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Tag Archives: L’Osservatore Romano
Papyrus fragment gone wild!
Remember the ridiculous “Mrs. Jesus” papyrus fragment flap? L’Osservatore Romano, taking a break from commentary on The Simpsons, has offered a view. This time, however, the editor, they seem to be on target. A papyrus adrift “Harvard scholar’s discovery suggests … Continue reading
More on the one-world-government “white paper” from Pont. Council for Justice and Peace
Over at Chiesa, there is a piece about the new, confused “white paper”, as I prefer to call it, from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Too Much Confusion. Bertone Puts the Curia Under Lock and Key The document … Continue reading
The challenges of moving from print to digital
From Catholic Culture comes this. My emphases: Vatican newspaper: reflections on future of Catholic publishing In an essay that appeared in the June 6-7 edition of L’Osservatore Romano, the director of the Madrid-based Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos reflected upon the … Continue reading
Posted in The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged digital, L'Osservatore Romano, print, publishing
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Editor of L’Osservatore Romano cured as a child by the intercession of St. Pius X
If you don’t ask for miracles, miracles won’t be granted. At Palazzo Apostolico of Paolo Rodari there is a story that the present editor of the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano was healed when he was little through the intercession of … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, Pray For A Miracle
Tagged Gian Maria Vian, L'Osservatore Romano, miracles, St. Pius X
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“It seemed like a good idea at the time….” – the new John Paul II “statue” in Rome
I was dying to find out the reaction to the new “statue” of John Paul II near Rome’s train station. It is, in my opinion, horrendous. In the pages of the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano there is a short blurb … Continue reading
REVIEW: L’Osservatore Romano’s new website and online editions
UPDATE: 20 April The new L’Osservatore Romano site is working better today, though it is still clunky and a bit hard to navigate. I was able to bring up the PDF of today’s daily. One curiosity: They fuzzed out the … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, REVIEWS
Tagged L'Osservatore Romano, online edition, website
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L’Osservatore Romano: criticizing the questioners
If you haven’t yet seen this, you will want to hop over and have a look at Sandro Magister‘s always useful place. In this case, Magister presents the back-to-back responses in the Vatican’s semi-official daily L’Osservatore Romano to two theologians … Continue reading
L’Osservatore Romano as origin of the maelstrom: Ed Peters opines
The respected, clear-thinking canonist Ed Peters of In the Light of the Law has offered a blistering assessment of the role of the Vatican’s daily L’Osservatore Romano in regard to the latest in a string of media screw-ups. My emphases … Continue reading
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Ed Peters, L'Osservatore Romano, Peter Seewald
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Vatican’s top 10 albums for a desert island (not making this up, I swear)
I wonder if this list was vetted by Pope Benedict… from the increasingly weird L’Osservatore Romano, via CNA: ‘Thriller’ makes Vatican list of top 10 albums Vatican City, Feb 19, 2010 / 12:36 pm (CNA).- The Holy See’s newspaper has … Continue reading
“Vatican Tempests. The Academy for Life Puts Its Neck on the Line”
Everyone… read this. I just finished it on the Italian site and then found it in English. This is about the civil war in the Pontifical Academy for Life over remarks made by Archbp. Rino Fisichella about a case of … Continue reading
Posted in The Drill
Tagged abortion, Archbp. Fisichella, Card. Bertone, Card. Levada, CDF, L'Osservatore Romano, Pontifical Academy for Life
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L’Osservatore Romano trying to redeem itself before Pres. Obama’s visit? Taking aim at the President?
As you know, L’Osservatore Romano embarrassed itself and the Holy See several times in the last couple months either through direction by the Secretariat of State, or extreme Euro-naivete, or both, as it helped grease the skids for a meeting … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Benedict XVI, Humanae vitae, L'Osservatore Romano, Paul VI, Pres. Obama
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Ed Peter’s takes L’Osservatore to the woodshed
Ed Peter’s of In The Light Of The Law has correctly understood a burning issue of our day. L’OR and the Loss of Reason For most of my life L’Osservatore Romano has been a sleepy Roman rag that arrived weeks … Continue reading
Michael Novak rightly vents about L’Osservatore Romano
In National Review Online Michael Novak vents about the recent "Westpolitik" blunderings of L’Osservatore Romano. My emphases and comments. May 26, 2009, 4:00 a.m. All the Confusion Fit to PrintThe paper disappoints. By Michael Novak For several weeks now, L’Osservatore … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged abortion, L'Osservatore Romano, Michael Novak, Pres. Obama
48 Comments
Rodari interviews Vian on what he is up to with L’Osservatore Romano
It has been hard to explain why in the page of L’Osservatore Romano we have seen sch poor judgment about the case of Notre Dame and Pres. Obama. Notre Dame chose to bestow an honor on the most pro-abortion President … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged abortion, L'Osservatore Romano, Notre Dame, Pres. Obama, Vian
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L’Osservatore Romano… what the…?!?
Many…many.. of you are asking me via e-mail what one earth is wrong with L’Osservatore Romano. The Vatican’s newspaper published a decidedly dopey article on the visit of President Obama to Notre Dame. The singularly grossest aspect of the decidedly … Continue reading
