May

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Respect for Life, the Foundation of Civil Coexistence

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  This morning in the Vatican, the Holy Father received members of the Italian organisation Movement for Life, led by their president Carlo Casini.
  Opening his address to them, Benedict XVI recalled how the year 2008 marks the 30th anniversary of the legalisation of abortion in Italy. “It is your intention”, he told his audience, [...]

May

12

Rome and Jerusalem: Faith and Wisdom for the World

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  This morning in the Vatican, the Holy Father received the Letters of Credence of Mordechay Lewy, the new ambassador of Israel to the Holy See.
  Addressing the diplomat in English, Benedict XVI expressed his “cordial good wishes on the occasion of Israel’s celebration of 60 years of statehood. The Holy See joins you in [...]

May

12

Catholic Church: a Point of Reference in Hungary

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  The morning of May 10th in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received prelates from the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, at the end of their “ad limina” visit.
  “The people entrusted to your care”, he told them, “now stand before us spiritually, with their joys, their plans, their suffering, their problems and their hopes. … The long [...]

May

12

Cause Opens for US Priest

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The cause for beatification for a 20th-century Massachusetts-born priest officially opened in Rome.The cause of Father Theodore Foley (1913-1974) officially opened Friday.
For 10 years, Father Foley was the superior general of the Congregation of the Passion, also known as the Passionists.
Cardinal Camillo Ruini, Benedict XVI’s vicar for the Diocese of Rome, described the priest’s life [...]

May

12

The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity

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How often have we made the sign of the Cross and invoked the name of the triune God without thinking about what we were doing? In its original meaning the sign of the Cross was, each time it was made, a renewal of our Baptism, a repetition of the words by which we became Christians, [...]

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