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      <title>Prayer in the Letters of St. Paul</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[After having examined prayer in the Acts of the Apostles, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he will dedicate his next series of catechesis to prayer in the Letters of St. Paul, which always begin and end with an expression of prayer and which have given us a rich range of forms of prayer. In the May 16, 2012, general audience, celebrated in St. Peter&apos;s Square before more than 11,000 people, the Pope explained that the Apostle to the Gentiles wants us to understand that prayer &quot;should not be seen as a simple good deed made to God, an action of our own. It is above all a gift, fruit of the living [and] revitalizing presence of the Father and of Jesus Christ in us&quot;.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Whose Love? Which Truth? A Postmodern Encyclical</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[The most remarkable characteristic of Pope Benedict XVI&apos;s encyclical Caritas in Veritate is its theologically robust mode of discourse: a pervasive and unapologetically Trinitarian and Christological, substantive argument, based in a robust theological anthropology of person and society as gift, and a peculiarly Platonic and Augustinian rhetorical mode of discourse. Caritas reveals the implicit, hidden, and faulty theological and philosophical commitments of secular reason&#xad; which, when used as a medium for the Gospel, can too easily taint the true doctrine the Church attempts to convey with it--proclaiming instead a radically orthodox diagnosis of and prescription for a disenchanted, love-and-truth starved--yet Enlightenment-weary--postmodern world.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Let Freedom Ring!</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops&apos; Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, delivered this keynote address on the challenge to religious liberty the nation now faces and what is being done in response at the Ethics and Public Policy Center&apos;s National Religious Freedom Gala Reception and Award Dinner in Washington May 24, 2012. ]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Preface to Norms Regarding the Manner of Proceeding in the Discernment of Presumed Apparitions or Revelations</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Card. William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith wrote this Preface to the Norms Regarding the Manner of Proceedings in the Discernment of Presumed Apparitions or Revelations and released both documents on December 14, 2011.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Local Churches Must Incorporate the Patrimony of Faith and Culture of Catholic Immigrants</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[On May 18, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI received the final group from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, whose prelates have been traveling to Rome over the past six months on their quinquennial &quot;ad limina Apostolorum&quot; visits. In previous meetings, different groups of bishops emphasized the importance of preserving and fostering the gift of Catholic unity as an essential condition for the fulfillment of the Church&apos;s mission in their country. Responding to this concern, Benedict XVI focused his address this morning on the need to incorporate the rich patrimony of faith and culture contributed by the many Catholic immigrants into the Church in America.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>The Church's Prayer for Peter</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[&quot;From the first moment of my election as Successor of St. Peter I have always felt supported by the prayers of the Church, by your prayers, especially at moments of greatest difficultly, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart&quot;, said Pope Benedict XVI on May 9, 2012, during his general audience. &quot;Constant choral prayer is also an important way to overcome any trials that may arise on life&apos;s journey, because it is by being profoundly united to God that we can also be profoundly united to others&quot;.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Norms Regarding the Manner of Proceeding in the Discernment of Presumed Apparitions or Revelations</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[During the annual Plenary Session in November 1974, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith examined the problems relative to presumed apparitions and to the revelations often connected with them. The eventual fruit of those discussions was a four-page document in Latin bearing the title &quot;Normae S. Congregationis pro doctrina fidei de modo procedendi in diudicandis praesumptis apparitionibus ac revelationibus&quot; (&quot;Norms Regarding the Manner of Proceeding in the Discernment of Presumed Apparitions or Revelations&quot;. The document was approved by Pope Paul VI in February 1978 and was signed by Franjo Cardinal Seper and Archbishop J&#xe9;r&#xf4;me Hamer, then the prefect and secretary of SCDF. The Holy See decided that the text was an &quot;in-house&quot; document intended for bishops, and as such did not need to be published. It was given to bishops &quot;sub secreto&quot; and not published in the Holy See&apos;s official journal Acta Apostolicae Sedis. On December 14, 2011, Card. William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, wrote a Preface and made the document public.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Pastoral Letter on Freedom of Conscience and Religion</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[The Permanent Council of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops issued this pastoral letter on religious liberty. The letter, dated April 2012, was released on May 14. The bishops reminded the faithful that &quot;it is sometimes necessary to resist, even in a heroic manner, the directives of the state, a court, or an organization that tries to force them to go against their convictions in matters of faith and morals.&quot; ]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Prayer Gives Essential Meaning to Our Daily Activities</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[If prayer and the Word of God do not nourish our spiritual life, we run the risk being suffocated by the many cares and concerns of daily existence. Prayer makes us see reality with new eyes and helps us to find our way in the midst of adversity. These words were pronounced by Pope Benedict XVI in his catechesis during April 25, 2012, general audience, held in St. Peter&apos;s Square in the presence of more than 20,000 faithful.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>St. Stephen: Meditation upon Sacred Scripture in Order to Understand the Present</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[The prayer of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, was the theme of the Pope Benedict XVI&apos;s catechesis during his general audience of May 2, 2012. Addressing more than 20,000 faithful filling St. Peter&apos;s Square, the Pope explained how, according to the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles, Stephen was taken before the Sanhedrin accused of having declared that Jesus would destroy the Temple and change the customs handed down by Moses. In his address before the council Stephen explained that, in saying these things, Jesus had been referring to His body, which was the new temple. In this way, Christ &quot;inaugurated the new worship and, with the offer of Himself on the cross, replaced the ancient sacrifices&quot;, Benedict XVI said.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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