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Pope’s Final Audience Was Bittersweet for Bishops

Source: National Catholic Register, Feb 27 2013, 3:39pm CST

VATICAN CITY — The cardinals and bishops who attended Pope Benedict XVI’s last big public appearance made sure to show him their love and respect, but it was a hard moment as well. “There was a touch of sadness as ...

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Papal encyclicals expected on faith and poverty, bishop reveals

Source: Catholic News Agency  |   May 24 2013, 3:48pm CDT

Vatican City, May 24, 2013 / 02:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- According to an Italian bishop, Benedict XVI is concluding work on what was to have been his encyclical on faith, and Pope Francis will be writing an ency ...

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Pope says atheists can be saved

Source: Patheos Blogs  |   May 24 2013, 3:21pm CDT

Pope Francis preached a homily in which he pretty much said that atheists too can do good and therefore can go to heaven. (Notice the assumption that salvation is by good works and not by faith, which is being presented as not really necessa ...

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"With his testimony and his teaching, which has a very rich deepness, and with his presence, prayer, and silence — which talks about true prayer that we need to give to God — he will continue to help the Year of Faith"


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Is Pope Francis A Heretic? No, But He Does Raise Questions

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 24 2013, 3:21pm CDT

By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) Is Pope Francis endorsing heresy? It might look that way from the eye-catching headlines this week that made it appear everyone was bound for heaven — “even atheists!” — th ...

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Did Pope Francis Say That Atheists Can Get to Heaven by Good Works?

Source: National Catholic Register  |   May 24 2013, 12:55pm CDT

Did Pope Francis recently say that atheists can get to heaven by "good works"? Or was he talking about something else entirely? The press has been going nuts about remarks concerning atheists that Pope Francis made at one of ...

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Hospital board should follow saint’s lead; let Methodist work

Source: Del Rio News Herald   |   May 24 2013, 12:34pm CDT

In this year of faith, which was designated by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, we are reminded of a man, holy man and saint, who was instrumental in building a hospital in a small village in Italy known as San Giovanni Rotondo: St. Padre Pio, a Capuchin fri ...

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There are four challenges awaiting Pope Francis at Rio's World Youth Day

Source: The New Advent  |   May 24 2013, 12:26pm CDT

In exactly two months, Pope Francis will make his first overseas trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for World Youth Day. It shapes up as the biggest Catholic blowout of the early 21st century, a massive celebration of history’s first Latin American pope fol ...

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Benedict XVI writing encyclical on faith that will be promulgated by Pope Francis, says Bishop of Molfetta

Source: The New Advent  |   May 24 2013, 9:22am CDT

Following his recent visit ad limina with the bishops of his region, the Bishop of Molfetta (Apulia, Italy), Luigi Martella, spoke of the conversation they had with the new Pope, including the following: Then, h ...

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Pope sends tweet prayer for Catholics in China

Source: NDTV  |   May 24 2013, 6:59am CDT

Vatican City: Pope Francis on Friday tweeted a prayer for Catholics in China on the feast day of the Virgin of Sheshan in Shanghai and celebrated mass before a group of Chinese Catholics in the Vatican. "On the feast ...

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World Day of Prayer for the Church in China

Source: About.com: Catholicism  |   May 24 2013, 6:57am CDT

In May 2007, Pope Benedict XVI released a Letter to Chinese Catholics, in which he asked that May 24 each year be celebrated as a World Day of Prayer for the Church in China. He chose May 24 because it is the Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians, who ...

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