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Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin. New Cardinals Today? Vatican The Pope is expected to announce the names of new cardinals today during his regular weekly audience – according …More
Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin.

New Cardinals Today?

Vatican
The Pope is expected to announce the names of new cardinals today during his regular weekly audience – according to most journalists at the Vatican. The consistory will probably take place on November 20. According to Andrea Tornielli of Il Giornale, the Holy Father will name 19 new cardinal-electors and a few others who are over the age of 80. Archbishop Raymond Burke, the American head of the Apostolic Signatura, Archbishop Albert Ranjith of Colombo, Sri Lanka and Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington, DC are expected to be among the new cardinals.

L’Osservatore Romano Recommends The Simpsons

Vatican

The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, is evidently determined to shed its reputation as a solid and sensible paper - the website Catholic Culture has declared. The paper has praised the American animated television series The Simpsons as among the few TV programs for children in which Christian faith, religion, and questions about God are recurrent themes.” The secular media treated the L’Osservatore Romano article with humor and sarcasm. A typical piece in the Daily Telegraph carried the subhead: He is an idle pea-brained glutton with a permanent craving for doughnuts and Duff beer, but Homer Simpson has been declared a true Catholic by the Vatican's official newspaper.

A Great Man from Pennsylvania

USA

A cause for the beatification of Jesuit Father Walter Ciszek is moving forward at the Vatican. Father Ciszek was a Pennsylvania native and Byzantine-rite priest. He spent years as a prisoner of the Soviet regime. He slipped into Russia in 1940 to undertake a clandestine ministry, but was detected. The Communists imprisoned him at the notorious Lubyanka prison in Moscow, and then exiled him to Siberia. There he remained until he was released in an exchange of prisoners in 1963. He is the author of With God in Russia. On a personal note: I was born in Soviet Union.

Catholic University of Leuven Wants to Drop “Catholic”

Belgium

The Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium may drop its institutional affiliation with the Church. Until 1969, the Flemish-language University of Leuven was joined with the French-speaking University of Louvain. Now it is inaugurating a series of debates on the question of removing “Catholic” from its name. Rector Mark Waer reassured that the decision will not be made hastily but added that “the Catholic message is not appropriate for the university.” Waer said that students—especially those from outside Belgium—should be know that the bishops who sit on the board of the University of Leuven do not control academic policies.

Rome

Australian foreign minister Kevin Rudd has defended the Catholic Church against critics during a press conference. Rudd is in Rome for the canonization of St. Mary MacKillop. He noted that the Church has been heavily criticized because of the sex-abuse scandal. But the minister chose to emphasize the positive contributions of Catholicism in Australian history, as exemplified by the work of the new saint. “I would like to acknowledge the enormous work which the Church has done and other Christian churches in dealing with this blight on all of human kind,” he said.
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the Holy Father will name 19 new cardinal-electors
If only some of the current cardinals/bisihops could be removed as easily as they are appointed.
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He [Homer Simpson] is an idle pea-brained glutton with a permanent craving for doughnuts and Duff beer, but Homer Simpson has been declared a true Catholic by the Vatican's official newspaper.
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the Holy Father will name 19 new cardinal-electors

If only some of the current cardinals/bisihops could be removed as easily as they are appointed.

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He [Homer Simpson] is an idle pea-brained glutton with a permanent craving for doughnuts and Duff beer, but Homer Simpson has been declared a true Catholic by the Vatican's official newspaper.

It's no wonder that that Church has lost both credibility and moral authority if “Homer Simpson has been declared a true Catholic by the Vatican's official newspaper.” I beleive it is well past the time for a new editor and staff at L’Osservatore Romano.

A Homer Simpson quote .

I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!
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Good morning,
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