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I have been trying to keep up with events at the ECUSA General Convention, but it’s pretty intense, I don’t quite (well…at all) get the system, and I remain quite fuzzy on what’s going on with the resolutions that are supposed to be in response to the Windsor Report. But there is news that my…

This article translated from the Italian newspaper Il Giornale today, written by its long-time Vatican correspondent Andrea Tornielli, who wrote one of the first biographies about Benedict XVI published after his election. Papa Ratzinger does not like decisions made in haste, and above all – contrary to the false label of “inquisititor” tagged on him…

The Maronite Catholic Church recently concluded a 3-year synod. BEIRUT, Lebanon – The Maronite Catholic Church’s patriarchal synod is a "new Pentecost" for Maronites around the world, said an Australian Maronite bishop and synod participant. "We felt the need to come together to have a new spring and to have a church of new horizons…

Today’s Angelus, translation courtesy of Teresa Benedetta at the Papa Ratzinger Forum: Dear brothers and sisters! Today the solemnity of Corpus Domini is celebrated in Italy and other countries. In Rome, the high point of Corpus Domini was observed during the procession last Thursday. Corpus Domini is the solemn public feast of the Eucharist, the…

Nothing to see here. Keep walking…right on to Shamanism! Coming to a parish near you – if you’re near this parish: Join Father Michael to learn the primitive human spirituality of shamanism! Shamanism is not a religion or a cult. It is a spiritual methodology as old as humanity itself. So much of the Bible…

Also from the Times UK, a story about the divisions of the Anglican Church in..Zimbawe. Over slightly different issues than divide their brothers and sisters here. HE has used a combination of threats and patronage to keep military, police and party officials on his side as Zimbabwe descends into economic chaos. Now President Robert Mugabe…

The Times UK offers a backgrounder – with some new information – on what’s been going on between the Vatican and the PRC over the past few months: Zen said the persecution of Catholics in China had moved the Vatican to try to reach an accord that would relieve the suffering of believers. “There was…

A moving story about a father of eleven children whose wife suddenly passed away this past February: When Dan McNeill walks into his home after work, he does a mental roll call to figure out who is where. He is greeted by the little ones with hugs and kisses. The older ones wave and grab…

Well, the Bertone business heats up again La Stampa reports: Il Papa ha deciso: il nuovo Segretario di Stato sarà il cardinale Tarcisio Bertone, attualmente arcivescovo di Genova. Lo apprende Apcom da fonti autorevoli. L’annuncio del successore di Angelo Sodano non è ancora stato ufficializzato dalla sala stampa della Santa Sede, ma la nomina è…

A reader just returned from the first night of the Atlanta Archdiocese Eucharistic Congress and reports: I just got back from the first night of the Archdiocese of Atlanta Eucharistic Congress. I went to the Healing Mass, which was surprisingly efficient. The priest gave a good homily about uniting our sufferings to Christ’s and what…
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