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The Vatican just launched a multimedia website today. I first heard about www.news.va while I was in Rome a few weeks ago for the first meeting of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization.

I came across a great piece on the redefinition of marriage written by George Weigel. Here is an excerpt from the article he wrote in the National Review : There is a curious rhetorical fact that has usually gone unremarked in these debates, but which is worth pointing out.

We just celebrated Trinity Sunday , confessing our faith in the one, true God, who reveals Himself as three divine persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The second Person of this Most Blessed Trinity, God the Son, became man in Jesus Christ.

Along with so many other people of faith – and of no particular religion at all – we Catholic pastors and citizens persevere, on this Father’s Day, in our prayers and efforts to defend the timeless definition of marriage as the loving, faithful union between one man and one woman leading to a family.

The stampede is on. Our elected senators who have stood courageous in their refusal to capitulate on the state’s presumption to redefine marriage are reporting unrelenting pressure to cave-in. The media, mainly sympathetic to this rush to tamper with a definition as old as human reason and ordered good, reports annoyance on the part of some senators that those in defense of traditional marriage just don’t see the light, as we persist in opposing this enlightened, progressive, cause.

Sunday — Pentecost Sunday — is our birthday! Happy Birthday! I learned in second grade — so I know it has to be true — that Pentecost is the “birthday of the Church .”  This is the day Jesus sent the Holy Spirit upon the disciples and His mother, giving them the courage, wisdom, and zeal to carry out the last command He had given them nine days earlier when He had ascended into heaven, “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations.