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Month: March 2020

Lessons From Fr. Gabriele Amorth’s First Exorcism

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Lessons From Fr. Gabriele Amorth's First ExorcismFather Gabriele Amorth’s very first exorcism remained especially impressed in his mind. He spoke of it in various interviews and in his book The Last Exorcist: My Battle against Satan, in which he narrates in depth what happened with so many other important exorcisms. His first solo exorcism was very particular, because he immediately clashed […]

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There is a Catholic Way to Parent

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Catholic FamiliesIs there a Catholic way to parent? It really depends upon what you mean by the question.  If you mean, “Is there an approved list of preferred parenting methods the Church requires that we use for child rearing?”  Well then, of course the answer is “certainly not!” But if you mean, “Does our Catholic faith […]

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Tuesday of the First Week of Lent

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The Lord’s prayer, taught by Jesus to his disciples in today’s Gospel, is the only prayer Jesus left to us. It is precious, therefore, and we ought to pray over it and meditate on it, in order that we might draw from it, in full measure, the wisdom that went into composing it. One truth […]

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St. Katharine Drexel

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St. Katharine DrexelSaint Katharine Drexel (1858-1955) was an American heiress who gave up a fortune in order to serve native Americans and blacks. She was born in Philadelphia to a wealthy and religious family, and from an early age her parents’ example encouraged her own concern for the poor. After nursing her stepmother through a long illness, Katharine […]

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Nicaragua’s Father Ernesto Cardenal dies at 95

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Managua, Nicaragua, Mar 2, 2020 / 05:06 pm (CNA).- Fr. Ernesto Cardenal, a Nicaraguan poet and Marxist liberation theology activist whose priestly faculties were long suspended for his assuming a public office, died Sunday at the age of 95.

Fr. Cardenal died March 1 after a brief hospitalization.

His wake will be at the Mount of Olives funeral home, and a funeral Mass will be said March 3 Managua’s Immaculate Conception Cathedral.

Fr. Cardenal was born Jan. 20, 1925 in Granada, Nicaragua. He studied literature and was for a time at the Trappist’s Gethsemani monastery in Kentucky, but he returned to Nicaragua and was ordained a priest in 1965.

The following year he founded an artists colony on an archipelago in Lake Nicaragua.

When the Sandinista National Liberation Front ousted Nicaragua’s Somoza dictatorship in 1979, Fr. Cardenal was named Minister of Culture in the new government. Canon law forbids clerics from assuming public offices which entail a participation in the exercise of civil power.

St. John Paul II publicly reprimanded Fr. Cardenal when he visited Nicaragua in 1983.

The priest continued to serve as Nicaragua’s culture minister until 1987, and he later distanced himself from the FSLN.

He was absolved of all canonical censures one year ago. The Nicaraguan apostolic nunciature announced Feb. 18, 2019 that Pope Francis had accepted the request recently made by Fr. Cardenal “to be readmitted to the exercise of the priestly ministry.”

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