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When Pope Benedict XVI stepped off the plane in Beirut on Sept. 14, he said he had come to Lebanon as a “pilgrim of peace.”
A new study notes an uptick on social intolerance and government restrictions on religion around the world and in the United States between 2009 and mid-2010.
The potential power, but also the limits, of an ecumenical proclamation of the Gospel is likely to be a key topic during the meeting in October of the Synod of Bishops.
Demonstrators claim Pakistani officials raised funds for displaced families and offered to help resettle them but has not lived up to these commitments.
About 3,000 students at Fordham University cheered as the comedian Stephen Colbert joined Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York and James Martin, S.J., in a discussion of faith, humor and spirituality.
Vatican II requires that the people of God continue their pilgrim journey, aware that we move in contested terrain.