Pope Entrusts Conflict to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel

Today's feast, origination of the brown scapular devotion...

Dancing the Night Away

From Catholic Online:

The nuns said that when Bush arrived in Milwaukee they would "pause for a
time of silent prayer, join together in a dance of universal peace and pray for
continual conversion of your heart."

Why not join together in prayer? My guess is that no one wants to impose their "style of prayer" upon the other, but "you will dance!"

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New Office to Oversee Liturgical Music?

From The Church:

Some of these “reforms of the reform” will concern music. On June 30, the
head of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, Msgr. Valentino Miserachs
Grau, announced that the pope will make a personal visit there in November to
inaugurate the new academic year. And he said he expects the creation of a new
Vatican office “that would coordinate with authority the activity of all those
who work in liturgical music, and would watch over the liturgical celebrations.”

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New Papal Spokesman--A Priest

From AGI online:

Father Federico Lombardi is the new spokesman for the Pope. A Jesuit, he was previously the general director of the Vatican Radio and director of the Vatican television centre. With his nomination as new director of the press office of the Holy See, there is a de facto synergy among the three organisms. Joaquin Navarro Valls is now out of the scene, having directed the press office for over 22 years and followed Pope John Paul II on all his trips since 1984.

Pope Benedict uses Holy Grail at Mass

From Spero News:

Pope Benedict XVI used the Holy Chalice of Valencia at Sunday's Mass for
the World Congress of Families. The chalice is said by its supporters to have
been used by Christ at the Last Supper.

On Saturday when the Pope
entered Valencia's Cathedral the chalice was placed on the altar, where
Benedict said a prayer.

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