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A New Culture of Solidarity to Face the Current Crisis

January 31, 2009 | 1 Comment

This morning in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall, the Pope received leaders of the Italian CISL trade union, in a meeting marking the organisation’s sixtieth anniversary.
The Holy Father began by recalling how sixty years ago the CISL “took its first steps, playing an active role in establishing the free international trade-union organisation to which it [...]

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Iraqi Bishops in Rome: Don’t Forget Us

January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment

There is a “deafening silence” in the international community about the plight of Iraqi Christians, attest prelates from the wartorn country.
The bishops, in Rome for their five-yearly meeting with the Pope, spoke with Vatican Radio about the situation their flocks are facing back home and they appealed to the world not to [...]

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Ascension Catholic Community Ministry of Intercession for February

January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Thank you for being a part of this ministry. Please pray for the following this month.
For the Holy Father’s intention that that the Pastor of the church may always be docile to the action of the Holy Spirit in their teaching and in their service to God’s people.
That the Church [...]

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Cardinal Bertone: Vatican II Not a Point of Rupture

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The idea that the Second Vatican Council was a point of rupture between the pre- and post-conciliar Church is “absurd,” says Benedict XVI’s secretary of state.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said this Wednesday at a conference held to mark the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Circle of Rome. The topic was [...]

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On the Apostolic Visitation to US Religious Institutes

January 31, 2009 | 3 Comments

Here is the text of the statement made by Sister Eva-Maria Ackerman, spokeswoman for Mother Mary Clare Millea, superior general of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and apostolic visitator, announcing the apostolic visitation of the principal religious institutes of women in the United States.
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Good Morning. My [...]