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The General Audience: Evoking the story of the first martyr, Benedict XVI first of all drew attention to the fact that he is linked to the institution of the diaconate, “a term however absent in the Acts of the Apostles” that instead speak of the first martyr. After the death and resurrection of Jesus, continued…

John Allen reports on an address given by Bishop Trautman of Erie, chair of the USCCB Committee on liturgy. The address was to the Catholic Academy of Liturgy. According to a press release issued by a member of the academy’s Executive Committee, Jesuit Fr. Keith Pecklers of Rome’s Gregorian University, Trautman “contended that the new…

France, first: Barely half the French population describe themselves as Catholic, according to a poll released yesterday, sparking a leading religious publication to declare France "no longer a Catholic country". A poll published in Le Monde des Religions yesterday showed the number of self-declared French Catholics had dropped from 80 per cent in the early…

Screen all preborn babies for Downs’, doctors say: For decades, pregnant women 35 and older have routinely been tested for chromosomal abnormalities that might affect their fetus, most notably Down syndrome. Younger women were tested much less often because the risk of birth defects was low and invasive procedures like amniocentesis carried risks of their…
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