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“God’s Grace Works In Ways Unknown To Us”
An interview with Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze, 88, former Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
By Barbara Middleton for
Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze, 88. He has lived and worked in Rome for decades
Cardinal Francis Arinze, who was born in 1932 in Eziowelle, Nigeria, and went on to become a priest, bishop and cardinal (elevated by Pope John Paul II) of the Church, became the Prefect Emeritus of the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in 2008, after serving there for six years. Prior to that, he was the President of the Secretariat for Non-Christians (now the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialog) from 1985 to 2002. He was President-delegate of the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist in 2005, and Pope Benedict asked him to preach the Lenten exercises for the Roman Curia in 2009.
Letter #17, 2021, Thurs., April 19: Unknown Centurion Letter #17, 2021, Thurs., April 19: Unknown Centurion
First,
Rome celebrated its birthday.
April 21 in the year 753 B.C. by the twin brothers, Romulus and Remus, in the place where they had been suckled by a she-wolf. (link)
So, let us wish Rome a happy 2,774th birthday, even one day late.
Second,
the importance of Rome.
For a millennium, Rome, built over centuries by thousands of engineers and centurions, controlled the destiny of all human civilization known to Europe, then it fell into dissolution and disrepair.
For this reason, we may rightly say, with a certain poetic license, that all of modern European history is fundamentally “a long nostalgia for Rome.”
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Teaching to Get to Heaven 03/14/2021 at 10:13 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
By Fr. John Henry, Crisis, March 6, 2021
“If young people are educated properly, we have moral order; if not, vice and disorder prevail. Religion alone can initiate and achieve a true education.”
St. John Bosco’s understanding of Catholic education seems far from the prevailing view in any western school today. Sadly, this same observation applies equally to the vast majority of schools that proclaim the name “Catholic” on the sign at the gate.
To use my own local experience as a template that finds an echo in most western nations: The United Kingdom is often held up as a great exemplar of Catholic education, in that there are Catholic schools in every town, attached and associated with every Catholic parish. Yet the truth is that while this proclaimed Catholicity was a truth in times gone by, it is now an embarrassing and rather thin veneer over schools that have failed to teach the