In commenting about the year of the priest, Pope Benedict called on priests to dress more appropriately and to have their dress be a visual sign to people of your priesthood.
Bardiconi, an outfitters in Rome, said the tradition-loving pontiff’s influence has already made itself felt among customers.
”With the new pope we had already noted [...]
I am sure you can find this a million different places by now, but I thought I would repost it here. At St. Columbkille, our lenten programs will focus on these three pillars with the first week of lent talking about fasting by Deacon Biver, the second week a healing mass with the [...]
Granting marriage annulments too easily and without real cause plays into a modern form of pessimism that basically says human beings are not able to make lifelong commitments to loving another person, Pope Benedict XVI said.
“We run the risk of falling into an anthropological pessimism which, in the light of today’s cultural situation, considers it [...]
Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommunication of the four bishops from the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) ordained by Marcel Lefebvre in 1988 in a decision he hopes will lead to “real and final unity.”
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Hey! This is nice to see as I have been saying for a long time that it is time to do so. Check out SQPN for Catholic related media.
Pope Benedict XVI asked young Catholics to use their computers, Facebook accounts, blogs and Internet video posts to share with their peers the joy of faith in [...]
The headline in many secular newspapers is probably great for readership but misses the mark when reporting. The Apostolic Penitentiary, or “tribunal of conscience”, has never provided details of the cases it scrutinises and the exact sins are ever made public as is the case for any sin divulged during confession. So the media again [...]
The Vatican (LifeNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI has a special message for the world with the start of the New Year and it focuses on condemning abortion and birth control. The pope urged efforts to end poverty across the globe but said those efforts must also be life-affirming for women and unborn children.
The leader of [...]
VATICAN CITY, DEC. 18, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI says he wants the life of the Church, and particularly of the Holy See, to be present in audio, text and video on the Internet.
This was the advice and encouragement the Pope gave to the directors and staff of the Vatican Television Center today, when he received [...]
VATICAN CITY, DEC. 2, 2008 (Zenit.org).- At the heart of liberalism is the Christian image of God, and rediscovering that is the key to overcoming the current crisis of ethics in Europe and the world, says Benedict XVI.
The Pope wrote this in a letter sent in September to Italian philosopher and senator Marcello Pera, in [...]
ROME (ENI, 10/31/08) — Pope Benedict XVI’s consideration of a proposal made to him by a worldwide gathering in Rome of more than 250 Roman Catholic bishops that women should be authorized to “announce” the word of God at parish services is stirring debate as to what the move would ultimately entail.
The proposal was one [...]
