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Pro-education Means Pro-family, Says Cardinal

November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A Vatican official says defending the family means defending education and education is key for the future of humanity.
Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, affirmed this in an interview published Oct. 30 by the Italian magazine “Il Consulente Re.”
Education, the cardinal explained, is not just knowledge and technical capacities. This information [...]

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Pope Urges Caring for Houses of Worship

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It is important that the community take “special care” of the church building in which it gathers to pray, says Benedict XVI.
The Pope said this Sunday during his Angelus address for the feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome, which was built following the Edict of Milan in 313.
“[T]oday’s feast celebrates a [...]

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Prelate Says Pius XII a Music and Sports Fan

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Pope Pius XII was a model of Catholic culture and two elements that he promoted were music and sports, says a Vatican official.
Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, affirmed this in a talk on music and sports in the magisterium of Pius XII, given at the Thursday-Saturday conference on “The Heritage [...]

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Teaching Memory for a Europe of Freedom

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On 6 November Archbishop Jean-Louis Brugues O.P., secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, participated as Holy See representative to the Council of Europe’s fourth seminar of ministers of education of States signatories to the European Cultural Convention. The meeting had as its theme “teaching memory: living in a Europe of [...]

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Opening Address of US Bishops’ Fall Meeting

November 10, 2008 | 2 Comments

Here is the address Cardinal Francis George, the archbishop of Chicago and president of the U.S. episcopal conference, gave today upon opening the bishops’ fall general assembly, being held in Baltimore through Thursday.
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Dear Brother Bishops:
At the opening session of the recently concluded Roman Synod on the Word of God in the Life and [...]

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