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  • [Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis: ‘Church Must Become Increasingly Synodal’ in World Day of Prayer for Vocations Message

    05/06/2022 8:57:43 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 12 replies
    National Catholic Register ^ | May 5, 2022 | CNA Staff
    [Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis: ‘Church Must Become Increasingly Synodal’ in World Day of Prayer for Vocations MessageThe 59th World Day of Prayer for Vocations will take place on May 8, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, also known as Good Shepherd Sunday.VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said on Thursday that “the Church must become increasingly synodal.”The Pope made the comment in his annual World Day of Prayer for Vocations message, published May 5, as Catholics worldwide participate in a global consultation process leading to the 2023 Synod on Synodality.In the message, he emphasized that vocations have a communal as well as...
  • Dozens of ballots destroyed after fire set at Boston dropbox [Perp photo alert]

    10/26/2020 10:14:48 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 63 replies
    CBS News ^ | October 26, 2020 | By Christopher Brito
    Authorities have charged a man for allegedly lighting a ballot box on fire and damaging dozens of ballots in Boston over the weekend, police said Monday. The Boston Election Department said 87 of the 122 ballots inside the dropbox were legible and able to be processed, but the rest were destroyed or unable to be counted. Worldly Armand, 39, was taken into custody late Sunday after officers matched his appearance with the description of a person wanted for the alleged arson, police said. After a query by the officers, they found Armand was wanted on a warrant out of a...
  • Love of the World Fuels the Fear of Death – A Meditation on a Teaching of St. Cyprian

    11/25/2014 7:24:11 AM PST · by Salvation · 8 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 11-24-14 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    Love of the World Fuels the Fear of Death – A Meditation on a Teaching of St. Cyprian By: Msgr. Charles PopeAs November winds down and Advent still looms, the traditional meditation we make on the four last things (death, judgment, Heaven, and Hell) is still operative. A classic writing by St. Cyprian comes to mind. It is a meditation on the fundamental human struggle to be free of undue attachment to this world and to have God (and the things waiting for us in Heaven) as our highest priority.In this meditation, St. Cyprian has in mind the Book of James and...
  • We Weren’t Always So Secular: Recovering a Sense of the Presence of God

    07/20/2011 4:59:56 AM PDT · by markomalley · 11 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 7/19/11 | Msgr Charles Pope
    The times in which we live are often described as “secular.”  This word comes from the Latin “saecula” meaning “world.” Hence in saying our age is secular is another way of saying our times are  worldly. We may think it has always been so but such is not the case. To be sure, it IS the human condition to be a little preoccupied with the world. But previous times have featured a much more religious focus than our own. The Middle Ages were especially known for way in which faith permeated the culture and daily experience. The Rose window to...
  • U.S. wise to oppose world court

    04/22/2002 6:29:21 AM PDT · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 10 replies · 136+ views
    ATLANTA JOURNAL ^ | 4/21/02 | David Davenport
    They threw a party at the United Nations recently, but the United States did not attend. The hoopla, celebrated by 66 nations and hundreds of nongovernmental organizations, marked the birth of the new International Criminal Court, but the United States, by refusing to ratify the treaty creating the court, sent its regrets. The establishment of a major world court without U.S. participation opens a new and troublesome chapter in international law and diplomacy. Only a few years ago, the United States would have been expected to support the new court. Most of America's traditional allies, including Great Britain, Canada and...
  • G7 Says Recovery Taking Hold, Oil a Risk

    04/22/2002 6:01:38 AM PDT · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 166+ views
    YAHOO ^ | 4/20/02 | Glenn Somerville
    Finance chiefs from the world's wealthy nations on Saturday agreed that a global economic recovery is taking hold as they unveiled a plan for heading off debt crises like the one crippling Argentina. In a closing statement stressing determination to clamp down on groups that fund attacks such as those that leveled the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon (news - web sites), Group of Seven finance chiefs vowed to do whatever is necessary to sustain a pickup in activity in the face of risks like costlier energy. But the unity they strove to present was marred over the...