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By Francis X. Rocca
BEIRUT – Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Lebanon Sept. 14, saying that he came “as a pilgrim of peace, as a friend of God and as a friend of men.” In his remarks at a welcoming ceremony at Beirut’s airport, Pope Benedict praised Lebanon, with a mixed population of Christians and Muslims, for its distinctive […]
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By Catholic News Service
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, a U.S. astronaut, met briefly with Pope Benedict XVI at the end of the pope’s weekly general audience Aug. 8. Giffords, who was shot and seriously wounded during a political appearance in Arizona in 2011, traveled to Rome with her husband […]
Local
Fr. Paul Dudzinski, pastor of St. Peter Parish in Washington, recently moved in to a new rectory built on the parish property in Rappahannock County. In the works for a few years, the house gives the priest more room compared to the suite of rooms attached to the church building where he was living until […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
ROME – The Vatican-ordered revision of the statutes of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious will continue, but it must be accompanied with a real dialogue, which has been missing from the process, said Brazilian Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. “It […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — In one of his last efforts to clean up the image of the Vatican bank, Pope Benedict XVI approved the hiring of the chairman of a German shipyard as the bank’s new president. Ernst von Freyberg, 54, fills a nine-month-long vacancy at the helm of the bank after its former president, Ettore […]
