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Pope Denounces Abortion Campaigns in Africa

November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Addresses Kenyan Bishops on Marriage and Family
Benedict XVI denounced international agencies that promote abortion on the African continent, and encouraged the bishops of Kenya to defend life in all its phases.Pope said this upon receiving in audience prelates of the episcopal conference of Kenya, in Rome for their five-yearly visit.
“While the understanding of Christian family […]

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The Life-Sapping Human Virus

November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Losing Equilibrium in the Ecology Debate
by Father John Flynn, LC
As increasingly strident claims are made over the state of the environment, one side effect is the resurgence of pressures for population control. False scares, such as Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book “The Population Bomb,” provided the ammunition for widespread abuses, including forced abortion and sterilization.
Past concerns […]

Nov

19

Mexico City’s Cathedral Closed

November 19, 2007 | 1 Comment

100 Protesters Disrupt Sunday Mass
The cathedral of Mexico City closed its doors last weekend, after more than 100 political protesters disrupted Sunday Mass.
The decision was announced the same day by Armando Martínez, the president of the College of the Catholic Lawyers of Mexico, who said that the cathedral will not open again until the government […]

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Archbishop Named for U.S. Military Archdiocese

November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Benedict XVI named Archbishop Timothy Broglio, apostolic nuncio to the Dominican Republic, to head the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services. The appointment was announced in Washington today by Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States. The archbishop succeeds Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, who was installed archbishop of Baltimore in October.
Timothy Broglio was born […]

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Baptism Seen as Unifying Sacrament

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Archbishop Forte Says There Is Bond Among Believers
There is a bond that exists among all the baptized that is stronger than their differences, says a renowned archbishop-theologian.
Archbishop Bruno Forte of Chieti-Vasto said this in his pastoral letter for the year 2007-2008, titled “The Water of Life: Baptism and the Beauty of God.”
The Italian prelate said […]

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Marriage: a Precious Treasure to Be Guarded at All Costs

November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

  This morning in the Vatican, the Pope received prelates from the Kenya Episcopal Conference who have just completed their five-yearly “ad limina” visit.
  Speaking English, the Pope began his talk to them by recalling that “it is bishops who, as ministers and signs of communion in Christ, are pre-eminently called to make manifest the […]

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History and the Plan of Salvation

November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

  At midday, before praying the Angelus with pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope commented on today’s reading from the Gospel, “a biblical vision of history” in which the words of Jesus “invite the disciples not to be afraid but to face difficulties, misunderstandings and even persecutions with trust, persevering in their faith […]