Wednesday is the tri-feast of Ordinary Time, Saint Paulinus of Nola, Bishop, and the martyrs Saint John Fisher, Bishop and Saint Thomas More, the chancellor to King Henry VIII who honored a higher King than the British monarch and because of it was beheaded on July 6th. He is the patron saint of lawyers and every attorney should exemplify St. Thomas' ethics.
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In a festive ceremony Monday, Archbishop Edward M. Egan, 68, became the 12th prelate to lead the Archdiocese of New York when he was officially installed in St. Patrick's Cathedral 6 weeks after the death of Cardinal John O'Connor. Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo passed the torch to Archbishop Egan, reading a message from the Holy Father, then handing him the symbolic crozier to lead the vast flock of New York.
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In our CATHOLIC PewPOINT today, we tackle the most recent decision by the Supreme Court and lament yet another nail in America's coffin for the decline began when the Justices took God out of the schools. Pornography's okay, it's covered by the first amendment; but not prayer! God help us because we're not helping ourselves with this latest faux pas by the allfinity judges that sit in temporal power.
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On Tuesday we commemorate the 409th anniversary of the death of the holy Jesuit seminarian Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, who died at the age of 23. He had contracted the plague before he could be ordained while treating the sick of Rome. Before passing onto his Heavenly reward, he was given the last rites by Saint Robert Bellarmine. Aloysius was canonized by Pope Benedict XIII in 1726 and declared patron of Catholic youth by Pope Pius XI. For more, see CURRENTS.
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