Archive for November 29, 2011

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Patience with new translation expected to pay dividends

November 27 was a historic Sunday for English-speaking Roman Catholics, who began using a long-awaited and more accurate Mass translation.... Read more

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Vatican's Cardinal Piacenza points priests to Mary for Advent

Catholic priests should ask the Virgin Mary for a heart able to “relive Christ’s coming” during Advent this year, Cardinal... Read more

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Man who escaped from Colombian rebels prayed for his captors

Sergeant Luis Alberto Erazo Mayo, the sole survivor of the recent massacre of four hostages by a Colombian rebel group,... Read more

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Mail bomb prompts Mexican archdiocese to call for increased security

The Archdiocese of Mexico is calling on local officials to improve security after a package containing explosives was mailed to... Read more

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Pontifical anthropology magazine now available in English

The Pontifical Commission for Latin America announced in Rome on Nov. 29 that the Christian anthropology magazine “Humanitas” will now... Read more

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Pius X Society says Vatican's current offer not acceptable

The Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X says he will inform the Vatican “in the next few... Read more

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Planned Chinese ordination has Vatican approval, with conditions

The Nov. 30 ordination of a new Chinese bishop has approval from the Vatican, though there are concerns about how... Read more

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Vatican paper refutes critics of divorce and remarriage teaching

After a leading German bishop questioned the Church’s teaching on divorce and remarriage, the Vatican’s newspaper today published an essay... Read more