From Ratzinger’s Introduction to Christianity, via Pontifications; It is not man who goes to God with a compensatory gift, but God who comes to man, in order to give to him. He restores disturbed right on the initiative of his own power to love, by making unjust man just again, the dead living again, through…

…in Mosul: Holy Week began with the sound of gunfire at Mosul’s Holy Spirit Parish Church. In this place, where religious services are held in an underground hall for security reasons because the church’s windows have all been blown out by bomb blasts and never replaced, the faithful pray and hope non-stop knowing that every…

At today’s General Audience: The Pascal mystery “is not just a memorial to a past reality, it is a present reality: today, Christ’s love continues to defeat sin and death”. “Evil does not have the last word” and “the final triumph belongs to Christ”.  Pope Benedict XVI re-proposed the “certainty” on which “our Christian existence…

Of gypsies: The Vatican is planning to host the first international meeting of Gypsy priests, deacons and religious as a way to help support and promote vocations. Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers, said the Sept. 23-24 meeting also would give consecrated Gypsies a chance to meet, network and…

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