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Happy Birthday, Pope Benedict!

4/16/2007
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As the Pope celebrates his 80th birthday, CUF members might be interested in checking out the following links:

Pope enjoys quiet 80th birthday celebration (Catholic World News)
www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=50524

Pope, turning 80, thanks church for surrounding him with affection
www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0702085.htm

Celebrating two years as pontiff, Benedict XVI assumes new role (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Scroll about halfway down for a quote from CUF Vice President Mike Sullivan)
www.post-gazette.com/pg/07105/777824-48.stm

Deus Caritas Est (Pope Benedict's encyclical)
www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est_en.html

Sacramentum Caritatis (Post-synodal apostolic exhortation)
www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_ben-xvi_exh_20070222_sacramentum-caritatis_en.html

Faith, Reason and the University: Memories and Reflections (Pope Benedict's address at the University of Regensburg)
www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html

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Catholics United for the Faith has offered assistance to the Catholic bishops in the United States in their great work of furthering the all-important renewal which the Documents of the Council call for and which Pope Paul VI described as an inner, personal, moral renewal. This purpose, which is first in importance, and which is a prerequisite for the others, means that we exist in order to respond publicly and together to what Vatican II called the universal call to holiness. This spiritual renewal must be realized by the response of large numbers of the laity to the call to perfection, by an awakening to the depth and totality of Christ’s call; it means a real conversion into that leaven, that salt, that light which Christ asks us to be.

H. Lyman Stebbins
December 1981