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Cardinal: Confused World Obscuring Gender Identity

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Says God’s Plan Is Source of Happiness
By Marta Lagoone’s masculine or feminine identity according to God’s plan is a source of happiness, but the world is confused about what that means, says the president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity.
Cardinal Stanisław Ryłko affirmed this to ZENIT during the international conference on the theme “Woman […]

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Archbishop: Rediscover the True Christ

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Tells Biblicists Image of Jesus Is Fragmented
The secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith told biblical scholars that false ideas of Christ are rampant, and that the Church needs to rediscover the image of the true Jesus.Archbishop Angelo Amato said this Thursday during the second session of the 43rd Days of Pastoral […]

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Benedict XVI on Media Responsibility

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By Father John Flynn, LCThe media needs to combine modern cultural trends with perennial ethical values, recommended Benedict XVI in his message for World Communications Day. The day will be marked May 4, but the Pontiff’s message was published Jan. 24, the feast day of St. Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalists.
The theme of […]

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Health Ministry Involves Answering Life’s Questions

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Cardinal Comments on 16th World Day of the Sick
By Mirko TestaThe work of health care ministry is more than physically aiding the sick, it also seeks to provide answers about the meaning of life and suffering, says Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán.
The president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry will preside Monday over a […]

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Lateran Pacts

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Today is the 79th anniversary of the signing of the Lateran Pacts and of the institution of Vatican City State.

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Papal Address to Participants in Congress on Women

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Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI gave Saturday upon receiving in audience participants from the international conference that marked the 20th anniversary of the publication of Pope John Paul II’s apostolic letter “Mulieris Dignitatem.”The conference, sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Laity and titled “Woman and Man, the ‘Humanum’ in Its […]

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Invocations to Our Lady of Lourdes

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O EVER Immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy, health of the sick, refuge of sinners, comfort of the afflicted, you know my wants, my troubles, my sufferings; deign to cast upon me a look of mercy. By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes, thou wert pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary, whence thou dispenses thy […]

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Our Lady of Lourdes

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It was on February 11, 1858, that a beautiful lady first appeared to Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes, France. Bernadette was a sickly girl. Her family was so poor they lived in a cellar that had once been a jail. Even though she was fourteen, Bernadette still could not read or write. She never could remember […]

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Happy Feast Day of Our Lady of Lourdes

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Let us remember Our Lady of Lourdes on this first Monday in Lent as her message for us was “Penance, Penance” and praying the Rosary!

Photo of the Lourdes Grotto in 1914 from Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson’s book “Lourdes“
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