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Evening - St. Hyacinth, Confessor - August 17th, 2009

Acton Institute PowerBlog >> Review: How the Byzantines Saved Europe Biblical Evidence for Catholicism >> The Balanced, Biblical Catholic View: Consecrated Virginity and Sacramental, Indissoluble Marriage With Lots of Children ("Both/And") Biblical Evidence for Catholicism >> Asking Mary and the Saints to Pray for Us Rather Than Going Straight to God: An Introductory Explanation Bonfire of the Vanities >> What the Assumption means for us (Assumption homily) Catholic World News >> Tens of thousands of Vietnamese Catholics rally for religious freedom on feast of the Assumption Insight Scoop >> Bishop Finn: "We must act against what is clearly evil." Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Monday, 20th Wk: “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?” New Liturgical Movement >> Archbishop Vigneron at Assumption Grotto New Liturgical Movement >> 2nd Annual Southeastern Liturgical Music Symposium New Liturgic...

Nine Star Edition - Sunday, September 21st, 2008

RORATE CAELI >> Good news: a faithful Diocese in Florida (Bishop Frank Dewane, Diocese of Venice) The New Liturgical Movement >> All Latin Ordinary Without Hymns in Your Parish Whispers in the Loggia >> "For All the World, a Witness to Hope "

Chiesa.com: The Peaceful Revolution of Vietnam's Catholics

Sandro Magister has an interesting article on the Church in Vietnam in the latest edition of Chiesa.com . Here is a look at his observations: On each of these occasions, the prompting was the request for the return of land and buildings confiscated from the Church by the regime. In the north of the country, the confiscations go back to the 1950's, when the communists took power, and in the south to after 1975. And the first and most important demand concerns the building that at one time hosted the pontifical delegation in Hanoi, next to the archbishop's residence and the cathedral of St. Joseph. The building was requisitioned in 1959, and is now used as a restaurant. Last December 15, the archbishop of Hanoi, Joseph Ngô Quan Kiêt, asked for the building to be given back, and called upon the faithful to pray that justice be done. The faithful took him at his word. Since December 18, every evening, they have gathered in front of the fence outside the former nunciature, praying ...