Pope dedicates general audience to St John of the Cross
Content syndicated from www.romereports.com. TEXT “Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, In today’s catechesis, we discuss the sixteenth-century Spanish Carmelite mystic, Saint John of the Cross. John...
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Pope Benedict dedicated his general audience this morning to St John of the Cross (video). Iesu Communio, a new Spanish institute of consecrated life, is experiencing a vocations boom, reports Zenit. A...
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The Guardian reports that the Pope’s state visit to Britain last September cost the taxpayer £7m ($11m, €8m), excluding security. Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, president of the Italian bishops’ conference,...
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It was my birthday recently and among other gifts I received two books: one was My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor viz Alec Guinness, who kept the diary kept between January 1995 and...
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It was March 1936. A series of anti-clerical riots swept through Toledo. Churches were burned and priests and monks were attacked in the streets. During these disturbances several Carmelite monks,...
View ArticleSaint of the week: St John of the Cross
An important and fascinating figure of the Counter-Reformation, John (December 14) is one of the 35 Doctors of the Church and formed the Discalced, or barefoot, Carmelites alongside Teresa of Avila. He...
View ArticleBook review: the 21st-century saint who never wasted a minute
Stories about St John Paul II by Wlodzimierz Redzioch Gracewing, £13 We all have an impression of St John Paul II. We remember his encyclicals, especially those in defence of marriage, life and the...
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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has said that “evading dialogue with the Catholic Church now would be wrong”. Italian police have seized 3,500 counterfeit papal blessing parchments that were being...
View ArticleThe truth about Mother Teresa’s ‘atheism’
As is now well known, Mother Teresa of Calcutta suffered severe spiritual afflictions through much of her remarkable life: “This terrible sense of loss – this untold darkness – this loneliness – this...
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