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An American Desert Mother

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Nazarena: Camaldolese Recluse
A Book Review by Fr. James Kennedy, Obl. Cam.
Born in Glastonbury, CT 1907, the youngest of seven children, Julia
Crotta died as Sister Nazarena of Jesus in Rome, February 7, 1990.
She had lived a life of full reclusion in the abbey of the
Camaldolese Nuns for forty-five years.
Julia was an ordinary Italian American girl, pious [...]

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On Baptism and the World Family Meeting

January 11, 2009 | 1 Comment

Here is the address Benedict XVI delivered today before praying the Angelus with those gathered in St. Peter’s Square.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters!
On this Sunday, which follows the solemnity of the Epiphany, we celebrate the baptism of the Lord. This was the first act of his public life and all four [...]

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Papal Homily for Mass With Baptisms

January 11, 2009 | 1 Comment

Here is the homily Benedict XVI gave today when he celebrated Mass and administered the sacrament of baptism in the Sistine Chapel.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters!
The words that the Evangelist Mark recounts at the beginning of his Gospel: “You are my Son, my beloved: in you I am well pleased” (1:11) bring us to [...]

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The Right Stuff: On Barack Obama and the Conversion of America

January 11, 2009 | 2 Comments

Of what stuff are you made? Is it — to borrow a line from Saint Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons — “the stuff of which martyrs are made”? This is a question we would do well to ponder as we examine our commitment to the Faith.
To be sure, it is God who [...]