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Croatia: A Faith Tested in Fire

August 8, 2011 J. J. Ziegler 0

On June 4, Pope Benedict began a two-day apostolic journey to Croatia, a land bathed in Christians’ blood since the early days of the Church.  St. Venantius, the bishop of Salona, in what was then […]

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The Dirty Dozen

May 16, 2011 J. J. Ziegler 0

In the middle of his second term, President Bill Clinton signed into law the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, which made religious freedom concerns a more significant part of US foreign policy. The law […]

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What Did They Find?

May 15, 2011 J. J. Ziegler 0

In 1981, the Holy See launched an apostolic visitation of American seminaries and named the late Bishop John Marshall of Burlington (Vermont) as apostolic visitator. Two decades later, the Holy See found need to intervene […]

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Under the Cross

May 15, 2011 J. J. Ziegler 0

On March 2, Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s federal minister for minorities and the nation’s most prominent Catholic layman, walked out of his mother’s home in Islamabad and entered the rear seat of his black Toyota Corolla. […]

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Dare to Decide

May 14, 2011 J. J. Ziegler 0

As epic events shook Europe in the sixteenth century, the evangelization of Latin America took place quietly. Today, 510 million of the world’s 1.13 billion Catholics live in Latin America. As equally epic events shook […]

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From this Holy Mountain

May 13, 2011 J. J. Ziegler 0

In the first general audience of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI explained that he chose his name “in order to create a spiritual bond with Benedict XV, who steered the Church through the period of […]