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Priest Slain in Nepal

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A Salesian priest from India was killed Monday in Nepal when armed men broke into his residence and detonated an explosive device.
Father John Prakash, 62, directed a school in Sirsiya in the Morang district of the South Asian country. According to Vatican Radio, the initial investigations have led authorities to suspect the assassination is linked [...]

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Chinese Unite Pauline Jubilee and Year of Family

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Cardinal Joseph Zen is proposing the letters of St. Paul to shed light on the challenges faced by families in Chinese society.
The bishop of Hong Kong, in a pastoral letter for the newly inaugurated Pauline Jubilee Year, emphasized St. Paul’s teachings on the theology of the body and the family.
Hong Kong is celebrating the Year [...]

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Cardinal Bertone Notes Satisfaction With Belarus Trip

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Belarus is characterized by a healthy dialogue between faith and reason, says Benedict XVI’s secretary of state.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone mentioned this aspect of the former Soviet nation in an interview with Vatican Radio, L’Osservatore Romano and the Vatican Television Center about his June trip there.
There is a lot of thirst for this dialogue, the cardinal [...]

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Cause Opens for St. Gianna Beretta’s Brother

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Prelate Calls Them “Spectacularly Important Siblings”
By Alexandre RibeiroThe brother of a woman canonized after she opted to risk her life to save her unborn child is also being considered for official recognition as a saint.
The cause for Friar Albert Beretta, brother of St. Gianna Beretta, opened in Italy last month. Friar Albert was an Italian [...]

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Immaculata, please intercede …

July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment

That you sustain Christ’s body, the Church, so it may bring all men and women to Christ by communicating to the world the Divine mysteries of salvation.

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