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Tuesday, Sept. 15

MATER DOLOROSA - OUR LADY OF SORROWS
Illustrations, from left: Greek icon, undated; Mater Dolorosa, El Greco, 1565; Pieta, Michelangelo, 1496; Pieta, William Bouguereau, 2876; Mater Dolorosa, Carlo Dolci, 1650; Our Lady of Sorrows, prayer card.


OR for 9/14-9/15/09:

At the Sunday Angelus, the Pope reminds us that faith without good works is dead:
'Only he who loves truly knows God'
Other Page 1 stories: An essay on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (Sept. 14) in the Byzantine tradition. International news:
Israeli PM Netanyahu meets Egyptian President and US special envoy in new attempts to re-start Israeli-Palestinian negotiations;
and teasers to inside-page articles on the Pope's August 30 homily to his Schuelerkreis [full translation posted above] and a lengthy
interview with Tony Blair about his religion and the role of religion in the public sphere, in which the interviewer never asks him about
his lifelong pro-abortion stand nor his recent disparaging remarks about the Holy Father's position regarding homosexuality !*



No events scheduled for the Holy Father today.



*[Editor Vian should be ashamed to have sanctioned this purely 'soft ball' interview!] It defies the most elementary common sense
principles of journalism - do not let an opportunity go to waste to meet issues head on. Avoiding questions about Blair's pick-and-
choose Catholicism in the Vatican newspaper sends a wrong message: that the newspaper is willing to overlook the Church's non-
negotiable' principles for the sake of a 'celebrity interview'. At the very least, there should have been an Editor's Note to say Blair
and his wife are known for their pro-abortion advocacy, that he recently disagreed very publicly with Benedict XVI's statements on
homosexuality, and that this interview does not in any way indicate agreement with those views.]

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