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On Friday Pope Benedict XVI (bio – news) will meet with the Dalai Lama in a private audience on October 13. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader will be in Rome to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Rome. At this meeting with the Holy Father he will be accompanied by several aides. Cardinal…

Catholic News Service: Pope Benedict XVI is preparing to expand permission to use the Tridentine Mass, the pre-Vatican II rite favored by traditionalist groups, said an informed Vatican source. The pope is expected to issue a document "motu proprio," or on his own initiative, which will address the concerns of "various traditionalists," said the source,…

How and why: Seems that he basically kept all the cash given in the collections and never reported it. Skehan appeared to operate under a system of greed and generosity. He routinely kept $1,000 to $3,000 a week for himself, depending on the size of the collection. But he also gave $100 cash a week…

A few weeks ago, Bishop Tod Brown of Orange County issued a pastoral letter which is called The Pastoral Letter or, in the DVD produced to accompany it The Letter – both of which are so pretentious as to be totally off-putting.  But we’ll put that aside – the subtitle of The Letter is "Learning,…
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