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Pontiff Appeals for Healthy Secularity

November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Benedict XVI continues to encourage a “healthy secularity,” based on collaboration, respect and dialogue.
The Pope made this appeal today when he received in audience San Martino’s new ambassador to the Holy See, Sante Canducci.
“Only in these conditions of healthy secularity can a society be constructed in which diverse traditions, cultures and religions peacefully coexist,” he [...]

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Brazil’s President Visits Benedict XVI

November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment

Benedict XVI and the president of Brazil have considered the fundamental role of the family in efforts to curb violence and social degradation.
The role of the family was among the issues discussed today when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited the Pope in the Vatican.
After the president’s visit with the Pontiff, he went on to [...]

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Catholic-Jewish Panel Inspires Youth Dialogue

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Catholic and Jewish youth delegates gathered in a special meeting before participating in the liaison committee meeting to strengthen relations between the two religions.This was reported by the joint declaration of the 20th meeting of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee of the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the International Jewish [...]

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Separating Public Life From Tradition is a Blind Alley

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This morning in the Vatican, the Pope received the Letters of Credence of Sante Canducci, the new ambassador of the Republic of San Marino to the Holy See.
In his address to the diplomat, the Holy Father pointed out that “the Christian faith has impregnated the life and history of the people and [...]

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Movements Called Church’s “New Wine”

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Young ecclesial movements are “new wine” for the Church, and there is still time to put them into “new wineskins,” affirmed a professor at an Opus Dei university in Rome.
Luis Navarro spoke of the ecclesial movements and the recent magisterium in an address last week during the inauguration of the academic year at the Pontifical [...]

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