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Excerpt from an essay, “Faith, Reason, Islam and the West” by Father J. Patrick Serna, Fall/Winter 2006 issue of Catholic Men’s Quarterly.
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So what do we do? Do we sit on the sidelines, which send more people to the hottest parts of hell, according to Dante? No. We must be the Catholic men [...]
Posted in Reports on November 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
From ZENIT:
In the letter, Benedict XVI recalled his visit to Istanbul, and said that the practice of exchanging delegations represents an authentic sign “of the commitment of our Churches to an ever deeper communion, strengthened through cordial personal relations, prayer and the dialogue of charity and truth.”
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He continued: “Indeed, our work toward unity is according [...]
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From Catholic World News:
Abortion now the leading cause of death in Spain, a pro-life campaigner there told the Fides news service.
Eduardo Hertfelder, the president of the Spanish Family Policy Institute (IPF), based his report on a study prepared by IPF, which shows that in 2006 there was an abortion every 5.3 minutes, or 270 [...]
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From Catholic News Agency:
The interesting twist in the Pope’s proposal for dialogue is that he has insisted on changing the context of the talks. While the Muslim leaders’ letter framed future dialogue around the twofold commandment to love God and one’s neighbor, Benedict XVI’s reply suggests a change in the terms of discussion.
According to [...]
Posted in Reports on November 23, 2007 | No Comments »
From Catholic News Agency:
The Muslims’ letter, titled “A Common Word Between Us and You,” sought to build on common ground shared between the Muslim and Christian faiths. It compared texts from the Bible and the Koran to argue that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. It said both religions believe in “the [...]
Posted in Reports on November 23, 2007 | No Comments »
From Asia News:
[Chaldean bishop of Kirkuk (Iraq)]
We Christians in Iraq have lived through hard times. Many of us have been killed, kidnapped and forced to leave. Families are split and scattered in various countries.
Iraq is our homeland—we have been here long before the arrival of Islam. We are an indigenous people, not some colonial [...]
Posted in Speeches on November 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Professor Roberto de Mattei (tip to Real Clear Religion):
It does not seem excessive to affirm that the participatio actuosa of the community appears to be the ultimate criterion of the liturgical reform from the perspective of a radical secularization of the liturgy. Such a secularization consists of the extinction of the Sacrifice, the sacred action [...]
Posted in Reports, Uncategorized on November 22, 2007 | No Comments »
“We are parting with the speech of the Christian centuries; we are becoming like profane intruders in the literary preserve of sacred utterance. We will lose a great part of that stupendous and incomparable artistic and spiritual thing, the Gregorian chant.”
- Pope Paul VI, Address to a General Audience, November 26, 1969
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Posted in Articles on November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
From The American Spectator:
Last year it emerged that three out of four employers were no longer putting up Christmas decorations in the workplace for fear of offending political correctness policing, and as I wrote recently Christmas lights are disappearing from High Streets, ostensibly because of the cost of complying with the expanding torrent of health [...]
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From Catholic World News:
Rome, Nov. 14, 2007 (CWNews.com) - The European Union commands slightly more confidence among Italians than the Catholic Church, according to a survey in the daily Corriere della Sera.
The Corriere survey found that 66% of respondents were willing to trust the European Union, while 61% trusted the Church. Only 51% trusted [...]
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