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In the News
“A new state of affairs today both in the Church and in social, economic, political and cultural life, calls with a particular urgency for the action of the lay faithful. If lack of commitment is always unacceptable, the present time renders it even more so. It is not permissible for anyone to remain idle.”
–Christifidelis Laici n.3
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A long time has passed since my last post on the web site. My silence, however, doesn’t mean nothing was happening! In fact a very thorough revision and rewriting of the Constitutions of the Institute was underway and undergoing numerous revisions with the expert assistance of the Vicariate of Rome and the Congregation of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. |
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After more than two years of work I am happy to announce that the draft of the new Constitutions for Miles Jesu has been given to Cardinal Agostino Vallini of the Vicariate of Rome for his revision in consultation with the Congregation of the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. |
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On January 29, 2012, Hildegard Freund Burjan was beatified by Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes in a ceremony at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, Austria. A wife, mother, polititian and lay apostle, she is a striking example for our times. |
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I greet all of you with fraternal affection and I pray that this pilgrimage of spiritual renewal and deepened communion will confirm you in faith and commitment to your task as Pastors of the Church in the United States of America. As you know, it is my intention in the course of this year to reflect with you on some of the spiritual and cultural challenges of the new evangelization. |
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The Anglican Church in America (ACA) will now enter the Catholic Church as a block, bringing in thousands of converts.
They have voted to take up the offer made by Pope Benedict XVI in November that permits vicars and their entire congregations to defect to Rome while keeping many of their Anglican traditions, including married priests.. |
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In his 2001 apostolic letter Novo Millennio Ineunte, Pope John Paul II asked bishops to have “courage, confidence and creativity” in re-establishing the sacrament of confession in their dioceses. The confession crisis was a constant theme of John Paul’s. In one Holy Thursday letter, he said three times that people in a state of [grave] sin should not receive Communion without receiving confession first... |
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The chart reproduced above classifies the fifty most populous nations in the world on the basis of their respective restrictions on religious freedom: both the restrictions imposed by governments, increasing from left to right, and those produced by violence on the part of persons or groups, increasing from bottom to top... |
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The teachings of Pope John XXIII, the Second Vatican Council, and Pope Paul VI have given abundant indication of the concept of human rights as articulated by the Magisterium. Pope John Paul II has drawn up a list of them in the Encyclical Centesimus Annus: “the right to life, an integral part of which is the right of the child to develop in the mother’s womb from the moment of conception... |
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