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The effects of Christmas, 70 years later
I came across this moving story on the website of the Diocese of Regensburg: Special guests during the Christmas evening Mass in the cathedral of Regensburg: the Vawter family from America returned to...
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End of a chapter – Dachau’s last priest prisoner dies
At the age of 102 Father Hermann Scheipers passed away last night. He was the last surviving priest of Dachau concentration camp. Fr. Hermann Scheipers in 2011, photographed in Dresden on the occasion...
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“It was night”– Archbishop Koch’s reflection after the terror attack
On Tuesday evening, the faiths of Berlin came together to commemorate the dead and wounded of the terror attack on the Christmas market adjacent to the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche on Monday. In...
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2016, a look back
Another year nears its end, the seventh of this blog, which is always a good opportunity to look back, especially at what has appeared here in the blog over the course of 2016. I have grouped things...
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The protective hand of the mother – Dutch dioceses consecrated to Our Lady’s...
On Saturday afternoon the Dutch bishops consecrated their dioceses to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, coinciding with the centenary of the first apparition of Mary in Fatima and the tail-end of Pope...
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75 years after his death, is the canonisation of Titus Brandsma any closer?
On this day in 1942, 75 years ago exactly, Dutch Carmelite priests Titus Brandsma died in the Dachau concentration camp. 22 years ago, in 1985, he was beatified by Pope Saint John Paul II, and now, as...
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In Hildesheim, Bishop Trelle retires
As expected, Pope Francis ended that three-week period in which no German dioceses were without a bishop, by accepting the retirement of Bishop Norbert Trelle of Hildesheim. Bishop Trelle turned 5 on...
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A life of mission – Bishop Münninghoff passes away
On Wednesday, on a hospice in Wijchen near Nijmegen, the oldest Dutch bishop passed away: Msgr. Herman Münninghoff, bishop emeritus of Jayapura in Indonesia. Aged 96, he was among the last surviving...
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End of an era, as the Great One goes
Although not unexpected following the prayer request for his health, issued last week by Bishop Peter Kohlgraf, the death of Cardinal Karl Lehmann, early yesterday morning, is a sad conclusion to a...
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Exiled for most of his life as a bishop, Dominik Kalata returns to his final...
Friday a week ago, the 24th of August, saw the passing of 93-year-old Bishop Dominik Kalata in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was the end of a life spent for the major part in exile, a life marked by the...
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