Zenit reports that Archbishop Mauro Piacenza speaking in Rome said that:

A priest’s soul should have “interior muscle” comparable to the physical strength of Rambo, which is nourished with “prayer, the interior life and true motivation,” says the secretary for the Congregation for Clergy.

He added that during this year gratitude should be expressed “for a service that so many times is done in a hidden way,” and that the “first thing we must do is pray.”

“Priests at times have to row against the current,” said Archbishop Piacenza, speaking “in an evangelical sense, that is, to undertake a war, but of holiness.”

Nothing extraordinary

He invited priests to keep in mind the figure of the holy Curé d’Ars: “What extraordinary thing did he do? Nothing. He centered everything in his vocation: pastoral works, the Eucharist and Confession.”

The 65-year-old prelate noted that St. John Mary Vianney did “not have very particular gifts of intelligence,” but he “was an exceptional pastor.”

The archbishop added that the saint didn’t “get a degree in pastoral care,” and that the work of a priest is learned “with the love of God.”

Archbishop Piacenza also noted the example of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, who offered many prayers, sacrifices and mortifications for the holiness of priests.

“She was a mother within the Carmel community. She became the guardian angel of many priests,” the archbishop said.

Zenit reports:

What Britain needs now is the religion it lost at the reformation, says Andrew Thornton-Norris in his new book The Spiritual History of English. He says that only the Catholic Church is able to resist the “dictatorship of relativism.” Only it can provide once protestant countries such as Britain and America with the underlying sense of values that they have lost, and revive their cultures with it.

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In the Catholic Radio Group at Linkedin.com – Steve Gajdosik of the Catholic Radio Association reports:

The FCC has announced an application window for 67 noncommercial allotments in the commercial band. These are full power noncommercially licensed allotments in the commercial FM band, i.e., 92.1 – 107.9 mHz, operating at 6,000 to 100,000 watts. Read more at FCC

These are great opportunities to obtain license from the FCC for just the minimal cost involved in preparing the technical and legal elements of the application!

These permits will be acquired and used by someone to broadcast public radio, Protestant radio or the fullness of the Faith. Who, is up to you.

Time is of the essence. The application window is February 19-26.

A list of frequencies is available on the FCC’s website or from the CRA.

Contact the CRA for maps and to discuss the most effective strategy to acquire these permits.

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Check out this amazing document… The Manhattan Declaration..

Signed by a host of Christians… Evangelicals, Catholics, Orthodox, etc.

Makes me wonder if it is 1989 or 2009… Back then Reagan and JP2 were catalysts for fall of USSR… Are Obama and Benedict catalysts for Reunification of the Church?… A huge part of the Anglican/Episcopal church has rejoined Rome.. An Orthodox patriarch in Europe is driving with full effort to reunification.. In his words.. an Orthodox will not become a Catholic. or vice versa… but rather we will all approach the altar together!  How cool is this!

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Talk Show Host AL KRESTA will be speaking this Monday 11/9 night at St. John the Baptist at 7:30 pm. 

Kresta will be speaking on “the 4 clubs” used most often  to beat up on the Catholic Church—and he will give you four “killer questions”  to put to anyone swingin’ those clubs. 

Kresta, a former Protestant Pastor turned Catholic Media Missionary and Founder of the Ave Maria Radio Network, will also broadcast LIVE from the Redeemer Radio studio on Monday, November 9 between 4 and 6 pm on Redeemer Radio, Catholic Radio, AM 1450 .

In the Fall issue of the Notre Dame Magazine former ND President Fr. Ted Hesburgh praises Obama’s visit:

This year’s commencement was indeed “a defining moment” for Notre Dame because we didn’t duck the big issue of our times and the horrendous fact of so many millions of unborn children being coldly killed that brought this to a head. I trust that all of this will have an effect on the national debate and, hopefully, we will see greater efforts to, at least for now, lower the number of abortions and come up with positive programs to help unfortunate women who find themselves in this difficult situation and are persuaded to take the easy way out. Thanks for delineating the issue front and center.

Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC
Notre Dame, Indiana

Is this 1989 or 2009? Back then JP2 and Reagan oversaw the rapid disintegration of the Soviet Union. Are Benedict and Obama catalysts for a return to Rome?

Zenit and Typika report:

A Bulgarian Orthodox prelate told Benedict XVI of his desire for unity, and his commitment to accelerate communion with the Catholic Church.

At the end of Wednesday’s general audience, Bishop Tichon, head of the diocese for Central and Western Europe of the Patriarchate of Bulgaria, stated to the Pope, “We must find unity as soon as possible and finally celebrate together,” L’Osservatore Romano reported.

“People don’t understand our divisions and our discussions,” the bishop stated. He affirmed that he will “not spare any efforts” to work for the quick restoration of “communion between Catholics and Orthodox.”

Bishop Tichon said that “the theological dialogue that is going forward in these days in Cyprus is certainly important, but we should not be afraid to say that we must find as soon as possible the way to celebrate together.”

“A Catholic will not become an Orthodox and vice versa, but we must approach the altar together,” he added.

www.SouthernCatholicChicks.com… Great blog from two former Episcopalian southern “chicks” who started wondering what they were “protesting” as Protestants!

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The priest as Hero! Amazing film by Grassroot Films and USCCB

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Did you attend the Catholic Radio Conference in Alabama this past week sponsored by the Catholic Radio Association and EWTN? If so leave a comment and give us a report. I’d expect the Spirit was moving in Birmingham!

CatholicCulture.org reported comments from  Msgr. Anthony R. Frontiero. Msgr Frontiero is a priest of the Diocese of Manchester (New Hampshire) who began to work in the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in 2006:

“[N]eutrality toward world views cannot be truly tolerant and respectful. Likewise, an absence of convictions does not define tolerance; and in the absence of some compelling notion of the truth that requires us to be tolerant of those who have a different understanding of the truth of things, there is only skepticism and relativism.”He continued:

An authentic notion of tolerance in pluralistic societies demands that in their dealings with unbelievers and those of different faiths, believers should grasp that they must reasonably expect that the dissent they encounter will go on existing. At the same time, however, secular political cultures must encourage unbelievers to grasp the same point in their dealings with believers. When secularized citizens act in their role as citizens, they must [not] deny in principle that religious images of the world have the potential to express truth. Nor must they refuse their believing fellow citizens the right to make contributions in a religions language to public debates.

Rachel Campos-Duffy star of the ground-breaking MTV Real World show spoke with Sean Herriot on Relevant Radio’s Morning Air today – about her new book “Stay Home, Stay Happy:  10 Secrets to Loving At-Home Motherhome“  as well as her recent appearance on The View TV show.

Article by Michael Coren at CatholicEducation.org discusses Catholic Bashing – the Last Acceptable Prejudice

Today secularism is the ideology of fashion but Catholicbashing, the last acceptable prejudice in polite society, is the toxin the runs through the contemporary bloodstream of Western liberal society.

And he continues:

Christ didn’t leave a bible but a guide and a guard: the pope, the Church, all shaping the faith long before the New Testament was written and available. So it’s not a question of choosing what to believe but choosing to believe. Protestants broke the direct tradition leading from God on Earth and many of their 22,000 denominations ordain women, married men and active homosexuals. And the more liberal of the variety — Anglican, United and their American and European cousins — are hemorrhaging members to such a degree that they’re likely to effectively disappear within a generation. But the inclusion of almost everybody as a minister is as much as symptom as a cause