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Pope Benedict: The great unifier?
On September 14, Vatican officials met with the leaders of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics, to present a proposal for the group’s full reunification with the Church. If successful, the pope will have healed a serious division within the Church and brought one million energized Catholics back into the fold. In the disastrous years following [...]
Communion in the hand and the life of grace
Pope Benedict made some headlines a few years ago when, in his public Masses, he began only to distribute Holy Communion to communicants who were kneeling and receiving on the tongue. The Holy Father's action has prompted a renewed discussion of how Holy Communion should be distributed, and a renewed, critical examination of the currently accepted practices of receiving Communion standing and in [...]