Category: 1_NEWS
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East Timor: More Applicants Than Seminary Can Hold
To cope with the problem, a second minor seminary has been opened.
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German-speaking bishops move to take control over liturgical translations
Cardinal Reinhard Marx says Liturgiam authenticam, the rules for translation the Vatican issued in 2001, was a “dead end”. But thanks to a recent decision by the pope the bishops now have greater freedom. The German bishops’ president, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich, said the first reaction he and his confreres had to the new…
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Pope Francis: Adapt Canon Law to Fit Ecclesiology
As domradio.de reports, Pope Francis has stated that canon law must be adapted to fit the image of the church that has developed through the Second Vatican. The occasion was a message to a conference on the hundredth anniversary of church’s first universal code of canon law which appeared in 1917. Pope Francis states that…
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Liturgical Press Awarded the Frederick R. McManus Award
Liturgical Press was awarded the Frederick R. McManus Award from the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions
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Catholic Institutions Come Together For Fossil-Fuel Divestment
Catholic institutions across the world are coming together to form the biggest faith-based fossil-fuel divestment.
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Why Pope Francis Chose the Name “Francis”
“Don’t forget the poor,” Cardinal Hummes said to the newly elected Cardinal Bergoglio.
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Abbey Organ Chronicles I: Medieval Europe
The 1961 Holtkamp in Saint John’s Abbey is about to undergo a massive expansion.
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Newly Named Bishop of Innsbruck Advocates for Women Deacons
Ordination of women to the priesthood is “not so utopian.”
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Composer Arvo Pärt Wins Prestigious Ratzinger Prize in Theology
“Religion guides all the processes in our lives, without us even knowing it. It is true that religion has a very important role in my composition, but how it really works, I am not able to describe.”