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No Anathemas for the Media

January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Are you as oblivious as Humpty Dumpty when it comes to the media, naively considering yourself a critical thinker when in actuality, you meekly swallow the preaching of today’s opinion-makers?
This was the question posed by Dr. González Gaitano, dean of the faculty of institutional communication of Rome’s Pontifical University of the Holy [...]

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What Would Make Society Fall

January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

There are certain virtues that keep society working, things like honesty and participation — and without families, those virtues would cease to exist.
Doctor Pierpaolo Donati, a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, today at the 6th World Meeting of Families, contended that society utterly depends on families for the virtues [...]

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Agreement between the Holy See and Schleswig-Holstein

January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

On Monday 12 January, an Agreement was signed in Kiel, Germany, between the Holy See and Schleswig-Holstein, regulating relations between the Catholic Church and that German Land.
Signing for the Holy See as plenipotentiary was Archbishop Jean-Claude Perisset, apostolic nuncio to Germany and, for Schleswig-Holstein, Peter Harry Carstensen, minister-president.
According to a [...]

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Synod in Rome of Bishops of the Syriac Catholic Church

January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

A communique made public today announces that “the Holy Father Benedict XVI, moved by his pastoral solicitude for the Syriac Catholic Church and in view of Canon 72 para. 2 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, has called a Synod of bishops of the Syriac Catholic Church, to take [...]

Jan

15

Invocations to Saint Paul the First Hermit

January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

INVOCATIONES AD SANCTUM PAULUM EREMITAM
Sancte Paule, Ordinis nostri Pater,
ora pro nobis.
Sancte Paule, Christi sectatur fidelis,
ora pro nobis.
Sancte Paule, vir fortis et vividae fidei,
ora pro nobis.
Sancte Paule, in oratione et poenitentia indefessus,
ora pro nobis.
Sancte Paule, in tolerandis angustiis vitae eremiticae patiens,
ora pro nobis.
Sancte Paule, perseverantiae in via susceptae vitae exemplum,
ora pro nobis.
Sancte Paule, in articulo mortis [...]

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