Catholic Fire

October 8, 2013. (Romereports.com) This design will soon be on a euro coin. The Vatican plans to release the image early next year. The coin will be new of course, but it won't be the first time Pope Francis' face is on a coin. Back on September 10th, two other coins were made to mark the beginning of his pontificate. One was made of gold, the other of silver.   MAURO OLIVIERI Vatican's Philatelic and Numismatic Office, Director “The first Pope Francis coin is beautiful. You can see his profile, which reflects an attitude of concentration, prayer and meditation. On the other side of the coin we decided to include an image of Jesus entrusting the keys of the Church to Peter, the first Pope. So it reflects how this new Pope is in charge of nurturing the life of the Church.” Every year the Vatican can release a total of two euros coin designs. The first coin design is on the Pope. The other, which has a value of two euros, should mark a historical European moment. M...

I wish I would have known about this shop when I visited the Vatican, but it's definitely on my list for the next trip.

Archbishop Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Vatican’s highest court, the Apostolic Signatura, called on Catholics to “give an uncompromising witness” to the dignity of life and sharply criticized the University of Notre Dame for its planned honor for pro-abortion President Barack Obama during an address this morning to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. (To read the complete address, go here. The archbishop began his address by noting that he has “the deepest concern for our nation,” and later implored Catholics to be aware of the “godless secularism and relativism” that underlie the Culture of Death. Commenting on the ongoing scandal of Notre Dame’s planned honor for President Obama, Archbishop Burke received a standing ovation from the crowd of more than 1,200 when he called it “rightly the source of the greatest scandal.” He also said that “in a culture marked by widespread and ingrained confusion about the most fundamental teachings of the moral law, our Cath...