CATHOLIC NEWS: Pope to priests at Chrism Mass: "A good priest can be recognized by the way his people are anointed

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CATHOLIC NEWS: Pope to priests at Chrism Mass: "A good priest can be recognized by the way his people are anointed"... PLUS 21 MORE

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• Pope to priests at Chrism Mass: "A good priest can be recognized by the way his people are anointed"
• One surprise of Pope Francis’ first two weeks is that he’s speaking almost exclusively in Italian
• 4 ways to deal with the C&E crowd this Easter
• Strangely compelling video: Laurel and Hardy dance to a 1966 Rolling Stones classic
• How to Survive a Bear Attack: An Illustrated Guide
• Reaping the whirlwind: A reflection on the deepening darkness that celebrates homosexual activity
• 10 great things about the Catholic Church
• Vatican officials caught off guard by Pope's decision to visit youth prison
• For his first official appointment, Pope Francis names his own successor in Buenos Aires
• Researchers explain why having lots of money doesn't make people happier
• How did we arrive at this sad juncture in history, and how can we defend marriage? Here are three ideas...
• 10 things you need to know about Holy Thursday
• Stop worrying, and watch. Benedict cleared the way for the Holy Spirit to move. Francis' pontificate will be fascinating...
• 10 things you need to know today: March 28, 2013
• Pope Francis presents a peculiar problem for the modern world. He's neither conservative nor liberal...
• Neil Gaiman, author of the bestselling 'Sandman' graphic novels, pays tribute to Lewis, Tolkien, and Chesterton
• 6 things you need to know about the Easter Triduum
• Open the floodgates of mercy
• What every Catholic should know about Church teaching regarding ‘same-sex marriage’
• Video: A look at St. Francis and his hometown of Assisi
• Video: Bullies and home battles, vanquished with a piece of chalk
• The Pope's reform project has already begun

Pope to priests at Chrism Mass: "A good priest can be recognized by the way his people are anointed" Posted: Dear Brothers and Sisters, This morning I have the joy of celebrating my first Chrism Mass as the Bishop of Rome. I greet all of you with affection, especially you, dear priests, who, like myself, today recall the day of your ordination.

One surprise of Pope Francis’ first two weeks is that he’s speaking almost exclusively in Italian Posted: This is a man who, according to the Vatican, is fluent in five languages – Spanish of course (he is Argentinian), as well as Italian, English, German and French. Yet at his first general audience this week, he skipped the traditional summary of his talk in various languages and stuck to italiano. No one’s sure yet if this represents a change in communication policy or an easing into the role of pope. Luis Badilla, a Vatican Radio journalist who runs a popular blog called Il Sismografo, speculated that perhaps in his first days, the pope has not had time to prepare multi-lingual versions of his remarks. There are other possible explanations, too. One is simplicity, which seems to be one of the guiding principles of this pontificate. Speeches or greetings that jump around in five or six languages require advance planning and editing, typically involving linguistic sections of the Secretariat of State.

4 ways to deal with the C&E crowd this Easter Posted: Speaking of confession, here's one: I have a really hard time dealing with the C&E Catholics -- you know, the ones who clog up the pews twice a year on the big holidays, chattering and chewing gum like they're in a football stadium, treating the Nativity and Resurrection of our Lord into a photo op, turning what should be the most joyous holy days into an occasion of sin for faithful Catholics. Now, some of you will be saying, "Yeah, right on! I wish our pastor would put his foot down and flush out creeps like that once and for all. This year, I'm bringing my BB gun -- you bet I'll get a seat. And if your park in my spot and your car has an Obama sticker, let's just say I hope you've enjoyed having such nice, unslashed tires up until now."

Strangely compelling video: Laurel and Hardy dance to a 1966 Rolling Stones classic Posted: Fred Astaire would be jealous...

How to Survive a Bear Attack: An Illustrated Guide Posted: Walk away slowly. Don't run. Retrieve bear spray...

Reaping the whirlwind: A reflection on the deepening darkness that celebrates homosexual activity Posted: There is, among faithful Catholics, a dismay, and even an understandable anger at the events unfolding at the Supreme Court these past days related to to gay unions. And even if the court were to uphold traditional marriage (which does not seem likely), or merely return the matter to the States, it seems quite clear where our culture is going regarding this matter, approving things once, not so long ago, considered unthinkable. What then to do with our dismay and anger? It is too easy to vent anger, which is not only unproductive, but in the current state of “hyper-tolerance” for all things gay, angry denunciations are counter-productive.

10 great things about the Catholic Church Posted: With its divine foundation, sanction, and mission, nothing could be more glorious than the Catholic Church. But, of course, many people — even many baptized Catholics — don’t see it that way. Yet when the sins of men — secular material progress, or our own self-centeredness — blind us to this, they blind us to everything. The Renaissance, a great Catholic moment, enlightened the world by seeing it afresh with both the light of faith and the light of classical civilization, which was Catholicism’s seedbed. So, too, today, if we look on the world through truly Catholic eyes, we will find that the fog lifts, our perspectives grow deeper, and beauty and truth beckon above the puerility of mass popular culture. What’s so great about Catholicism? Here are ten things –in countdown order — to which one could easily add hundreds of others.

Vatican officials caught off guard by Pope's decision to visit youth prison Posted: Vatican officials thought Pope Francis would only celebrate Holy Thursday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, but an invitation from a government minister changed their plans. The Italian Justice Minister, Paola Severino, “was visiting the psychiatric hospital where I serve as chaplain, and she showed interest in inviting the Pope to visit an Italian prison,” explained Monsignor Gino Belleri in a March 26 interview with CNA. It turned out that “as soon as the Pope knew of the invitation of Minister Severino, he grabbed the occasion,” Msgr. Belleri said.

For his first official appointment, Pope Francis names his own successor in Buenos Aires Posted: On Holy Thursday, after the chrism Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in the basilica of St. Peter, the new metropolitan archbishop of Buenos Aires was announced as Monsignor Mario Aurelio Poli, age 65, since 2008 the bishop of Santa Rosa, in the Argentine pampas. As the first appointment of his pontificate, Jorge Mario Bergoglio wanted in this way to install a successor in the Church of which he was pastor until last March 13, selecting a bishop whom he knows well, seeing that from 2002 to 2006 he was his auxiliary. And he did so fifteen days after his election as pope. In record time it may be said, an instance of a capacity for decision making and of an unpredictability that seem to characterize in a particular way the beginning of this pontificate.

Researchers explain why having lots of money doesn't make people happier Posted: Think a lottery win would make you happy forever? Many of us do, including a US shopkeeper who just scooped $338 million in the Powerball lottery – the fourth largest prize in the game's history. Before the last Powerball jackpot in the United States, tickets were being snapped up at a rate of around 130,000 a minute. But before you place all your hopes and dreams on another ticket, here’s something you should know. All the evidence suggests a big payout won’t make that much of a difference in the end.

How did we arrive at this sad juncture in history, and how can we defend marriage? Here are three ideas... Posted: It is impossible to ignore the ongoing and hotly contested debate in our country about the definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman. The partisans on both sides of the issue have well-articulated arguments defending their positions and the issue is now before the Supreme Court to determine the future of marriage in California and possibly other states. What Christ gave us as a sacrament will have its “civil” future determined by a man-made institution. How did we arrive at this sad juncture in history?

10 things you need to know about Holy Thursday Posted: Every single Mass, we hear the words "on the night he was betrayed." That night was Holy Thursday, and it is one of the most important nights in all of history. So what happened on the original Holy Thursday? Why is it sometimes called Maundy Thursday? What happens on this day liturgically, and what is the Chrism Mass?

Stop worrying, and watch. Benedict cleared the way for the Holy Spirit to move. Francis' pontificate will be fascinating... Posted: Having just gone to confession after mass this morning, it was not my intention to get into a little tiff with a media outlet on Twitter, but being who I am, I couldn’t let it go when I saw one of those lazy, thoughtless sneers cross my timeline, to the effect that Pope Francis (good guy) was refusing to stay in (bad guy) “Pope Benedict’s luxurious apartments.” I needed to disabuse the writer of the notion that Pope Benedict owned anything, including a “luxurious apartment” but that the papal apartment in the Vatican was simply that — the apartment of whoever happens to be pope, used by every pope since 1906, until now. Francis has chosen not to use it, and that’s perfectly fine, but I find myself objecting strenuously when I see people trying to use Francis’ simple tastes as a kind of hammer against his predecessors.

10 things you need to know today: March 28, 2013 Posted: Banks reopen in Cyprus, Malala Yousafzai signs a book deal, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion

Pope Francis presents a peculiar problem for the modern world. He's neither conservative nor liberal... Posted: At the root of the problem is the unfortunate and unfortunately common practice of politicizing religion. Traditionally, a Catholic was faithful or not faithful, orthodox or heretical, devout or lukewarm. These categories are intrinsic to Catholicism itself. Concerning the dignity of the person, Catholicism abides no such divisions since each person is created in the image of God and is of incalculable worth. Charles Darwin, in accordance with his own theory of biological evolution, divided all human beings into the “fit” and the “unfit.” In On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, he proclaims that “all ought to refrain from marriage who cannot avoid abject poverty for their children . . . the most able should not be prevented by laws or customs from succeeding best and rearing the largest number of offspring”.

Neil Gaiman, author of the bestselling 'Sandman' graphic novels, pays tribute to Lewis, Tolkien, and Chesterton Posted: I’ll be the first to admit that I’m late to the party of those who admire Neil Gaiman. I’ve only read a few of his graphic Sandman novels, and shared them with my children. Today, though, a friend shared a post from Gaiman’s website in which he acknowledges the debt he owes to three giants of literature, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and G.K. Chesterton, as well as to the treasures that can be unearthed in libraries. It’s a confession, of sorts, that he made in a speech given in 2004 to a body of literati known as the Mythopoeic Society.

6 things you need to know about the Easter Triduum Posted: We are about to leave Lent and enter the liturgical season known as the Easter Triduum. What is this season? Why is it does the Church say that it is "the culmination of the entire liturgical year"? When does it begin and end? Why is it important? How is fasting observed in this season? What is Tenebrae?

Open the floodgates of mercy Posted: One of the beautiful truths that Blessed John Paul II illustrates in his Encyclical on Divine Mercy is that logic of mercy only makes sense from the inside, from those who are implicated in it. He using the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11ff), he observes that when we remain on the outside of the relationship between the father and the son of the parable, what the father does appears foolish. This indeed is how the older son looks at it. It is only when we think about the father’s words and actions from within the logic of his relationship with his sons that the depths of his love is disclosed to us. In both cases, the figure of the father suffers the misery of his sons. In the first instance, awareness of the living death into which his younger son had fallen pained his own heart. In the second instance, his heart is pained that the older son, after all they had been through together, still did not understand how much he had been loved, how much was his. In both instances, the father’s heart is pierced by the plight of his sons.

What every Catholic should know about Church teaching regarding ‘same-sex marriage’ Posted: No matter which way the US Supreme Court rules in the “gay marriage” cases before it the international debate over the definition of marriage will continue because that debate is, at root, about matters beyond a civil court’s competence, things like the nature of human beings and the fundamental good of society. Because we Catholics are and will surely remain major participants in such a debate we should be clear among ourselves as to what our Church teaches in this area.

Video: A look at St. Francis and his hometown of Assisi Posted: A look at the person and place of St. Francis of Assisi, the inspiration for the name of the new pope.

Video: Bullies and home battles, vanquished with a piece of chalk Posted: A young boy called Justen, who went through doleful past, discovers a way to change his situation greatly.

The Pope's reform project has already begun Posted: Pope Francis’ reform of the Vatican has already begun. Not in the way the world was expecting, through high-profile appointments of Roman Curia heads – though that will come in due time. Instead, the pope has embarked immediately on what might be called “re-evangelization” inside the Vatican walls. He dropped in today after a Vatican employees’ Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica and spoke about the value of work, thanking them for their service and asking them for their prayers because “I am a sinner, too.”

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