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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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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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