And the Red Hat Goes To.......

See: 24 New Cardinals

2 Americans
3.Archbishop Raymond Burke, the American-born prefect of the Apostolic Signatura

20.Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington, DC.

Chicago - Former Priest Sex Abuse Case Update - Sovereign immunity laws

Read here.

The Vatican: The 'SMOKE'

Homosexuals on Vatican Staff Removed after Prostitution Ring Revelations

American priest and frequent media commentator, Father Thomas Williams told CBS News, “We're just scratching the surface here. There's definitely more to come.”

“We only know of these two men connected with the Vatican in some way, but obviously, they're talking about a ring, and a ring means definitely more people involved.”

Let the SON shine in!

For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!

Good News: Archbishop Burke Appointed to Vatican's Congregation for Bishops

CORRECTED: Two High Profile Pro-Life Prelates Appointed to Key Vatican Post

Two prelates who are known for their vocal defence of life and family as well as the defence of traditional liturgical practices have been appointed to one of the most critical offices in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Raymond L. Burke and Antonio Cardinal Canizares Llovera have been appointed to serve in the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops, the group that oversees the selection of bishops around the world.

Vatican - Weird Situation

'You don't know who you're messing with': Vatican priest caught in red light district after police chase

Australia - Vatican News Item

Vatican nixes joint Catholic-Anglican confirmation rite in Australia

VISIT HIM NOW - PRAY!

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Novena for the Pope

BENEDICT XVI ASKS GOD TO WATCH OVER THE VATICAN

Pelosi - Gettin' it together so she can get to Rome

According to the Drudge Report....

And she has a scheduled meeting with Pope Benedict....

We will pray that the Holy Spirit will intercede before she arrives and that our Holy Father will do what he does BEST....SHEPHERD & TEACH!

Let us pray that the vote on this 'stimulus' bill fails.

Vatican II - 50th Anniversary

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Vatican II (has anyone noticed this? & near the Feast of St. Paul's Conversion):

Pope lifts excommunications of 4 bishops

Q&A: Why has the pope welcomed back traditionalists?

Liberal archbishop drove Catholic reform

He helped lead a largely successful effort to push the American church to welcome minorities, widen the role of women, increase participation by the laity and relax some rules, such as the automatic excommunication of divorced people.

Although Jadot strongly adhered to most of the church's teachings, including its opposition to abortion, his willingness to leave some questions to individual consciences rankled some church leaders.

Priest's ministry of reconciliation - "Rev. Bernard de Margerie was a young priest, newly ordained, when Pope John XXIII put out a call for Vatican II in 1959."

Rev. Bernard de Margerie -"I coined the phrase 'ecumenical formation' or education of our Catholic people."

NCReporter: The emerging post, post-Vatican II American Catholic

Commonweal: Vatican II: A First Fiftieth Anniversary

Vatican II Documents

The Vatican: Evangelization - Optimizing Technology

Pope Benedict the next YouTube star?

Vatican & Bio-ethics

Pope Benedict offers ethical evaluation of biomedical advances

Vatican condemns IVF in bio-ethics review

Vatican Issues Instruction on Bioethics

'Dignity of a person' reinforced in Vatican bioethics document

Rocco Palmo IS on 'It' - USCCB Fall Plenary Meeting '08

Check out his posts.

You want the text of the speeches?

He's got them and other interesting items...check them all out (scroll down)

Here they are:
From Rome's "Messenger" - Archbishop Pietro Sambi Papal Nuncio to Washington

From the Chief - Cardinal Francis George OMI, Archbishop of Chicago

Keep praying! Pray for humility of heart and the humility of the docility of the Holy Spirit--PRAY BIG!

Please read this and pray strongly for a humility of heart and pray for humility in docility and obedience to the Holy Spirit.

This and the rosary our choicest weapons!

New doc.. on same-sex attraction & the priesthood

Homosexuality and the priesthood revisited

“The candidate does not necessarily have to practice homosexuality (to be excluded.) He can even be without sin. But if he has this deeply seated tendency, he cannot be admitted to priestly ministry precisely because of the nature of the priesthood, in which a spiritual paternity is carried out.

Here we are not talking about whether he commits sins, but whether this
deeply rooted tendency remains.”

Indigenous Grandmothers (the "Council") at Vatican

Grandmothers To Pope: Drop Edict

The Council did not come to plant a "conquering" flag, but to lay a flag of peace and conciliation on the ground of the Vatican Square in front of the door to St. Peter's Basilica. On the flag was laid a sacred staff and sacred prayer feathers, including a written statement from the Council, along with special items to be gifted to the Pope Benedict XVI. The grandmothers then lit smudging incense (sage, cedar, copal), gathered in a circle, and planted the prayer.

Women Priests Pressure the Vatican

Women Priests Protest Catholic Doctrine

Anglican Church News - Lambeth Conference '08

Lambeth Conference: Dr Rowan Williams' speech in full

For this to be a reality, we must be honest about how deep some of the hurts and difficulties currently go; and we must refresh and reanimate our sense of what our Communion ought to be contributing to the whole ecumenical spectrum of Christian life. We cannot ignore the fact that what is seen to be a new doctrine and policy about same-sex relations, one that is not the same as that of the vast majority at the last Lambeth Conference, is causing pain and perplexity. We cannot ignore the pressures created by new structures that are being improvised in reaction to this pain and perplexity, pressures that are very visible in the form of irregular patterns of ministry across historic boundaries.

[...]

Someone once said about our Communion, in relation to its internal strains and differences, 'What an astonishing number of possibilities God has given you for loving strangers and enemies!' Can we echo that? If so, by God's grace, we have it in us to be a Church that can manage to respond generously and flexibly to diverse cultural situations while holding fast to the knowledge that we also free from what can be the suffocating pressure of local demands and priorities because we are attentive and obedient to the liberating gift of God in Jesus and in the Scripture and tradition which bear witness to him.

WHAT?!

Anglican communion a 'train wreck', says bishop

Now Bertone turns up the heat on the Anglicans

Church of England unrest threatens to harm links with Vatican

Service held for conference bishops

Lambeth Conference: God help the church

Anglican archbishop says boycott wounds summit

Vatican official says Pope-Patriarch meeting is 'possible'