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US Politicians: Encyclical Points to Human Dignity

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Two U.S. legislators are underlining the value of Benedict XVI’s latest encyclical and are endorsing its study by Catholics and non-Catholics alike, as food for thought in the economic crisis.
The House of Representatives republican leader, John Boehner, and the republican policy committee chairman, Thaddeus McCotter, affirmed this in a joint statement issued today.
The statement pointed [...]

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Commemorating the Feast of St. Benedict of Nursia

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Interview With the Archabbot of Monte Cassino
By Father Thomas Rosica, CSB
To commemorate the memorial of St. Benedict of Nursia on Saturday, we present this interview by Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, the chief executive officer of Salt and Light Catholic Television Network in Canada, with the Archabbot of Monte Cassino, Benedictine Father Pietro Vittorelli.
The interview took [...]

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Meeting of Holy See – Israel Bilateral Working Commission

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“The Bilateral Permanent Working Commission between the Holy See and the State of Israel met yesterday, 9 July, at Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to continue the negotiations on the Economic Agreement”, reads a communique released today by the Holy See Press Office.
“The talks took place in an atmosphere of great cordiality, and the [...]

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Progress in Diplomatic Relations Mexico – Holy See

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This morning in the Vatican the Holy Father received the Letters of Credence of Hector Federico Ling Altamirano, the new ambassador to the Holy See of Mexico, a nation, said the Pope in his remarks, “whose identity has been forged over the centuries in a fruitful relationship with the message of salvation proclaimed by the [...]

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Pontifical Acts

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The Holy Father:
- Appointed Bishop Alfonso Cortes Contreras, auxiliary of Monterrey, Mexico, as bishop of Cuernavaca (area 4,941, population 2,167,000, Catholics 1,874,000, priests 176, permanent deacons 3, religious 482), Mexico. He succeeds Bishop Florencio Olvera Ochoa, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the [...]