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Nuns Turn from Chicken To Massage

Austria

The Cistercian nuns at Marienkron Abbey in Monchhof, Austria, turned to massage after their chicken breeding business fell flat. Now the sisters use their healing hands to sooth away the aches and pains of their customers. The five star spa offers therapies with high pressure jets of mineral water, massage, and fitness classes with an expert chi kung Chinese breathing exercises. The Sisters say the ice cold water treatments are good for the body and the soul and charge 120 Euros a night for a break in the spa.

As Serious As the Economic Crisis

Vatican

Society today is facing a "cultural and spiritual crisis, as serious as the economic crisis," Pope Benedict XVI told a meeting of the Italian bishops' conference in a May 27 address. "It would be illusory to counter one, ignoring the other," he added. The Holy Father said that the spiritual crisis stems from "uncertainty about values, evident in the struggles of many adults to honor commitments." He commended the Italian bishops for choosing to make education of the youth in faith their top priority for the next decade.

Los Angeles: Lecture Series on the Tridentine Mass

USA

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles site has listed Lecture series on the Tridentine Mass. They will take place from June 13 through June 15 at the Loyola Marymount University. Capucine Father Edward Foley, a noted liturgist, will conduct a lecture series highlighting the historical development of the Liturgy over time. To sign up write to worshipregistration@la-archdiocese.org

Avvenire remembers Jonny Cash

Italy

Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian Bishops’ Conference’s remembered Johnny Cash on Sunday for how his music “sang the faith”. Cash died in September 2003. Without his faith, the article said, "the voice of Cash would not have been the same." The newspaper wrote about the man who "knew" prison and nearly died of a drug overdose, but "still at a certain point in his life, took from it a possible Meaning, with a capital letter." Cash dedicated the last of his songs, the paper noted, "to sorrowful, moving hymns to man, inserted within his own faith in a God that gives horizons and hopes to man."