Portrait: St. Louis IX: Model of a Christian Ruler

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From “Where Have All the Real Saints Gone?” Marian T. Horvat, Tradition in Action:
St. Louis the King of France is first and foremost the great defender of the Church and the Catholic Faith. A magnificent model ideal for boys and young men who dream of wielding swords and fighting the enemies of Holy Mother [...]

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Report: China Catholics throng to church

From BBC News:
At Sunday morning Mass, the church is overflowing with worshippers. Those that cannot squeeze in sit on benches outside.
There are no official ties between China and the Vatican, despite attempts by both sides over recent months to overcome their differences.
But that does not seem to matter to the faithful at the [...]

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Report: Pope looks with hope towards “blessed day” of full unity between Catholics and Orthodox

From Catholic News Agency:
The Holy Father has sent a message to the 10th Inter-Christian Symposium, dedicated to dialogue between Catholics and Orthodox. Pope Benedict XVI said that although Christian unity is not yet perfect, we all look with hope towards “the blessed day” of full communion in order to celebrate the one Eucharist.
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The Holy Father [...]

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Speech: How brave a new world?

From a commencement speech made by Dr Leon Kass at St John’s College, in Annapolis, Maryland. Full speech at MercatorNet.com.
The greatest moral challenges headed our way do not in fact come from hate-filled fanatics threatening death and destruction. They come rather from well meaning scientists and technologists offering life, pleasure, and enhancement. They are the [...]

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Report: Benedict XVI: Ireland must not cease to be the land of saints and scholars despite its affluence

From Catholic News Agency:
On Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI received the new ambassador of Ireland to the Holy See, Noel Fahey. The Pope used the occasion to speak about the new found Irish affluence and the importance of not letting materialism choke Ireland’s soul.
The Holy Father began the audience by recalling how “for over [...]

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Report: Italy in “moral crisis,” bishops’ leader says

From Catholic World News:
The president of the Italian bishops’ conference has described Italy as “a country in a state of moral crisis.”
Speaking on September 17 to the executive committee of the episcopal conference, Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco defended the right of the Church to speak out on public issues involving the dignity of human life, [...]

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Article: Fear Factor: Lebanon and the European Way of Peacekeeping

Soeren Kern / Human Events:
Just why are Europeans so ambivalent about doing the right thing? Fear, fear and more fear, according to experts at a June 20 hearing titled Adding Hezbollah to the EU Terrorist List sponsored by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives. Europeans are reluctant to call Hezbollah what [...]

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Article: Demography is destiny: Hispanic Catholics to impact U.S. society

Archbishop Chaput / Archdiocese of Denver:
For many years, the ministry, theological reflection and actual participation of Hispanics in the Church had, in some ways, been shaped by a spirit of confrontation; a theology that reinforced the Hispanic sense of alienation and discrimination. Of course, those bitter feelings were often rooted in real suffering and serious [...]

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Report: Love Your Neighbours, Museveni Tell Christians

From AllAfrica:
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has urged Christians to love their neighbours. He was speaking at celebrations to mark 60 years of Christianity in the North Ankore region held at Emmanuel Cathedral in Rushere over the weekend.
The President narrated an incident in 1993 when Pope John Paul II visited Gulu and Christians considered the hut [...]

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Article: Sex revolution robbed us of fertility

Angela Shanahan / The Australian:
Despite the media’s discomfort, the fertility crisis in the West is a moral problem and, of course, only moral leaders such as Pope Benedict XVI have the guts and authority to enunciate it.
The truth about declining fertility is not all that complicated. It is the inevitable result of a so-called [...]

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