3/14/2010
Vatican City, Mar 14, 2010 / 01:21 pm (CNA).- Presiding over the mid-day Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI reflected on the day's Gospel that presents the parable of the prodigal son. He explained that "only experiencing forgiveness, recognizing ourselves loved by a free love, greater than our misery, but also our justice, can we finally enter into a truly filial and free relationship with God."
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3/13/2010
Vatican City, Mar 13, 2010 / 03:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Avvenire newspaper of the Italian Bishops' Conference printed an interview on Saturday which sheds light on how cases of sexual abuse are dealt with in the Catholic Church. The role of then-Cardinal Ratzinger in the providing the guidelines for the Congregation's processing of 3,000 cases in the last nine years is also examined.
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3/13/2010
Vatican City, Mar 13, 2010 / 12:22 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See's Press Office, released a statement on Saturday morning in which he made three "observations" regarding sexual abuse by people and in institutions of the Catholic Church. He also addressed dismissed as unfounded attempts to link the Pope to a decision to transfer a priest found to have committed sexual abuse when Benedict XVI was Archbishop of Munich.
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3/12/2010
Vatican City, Mar 12, 2010 / 02:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- According to a communique released by the Holy See on Friday, the Pope will not be returning to the northwestern province of Valle d'Aosta for his holiday this summer, but will instead retire to the Papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo closer to Rome.
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3/12/2010
Vatican City, Mar 12, 2010 / 01:13 pm (CNA).- Archbishop of Freiburg Robert Zollitsch met with Pope Benedict on Friday to speak of the revelations of sexual abuse against minors and measures being taken to investigate and prevent further occurrences. Pope Benedict, he said in a press conference afterward, expressed his "full support" for the steps put in place by the bishops' conference to respond to abuses.
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3/12/2010
Vatican City, Mar 12, 2010 / 12:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).-
Pope Benedict met with priests and bishops participating in an international theological convention on Friday and spoke with them on the importance of understanding what it means to be a priest. This awareness of their identity is all the more important as secularism advances and some try to reduce the priesthood to being almost a 'social worker.'
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3/11/2010
Vatican City, Mar 11, 2010 / 11:03 pm (CNA).- In a new book consisting of reflections based on the 2008 Synod on the Word of God, the secretary for the Synod of Bishops, Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, writes that homilies should not last more than eight minutes.
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3/11/2010
Vatican City, Mar 11, 2010 / 05:21 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- This coming Sunday afternoon the Holy Father will pay a visit to a Lutheran Church in Rome. The much anticipated appearance is the fruit of an invitation made in 2008 on the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II's visit there.
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3/11/2010
Vatican City, Mar 11, 2010 / 02:52 pm (CNA).- The secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Archbishop Mario Toso, remarked this week that, "man's happiness and complete fulfillment depend on religious freedom," adding that religion's "public value" must be recognized.
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3/11/2010
Vatican City, Mar 11, 2010 / 02:26 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Pope remembered the Grand Imam and Sheikh of al-Azhar University, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, after his death on Wednesday. Sheikh Tantawi was instrumental maintaining relations between the Catholic Church and the Muslim world and was the head of the highest Islamic religious authority in Egypt, the al-Azhar.
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