Holy Families = Vocations
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, August 31, 2009 12:53 PM
Speaking at yesterday’s Angelus prayers in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI emphasized the crucial role parents play in fostering vocations.
And as this Rome Reports video notes, he held up St. Monica, who made the conversion of her son St. Augustine her central objective in life, as an example of the influence dedicated parents can play in the spiritual lives of their children.
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The Reform of the Reform
Posted by Edward Pentin
Monday, August 24, 2009 10:39 AM
A girl kneels as she receives Communion from Pope Benedict XVI during Mass in May 2008. (CNS)
Italian journalist Andrea Tornielli, a veteran and well-respected Vatican watcher, reported on Saturday that Rome has initiated a major “reform of the reform” of the post-Second Vatican Council liturgical changes to the Mass.
H/t to the Rorate Caeli blog, which has posted a complete translation of Tornielli’s article, published in the Italian newspaper Il Giornale. It says that several... READ MORE
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Pope’s Wrist Unpinned
Posted by Edward Pentin
Friday, August 21, 2009 10:24 AM
The Pope leaves hospital July 17. (CNS/Reuters)
Pope Benedict XVI’s phyisician, Dr. Patrizio Polisca, said today that the cast and pins used to help heal the fracture in the Holy Father’s right wrist have been removed and that an X-ray showed a “consolidation of the fracture.”
“The final result as a whole can be defined as optimal,” the doctor said in a statement.
He concluded by saying that the Holy Father will recover fully... READ MORE
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Pope’s Letter to the Shrivers and Kennedys
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:20 AM
Sargent Shriver blows a kiss to family and friends following the funeral Mass Aug. 14 for his wife, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. (CNS)
From Zenit news service:
“Comfort One Another With the Assurance of Your Faith”
WASHINGTON, D.C., AUG. 19, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Here is the letter Benedict XVI sent Aug. 10 to the family of Eunice Kennedy Shriver. The letter was sent through Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States. Shriver, 88, died Aug. 11.
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To the Family of Eunice Kennedy Shriver,
As the official... READ MORE
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Benedict’s Summer School
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:05 PM
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger with Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio in 1987. Father Fessio, a former theology student of the future Pope, will be the only American participant at Benedict's 2009 "Schulerkreis." (CNS)
Catholic News Agency reported yesterday about the details of this year’s installment of Pope Benedict XVI’s annual “Ratzinger Schulerkreis.”
In English, “Ratzinger Schulerkreis” means “Ratzinger School Circle.” It refers to the gatherings that the Pope has convened for many years, discussing various themes, with some of his former theology students.
Since he became Pope, themes... READ MORE
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Poor Thank Pope for Encyclical
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:42 AM
Refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Aid to the Church in Need)
Stating that he was writing on behalf of the world’s poor, Father Joaquin Alliende, the international president of Aid to the Church in Need, has praised Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth).
Reports Zenit:
Father Joaquin Alliende stated this in an open letter to the Pope as a response to the encyclical “Caritas in Veritate,” which was released to... READ MORE
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Benedict’s Productive Vacations
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 8:57 AM
The Pope Benedict arrives in Les Combes, Italy, July 13 for his annual Alpine vacation. (CNS/Reuters)
Now that Pope Benedict XVI has started his annual vacation, don’t expect much news out of the Vatican over the next few weeks.
This doesn’t mean that the Pope will be idle while he’s vacationing in northern Italy, or afterward when he spends the next several weeks at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. In previous years, the Holy Father has dedicated time in the summer to writing his... READ MORE
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