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The Holy Father has asked me to serve on the apostolic visitation of Ireland. Here’s how the Vatican Information Service announced it. APOSTOLIC VISITATION OF IRELAND TO BEGIN THIS AUTUMN VATICAN CITY, 31 MAY 2010 (VIS) – This morning the Holy See Press Office released the following English-language communique concerning the apostolic visitation of Ireland as announced in the Holy Father’s 19 March Letter to the Catholics of Ireland: “Following the Holy Father’s Letter to the Catholics of Ireland, the apostolic visitation of certain Irish dioceses, seminaries and religious congregations will begin in autumn of this year.

How many of us know physicians who not just live – but proclaim their faith in their practice of medicine ? I hope you know at least some. How many of us have heard that the Catholic Church is against science and progress in helping couples conceive and bear children?

For more than a week, many of my friends have been encouraging me to read an article by Ken Woodward that appeared in the most recent Commonweal magazine. I didn’t get to read it until today, but I must admit that what I had heard is true:  the article is excellent.

Haunting … that’s the only word I can find to describe it … Last week I welcomed the Archbishop of Nagasaki, the Most Reverend Joseph Mitsuaki. He pleaded at the United Nations for an end to all nuclear weapons.