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“Quite inexplicable”
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jmcgee
That’s how the Archbishop of Westminster is characterizing comments by Cardinal Walter Kasper, who earlier this week compared the UK to “Third World country.” (Perhaps not the best choice of words for the start of a papal trip…) From the Beeb: A senior papal aide has come under pressure to apologise after saying arriving at…
“We remain a people of hope”
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jmcgee
“This journey is a pilgrimage, it is a penance and it is a chance to say hello to the Pope – to support him and to say that we are thinking of him in these difficult times. Compared to 30 years ago, it is a dramatically different scene. But we remain a people of hope.”…
Booming: Dominican nuns still drawing lots of vocations
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jmcgee
Anybody wonder what they’re doing right? This won’t be news to most Catholics who have been paying attention. But the AP is sitting up and taking notice: A handful of Roman Catholic convents are contradicting the decades-long slide in the number of women choosing to devote their lives to the sisterhood. And at least two…
A prayer for the pope’s trip
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jmcgee
Heavenly Father, we give honor and praise to your name. All power is from you and we thank you for the gift of your son, Jesus Christ, and for his sacrifice for us on Calvary. We humbly ask you to be with your servant, Pope Benedict, as he travels to the United Kingdom. Grant him…
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