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Falling in Love With Christ

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Gospel Commentary for 2nd Sunday of Lent
By Father Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap
Why are faith and religious practice in decline and why do they not seem to constitute, at least not for most people, the point of reference in life?
Why the boredom, the weariness, the struggle for believers in performing their duties? Why do young people […]

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Glendon: Faith-Reason Union at Core of US-Holy See Relations

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Arrives to Rome as New Ambassador
By Carrie Gress
Faith and reason are at the core of the collaboration between the United States and the Holy See to protect the rights of all people, said Mary Ann Glendon.
Glendon, who replaces out-going ambassador Francis Rooney, said this today at a press conference held at Rome’s Fiumicino airport to […]

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Continue Support for Catholics in the Holy Land

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  Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, has sent a letter to bishops all over the world, and to their respective Churches, asking them, in the Pope’s name, to continue giving spiritual and material support to the Catholic community in the Holy Land. The letter has been made published in […]

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Anti-Trafficking Efforts Need to Focus on “Beneficiaries”

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Vatican Urges Keeping Human Rights at Center of Strategies
To combat human trafficking, attention needs to be given to those who demand or benefit from it, said a Vatican official.
Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers, affirmed this at the Vienna Forum to Fight Human Trafficking, which ends Friday.
“The Holy See […]

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Ratzinger’s Thesis Seen as Key to Understanding His Papacy

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Translation of ‘57 Work on Bonaventure Published
To understand the papacy of Benedict XVI, one should become familiar with his formation as a theologian, affirmed the publishers of Father Joseph Ratzinger’s thesis on St. Bonaventure.
This month in the Antonian Pontifical University, an Italian translation of young Father Ratzinger’s study of St. Bonaventure’s theology of history, published […]