Sep

7

Sophia Press Partners With Thomas More College

September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A partnership between a college and a publishing house will return to print several classics of Catholic writing, including Bishop Fulton Sheen’s “God’s World and Our Place in It.”
The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts and Sophia Institute Press announced this week that the institute is to become the publishing division of the college.
This collaboration [...]

Sep

7

Leaving Abortion-Surviving Infants to Die

September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

By Elizabeth Lev
For historians, who inhabit the remote world of the past, the injustices and sufferings of people are sufficiently distant in time to ever have much emotional impact on them.
Thus, history can serve as a convenient escape from turbulent contemporary issues.
Studying the plague in 1348 or slavery in the South, it’s easy to feel [...]

Sep

7

Evangelize the World of Work and of Politics

September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

At 8.30 a.m. today, Benedict XVI departed from Rome’s Ciampino airport, landing at the airport of Cagliari-Elmas on the Italian island of Sardinia at 9.30 a.m. Having greeted the political, civil and ecclesiastical authorities, he travelled to the Shrine of Our Lady of Bonaria, which he visited briefly.
At 10.30 a.m., the Pope celebrated Mass [...]

Sep

7

Aid Clarifies Church’s Teaching on Brain Death

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Vatican Spokesman Responds to L’Osservatore Article
By Anita S. Bourdin
There has been no change in Church teaching regarding the concept of “brain death” as a true criterion for death, though the criterion has to be applied correctly, reminded a Vatican spokesman.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, affirmed this in a statement Tuesday, [...]

Sep

7

Mother Teresa Successor: Disciples Needed in India

September 7, 2008 | 1 Comment

The superior-general of the Missionaries of Charity says that genuine disciples of Christ are needed to overcome the violence Christians have endured in recent weeks in India.
Sister Mary Nirmala Joshi, who succeeded Mother Teresa of Calcutta as head of the congregation, explained to L’Osservatore Romano today that “the Christian witness necessary in India today is [...]

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