotherhoods and Confraternities. The congress was organized around the […]

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Adoption Agencies See Glimmer of Hope

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Bishops Welcome Step to Soften Impact of Equity Act
The bishops of England and Wales welcomed a government offer to partially fund research into the possibility of Catholic adoption agencies maintaining their principles within the limits of a new law favoring same-sex couples.
The Equity Act, approved at the beginning of this year, forces all adoption agencies […]

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Africa’s New Forms of Slavery in Focus

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Though forced labor in Africa was abolished 200 years ago, bishops of that continent and Europe are considering new forms of slavery endured by the African people.
The Council of European Bishops’ Conferences and the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar have jointly organized a conference called “I Know the Suffering of My People,” […]

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Papal Address to Missionaries

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Here is the text of the address Benedict XVI delivered today in English to superiors general of missionary societies, in Rome for a meeting organized by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
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Your Eminence,
Your Excellencies,
Dear Fathers,
It is a particular pleasure for me to greet you, the Superiors General of Missionary Societies of Apostolic […]

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If Anyone Will Not Work, Let Him Not Eat

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Gospel Commentary for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
By Father Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap
This Sunday’s Gospel is one of the famous discourses on the end of the world, which are characteristic of the end of the liturgical year.
It seems that in one of the first Christian communities, that of Thessalonica, there were believers who drew […]

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Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

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I. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of…… (here name your request)
Our Father….Hail Mary….Glory Be to the Father….Sacred Heart of Jesus, I […]

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Saint Margaret of Scotland

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Margaret was an English princess born in 1046. She and her mother sailed to Scotland to escape from the king who had conquered their land. King Malcolm of Scotland welcomed them. He fell in love with the beautiful princess. Margaret and Malcolm were married before long.
As queen, Margaret changed her husband and the country for […]