Blessed Dominic

Today is the Feast of Blessed Dominic Barberi, who brought the Passionists to England and whose many sufferings were rewarded when he received the now-to-be beatified John Henry Newman into the Catholic Church or, as Newman himself put it, the one true fold of the Redeemer.
Here is what Newman writes about the Passionists and Blessed [...]

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Passionist Synod Blog and more….

(Photo credit probably to Father Gary)
The Synod of the Passionists, the biennale meeting of our General and Council, Provincials and other pezzi grossi will be held at our retreat house at Cuernavaca, Mexico, from 6 to 17 September. You can find the recently set up Passionist General Synod Blog here. This is the [...]

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Golden Rose

Father Stefan informs us that Pope Benedict has awarded the Golden Rose to the shrine of Our Lady of Altötting. Here is a picture from BR-online:

At Father Stefan’s suggestion, I visited Altötting a few years ago; there are links to my pictures of the shrine in this post on Pope Benedict’s 2006 [...]

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Congratulations

Yesterday in Lima, Peru, the General Chapter of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion elected a new Congregational Leader (=Superior General) and today they elected the Congregation Leadership Team (-what we male Passionists call the General Council). The new Congregational Leader is Sister Maria Angelica Algorta. Her Consultors are Sister Anne Culliton, Sister Rosaleen [...]

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