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Master’s Program Aims to Halt Art Crisis

June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Director Notes Efficacy of Sacred Images
By Antonio GasperiSacred art is in crisis, but a master’s program at the European University of Rome aims to help, says one of the program’s directors.
Father Uwe Lang, a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments and the new scientific director of the program, spoke with ZENIT [...]

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Liturgy Language: Soaring Poetry vs. Bumpy Prose

June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments

Column From Chair of US Bishops’ Committee on Scripture Translations
Here is this week’s column from Bishop Arthur Serratelli posted on the Web site of the Diocese of Paterson.Bishop Serratelli is the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad hoc Committee for the Review of Scripture Translations.
At their spring meeting last week, the bishops voted on a [...]

Jun

19

Benedict XVI’s Address to Pakistani Bishops

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Here is the English-language address Benedict XVI gave today to bishops of Pakistan in Rome for their five-yearly visit.* * *
Dear Brother Bishops,
I am pleased to welcome you, the Bishops of Pakistan, as you make your quinquennial pilgrimage to the tombs of the Apostles Peter and Paul. Grateful to Archbishop Saldanha for his kind words, [...]

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Ascension School

June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment

We are very pleased to announce that Ascension Catholic School has been approved as a VPK Provider for the 2008-2009 school year. VPK is a State of Florida initiative that pays public and private schools to educate 4 year olds, thus providing a “free Pre-K experience to all qualified Florida residents. The program is NOT [...]

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President Kabila Invites the Pope to Visit His Country

June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment

  At midday today, the Holy See Press Office released the following communique:
  “This morning Joseph Kabila Kabange, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was received in audience by the Holy Father Benedict XVI in the apostolic palace. The president and his minister for foreign affairs subsequently went on to meet with Archbishop [...]

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