Archive for July 5, 2005

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Pope Benedict: As children of God, we may invoke God as ‘Abba’

In his general audience earlier today in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI encouraged nearly 15,000 listeners to realize that... Read more

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Holy Father hopes ‘Torch of Peace’ will encourage spread of Christian values in Europe

Following his general audience this morning at the Vatican, Pope Benedict greeted a group of delegates from the Italian diocese... Read more

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Pope Benedict decries “cafeteria Catholicism”

Speaking on the newly released Compendium to the Catechism of the Catholic Church Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI stressed the need... Read more

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Letter from John Paul II to Ali Agca never sent, archbishop reveals

John Paul II’s longtime personal secretary, Archbishop Stanislao Dziwisz of Krakow, confirmed this week the late Pontiff had written a... Read more

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British Catholic Action Group decries joint-religious schools

A Catholic group in the U.K. aiming to preserve authentic Catholic teaching is expressing outage at proposals throughout the U.K.... Read more

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World Youth Day cross begins final push for Cologne, eyes of the world turn to Germany

On Friday, Catholics around the world will begin the final forty-day countdown before the 11th annual World Youth Day celebration,... Read more

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Many Ratzinger critics warming up to soft-spoken Pope Benedict

The New York Times reported this week that many former critics of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger are warming up to the... Read more

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Canadian Archbishop warns against impending female-ordination ceremony

In the wake of an invalid ceremony on Saturday in which a French woman declared herself a Catholic priest, Kingston,... Read more

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Colombian bishops: child’s right to a father and a mother supersede homosexual demands

The Secretary General of the Bishops’ Conference of Colombia, Bishop Fabian Marlanda, reiterated this week the Church’s opposition to the... Read more

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Show the face of Christ to the world, cardinal tells young people attending WYD

During a press conference on World Youth Day 2005, which will take place in Germany in August, Cardinal Joachim Meisner... Read more

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Opposition to same-sex “marriage” is not discrimination against homosexuals

Bishop Jose Sanchez Gonzalez of Sigüenza-Guadalajara, Spain, said this week opposition to same-sex marriage is not tantamount to discrimination against... Read more