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Catalogue of Pre-1978 Vatican Photos Available

January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

By Marta LagoL’Osservatore Romano’s photo service is offering a free electronic catalogue of the Giordani Collection, including photos from 1930 to 1978.
Some half-million pictures were taken by Francesco Giordani during his near-five decade career. The catalogue, a 367-page Microsoft Word file, allows buyers to locate and purchase pictures based on the photographer’s careful annotations of […]

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Benedict XVI “Opens Heaven” for 13 Babies

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Pope Imparts Sacrament on Feast of Christ
Benedict XVI baptized 13 babies, giving them the sacrament that he said opened heaven for them.Amid the crying of eight baby girls and five baby boys resounding in the Sistine Chapel, the Pope expressed his joy at imparting the first sacrament of Christian life to the newborns, “one of […]

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Schismatic Groups Coming Home, Reports Vatican

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Cardinal Assesses Impact of “Summorum Pontificum”
By Mary Shovlain
Six months after Benedict XVI issued an apostolic letter on the extended use of the 1962 missal, the Vatican says it is seeing fruits of reconciliation with Catholics who objected to the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
“Summorum Pontificum,” allows for more availability of the Latin-language Mass, […]

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What a Fearful World Needs

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Pope Extols a Key Virtue for an Angst-Filled Society
By Father John Flynn, LCIn a timely message for the New Year, Benedict XVI urged the world to rediscover the Christian virtue of hope. In his homily during the Dec. 31 vespers to mark the end of 2007 the Pontiff referred to the lack of hope and […]

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The Crucifix

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I was assisting in a history class one day shortly after my conversion. I was wearing a crucifix and the history teacher, who happened to be a Baptist, commented that crucifixes always bother her. She asked me why we Catholics kept Jesus on the cross when he was risen from the dead. She expressed her […]

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Saint Hillary of Poitiers

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In the early centuries of Christianity, there were still many people who did not believe in God as we do. They believed that there were many gods, some more powerful than others. These people were not bad. They just did not know any better. They were called pagans.
In the year 315, Hilary was born into […]