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    Caritas in Veritate

    Hot off the press, Benedict XVI's third encyclical "Caritas in veritate" - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI Charity in truth, to which Jesus Christ bore witness by his earthly life and especially by his death and resurrection, is the principal driving force behind the authentic...
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    Encyclical Ut Unum Sint - John Paul II Bold Words

    If we are going to have a thread on 1302 lets have one on 1995 too. Ut unum sint - Ioannes Paulus PP. II - Encyclical Letter (1995.05.25) starts as: 1. Ut unum sint! The call for Christian unity made by the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council with such impassioned commitment is finding an...
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    Icons Will Save the World

    A nice article in First Things on icons. http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=928
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    Cardinal Lustiger Obit - John Allen in the WSJ

    By JOHN L. ALLEN JR. August 10, 2007 Brilliant, blunt and bold, French Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger was the quintessential John Paul II bishop, an evangelical Catholic who saw conversion of culture as the order of the day. Lustiger, who died Sunday in Paris after a two-year struggle with...
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    Jesus of Nazareth by Joseph Ratzinger is out today

    And the first review is up on Amazon already. Michael Dubruiel - "A few months ago someone asked me what book I would recommend that they give to their adult children who no longer practiced the faith, without hesitation I named this book as the one. At the time I had only read some excerpts...
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    The Fathers of the Church in Installments, Every Wednesday from the Vatican

    Sandro Magister has a one stop shop for the regular catechesis taking place at Benedict's Wednesday audiences. http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=137741&eng=y "It is the new series of weekly catecheses from Benedict XVI, dedicated to the great personalities of the ancient...
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    Pope Benedict to visit New York City

    http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_117133240.html Woohoo!
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    Judee Sill - "The Kiss" - psychedelic baroque devotional music

    Dawn Eden pointed to this article on Judee Sill. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/29/AR2006122901782.html Her music has been described as "high hippie Christian / country-cult-baroque / psychedelic church music". Intrigued, I've bought her first two albums and...
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    Requiem Aeternam: Elizabeth Fox–Genovese

    Joseph Bottum passes on the news in First Things that Elizabeth Fox–Genovese passed away yesterday. She found the living waters of the catholic faith in the midst of the dry desert of secular academia - her remarkable conversion story is here...
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    The Return of the Fathers

    In the November issue of First Things RR Reno has a remarkable essay on the return of the Fathers (unfortunately its not online) - that within this, the first post-Christian generation of intellectual life at the university, we are seeing a "sudden popularity of the theologians and pastors...
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    Unless you become like this child...

    Something from St. Therese to start Advent with... Therese Martin, age 7 "Even if I had performed all the deeds of St Paul, I would consider myself an UNPROFITABLE SERVANT. I would notice that my hands are empty. But that is precisely the cause of my joy: since I have nothing, I shall expect...
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    Sisterhood on the Rise

    Good article. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1558292,00.html
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    Wow!!! Panoramic Church photos

    Has anyone seen these?!? Beautiful!!! (h/t amy welborn & rich leonardi) USA: http://ronsphotos.freeservers.com/rackoramas.html Rome: http://vrm.vrway.com/projects/minainvaticano/english/default.html Europe: http://prayerplaces.com/
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    Pope Benedict on the grace of marriage

    Papa had a Q&A with priests from the diocese of his summer home - here is one of the questions he took. I'm always amazed at his ability to speak so lucidly "off the cuff" Other questions posed and answered on this thread - as translated by Teresa Benedetta at PRF...
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    Minority Report - John Paul's biblical parallel

    <cleaned up version now that CF working again> Curtis Martin raised an interesting parallel at a speech at today's Young Adult Conference sponsored by John Paul the Great University here in San Diego. In the Old Testament, the angel of death descended on the first born before God led his...
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    Compendium to the Catechism of the Catholic Church now online!

    Vatican has the english translation up now. http://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/archive_2005_compendium-ccc_en.html
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    What does the Pope have to say about Eros?

    Benedict Contra Nietzsche - An Analysis of Deus Caritas Est http://www.crisismagazine.com/feature2.htm
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    Benedict Contra Nietzsche: A Reflection on Deus Caritas Est

    Powerful article that Amy Welborn links to at Crisis magazine: http://www.crisismagazine.com/feature2.htm This is an exciting time to be Catholic. With Deus Caritas Est Benedict is able to engage modernity, diagonose its ailment and prescribe a cure. Not bad for a first encyclical. Excerpt...
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