Boston archdiocese asks for lay participation in Catholics Come Home campaign
29 July 2010
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Loading ...Boston, Mass., Jul 29, 2010 / 12:54 am (CNA).- The Archdiocese of Boston is planning a major campaign to urge inactive Catholics to “come home” to their faith. The campaign will use television ads, parish events and personal invitations, making the involvement of priests and parishioners “vital.” About 10 percent of all American adults are [...]
Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer image restored
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jul 6, 2010 / 12:23 am (CNA).- The world-famous statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janiero, Brazil has been re-inaugurated after four months of restoration work. The large statue of Christ with his arms outstretched above Brazil’s second largest city is recognized as one of the seven wonders of [...]
Saint’s teaching on faith and reason helps ‘overcome’ modern atheism, teaches Holy Father
Vatican City, Jun 16, 2010 / 10:31 am (CNA/EWTN News) During his Wednesday audience, the Holy Father explored the teachings of the renowned scholar, St. Thomas Aquinas, asserting that saint’s work emphasizing faith and reason “helps us overcome certain objections raised by modern atheism” which “denies that religious language possesses objective meaning and holds that [...]
National Review Board recounts lessons learned from abuse victims’ stories
The National Review Board, an advisory group established to oversee child and youth protection in the Catholic Church in the U.S., has issued a list of lessons that abuse victims and survivors have taught them. Noting abuse victims’ courage, the board chairwoman explained to CNA that there is a need to learn more and to [...]
Benedict XVI exhorts priests to be faithful to Catholic Church
Fatima, Portugal, May 12, 2010 / 05:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Drawing inspiration from the Year for Priests, the Pope emphasized the importance of new vocations and fidelity to one’s vocation in his homily at the celebration of Vespers in Fatima. The Church, he said, has a mission to bring men and women to Christ and [...]
Faith in the Divine Iniciative – the Human Response
VATICAN CITY, 31 MAR 2009 (VIS) – Made public today was the Message of Benedict XVI for the 46th World Day of Prayer for Vocations, which is due to be celebrated on 3 May, the fourth Sunday of Easter, and which has as its theme this year: “Faith in the divine initiative – the human [...]
Faith and Music
VATICAN CITY, 5 JUL 2008 (VIS) – This morning in Castelgandolfo, the Holy Father received a group of pilgrims from Regensburg, Germany. In brief remarks to them, the Pope recalled the “marvellous day” in September 2006 when he blessed the new organ – the “Benedikt-Orgel” – in the “Alte Kapelle” of Regensburg, of which his [...]
The Holy Father authorised the promulgation of decrees of the Congregation for the causes of saints
VATICAN CITY, 3 JUL 2008 (VIS) – The Holy Father today received in private audience Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins C.M.F., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorised the promulgation of decrees concerning the following causes: MIRACLES – Blessed, Fr. Damian de Veuster, Belgian professed priest of the Congregation of the Sacred [...]
The Holy Father: “The Church makes Eucharist and the Eucharist makes the Church”
(h2onews) At the Quebec International Eucharistic Congress, Benedict XVI asked the entire Church for “a renewed attention for the preparation of the reception of the Eucharist”. He said it in his message via satellite from Rome. Father Thomas Rosica and Sister Antonia Maria of the Trinity talk about the sense of the Eucharist in this [...]
The Holy Father: catechesis about St. Isidore of Seville
VATICAN CITY, 18 JUN 2008 (VIS) – Benedict XVI dedicated his catechesis during this morning’s general audience to St. Isidore of Seville, who lived from 560 to 636 and whom the Council of Toledo in 653 defined as the “Glory of the Catholic Church”. The audience, held in St. Peter’s Square, was attended by 11,000 [...]