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Repeated calls for common Christian Easter date
… Index of stories from the Synod . Celebrating Easter on the same day also implies observing Lent together, he said, which would give Catholics of the East and West an opportunity to witness …
Q & A: Kathryn Getek Soltis
… in Veritate, this becomes apparent by giving charity center stage. In Benedict’s message for Lent 2010, an extended meditation on justice, this inseparability is conveyed through the model …
Q & A: Fr. Robert Imbelli
… of Nazareth, the second volume of which has been completed and should be available in time for Lent. From this theological-pastoral imperative proceed two further aspects of Pope Benedict’s …
Waiting game: New Vatican agency yet to materialize
… are being so careful in their translations of the book that it's not coming out until Lent of 2011. By that time, the pope may have a good start on the third and final volume of the …
Educating young people to be prophets
… classes every Wednesday evening at our parish. I went to church every Sunday and daily during Lent. I remember memorizing prayers, getting a star next to my name and reading Bible stories. …
Ordinary time: The time of our lives
… parts of the liturgical year that do not fall in one of the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, or Easter. As homeward bound novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald gazed out of the train at the …
Q & A: Professor Michael Peppard
… I know where most of the fault lines are. But a few years ago, when I gave up the Internet for Lent, I realized how little I saw of these divisions in my “real” life. I went to work, to teach, … that many parishioners would have welcomed more of a mix. So we (re)introduced chant during Lent, just the basic Sanctus and Agnus Dei for starters. But for some members of the Vatican II …
Catholic AIDS expert: Study lends credibility to faith leaders' work
… Paul Jeffrey … Catholic News Service … VIENNA (CNS) -- A new U.N. AIDS study has lent credibility to faith leaders who have long argued that behavioral change was a key to …
Conference on exorcism will make your head spin
… and during the three "scrutinies" that take place on the third, fourth and fifth Sundays of Lent, prior to the catechumens' baptism at the Easter Vigil. The letter from Paprocki advises, …
Oil spill protesting New Orleans style
… as "crew," is an organization that puts on a parade, usually for carnival season before Lent. Some marched dressed in costumes of threatened sea creatures. Many carried umbrellas topped …
The spirituality of humor
… house (in ancient Persia) to borrow a donkey. "I'm sorry," said Nasruddin, "but I've already lent it to somebody." Just then the donkey made a loud braying noise from the back of the house. …
Big banks draw profits from microloans to poor
… even the most destitute into better lives. Actors like Natalie Portman andMichael Douglas lent their boldface names to the cause. Muhammad Yunus, the economist who pioneered the practice …
How Fr. Maciel built his empire
… "This thing smells." As Andrea Sodano was promoting the business, Cardinal Sodano — having lent his sacred office to handshakes and chatting up potential backers at the Follieri Group's …