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Vatican Document Unifies Theology Studies

September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

An instruction from the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education aims to unify standards used in Institutes of Religious Studies and seminaries.
The document, released Thursday, was presented by Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of that dicastery.
Religious studies institutes arose after the Second Vatican Council in response to the growing interest among Catholics — in particular laity and [...]

Sep

26

Where Viaticum Arrives on a Dogsled

September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Ministering in One of the West’s Last Missionary Territories
By Pete Vere
With U.S. presidential candidate John McCain naming pro-life Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential nominee, Christianity in the Arctic is suddenly a topic of interest within the English-speaking world.
The far north remains one of the few regions in the Western world that still [...]

Sep

26

Pope Praying for Uruguayans to Respect Life

September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Benedict XVI is praying that through the preaching of Uruguay’s bishops, the faithful of that country may come to a clear awareness that all people have an inviolable dignity.
The Pope said this today when he received in audience at Castel Gandolfo bishops from the South American country, in Rome for their five-yearly visit.
The Holy Father [...]

Sep

26

Orthodox, Catholics Said to Share Social Doctrine

September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Metropolitan Kirill Notes Possible Aid to Dialogue
By Inmaculada Álvarez
An official of the Russian Orthodox Church says there are many similarities between Orthodox and Catholic social doctrine.
This was highlighted today during the presentation in Moscow of “L’Etica del Bene Comune nel Pensiero Sociale della Chiesa” (The Ethics of the Common Good in the Social Thought of [...]

Sep

26

Caritas Welcomes Pledges for Millennium Goals

September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Caritas welcomed some $16 billion in new contributions and pledges toward reaching the Millennium Development Goals.
The promise of funds was a result of a high-level meeting at the United Nations this week, in which Caritas Internationalis President Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga participated.
“We don’t need to go to the U.N. to understand poverty,” he said after [...]

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