Category Archives: Pope Benedict XVI

CNS Sends More Than 26,000 Signatures to Georgetown Opposing Invitation to HHS Secretary Sebelius

May 16, 2012 – 10:12 am

The Cardinal Newman Society is sending to Georgetown University President John DeGioia the names of more than 26,000 people who joined an open letter urging Georgetown to cancel an invitation to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak at a diploma ceremony this Friday. The results are also being shared with Cardinal Donald [...]

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Pope Urges Catholic Colleges to Embrace Catholic Identity

May 7, 2012 – 1:39 pm

Addressing bishops from the U.S., Pope Benedict XVI issued a clarion call for the renewal of Catholic identity at America’s Catholic colleges and universities, according to Vatican Radio. The Holy Father made this important statement to a group of American bishops from Georgia and North Carolina visiting the Vatican for their “ad limina” visit this [...]

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Pope Praying for Catholic University of America as It Marks 125th Anniversary

April 11, 2012 – 11:33 am

The Catholic University of America celebrated its 125th anniversary this week on April 10 with a Mass celebrated by Washington Archbishop and CUA chancellor, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.  During his homily, Cardinal Wuerl quoted the letter he received from the Vatican conveying the Holy Father’s “cordial good wishes” [...]

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New U.S. Nuncio Makes First Visit to Stateside Catholic College

April 3, 2012 – 1:21 pm

Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia, was honored by a visit from Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Papal Nuncio to the United States, the College recently announced.  According to the Christendom news release, this marked the nuncio’s first visit to a Catholic college. Archbishop Vigano celebrated Mass for the campus community and joined them for brunch [...]

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Pope Identifies Priority for Church: Renewing the Faith

January 30, 2012 – 2:52 pm

Remarking on the Catholic Church’s upcoming 2012-2013 “Year of Faith”, Pope Benedict XVI emphasized the priority for the entire Church of renewing the faith, the very ideal at the heart of the mission of The Cardinal Newman Society. According to the National Catholic Register: “In vast areas of the earth the faith risks being extinguished, [...]

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Pope: America “Increasingly Hostile” to Christianity.

January 20, 2012 – 10:02 am

Pope Benedict XVI received a group of prelates from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops at the Vatican and told them America is becoming “increasingly hostile” to Christianity, according to Zenit.  But the Pope added that hope remains, especially in the intellectual and moral education of our youth. This is a must read and a [...]

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Get That Bible Out of This Classroom, Says College

January 19, 2012 – 9:40 am

Highlighting the secularism that’s on the march on campuses across America, a one credit course showing how Biblical concepts can be applied in the business world has been canceled at a public Iowa college after faculty protests about the separation of church and state. A trio of Iowa State professors initiated a faculty movement to [...]

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Pope Baptizes Children, Speaks of Religious Education

January 10, 2012 – 2:54 pm

Pope Benedict XVI baptized 16 infants in the Sistine Chapel on January 8, the feast of the Baptism of Christ, and reminded the childrens’ parents and godparents of their duties to promote the children’s faith, according to Catholic Culture. The Pope’s homily touched on the importance of receiving the sacraments and a strong religious education: [...]

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Pope: “It’s Necessary and Urgent to Educate New Generations.”

January 3, 2012 – 10:59 am

Pope Benedict XVI told tens of thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square to celebrate the year’s first Angelus that the need to educate young people is “urgent.” According to Rome Reports, the Pope said, “It’s necessary and urgent to educate new generations, giving them a solid and integral formation that includes moral and [...]

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FOCUS Founder Appointed to Vatican Advisory Board

December 27, 2011 – 9:49 am

Curtis Martin, the founder of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, has been appointed to a Vatican advisory group dedicated to the New Evangelization, the Denver Post reports. Professor Edward Sri said he still remembers the first time he met Curtis Martin in a hallway at graduate school in Kansas almost 20 years ago. “The [...]

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Holy Father Asks Students What Christmas Means to Them

December 16, 2011 – 10:37 am

Pope Benedict XVI asked a group of university students to ask themselves “What does Christmas mean to me?” The answer, he said, defines who we are and who we will be, according to Zenit. “Is [Christmas] really important for my life, for the building up of society?,” he said. “There are many persons in our [...]

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Pope Calls Catholic Colleges New Field of Evangelization

December 7, 2011 – 9:49 am

With international students becoming an increasingly large group at college campuses, Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholic colleges to follow the example of Blessed John Henry Newman and commit themselves to their students intellectual, cultural and spiritual formation, the Vatican Information Service reports. Pope Benedict XVI, addressing his comments to the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral [...]

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Pope Calls for New Evangelization at Catholic Colleges

November 29, 2011 – 9:56 am

In his remarks to the US Catholic bishops on Saturday, November 26, Pope Benedict XVI summoned “the Church in America to recognize, in the light of a dramatically changing social and religious landscape, the urgency and demands of a new evangelization,” according to Vatican Radio. In particular, the Pope singled out the responsibility that Catholic [...]

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Pope Benedict XVI Encourages Courage in Education

November 9, 2011 – 10:54 am

A new book entitled Pope Benedict XVI and the Urgent Task of Education says the Pope believes there’s an emergency in education. Author Paolo Dal Toso, who  compiled statements and various addresses of the present Pontiff on the subject of education, told Zenit he wrote the book after realizing “the importance and frequency of the [...]

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Pope Tells Professors Formation Is More Important than Knowledge

October 5, 2011 – 3:22 pm

Zenit reports that Pope Benedict XVI invited professors to “transmit love of learning and of the truth through teaching” during his Angelus address in St. Peter’s Square last Sunday.  From the report: At the beginning of this university year, Benedict XVI is inviting professors to form young people in the truth and to transmit to [...]

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