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An account with Catholic in its name is unaware that non Catholics are invited up with the Communion procession with arms crossed indicating they’d like to receive a blessing. Saying it makes no sense to him! Wow! Time to change your name @CatholicSat
Non-Catholics receiving Holy Communion in St. Peter’s Basilica today because some Americans decided to present themselves to the priest with their arms crossed, I guess to get a blessing, in a practice that is common in America but rare outside of the anglosphere, and one that makes no sense and should not happen at the distribution of Holy Communion.
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The crossed-arms practice for seeking a blessing (not Communion) is used or instructed in France, the Netherlands, the UK, Spain and elsewhere, and appears in the video from St. Peter's. Vatican guidance discourages individual blessings during Communion distribution.
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Caterina. 💕 retweeted
Cardinal Vesco:
"Life is not easy, but I love this, my life. I was a very lucky Dominican, and I’m a very lucky man… It’s a tough country. In this country the more difficult things can become very easy, just like that, and sometimes very simple things can become very tough."
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"It’s a delicate balancing act. The Catholic Church reaching out to help in society without seeming like it’s trying to evangelize or convert."
-- @colmflynnire, who did an excellent job producing and hosting this documentary on the Church in Algeria
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It's not stress. It's recognition that you are just going to keep doing it indefinitely. You are a smart person. It's been laid out in front of you. You still say no. You did this with AL. The Church's entire case was laid out for you several times. You kept finding one more problem, one more nit.
Cardinal Vesco has probably encountered more beauty and more suffering and more miracles, and prayed and contemplated love and beauty and God's goodness more than you or I ever will.
And you treat him like he's a 3rd grader who got an answer wrong in catechism class. Except it's worse, because a tiny Church in a big non-Christian country is on the line and he keeps getting attacked. You should know better. But instead you pick and you pick.
Just stop. You're never, ever going to be happy with anything you treat like that.
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Bp Guillard of Constantine:
"We are not here to preach the gospel to people through words and to disturb people. We are here for maybe two aims: to support the Christians who are here but also to build bridges of fraternity between Muslims and Christians."
Caterina. 💕 retweeted
Bp Carraro of Oran:
"Once again, we are not here in order to convert people. We are not here in order to become bigger, but we are here in order to love the others, to fulfill our vocation to be a small group of Christians in a country that is majority Muslim."
This is just one of at least a dozen derogatory, hateful comments directed at me unleashed by Bishop Barron supporters.
It’s not the capital letters he uses which intimidate me. It’s the horrific hate from an SSPX’er.
You are WHY the True Church of CHRIST KING & WORLD SAVIOR is abdicating its GOD ORDAINED MISSION! Get to an @sspx Chapel on Sunday, REPENT & CONFESS!
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“Prayer asks us to trust that God has already heard us, and that our task is not to force an outcome but to live faithfully in that trust.”
— With Open Hands
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“I give thanks to my God at every remembrance of you, praying always with joy in my every prayer for all of you, because of your partnership for the Gospel from the first day until now” (Phil 1:1–11). Thanks be to God for all of you who are coresponsible partners for the Gospel.
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The journalists who interviewed Cardinal Vesco say @BishopBarron left out important context and attributed words to the cardinal that he never said. We’ve translated @cathobel’s response into English.
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Caterina. 💕 retweeted
Dear Bishop Barron,
Cardinal Vesco is an incredible testimony of living the Gospel.
Encouraging always French and Algerians to recognise their different historical experiences and to work towards peace without passing the wounds of one generation on to the next. For more than…