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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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Today’s Catholic must-reads: 16/02/11

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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Morning Catholic must-reads: 17/02/11

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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Alec Guinness and the Spanish mystics

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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The poet who saved a saint’s priceless letters

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,...

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Saint 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...

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Book 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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Morning Catholic must-reads: 15/12/15

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...

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The 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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