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- Pope Wraps Up Successful Visit
- In Grief, Poland Returns to Wawel
- For Benedict XVI, Malta was a break in the storm
- US ordination class of 2010: 31% foreign-born; 10% are converts
- A National Day Of Prayer, Hardly
- Doing Penance for Others
- No Greater Love..
- On the Waterfront, "On the Outskirts"
| Pope Wraps Up Successful Visit Posted: 18 Apr 2010 01:30 PM PDT By Edward Pentin | The Pope has now arrived back in Rome after what many are seeing as a highly successful trip - even if the chances of it being a flop in this very Catholic nation were slim. In his farewell address at Malta international airport, he called on the Maltese people to be "an example, at home and abroad... |
| In Grief, Poland Returns to Wawel Posted: 18 Apr 2010 08:42 PM PDT A week after a Russian plane crash killed Polish President Lech Kacyzinski, his wife and much of the country's leadership -- 96 people in all -- the official period of mourning ended today with the burial of the conservative leader and his wife in the hallowed spot reserved for the nation's most cherished heroes. |
| For Benedict XVI, Malta was a break in the storm Posted: 19 Apr 2010 12:32 AM PDT For much of Pope Benedict XVI's April 17-18 visit to Malta, it was unclear whether the plumes of volcanic ash currently disrupting air travel in Europe would allow the pontiff to return to Rome as scheduled Sunday evening. In the end, however, the weather cooperated, and Benedict made it safely home. |
| US ordination class of 2010: 31% foreign-born; 10% are converts Posted: 19 Apr 2010 03:16 AM PDT A survey of US seminarians who will be ordained this year has found that 31% were born outside the United States, with most coming from Mexico, Colombia, the Philippines, Poland and... |
| A National Day Of Prayer, Hardly Posted: 19 Apr 2010 05:43 AM PDT By Pat Archbold | Last week it was widely reported that a Federal judge, in an absurd decision, killed the National Day of Prayer. No she didn't. It has also been widely speculated that the decision of the descriptively named Judge Crabb will be over-turned by a higher court and the National Day of Prayer will live again. No it won't. |
| Posted: 18 Apr 2010 10:00 PM PDT By Mark Shea | A reader asks: My question is, and I am asking you in email because I just am not sure how to word it to pick-up the right stuff through site searches, how are we as Catholics (or Christians in general if that is a more correct way to put it) supposed to feel about sins that we … |
| Posted: 18 Apr 2010 05:31 PM PDT A few years ago the documentary film Into Great Silence, which chronicled the lives of the Carthusian Monks of the Grande Chartreuse, mesmerized audiences with its rhythm of prayer and silence. In a world increasingly noise and instrumentation-laden, the silence spoke volumes to audiences. which follows the lives of Carmelite nuns in England... |
| On the Waterfront, "On the Outskirts" Posted: 18 Apr 2010 03:21 PM PDT It might've eluded every other summary of this day, but prior to his afternoon speech to Malta's young people, the Catholic Herald 's Anna Arco reports that B16 was asked some rather exceptional questions by representatives of the massive group that turned out alongside the isle's coast, to which the papal address was crafted as an answer. |
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