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Here is the text for the Stations of the Cross that Pope Benedict will lead tomorrow night at the Colisseum. They are written by Monsignor Gianfranco Ravasi, Prefect of the Ambrosian Library and Gallery of Milan. Msgr. Ravasi, an expert in Bible and Hebrew studies, is professor of biblical exegesis at the Faculty of Theology…

…just a bit o bloggage worth sharing This blog from a Cleveland priest has a couple of interesting posts on the front page – one in which he discusses the Chrism Mass and mentions his frustration that a couple of Catholic schools have scheduled athletic events for Good Friday, but his gratitude that the diocese…

The wonders of YouTube…a short (44 second) newsreel clip from 1956 of now Cardinal Dulles’ ordination to the priesthood. Thanks to Dimitri Cavalli for sending it along. And…catch that mitre on Cardinal Spellman!

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From Ratzinger’s Introduction to Christianity, via Pontifications; It is not man who goes to God with a compensatory gift, but God who comes to man, in order to give to him. He restores disturbed right on the initiative of his own power to love, by making unjust man just again, the dead living again, through…

…in Mosul: Holy Week began with the sound of gunfire at Mosul’s Holy Spirit Parish Church. In this place, where religious services are held in an underground hall for security reasons because the church’s windows have all been blown out by bomb blasts and never replaced, the faithful pray and hope non-stop knowing that every…

At today’s General Audience: The Pascal mystery “is not just a memorial to a past reality, it is a present reality: today, Christ’s love continues to defeat sin and death”. “Evil does not have the last word” and “the final triumph belongs to Christ”.  Pope Benedict XVI re-proposed the “certainty” on which “our Christian existence…

Of gypsies: The Vatican is planning to host the first international meeting of Gypsy priests, deacons and religious as a way to help support and promote vocations. Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers, said the Sept. 23-24 meeting also would give consecrated Gypsies a chance to meet, network and…

A CNS story looks at a small FSSP parish in Rome. A fair treatment – the angle is comparing this  Mass with papal liturgies, which is an interesting point, but sort of like apples and oranges – comparing a Mass with 40 people to one with 40,000. The whole experience and the people in attendance…

Cardinal Mahony on California’s assisted suicide bill: Cardinal Roger Mahony is urging Catholics to fight a proposed bill that would legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill in California. "Assisted suicide is totally unnecessary — not only is it against God’s law, God’s plan, we simply don’t need something like that," said Cardinal Mahony during…
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