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Synod Diary: The New Minority

Originally posted in The Catholic World Report

Timothy Cardinal Dolan summed up the Synod’s fuzzy focus on peripheral issues to the point of creating a New Minority—faithful Catholic families who also struggle against the riptide of secularism

Cardinals Timothy M. Dolan of New York and Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, vice president, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, leave the opening session of the Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 5. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Cardinal Sarah: Islam & Secular West Have Same Demonic Origins

cardinal robert sarahCardinal Robert Sarah made headlines this week when he told Synod Fathers that Nazi-Fascism and Communism of the 20th century are what western homosexual and abortion ideologies and Islamic Fanaticism are to the world today – and both have the same demonic origins.

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Women of Grace: St. Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582)

 

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St. Teresa of Avila shows us it is never too late to get serious about our prayer life. Born Dona Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada, Teresa was an active child with a big imagination and great sensitivity of heart. Little Teresa and her brother Roderigo were intrigued by the lives of the saints and the martyrs, and often sought to imitate their holy example.

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Synod Aims to Show Beauty of Family

familyOn day nine of the Synod on the Family, delegates debated a wide range of issues, from how to deal with polygamy in African nations to discussing the reasons why youth today are so unwilling to make commitments; but all agree that the main goal of this historic meeting is to show the beauty of the family to the Church and the world.

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