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The Field Hospital
Louisville Catholics declare their parish a 'Sanctuary for All'
By Robert Alan Glover
The Field Hospital: Known as a sanctuary congregation in the 1980s, St. William Church committed in October "to support the leadership of immigrant-led groups who work diligently to establish justice for all."
Parishioners object to firings of laicized priest and inactive priest
By Sarah Salvadore
Canon law about priestly status was cited for the removal of former priest Kevin McGloin and inactive priest John Konicek as members of the staff of St. Patrick Catholic Community in Scottsdale, Arizona.
For Ohio priest, bilingual Mass is in English and American Sign Language
By Matthew A. DiCenzo, Catholic News Service
The Field Hospital: Pastor of two parishes in the Steubenville Diocese, Fr. David Cornett has a gift for languages and the initiative to do what he can to bring the Gospel message to more people, in this case, members of the deaf community.
Millennials make their voices heard at San Diego Diocese's Young Adult Synod
By Heather Morrison
The Field Hospital: Over two months, about 250 young Catholics took part in the Young Adult Synod in San Diego, and on Nov. 9, about 150 participants gathered to make their proposals at the final synod session.
Church helps parishioners rediscover and protect indigenous languages
By Kyle Greenham, Catholic News Service
The Field Hospital: Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle is a national coalition of indigenous people, Catholic clergy, women religious and lay people dedicated to healing the relationship between the Catholic Church and Canada's First Nations.
The human face of the Blackjewel coal mine bankruptcy
By Robert Alan Glover
The Field Hospital: For months, workers at a Kentucky coal mine have been struggling financially after their company took its employees paychecks to pay its own bills. A Catholic Church in Easter
Book review: Pope Francis hauls Catholics out of their armchairs
Pope Francis: Encountering Truth,
edited by Antonio Spadaro, Image, £17.50
This volume comprises an edited version of the homilies of Pope Francis, preached from St Martha’s Chapel in the Vatican between March 2013 and March 2014 (from shortly after his election and throughout the first year of his pontificate). In his preface, Fr Federico Lombardi SJ, director of the Holy See’s press office and the director-general of Vatican Radio, states that the homilies provide the key to the Pope’s Jesuit spirituality. That may be true for those acquainted with this spiritual formation.
Fr Lombardi adds that, according to Vatican Radio, the homilies are one of its most popular features. That is because, as the secular media instantly grasped, they are different from those of his predecessors – not in content but in style. In making his home at St Martha’s, rather than in the papal apartments, and in giving his morning homilies at the hostel in a spontaneous rather than a rehearsed fashion, the Pope has striven to demystify the papacy. Some might object, but in an age when the pastoral dimension of the Church is seen as more significant in a secular society, I think it does help to make the saving mission of the Church more apparent to modern man.
The same is true of the homilies. They are couched in homely language, with vivid images taken from daily life. They can be repetitive, as a conversation rather than a sermon will be, and they come back again and again to the question: how do we Christians step away from our comfortable, institutional “armchair” Catholic world and become reconverted to Christ in our own lives?
The Pope told Fr Antonio Spadaro SJ, the editor of this volume: “If the homily does not create a language between God and his people that allows everyone to develop a personal relationship with God, then it is truly a waste of time.” Again, Francis emphasises that “the word must become
Pope Innocent XIII
Head of the Catholic Church from 1721 to 1724
Pope Innocent XIII (Latin: Innocentius XIII; Italian: Innocenzo XIII; 13 May 1655 – 7 March 1724), born as Michelangelo dei Conti, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 May 1721 to his death in March 1724. He is the most recent pope to date to take the pontifical name of "Innocent" upon his election.
Pope Innocent XIII was reform-oriented, and he imposed new standards of frugality, abolishing excessive spending. He took steps to end the practice of nepotism by issuing a decree which forbade his successors from granting land, offices or income to any relatives – something opposed by many cardinals who hoped that they might become pope and benefit their families.
Biography
Early life
Michelangelo dei Conti was born on 13 May 1655 in Poli, near Rome as the son of Carlo II, Duke of Poli, and Isabella d'Monti. Like Pope Innocent III (1198–1216), Pope Gregory IX (1227–1241) and Pope Alexander IV (1254–1261), he was a member of the aristocratic landowning family of the Conti, who held the titles of counts and dukes of Segni. He included the family shield in his pontifical coats of arms.
Conti commenced his studies in Ancona and then with the Jesuits in Rome at the Collegio Romano and then later at La Sapienza University. After he received his doctorate in canon law and civil law, he was ordained to the priesthood. Conti also served as the Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura in 1691, later to be appointed as the Governor of Ascoli until 1692. Conti was also the Governor of Campagna and Marittima from 1692 to 1693 and the Governor of Viterbo from 1693 to 1695.
Pope Innocent XII selected Conti as the Titular Archbishop of Tarsus on 13 June 1695 and he received his episcopal consecration on 16 June 1695 in Rome. Conti was also the nuncio to both Switzerland and Portugal.[7 .