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Tuesday, June 18, 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 ...
    FULL STORY         		(CNS/Paul Haring)
    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 ...
    FULL STORY         		(CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano
    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 ...
    FULL STORY         		CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano
    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 ...
    FULL STORY         		CNS photo/Stefano Spaziani, pool
    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.
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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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Matt Talbot: Matt can be considered the patron of men and women struggling with alcoholism. <p>Matt was born in Dublin, where his father worked on the docks and had a difficult time supporting his family. After a few years of schooling, Matt obtained work as a messenger for some liquor merchants; there he began to drink excessively. For 15 years—until he was almost 30—Matt was an active alcoholic. </p><p>One day he decided to take "the pledge" for three months, make a general confession and begin to attend daily Mass. There is evidence that Matt’s first seven years after taking the pledge were especially difficult. Avoiding his former drinking places was hard. He began to pray as intensely as he used to drink. He also tried to pay back people from whom he had borrowed or stolen money while he was drinking. </p><p>Most of his life Matt worked as a builder’s laborer. He joined the Secular Franciscan Order and began a life of strict penance; he abstained from meat nine months a year. Matt spent hours every night avidly reading Scripture and the lives of the saints. He prayed the rosary conscientiously. Though his job did not make him rich, Matt contributed generously to the missions. </p><p>After 1923 his health failed, and Matt was forced to quit work. He died on his way to church on Trinity Sunday. Fifty years later Pope Paul VI gave him the title venerable.</p> American Catholic Blog We are called to share in the infinite life and love of God. We are called by God to a relationship that is destined to transform us into his likeness, to “divinize” us. This is going to take some stretching, to say the least.
 
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FRANCISCAN REFLECTIONS
José Rodriguez Carballo, minister general of the Order of Friars Minor, celebrates the Franciscan tradition.
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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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