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| It is easy to think that God has abandoned us. Yet because He is God, we know deep inside that He can do better than that. All we have to do is believe ... seek the light of the Holy Spirit! Photo credit: "Jesus with Little One" by freestone wilson |
I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. John 14:18 NAB
of QMI Agency writes: This isn’t China, North Korea, Iran, or Egypt. Christians are not beaten up, raped, killed, forcibly converted and exiled.
, Pope John XXIII reportedly said he wanted to “throw open the windows of the church so that we can see out and the people can see in.”
My parents so admired his progressive attitude that when my brother was born a month after the Italian pope died in 1963, they gave him the middle name Giovanni.
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while he ran. He estimated he prayed 35,000 Hail Marys during a journey that began on January 20 in Oceanside, Calif. Read more...
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of the Religious News Service writes at BeliefNet.com: John Paul’s election in 1978 was initially met with skepticism by many Jews, who feared he might reflect the long record of anti-Semitism that had poisoned much of Jewish life in Poland. How wrong they were.
and a warm personal relationship with Jews were both etched into the pope’s head and heart. During his 27-year pontificate, John Paul’s positive actions earned him an honored place in Jewish history.
A small, unassuming office in southwest Rome seems a rather ordinary setting in which to play out a grand battle between good and evil. It is here, though, that Father Gabriele Amorth
[pictured] has carried out most of his 70,000 exorcisms over the past 26 years.
in Russia and Eastern Europe. The collapse of communism.” Read more...
.” The EWTN Program, “The Journey Home” also makes reference to that.
reminds us that “everyone has the right to economic initiative; everyone should make legitimate use of his talent to contribute to the abundance that will benefit all, and to harvest the just fruits of his labor” (2429). We understand this because we understand the nature of man and his relationship to his Creator.
and Blessed John Paul II
, in Solicitudo Rei Socialis, explain that “experience shows us that the denial of this right [economic initiative], or its limitation in the name of an alleged ‘equality’ of everyone in society, diminishes, or in practice absolutely destroys the spirit of initiative.” From a spiritual perspective, human initiative in the economic sphere can be understood to reveal man’s humanity as creative and relational. Read more...
and for the country's 'suffering' bishops whose ministry was often subjected to the control of the communist state, he said.
and the underground church loyal to the Vatican. 'Chinese Catholics, as they have said many times, want unity with the universal Church, with the Supreme Pastor, with the Successor of Peter (the pope),' Benedict said. Read more...
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| The Tridentine Latin Mass |
People of today aged 40 and below may have difficulty relating with the on-going discussions about liturgical reforms. All we know is that, once upon a time, priests celebrated mass with their backs towards the people and they spoke in Latin.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With fewer than 100 days to go, preparations for World Youth Day 2011
in Madrid are heating up and organizers are promising a “fiesta,” adding a Spanish flavor to the traditional opportunities for prayer, friendship, music and religious education.
, the official sponsor of World Youth Day, said, “We can’t predict how many will register at the last minute.” At WYD Paris in 1997, he said, 300,000 young people pre-registered, and there were 1.2 million people at the closing vigil and closing Mass with Pope John Paul II. Read more...
Father C. John McCloskey
[pictured], a priest of the personal prelature of Opus Dei for the past 30 years, is considered one of the Church’s most accomplished “fishers of men.” He has guided dozens of people into full communion with the Catholic Church
, including high-profile figures such as federal Judge Robert Bork, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, Gen. Josiah Bunting III, economist Larry Kudlow, former abortionist Bernard Nathanson and columnist Robert Novak.
, Anthony Liu Bainian had promised ten episcopal ordinations without papal consent.
for the Church in China on May 24. In the appeal the Pope mentioned his “brother bishops” in China some of whom “suffer and find themselves under pressure in the exercise of their episcopal ministry.” Read more...
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| Early Christian symbol of a fish. Greek for fish is an acrostic for Jesus, Christ, God, Son, Saviour |
Jesus said to him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6 NAB
