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| Fall in love with romantic IrelandOffaly ExpressHis relics were donated by Pope Gregory XVI to the Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church, near St. Stephen's Green, in 1836. The church is especially popular on St. Valentine's Day as there is a special “blessing of the rings” ceremony for couples ... |
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| The Art of Mastering Many TonguesNew York TimesNo less a figure than Pope Gregory XVI, in an attempt to catch Mezzofanti out, orchestrated a prank in which he secretly gathered dozens of foreign seminarians and then unleashed them on the unsuspecting cleric, all of them addressing him loudly in a ... |
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Published on Wednesday 8th of February 2012 09:21:43 AM
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| Sisters, laity to receive papal honorsOdessa American... the Order of St. Gregory the Great. The Rev. Michael Pfeifer, bishop of the San Angelo Catholic Diocese, nominated the women, along with 27 other clergy, religious women and laity in the diocese to Pope Benedict XVI for their service to the church. |
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| Marriage Equality: A Not so Conservative ProposalVirtue OnlinePope Benedict XVI recently told a gathering of diplomats that family is only "based on the marriage of a man and a woman" and then went on to say, [these are] "policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself ... and more » |
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| Bishop is keeper of the flameOmaha World-HeraldOrdained as Lincoln's bishop in May 1992, he will step down once Pope Benedict XVI names his successor, likely within the year. Now the oldest-serving bishop in the United States, Bruskewitz in effect serves as chief executive officer of the Diocese of ... |
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