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Apostolic Nuncio: 'Card Parolin to build bridges and dialogue in Russia'

Cardinal Pietro Parolin travels to Russia for a state visit on 21-24 August out of a desire to "build bridges and increase mutual understanding and dialogue" and to "multiply opportunities of encounter" with the Russian Orthodox Church. The Vatican's Apostolic Nuncio to the Russian Federation, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, made that assessment of the Secretary of State's [...]

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USCCB approves aid to Church in Central and Eastern Europe

(USCCB) The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Subcommittee on Aid to the Church in Central and Eastern Europe approved over $4.8 million in funding for 206 projects in 22 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Projects approved for funding include: * The Don Bosco Center for Education in Albania, founded 21 years ago, provides cultural, social, and academic resources [...]

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Religious leaders meet in Hong Kong to pray for world peace

Religious leaders met in Japan from Aug 3 to 4 to pray for peace in the world and as a response to Pope Francis’ wish to foster dialogue, friendship and peace. About 2,000 people, including 24 delegates from 18 countries of Buddhism, Shintoism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Zoroastrianism came together in Japan at an inter-faith "Interreligious Gathering of Prayer [...]

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Letter #49, 2017: The Composer Theologian…

August 2, 2017, Wednesday ...in Ravello ================= With little fanfare Discretely, with little fanfare, one of the leading theologians of the Russian Orthodox Church and one of the leading sopranos of Russia were in Italy this past weekend to conduct and sing in a July 30 concert at the prestigious Ravello music festival on the Amalfi [...]

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Letter #48, 2017: Attack the Brother…

August 1, 2017, Tuesday ...to Reach the Emeritus Pope "The Lord does not abandon His Church, even when the boat has taken on so much water as to be on the verge of capsizing." —Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, in remarks he prepared in Rome for the July 15 funeral in Cologne, Germany, of his old friend [...]

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Letter #47, 2017: Mock the Logos

July 28, 2017, Friday ...And Attack the Brother "The Lord does not abandon His Church, even when the boat has taken on so much water as to be on the verge of capsizing." —Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, in remarks he prepared in Rome for the July 15 funeral in Cologne, Germany, of his old friend Cardinal [...]

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Letter #46, 2017: So be it

July 26, 2017, Wednesday Rome at Mid-Summer... "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us." —St. Paul, 2nd Corinthians 4:7 "Let us ask the Lord for this parresia, this apostolic fervor that impels us to move forward, as brothers, all of us [...]

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Letter #44, 2017: Rome

July 14, 2017, Friday Father Spadaro vs. Steve Bannon "Both Evangelical and Catholic Integralists condemn traditional ecumenism and yet promote an ecumenism of conflict that unites them in the nostalgic dream of a theocratic type of state.” —A provocative sentence from a very important article recently published in Rome, co-authored by Jesuit Father and close advisor [...]

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