Today’s Catholic must-reads: 03/11/10
Pope Benedict dedicated his general audience today to the French Carthusian Marguerite d’Oingt (video). The Catholic Church will open its first new seminary in Cuba today. Following the midterm...
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Now the dust has settled over the mid-term congressional elections in the US, some interesting facts are emerging. First, representative John Boehner, who is to be the new Speaker of the House (an...
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Archbishop John Hepworth, primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, has claimed that the English Personal Ordinariate “may well be the first and the last” following a serious dispute with...
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The Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, Bishop Giovanni Martinelli, has accused Nato of bombing a Coptic church in the Libyan capital. Belgian abuse victims have announced that they are launching legal...
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The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has ordered sweeping reform of the US Leadership Conference of Women Religious, saying that “the current doctrinal and pastoral situation of the LCWR is...
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When the cardinals elected Francis “they did not know what a Pandora’s box they were opening“, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor has said. The ministry of slum priests in Buenos Aires is “not...
View ArticlePope to address Congress in September
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announced on February 5 that Pope Francis will address a joint meeting of Congress on September 24. The pontiff’s “historic visit” would make him the “first leader...
View ArticleCatholic Paul Ryan is elected House Speaker
Paul Ryan has been elected House Speaker – making six out of the eight last speakers Catholic. Rep. Ryan was officially elected as the speaker of the House, with 236 votes out of 247 Republicans in the...
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