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Circular Letter of the Archdiocese of Windhoek

KM 357 /08/ 2024 | August - December 2024
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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11

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Bishop Barron slams ‘clownish irrelevance’ of German Catholic academy in blistering statement

Controversy over Bishop Robert Barron's acceptance of a 2025 award from a German Catholic institution resurfaced this week. [...]

Catholic ethicists debate morality of embryo adoption

The 2008 Vatican document Dignitas Personae affirmed the dignity and rights of frozen embryos and expressed reservations about proposals for prenatal adoption. [...]

Pope Leo XIV increases lay appointments to International Theology Commission

The number of women on the commission has increased from five to eight, including five laywomen, raising the total number of lay representatives to eight — double that of the [...]

Catholic campus ministries eligible for Lilly grant of up to $7.5 million

A Lilly Endowment grant is open to Catholic campus ministries, St. Carlo Acutis’ mother gifts Franciscan University with a relic of her son, and more in this week’s Catholic education [...]

Pope Leo XIV: True justice is never separated ‘from truth and mercy’

The pontiff holds a doctorate in canon law, a background that notably shapes his vision of Church governance. [...]

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Bishop Barron slams ‘clownish irrelevance’ of German Catholic academy in blistering statement

Controversy over Bishop Robert Barron's acceptance of a 2025 award from a German Catholic institution resurfaced this week. [...]

Catholic ethicists debate morality of embryo adoption

The 2008 Vatican document Dignitas Personae affirmed the dignity and rights of frozen embryos and expressed reservations about proposals for prenatal adoption. [...]

Pope Leo XIV increases lay appointments to International Theology Commission

The number of women on the commission has increased from five to eight, including five laywomen, raising the total number of lay representatives to eight — double that of the [...]

Catholic campus ministries eligible for Lilly grant of up to $7.5 million

A Lilly Endowment grant is open to Catholic campus ministries, St. Carlo Acutis’ mother gifts Franciscan University with a relic of her son, and more in this week’s Catholic education [...]

Pope Leo XIV: True justice is never separated ‘from truth and mercy’

The pontiff holds a doctorate in canon law, a background that notably shapes his vision of Church governance. [...]

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Prayer of the Day

He who prays is certain to be saved; while he who prays not is certain to be damned. All the saints were saved, and came to be saints by praying; all the accursed souls in hell were lost through neglect of prayer; if they had prayed, it is certain that they would not have been lost. And this will be one of the greatest occasions of their anguish in hell, the thought that they might have saved themselves so easily; that they had only to beg God to help them, but that now the time is past when ... [...]

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Controversy over Bishop Robert Barron's acceptance of a 2025 award from a German Catholic institution resurfaced this week. [...]

Daily Readings

Reading 1: Ephesians 4:7-16, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 122:1-5, Gospel: Luke 13:1-9 [...]