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Gloria TV News on the Feast of Servant of God Orlando Catanii. Secular but Still Open Vatican The Year of the Priest, which was announced by Pope Benedict XVI back in March, will start coming Friday.…More
Gloria TV News on the Feast of Servant of God Orlando Catanii.
Secular but Still Open
Vatican
The Year of the Priest, which was announced by Pope Benedict XVI back in March, will start coming Friday. This means that between June 19 and 29, the Church will celebrate simultaneously both, the ending Year of St. Paul and the beginning Year of the Priest. Many dioceses are planning special activities centered around the example of St. Jean-Marie Vianney, the patron-saint of diocesan priests, who died 150 years ago in August 1859. For the occasion Cardinal Claudio Hummes said: Each of the world's 408,000 priests should feel loved, respected, valued and supported in his vocation to bring the Gospel to an increasingly secular -- but still open – world.
An Unusually Blunt Speech
Vatican
According to Pope Benedict XVI the aim of the Year for Priests is to rebuild “in the priest a strong spiritual identity, faithful to his original mission," writes Sandro Magister in the Italian magazine Espresso …More
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