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Obedience to the Truth
The Pope talks about 'conscience'.Yesterday the Pope addressed the Roman Curia on the occasion of Christmas greeting.As usual, the some journalists, not unknown for their anti-Catholic views - John...
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Pope Benedict XVI - nothing short of remarkable!
Recorded from Midnight Mass at St. Peter's. It's been quite a busy year for Pope Benedict XVI. Besides his almost daily meetings with ambassadors groups, heads of States, and his weekly Wednesday...
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A New Beginning...
Te DeumNo better way to end the old year and ring in the New!Te Deum laudamus: te Dominum confitemur.Te aeternum Patrem omnis terra veneratur.Tibi omnes Angeli, tibi Caeli et universae Potestates:Tibi...
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Religious Freedom, the Path to Peace.
May Europe be reconciled to its own Christian roots, which are fundamental for understanding its past, present and future role in history; in this way it will come to experience justice, concord and...
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Buying a Birth Certificate
More on Elton Johnfrom an article in the Independent:The report ran: "Elton John has become a parent" -- even though the sperm-donor was in fact his partner David Furnish. But the same report also...
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Funeral held for assassinated Pakistani politician
Thousands of Pakistani police were on high alert in Lahore on Wednesday ahead of the funeral for Punjab’s provincial governor, Salam Taseer.Taseer was assassinated by one of his security guards Tuesday...
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Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the new Evangelization
The Vatican has announced who will sit on the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the new Evangelization, the agency headed by Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella. (See here)One of the Cardinals...
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Pater Noster
I've just read a very interesting post titled A new (really old) way of thinking about the ‘Our Father’ at Mass by Fr.Z. Fr. Z's blog is to be found here.Cailin's new year resolution: to learn the Our...
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Would You Believe
The RTE 'Would You Believe' documentary, "Unspeakable Crimes", has made an allegation about the Vatican, using a leaked, highly confidential letter, by Luciano Storero, the then Apostolic Nuncio to...
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Maternal mortality rate associated with abortion
photo via @kathrynlopezA 13-year study of pregnancy-associated deaths, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, found that the maternal mortality rate associated with abortion is...
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Broken Promises
Twitter is great for information. Today @familyandmedia posted the following:@davquinn Broken Promises: How the AIDS Establishment Has Betrayed the Developing World - http://tinyurl.com/4s44zmx Edward...
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Some news from last week
massage-therapist-died-after-spiritual-ceremonyBaby Faith was delivered by caesarean at 28 weeks weighing 3lb (1.4kg).eoghan-harris-martin-must-choose-either-fine-fail-or-flotilla-failBillboard...
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New Missal Translation
The Association of Catholic Priests, representing about 400 of Ireland’s 4,500 priests has made an urgent plea to the country’s bishops to postpone the introduction of the new English translation of...
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A Vote for Labour is a vote for Abortion
Listen!Michael D Higgins, Labour Party, talked to Newstalk Radio on Friday 11th February about David Quinn, Iona Institute. The original broadcast can be found here. If you go to part 3 of the show and...
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A New Evangelisation
THE Pope will be officially told the Irish Catholic Church is "on the edge" of national collapse and has only five to 10 years to make a radical recovery by giving laymen and women a greater say in...
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The Morning After Pill
Catholic TeachingStatement on the So-Called "Morning-After Pill" Pontifical Academy for Life, October 31, 2000It is a well-known chemical product (of the hormonal type) which has frequently been...
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Saint Peter Canisius
Pope Benedict XVI's Wednesday General Audience is spiritual food for the soul. On Wednesday the 9th February, the Pope talked about Saint Peter Canisius.Fascinating.
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Genuine and True
A young man recently sent me a private message on Facebook to tell me I'm wasting my time talking about God, because God doesn't exist.I replied, "I believe He does indeed exist".He responded, "Do you...
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Direction for Our Times?
In the 1980s a false 'visionary' was travelling the world with her messages. She managed to deceive a Marian theologian from Dublin who promoted her throughout Ireland and Europe. Vassula Rydén, a...
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Benedict XVI: laity key to formulating, implementing social doctrine“Christ’s lay faithful cannot be just passive users and executors, for they are key players in the actuation of the Church’s social...
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Here's what happened in the UKThe Abortion Act 1967 sought to clarify the law. Introduced by David Steel and subject to heated debate it allowed for legal abortion on a number of grounds, with the...
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At the beginning of November, 2009, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decided that crucifixes must be removed from Italian school rooms. The decision was greeted with fury in Italy and has...
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The ECHR and Ireland
When it comes to abortion and Ireland, where do we start? The best place to start is to check first what the Catholic church has to say about abortion and the ECHR ruling. (After all, I am an Irish...
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