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Assumption Struggles to Turn Around Image

Theophilis — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:22:38 -0500

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http://www.ivorytowerheretics.org/2008/04/will-assumption-college-turn-catholic.html

Source Name: Ivory Tower Heretics

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For those seeking a truly "Catholic" college experience in the New England Region, it can be tough. Boston College, a.k.a. Barely Catholic, long ago succumbed to the secular world-view and is probably best known for dissenting theologians popular with the mainstream media.

Holy Cross College is even worse. It's public promotion of Planned Parenthood at a recent symposium brought the condemnation of the Bishop of Worcester. They openly support abortion and gay causes as well as hosting the pornographic and blatantly anti-Catholic Vagina Monologues.

Pope Benedict XVI Ready to Meet America

tkyd — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:30:00 -0500

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080412/D900ECE81.html

Source Name: My Way News

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Next up for Pope Benedict XVI, a welcoming nation that wants to get to know him. Benedict's first trip to the United States as pope begins Tuesday - a five-day visit to Washington and New York, including a speech at the United Nations. Anyone expecting strident speeches from the man once called "God's rottweiler" for his role defending Roman Catholic doctrine will be disappointed. Benedict will deliver an unwavering message that society needs religious values, but this intellectual pontiff will do it in the most positive way possible. After making relatively little headway in his efforts to re-ignite the faith in Europe, America's roughly 65 million Catholics seem anxious to hear him.

Pope Ground Zero Prayer Seeks Terrorists' Redemption

tkyd — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:11:32 -0500

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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1079181020080410

Source Name: Reuters

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Pope Benedict will pray for the conversion to love "of those whose hearts and minds are consumed with hatred" when he visits New York's Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade towers destroyed on September 11, 2001. A prayer he will read also commemorates those who died or were injured in the other September 11 attack at the Pentagon and on United Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers fought off hijackers. Nearly 3,000 people died in the September 11 attacks, including the 19 hijackers. The pope will visit Ground Zero in lower Manhattan on April 20, the last day of his six-day visit to Washington and New York.

U.S. Catholic Church Supported by Migrants

tkyd — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:07:21 -0500

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http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnN11339538.html

Source Name: Reuters

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The few dozen people attending Mass on a Tuesday morning at St. Michael Catholic Church in a Dallas suburb are in some ways a microcosm of the broader faith in the United States. They are mostly but far from exclusively white. Several are Vietnamese and there is a sprinkling of Hispanics among them. "The church is very important for me, it's my life. And this is a very accommodating community," said Margaret Balogun, a Nigerian immigrant, as she emerged from the church. She and other immigrants represent the new face of the Catholic Church in America which will greet Pope Benedict on his visit to the country April 15 to 20th.

Ethical, Human Rights Issues to Dominate Pope's US Trip

tkyd — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:14:40 -0500

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http://news.monstersandcritics.com/usa/features/article_1399441.php/PREVIEW_Ethical_human_rights_issues_to_dominate_Popes_US_trip

Source Name: Monsters and Critics

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The week before Pope Benedict XVI is to head to the United States, questions remain about how he will address the priest abuse scandal that has shaken the world's third-largest Catholic community. Reporters have pressed the Vatican's spokesman on whether Cardinal Bernard Law, who has resided in Rome since resigning as Archbishop of Boston in the wake of the scandal, would accompany the pontiff on the trip. During his pastoral visit, Benedict is to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the founding of five US dioceses including Boston, where Law's tenure as archbishop lasted for 18 years. Father Federico Lombardi confirmed that several Rome-based American cardinals would travel with the pope.

Vatican Taps Twin Cities Auxiliary Bishop as Next Bishop of Des Moines

tkyd — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:42:21 -0500

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http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/17463184.html

Source Name: Minneapolis Star Tribune

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The auxiliary bishop for the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for the past seven years will be the next bishop in Des Moines, the Vatican announced today. Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Richard E. Pates, 65, to succeed Joseph Charron, who has retired. Pates will assume his new duties next month and be installed at a mass in Des Moines on May 29. "It is a welcome privilege to be called to serve such a vibrant, spirited community in America's heartland," Pates, a St. Paul native, said in a news release issued for the Twin Cities archdiocese. "It is a particular honor to succeed

Pope May Find Willing Ear Among Young U.S. Catholics

tkyd — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:26:51 -0500

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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0934613620080410

Source Name: Reuters

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Pope Benedict may find a particularly receptive audience during his U.S. visit next week among some younger Catholics who have come of age seeking a stronger and perhaps more conservative religious identity. Many want something other than the Roman Catholic Church of their parents, who lived through the period after the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) when Latin was dropped for English and Gregorian chant swapped for guitar Masses, experts say. Their ranks are swelled by immigrants from Latin America, Africa and elsewhere who brought with them a more traditional piety that highlights some prayers and processions that seem somewhat out-of-date to Catholic baby boomers.

Christianity and Islam: The Truth about Mustard Seeds

tkyd — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:51:31 -0500

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http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080409/31869_Christianity_and_Islam.htm

Source Name: Christian Post

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In his history of World War II, Winston Churchill tells the story of a pre-war meeting between French premier Laval and Josef Stalin. When Laval asked Stalin if he could not “do something to encourage religion and the Catholics in Russia,” Stalin replied, “The Pope! How many divisions has he got?” The joke was ultimately on Stalin. Fifty years later a Pope helped bring down communism without firing a single shot. Now another Pope is preparing to do the same to another intractable foe of the West. At the most recent Easter Vigil, Pope Benedict XVI baptized Italian journalist Magdi Cristiano Allam.

Pope Sends Advance Message to US

tkyd — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:34:53 -0500

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http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=57697

Source Name: Catholic World News

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Pope Benedict XVI has released a message to the people of the United States, in preparation for his trip to America next week. In his message the Holy Father says that he is coming to the US to proclaim that "Jesus Christ is hope for men and women of every language, race, culture, and social condition." The Pontiff also confirms that in his address to the UN he will emphasize the importance of natural law, "the law written on the human heart." The papal message, released by the Vatican press office on April 8, came in the form of a video. The message was released one week before the Pope is scheduled to arrive in the US.

Today's Somber 200th Anniversary

tkyd — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:09:27 -0500

Source Link:

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=57698

Source Name: Catholic World News

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April 8 should be a festival day for Catholic Americans. But America's oldest Catholic communities aren't really in a mood for celebration. On this date in 1808, the Vatican established three new dioceses to serve the growing Catholic communities of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. The Baltimore diocese, already in existence, was elevated to the rank of archdiocese on the same date; and a fourth new diocese was set up in Bardstown (now Louisville), Kentucky, for Catholics on the western frontier. Throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, those young Catholic communities prospered. Immigrant families poured into the East Coast cities, gained a foothold, and quickly began the massive project of building parishes, parochial schools, convents, and seminaries.