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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
  • Obama Names Retired CRS Head as Ambassador to Vatican
    WASHINGTON (CNS)—President Barack Obama June 14 nominated Ken Hackett, retired president of Catholic Relief Services, to be U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. Obama's announcement about Hackett came late in the day, along with his nominees for ambassador posts in Brazil, Spain, Germany, Denmark and ...
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    Ken Hackett, left, retired president of Catholic Relief Services, is pictured with Miguel Diaz, former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican
  • What Pope's Leaked Comments Tell Us About the Church
    VATICAN CITY (CNS)—A report that Pope Francis privately acknowledged the existence of a "gay lobby" inside the Vatican offers a sensational example of his unvarnished speaking style and a reminder of the challenge that style poses for the papacy in the age of digital communications and ...
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    Pope Francis meets with leaders of the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious.
  • Pope: Don't Pretend to Be Sinless
    VATICAN CITY (CNS)—When boasting of having Jesus Christ as one's savior, people shouldn't pretend they aren't guilty of sin, Pope Francis said in a morning homily. The sincere and humble admission of one's weaknesses, of having "a sliver of Satan in my flesh," shows that ...
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    Pope Francis celebrates Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae at the Vatican June 3.
  • Pope, Anglican Leader Pledge to Continue Search for Unity
    VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis and Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, pledged to support each other with their prayers and to continue the search for full unity between their communities. Meeting at the Vatican June 14, praying together in ...
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    Pope Francis exchanges gifts with the Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, England.
  • Catholics Must Grow in Love of God, Neighbor, Pope Says
    VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Christians have "far to go" if they seek to be known primarily for their love of God and neighbor, Pope Francis said. The first law governing the church as the "People of God" is love, he said, which means "recognizing God as the ...
    FULL STORY         		(CNS/Paul Haring)
    Pope Francis greets the crowd as he arrives to lead his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square.
Festival of Faiths


Sacred Silence
Richard Rohr, the Dalai Lama and other religious leaders at the Festival of Faiths held in Louisville, KY on May 17-19, 2013.
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Romuald: After a wasted youth, Romuald saw his father kill a relative in a duel over property. In horror he fled to a monastery near Ravenna in Italy. After three years some of the monks found him to be uncomfortably holy and eased him out. <p>He spent the next 30 years going about Italy, founding monasteries and hermitages. He longed to give his life to Christ in martyrdom, and got the pope’s permission to preach the gospel in Hungary. But he was struck with illness as soon as he arrived, and the illness recurred as often as he tried to proceed. </p><p>During another period of his life, he suffered great spiritual dryness. One day as he was praying Psalm 31 (“I will give you understanding and I will instruct you”), he was given an extraordinary light and spirit which never left him. </p><p>At the next monastery where he stayed, he was accused of a scandalous crime by a young nobleman he had rebuked for a dissolute life. Amazingly, his fellow monks believed the accusation. He was given a severe penance, forbidden to offer Mass and excommunicated, an unjust sentence he endured in silence for six months. </p><p>The most famous of the monasteries he founded was that of the Camaldoli (Campus Maldoli, name of the owner) in Tuscany. Here he founded the Order of the Camaldolese Benedictines, uniting a monastic and hermit life. </p><p>His father later became a monk, wavered and was kept faithful by the encouragement of his son.</p> American Catholic Blog Jesus has suffered for all of us, and he suffers in all of us. He is the reason why redemption and glory are destined to rise up out of our own suffering. We simply need to adhere to him in faith, hope, and love.
 
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone sins. There’s no real shame in that. Jesus came to show us that not having the courage to admit our mistakes and move on is the greater fault.
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