Vatican hosting seminar on sports and spiritual life
Catholic News Agency
11/6/2009
The gathering is being organized by the 'Church and Sport' section of the Pontifical Council for the Laity. VATICAN CITY (CNA) - The Vatican is set to host a unique seminar on how sports are related to building virtue and the spiritual life. Participants will hear from the former U.S. Olympic ...
Spanish cloistered nuns see surge in vocations
Catholic News Agency
11/6/2009
'It is an unexpected boom in vocations when the Jesuits have just 20 novices in all of Spain, the Franciscans, five, and the Vincentians, two'. MADRID, Spain (CNA) - A 43 year-old prioresses has revolutionized an old Poor Clares convent in Spain, turning it onto a magnet for dozens of young ...
Meeting Called Between the Pope and Artists
Chiesa
11/6/2009, by Sandro Magister
By meeting with artists in that supreme place of Christian art which is the Sistine Chapel Benedict XVI intends to arrest a decline and restart a dialogue. ROMA (Chiesa) - The announced meeting between Benedict XVI and artists will take place the morning of Saturday, November 21, 2009, in the ...
Appeal to Pope: 'Authentically Catholic Sacred Art.'
Chiesa
11/6/2009, by Sandro Magister
The meeting between the pope and artists in the Sistine Chapel is drawing near.'Pressing concern'over contemporary sacred art and architecture. ROMA (Chiesa) - A few days before the meeting announced for November 21 between the pope and artists in the Sistine Chapel, an appeal anticipating its ...
Anglican 'First Fruits' for the 'Pope of Christian Unity'
Catholic Online
11/6/2009, by Deacon Keith Fournier
The old adage has so often proven to be an accurate assessment of reality, the 'best Catholics are converts'. LONDON (Catholic Online) - Damien Thompson reported on Thursday in the UK Telegraph that the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) members in the United Kingdom have formally passed a ...
Cardinal Bertone: 'We Must Conserve the Signs of our Faith'
Catholic Online
11/5/2009
'This Europe of the third millennium has left us only with the pumpkins of the recently celebrated feast and has eliminated the most beloved symbols'. Vatican City, (CNA) - Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, said on Wednesday that the ruling by the European Human Rights Court in ...
Catholic and Orthodox Leaders Meet amid Some Protests
The Catholic Herald (UK)
11/4/2009
Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church discussed the role of the Bishop of Rome in the First Millennium LONDON (UK Catholic Herald) - Catholic and Orthodox officials met for high-level talks in Cyprus last week amid protests from Orthodox monks and lay faithful.
The meeting of the Joint ...
Good Catholics Should Not be Masons
The Catholic Herald (UK)
11/4/2009, by Fr Ashley Beck
Fr Ashley Beck says the Church teaches clearly that Freemasonry and Catholicism are incompatible. LONDON (UK Catholic Herald) - A few years ago I was told that at the ceremony of induction of the vicar of one of the local Anglican churches, the Bible which was handed to him had embossed on its ...
Italy's Bishops Irate over Crucifix Ban by European Court
Zenit News Agency
11/4/2009
Bishops contend that ruling severs Italy's 'national identity from its spiritual and cultural origins' VATICAN CITY (Zenit.org) - Italy's bishops are saying the European Court of Human Rights is guilty of a partial and ideological outlook with its Tuesday decision that crucifixes in public school ...
European Court Bans Crucifixes in Italian Schools
LifeSiteNews
11/4/2009, by Thaddeus M. Baklinski
European Court of Human Rights ruled that displaying crucifixes in Italian classrooms violates parents' rights to secular education for their children. STRASBOURG/ROME (LifeSiteNews.com) - The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that displaying crucifixes in Italian classrooms violates ...
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