Update: Benedict’s Synod Talk
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, October 20, 2008 8:41 PM
(CNS)
For those who would like to review Pope Benedict XVI’s unscheduled presentation last week to the World Synod of Bishops on the Word of God, the complete text is now available here at Sandro Magister’s useful Chiesa website.
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Synod Tour de Force
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, October 20, 2008 6:10 AM
Synod participants pray Oct. 18 in the Sistine Chapel. (CNS)
Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec City is earning kudos for the skills he’s displaying as relator-general of the Synod of Bishops on the Word of God.
Part of the work of the relator-general is, at the synod’s mid-point, to coalesce the scores of presentations made by the assembled bishops and invited guests in order to help orient the second half of the synod to its task of making specific... READ MORE
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Benedict’s Intervention
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 6:43 AM
(CNS)
The big news at the Synod of Bishops is yesterday’s unscheduled contribution from Pope Benedict XVI.
The Pope addressed the need to balance historical analysis of Bible texts with the tradition of the Church in order to understand Scripture properly.
Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, who is serving as the synod’s English-language press attaché, discusses the Holy Father’s remarks here.
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Scriptural ABCs
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:59 AM
Armenian Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX.
Pope Benedict XVI has repeatedly reminded secularized Europe’s leaders that the Christian faith has formed their societies.
Speaking Saturday at the World Synod of Bishops on the Word of God, Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX of the Armenian Catholic Church spelled out what reading the Bible did for Armenia, which is regarded historically as the first nation to embrace Christianity.
“According to... READ MORE
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Cardinal Ouellet’s Synod Report
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, October 13, 2008 6:33 AM
(CNS)
Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec is serving as General Relator of the Synod of Bishops on the Word of God currently underway in Rome.
Speaking near the end of the synod’s first week, Cardinal Ouellet told Register correspondent Edward Pentin that he anticipates the synod “will give an extraordinary enthusiasm and a renewed sense of mission and a new means and new fervor to communicate and to... READ MORE
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Synod Links
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 8:55 AM
Cardinal George addresses the Synod Oct. 7. (CNS/L'Osservatore Romano)
The bishops are blogging.
At the Synod of Bishops on the Word of God currently underway in Rome, that is.
Two of the five U.S. bishops in attendance at the synod — Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson and Archbishop Basil Schott of the Archeparchy of Pittsburgh for... READ MORE
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Pius XII Comments Rebuked
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:09 AM
Israeli Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen (r), attends Synod of Bishops. (CNS/Reuters)
Vatican journalist Andrea Tornielli has rallied to the defense of Pope Pius XII.
Israeli Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen, the grand rabbi of Haifa, Israel, unexpectedly interjected the wartime Pope into the context of the World Synod of Bishops yesterday.
After making history by addressing the synod, Rabbi Cohen criticized Pius XII in remarks to reporters.
Pius XII “should not be sanctified or looked... READ MORE
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