New Mass Endings

From Zenit:
The Holy See has approved three alternatives to “Ite, missa est,” the final words said by the priest at Mass.Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, today notified the participants in the synod of bishops on the word of God about the new alternatives. The final message is [...]

The Need to Humanize Medicine

Pope Benedict addresses the 110th national conference of the Italian Surgical Society, from Asia News Italy:
 
The centrality of the “relationship of mutual trust” between doctor and patient makes “suspect” any attempt at interference in a relationship that must be maintained at every moment of the disease, from “the sharing of realistic objectives to be sought” to [...]