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Tennessee Priest to be Bishop in Missouri

January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Benedict XVI named Father Vann Johnston Jr., the chancellor of the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee, as bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The 48-year-old priest will succeed Bishop John Leibrecht, 77, who presented his retirement to the Pope. Bishop-designate Johnston, a native of Knoxville, was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Knoxville in 1990.
James Vann [...]

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Cardinal: Church Does Not Reject the Divorced

January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment

Milan’s Archbishop Addresses Letter to Couples
The Church has not forgotten nor rejected those who are divorced and have entered into another union, affirmed Milan’s archbishop.
Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi affirmed this in a pastoral letter directed to the divorced and remarried titled “The Lord Is Close to the Brokenhearted.”
“The fact that these relationships are frequently lived with [...]

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Sapienza’s Papal Roots; God Bless the Animals

January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment

University Founded for the Pursuit of Wisdom
Last week’s events at Rome’s La Sapienza University have been front-page news everywhere in the free world, and the 67 professors who protested Benedict XVI’s projected visit last Thursday have been left with egg on their face.
The irresponsible protest has drawn nearly universal condemnation, the hypocritical intolerance of a [...]

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Pray Always That They All May Be One

January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Here is the commentary prepared jointly by the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity and the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches for Friday, the eighth and final day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

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“Be at peace” (1 Thessalonians 5:13b)
“The wolf shall live with the lamb” (Isaiah [...]

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The Communications Media Need “Info-Ethics”

January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

  Made public today, Feast of St. Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalists, was Benedict XVI’s Message for the World Day of Social Communications, which this year is due to be celebrated on 4 May, and has as its theme: “The Media: At the Crossroads between Self-Promotion and Service. Searching for the Truth in [...]

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