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awelborn
Sandro Magister has a very interesting column today, in which he looks at five recent General Audience talks (remember, the Pope is going through the Greek and Latin Fathers) and pegs the moments when the Pope begins to extemporize. After the Easter season, the pope will dedicate catecheses to other great Patristic figures like Gregory…
12 Days
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awelborn
It has been 12 days since Mosul’s Chaldean Archbishop was kidnapped: The Iraqi Church is “suffering profoundly” from the “darkness and silence” which reign over the kidnap of Mosul’s Chaldean Archbishop, as anxiety and concern increase among the faithful and their pastors. A fresh appeal has been launched today by the Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk,…
Credentials
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awelborn
Last week, new US ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon presented her credentials to Pope Benedict. Elizabeth Lev writes of the occasion for Zenit with her usual grace and insight – even more so this time, since her mother is, well, Mary Ann Glendon: The door to the Pope’s study opened and we entered in…
Oh, and on Luther?
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awelborn
It seems that Luther isn’t even one of the two topics being considered for Ratzinger Reunion ’08: The story “does not have any foundation, insofar as no rehabilitation of Luther is foreseen,” Father Lombardi told the Italian news agency ANSA March 8. Vatican officials said the topic of the pope’s annual summer gathering of former…
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