Today the Church celebrates the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, an intellectual and missionary congregation of men better known as the Jesuits. There is no question that the Society bears in its structure and apostolate the marks of early modernity, the period in which it was founded, [...]
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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Sometimes a job is just a job, even when from the outside it looks like it involves the stuff of an Indiana Jones movie. Fabrizio Bisconti is the newly named archaeological superintendent of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology, which oversees the upkeep and preservation [...]
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by Gregor Kollmorgen, THE NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT Like last year, the Italian society, Giovani e Tradizione (Youth and Tradition) and the Amicizia Sacerdotale Summorum Pontificum (Priestly Friends of Summorum Pontificum), are organising a convention in Rome at the Casa Bonus Pastor on the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum (for last year’s conference, see NLM posts here, [...]
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Pope Creates Vatican Post Focused on Archeology VATICAN CITY, JULY 20, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI has created and filled the post of archeological superintendent of the catacombs, in a move that will bring the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology to function more like other Vatican dicasteries. The Pope on Saturday named Monsignor Giovanni Carrù [...]
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Folks, I believe you will find this story from St. John Bosco’s life very endearing: Although Don Bosco had no lack of resourcefulness, he often received much-needed help from an unexpected source. Don Bosco entitled the last chapter of his Memoirs “A Mysterious Dog: Grigio.” There he relates how a strange gray dog protected him from [...]
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As recently reported, Very Rev Fr John Berg FSSP, the Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, met with the Holy Father in the library of the Apostolic Palace. Fr Berg was given the opportunity to speak privately with the Holy Father for fifteen minutes – something less common now that under Pope [...]
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Pope Benedict slipped and fell in his vacation house during the night, fracturing his right wrist By Robert Moynihan, INSIDE THE VATICAN reporting from Rome ================================ VATICAN CITY, July 17, 2009 — Pope Benedict XVI, who turned 82 in April, went to the hospital this morning in Aosta, in northern Italy, after slipping and [...]
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WHISPERS IN THE LOGGIA – Having broken his right wrist in a bathroom fall last night, earlier today the Pope was checked into a hospital near his Alpine retreat, where he currently remains: In a statement, the Vatican said that the 82-year-old pontiff had slipped in his room in the chalet where he is staying [...]
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WHISPERS IN THE LOGGIA – Since President Obama’s (Vatican-blessed) nomination of Miguel Diaz as US ambassador to the Holy See has garnered quite the amount of interest from its announcement in late May, it’s worth noting word fresh off the wire that the confirmation hearing for the St John’s theologian — an adviser to both [...]
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