While Pope Benedict's humanistic gestures of "good will" to the persecuted Copts of Egypt are being hailed in the Islamic world as dangerous to ecumenism, he's reaching out to the dying sect of Lutheranism for an ecumenical gathering.
ZENIT - Vatican Official to Join in Ceremony With Lutherans
Friday, January 21, 2011
Diocese of Essen: A Farewell Toast for the Church
The Old Liberal, tired and secularized Church in Germany is giving itself away. translated from Valeria Kurz's original German.
(kreuz.net) In the Diocese of Essen they are intensivly occupied with harvesting the bad fruits of the Second Vatican Council.
Ever since the conversion of German it's been unheard of that a Bishop should preside as a bankruptcy attorney.
The most recent victim was the church of he Redemptorists, Maria Hilf in the down town of Bochum.
It has been for decades a church where many of the faithful go for confession and penance.
Actually last Sunday, it was closed after 143 years.
Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck celebrated his last Holy Mass in the cloister church.
The remaining Redemptorists have been moved away.
In Bochum at present there are still five priests. In the gold old days there were eleven. There wasn't a single young priest in sight.
On Sunday no one responded to the question why there is no growth in the Order -- Msgr Overbeck, neither.
Only some words of gratitude were sufficient -- garnished with some shibboleths: "Out of all that is history, is a new departure."
Actually, considering departure, is the Old Liberal, tired and secularized Church in Germany is hardly to be seen at all.
Both clergy and faithful have lost their will to live.
Instead of fighting for the church, one celebrated a Requiem for the Redemptorists -- with a farewell toast.
Kreuz.net is the original...
(kreuz.net) In the Diocese of Essen they are intensivly occupied with harvesting the bad fruits of the Second Vatican Council.
Ever since the conversion of German it's been unheard of that a Bishop should preside as a bankruptcy attorney.
The most recent victim was the church of he Redemptorists, Maria Hilf in the down town of Bochum.
It has been for decades a church where many of the faithful go for confession and penance.
Actually last Sunday, it was closed after 143 years.
Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck celebrated his last Holy Mass in the cloister church.
The remaining Redemptorists have been moved away.
In Bochum at present there are still five priests. In the gold old days there were eleven. There wasn't a single young priest in sight.
On Sunday no one responded to the question why there is no growth in the Order -- Msgr Overbeck, neither.
Only some words of gratitude were sufficient -- garnished with some shibboleths: "Out of all that is history, is a new departure."
Actually, considering departure, is the Old Liberal, tired and secularized Church in Germany is hardly to be seen at all.
Both clergy and faithful have lost their will to live.
Instead of fighting for the church, one celebrated a Requiem for the Redemptorists -- with a farewell toast.
Kreuz.net is the original...
Durex Advertises "Gay" Mass
Giving the lie to the idea that these Masses are merely meant to minister to homosexuals without condoning illicit activity.
Read further at "True Catholic".
Read further at "True Catholic".
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Anglican Church to Remove Christian Language From Baptism
(Time) A group of clergymen have submitted documents to the General Synod, the governing body of the Anglican Church, calling on it to prepare alternatives for the Common Worship baptismal services, which are used at the majority of Anglican christenings. It's their hope that doing so will make them more accessible and interesting to non-churchgoers—including the many "unchurched" parents and godparents who participate in the 139,000 Anglican baptisms conducted in the country every year.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/20/church-of-england-may-remove-christian-language-from-baptisms/
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/20/church-of-england-may-remove-christian-language-from-baptisms/
Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight is Pro-Abort
Editor: We've been telling you about these two-faced types for a long time.
An Open Letter to Knights of Columbus Members and All Pro-Lifers, about a Shocking Scandal in the Knights' National Leadership Contact: Kenneth M. Fisher, Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc., 714-491-2284, crcoa@dslextreme.com
WASHINGTON, June 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- Delegates to the Knights of Columbus's upcoming Supreme Convention in Washington, D.C., August 3-5, have been briefed on the meeting's tone by Supreme Knight Carl Anderson in a 10-minute videotaped message that covers the Knights' growing membership, multibillion-dollar insurance programs, and works of charity.
But, shockingly, Anderson made no mention whatsoever of two issues vital to the Faith and family of every Knight: Defending preborn babies and true, man-woman marriage. These omissions are grave -- and peculiar, given that Anderson belongs to six Vatican bodies, including the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Pontifical Council for the Family.
He is also a consultant to the U.S. bishops' Pro-Life Committee. As Supreme Knight since 2000, Carl Anderson has failed to expel or suspend pro-abortion and pro-homosexual politicians, despite pleas from rank-and-file Knights. In one case, at least 16 state senators and representatives in Massachusetts, 10 of whom received top ratings from Planned Parenthood, negated a petition drive by 170,000 citizens to put traditional marriage on the ballot
H/t: Barb Krallis
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/1179514170.html
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An Open Letter to Knights of Columbus Members and All Pro-Lifers, about a Shocking Scandal in the Knights' National Leadership Contact: Kenneth M. Fisher, Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc., 714-491-2284, crcoa@dslextreme.com
WASHINGTON, June 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- Delegates to the Knights of Columbus's upcoming Supreme Convention in Washington, D.C., August 3-5, have been briefed on the meeting's tone by Supreme Knight Carl Anderson in a 10-minute videotaped message that covers the Knights' growing membership, multibillion-dollar insurance programs, and works of charity.
But, shockingly, Anderson made no mention whatsoever of two issues vital to the Faith and family of every Knight: Defending preborn babies and true, man-woman marriage. These omissions are grave -- and peculiar, given that Anderson belongs to six Vatican bodies, including the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Pontifical Council for the Family.
He is also a consultant to the U.S. bishops' Pro-Life Committee. As Supreme Knight since 2000, Carl Anderson has failed to expel or suspend pro-abortion and pro-homosexual politicians, despite pleas from rank-and-file Knights. In one case, at least 16 state senators and representatives in Massachusetts, 10 of whom received top ratings from Planned Parenthood, negated a petition drive by 170,000 citizens to put traditional marriage on the ballot
H/t: Barb Krallis
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/1179514170.html
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Head of CCHD Was Treasurer For Pro-Abort Candidate
January 20, 2011 A.D. | Author Donald R. McClarey
In a dog bites man story, and an example of good blog journalism, Creative Minority Report has broken the news that the head of the CCHD, Ralph McCloud, while he was head of the CCHD, was the campaign treasurer for pro-abort Wendy Davis in her successful run in 2008 for the Texas State Senate:
While the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) has come under well deserved scrutiny for supporting groups such as ACORN and groups with ties to promoting abortion, CMR has uncovered that Ralph McCloud, while heading the CCHD in 2008, was simultaneously working as a highly placed campaign official for a pro-choice politician seeking to unseat a pro-life politician.
According to public records, McCloud also worked as the Treasurer for Planned Parenthood endorsed Democrat Wendy Davis.Annie's List,raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Davis in 2008 while McCloud worked as Treasurer. The group even gave a spirited endorsement of the pro-choice Davis, who succeeded in defeating her pro-life opponent.
http://the-american-catholic.com/2011/01/20/head-of-cchd-was-treasurer-for-pro-abort-candidate/
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In a dog bites man story, and an example of good blog journalism, Creative Minority Report has broken the news that the head of the CCHD, Ralph McCloud, while he was head of the CCHD, was the campaign treasurer for pro-abort Wendy Davis in her successful run in 2008 for the Texas State Senate:
While the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) has come under well deserved scrutiny for supporting groups such as ACORN and groups with ties to promoting abortion, CMR has uncovered that Ralph McCloud, while heading the CCHD in 2008, was simultaneously working as a highly placed campaign official for a pro-choice politician seeking to unseat a pro-life politician.
According to public records, McCloud also worked as the Treasurer for Planned Parenthood endorsed Democrat Wendy Davis.Annie's List,raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Davis in 2008 while McCloud worked as Treasurer. The group even gave a spirited endorsement of the pro-choice Davis, who succeeded in defeating her pro-life opponent.
http://the-american-catholic.com/2011/01/20/head-of-cchd-was-treasurer-for-pro-abort-candidate/
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Catholic Bishops support net neutrality - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
Once again, the USCCB shows its true colors.
Catholic Bishops support net neutrality - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
Catholic Bishops support net neutrality - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
"Kill the Cathlics" spray painted on area Catholic Churches
"Kill the Cathlics" spray painted on area Catholic Churches
("Examiner," January 18, 2011)
Anaheim, USA - Two Orange County Catholic churches had "Kill the Cathlics" spray painted on their church walls last week. Vandalism using the misspelled phrase was reported by church personnel at St. Boniface in Anaheim and St. Thomas More in Irvine early Tuesday. Both churches are within 20 miles of each other.
"The graphic graffiti saddened parishioners, and church officials are working with police to find whoever is responsible for the crime," explained diocese spokesman Ryan Lilyengren.
Read further, here...
H/t Traditional Catholic Interests, here...
("Examiner," January 18, 2011)
Anaheim, USA - Two Orange County Catholic churches had "Kill the Cathlics" spray painted on their church walls last week. Vandalism using the misspelled phrase was reported by church personnel at St. Boniface in Anaheim and St. Thomas More in Irvine early Tuesday. Both churches are within 20 miles of each other.
"The graphic graffiti saddened parishioners, and church officials are working with police to find whoever is responsible for the crime," explained diocese spokesman Ryan Lilyengren.
Read further, here...
H/t Traditional Catholic Interests, here...
Abortionist Uses Forceps to Kill Babies, Says Austrian Radio
Socialism with a human face? Today the "Austrian Red Radio" had an unexpected bout of humanity.
(kreuz.net) The website of the left-leaning '‘Österreichischen Rundfunks' [Austrian Radio] is the largest internet medium of the land.
For years they have defended the violence of abortion against unborn people with macabre bitterness.
The reason was the criminal and abortionist Kermit Gosnell (69).
Butcher Gosnell murdered innocent children for years in a abortuary in Pennsylvania, USA, -- completely legally.
The 'Österreichische Rundfunk' called him a "doctor" and his slaughterhouse a "clinic" in any event.
Actually then the broadcaster made a sudden pirouette: "Abortion doctor kills babies with forceps."
That has gripped the entire Country with "horror".
There, the broadcaster has nothing against the murder of unborn children, the problem for them appears to be the "forceps".
Really, it's how the Red Radio pampered doctors murder their devalued victims.
Perhaps caresses?
Read further...
(kreuz.net) The website of the left-leaning '‘Österreichischen Rundfunks' [Austrian Radio] is the largest internet medium of the land.
For years they have defended the violence of abortion against unborn people with macabre bitterness.
The reason was the criminal and abortionist Kermit Gosnell (69).
Butcher Gosnell murdered innocent children for years in a abortuary in Pennsylvania, USA, -- completely legally.
The 'Österreichische Rundfunk' called him a "doctor" and his slaughterhouse a "clinic" in any event.
Actually then the broadcaster made a sudden pirouette: "Abortion doctor kills babies with forceps."
That has gripped the entire Country with "horror".
There, the broadcaster has nothing against the murder of unborn children, the problem for them appears to be the "forceps".
Really, it's how the Red Radio pampered doctors murder their devalued victims.
Perhaps caresses?
Read further...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
One Third of Aachen Diocese's Real-Estate May be Sold
Disintegration in record time. In the Diocese of Aachen every third church building will be put up for sale. The Catholic Faith has long ago been bartered away.
(kreuz.net)On Monday the General Vicar, Manfred von Hotum of Aachen is unveiling the Diocesan support project with the beautiful name "Church Property Management".
This was reported by the Diocese of Aachen.
In the Diocese of Aachen there are over 900 churches as well as 450 rectories and parish offices.
Actually, there isn't enough money for the support of the buildings.
The Diocese would need 18 million Euro. There's a ten million dollar shortfall.
In other words: over a third of the ecclesiastical structures must be closed down in the near future.
The General Vicar explained that the Diocese must economize because of significantly "declining donations by the faithful" in previous years and the narrowing church tax income.
The number of the rectories have already been slashed in the Diocese of Aachen.
Since last year there were still 71 so-called church communities.
All of these "church communities" is decreed over several churches, rectories, pastoral bureaus and chapels.
With that there is the question about which these guildings are not being used for.
As a "good example" for this conversion, consider the former Parish church of St. Josef in Aachen.
It is used today as a burial church.
Even the church of St. Mary in Düren has a new purpose. The rectory here was integrated into the church building.
Actually the plans of the Diocese go still further.
Unoccupied rectories will be closed.
Where small communities don't need a rectory, a corresponding space could be set up in the church and the community center could be sold.
Churches that are seldom used will be put on the real-estate market.
"We're going to take these churches into serious and lengthy consideration" -- said a conciliatory General Vicar.
It is conceivable could be closed for fifteen to twenty years, "till a suitable solution is found."
In other words: One will wait to sell the churches, till there won't be fear of any more resistance from the remaining Catholics against the desecration of God's house.
Read original at Kreuz.net...
(kreuz.net)On Monday the General Vicar, Manfred von Hotum of Aachen is unveiling the Diocesan support project with the beautiful name "Church Property Management".
This was reported by the Diocese of Aachen.
In the Diocese of Aachen there are over 900 churches as well as 450 rectories and parish offices.
Actually, there isn't enough money for the support of the buildings.
The Diocese would need 18 million Euro. There's a ten million dollar shortfall.
In other words: over a third of the ecclesiastical structures must be closed down in the near future.
The General Vicar explained that the Diocese must economize because of significantly "declining donations by the faithful" in previous years and the narrowing church tax income.
The number of the rectories have already been slashed in the Diocese of Aachen.
Since last year there were still 71 so-called church communities.
All of these "church communities" is decreed over several churches, rectories, pastoral bureaus and chapels.
With that there is the question about which these guildings are not being used for.
As a "good example" for this conversion, consider the former Parish church of St. Josef in Aachen.
It is used today as a burial church.
Even the church of St. Mary in Düren has a new purpose. The rectory here was integrated into the church building.
Actually the plans of the Diocese go still further.
Unoccupied rectories will be closed.
Where small communities don't need a rectory, a corresponding space could be set up in the church and the community center could be sold.
Churches that are seldom used will be put on the real-estate market.
"We're going to take these churches into serious and lengthy consideration" -- said a conciliatory General Vicar.
It is conceivable could be closed for fifteen to twenty years, "till a suitable solution is found."
In other words: One will wait to sell the churches, till there won't be fear of any more resistance from the remaining Catholics against the desecration of God's house.
Read original at Kreuz.net...
The Leftists Are All About Sexual Abuse: Another Jesuit Liberal Accused in Belgium
He is an Old Liberal Secular Jesuit and Green Party Member. That he is also guilty of sexual abuse, suits his political convictions very well.
(kreuz.net) The Belgian media bosses have their next abuser who is supposedly associated with the Church arena.
It is a question of the Old Liberal, left-leaning, civil Jesuit, Father Luc Versteylen (83).
Before his entrance into religious life the later left-ideological figure was a member of the extreme-right 'Verbond der Deutsche Natinonaal-Solidaristen' which had existed till 1941.
In May 1970he founded an organization in the area of Viersel -- which belongs to the north Belgian community of Zandoven -- under the name of "Leven in de Browerij", Life in the Brewery" a leftist, so-called "alternative-Christian society of life".
It was established in a former brewery. It was made up of a class of fourteen year olds, who belonged to the Jesuit-run Xavieriuscollege in Borgerhout near Antwerp.
In this milieu there were various -- at the time decisively left-extremist -- moved to pedegogical adventures and sexual shamelessness.
Here was one of the first 'green' --ideological parties in Europe. They called themselves 'Agalev'.
The extreme-left Flemmish homosexual and abortion party "Groen!’ also arose here.
The anti-Church media are as expected completely enthused about all of this.
Actually in the Community of Life it was -- then held for normal-- to initiate two abuse of two fifteen and sixteen year old sexually mature boys.
In an open letter Father Versteylen answered the charges, that he had in those times "engaged in a quest for a new relationship to the body" surely gone to the limits.
He insists, however, that he never crossed the line and insists that he never intentionally hurt a person through his conduct.
The left-Jesuit is, after the extreme-left Fr. Francoi Houtar (85) and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe of Brügge, the third suspected sexual predator, who without exception, belong to that left- and homosexual friendly wing of the Church whom the media bosses love to celebrate.
Read further...at original, kreuz.net...
Send criticism and comments to vekron99@hotmail.com
(kreuz.net) The Belgian media bosses have their next abuser who is supposedly associated with the Church arena.
It is a question of the Old Liberal, left-leaning, civil Jesuit, Father Luc Versteylen (83).
Before his entrance into religious life the later left-ideological figure was a member of the extreme-right 'Verbond der Deutsche Natinonaal-Solidaristen' which had existed till 1941.
In May 1970he founded an organization in the area of Viersel -- which belongs to the north Belgian community of Zandoven -- under the name of "Leven in de Browerij", Life in the Brewery" a leftist, so-called "alternative-Christian society of life".
It was established in a former brewery. It was made up of a class of fourteen year olds, who belonged to the Jesuit-run Xavieriuscollege in Borgerhout near Antwerp.
In this milieu there were various -- at the time decisively left-extremist -- moved to pedegogical adventures and sexual shamelessness.
Here was one of the first 'green' --ideological parties in Europe. They called themselves 'Agalev'.
The extreme-left Flemmish homosexual and abortion party "Groen!’ also arose here.
The anti-Church media are as expected completely enthused about all of this.
Actually in the Community of Life it was -- then held for normal-- to initiate two abuse of two fifteen and sixteen year old sexually mature boys.
In an open letter Father Versteylen answered the charges, that he had in those times "engaged in a quest for a new relationship to the body" surely gone to the limits.
He insists, however, that he never crossed the line and insists that he never intentionally hurt a person through his conduct.
The left-Jesuit is, after the extreme-left Fr. Francoi Houtar (85) and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe of Brügge, the third suspected sexual predator, who without exception, belong to that left- and homosexual friendly wing of the Church whom the media bosses love to celebrate.
Read further...at original, kreuz.net...
Send criticism and comments to vekron99@hotmail.com
Marking week of prayer, Benedict XVI cites four 'pillars' for Christian unity
.- Improving the unity of Christians today requires the same elements that united the first apostles in Jerusalem, Pope Benedict XVI said Jan. 19.
Pope Benedict met with pilgrims to Rome in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall for his weekly general audience. In observation of the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Jan. 18-25), he based his message on "the gift of full communion."
Christians take part in the week of prayer for unity "to bear witness to the profound ties that unite them and to invoke the gift of full communion," said the Pope.
"They devoted themselves to the Apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers" is the theme of this year's prayer week for the unity of Christians. Pope Benedict said that this passage from the Acts of the Apostles offers a vision of four characteristics that defined the first Christian community in Jerusalem "as a place of unity and love."
In the teaching of the apostles, in fraternal communion, in the breaking of bread and in prayer are four "pillars" that continue to be the foundation of Christian life and build Church unity, he explained.
Every effort to increase unity must involve increased faithfulness to the teaching of the first Christians, the apostles, the Pope said. "Even today," he explained, "the community of believers recognizes the norms of its own faith in that reference to the teaching of the Apostles."
Fraternal communion was "the most tangible expression of unity between disciples and the Lord, especially for the outside world," he pointed out.
Belgium extradites sex-abuse priest wanted in Canada
BRUSSELS — A convicted Belgian-born priest who faces complaints of sexual abuse in Canada was expelled Wednesday, sent back to Montreal when police discovered he had taken Canadian nationality and had lived illegally in Belgium for years.
Eric Dejaeger, 63, a Flemish priest who worked as a missionary with Inuits in the 1970s, was escorted by police on a 10:30 am (0930 GMT) flight from Brussels airport, and was to be handed over to Canadian authorities on landing, foreign ministry spokeswoman Katrien Jansseune said.
Dejaeger, who was sentenced in 1990 to five years behind bars for the rape of eight children before being released after 18 months, had returned to live in Belgium after nine new sets of victim allegations came forward in 1995.
He was living in Blanden, in northern Flanders, and escaped extradition following a 2001 Interpol arrest warrant because he retained Belgian nationality at the time.
Egyptian MP Says Copts Face no Persecution, Blames Mossad
The People's Assembly launched a scathing attack against the European Parliament accusing it of disseminating false reports about the "repression of Christians" in Egypt, reports Gamal Essam El-Din Egyptian MPs, belonging to the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) and opposition, opened fire on the Brussels-based European Parliament, accusing it of interfering in Egypt's internal affairs.
Speaker of the People's Assembly Fathi Sorour told MPs in a session on Monday morning that he condemned the way in which the European Parliament had "tried to exploit the attack which hit the Two Saints Church on the New Year's Eve in order to imply that there is a systematic policy of repression against Coptic Christians in Egypt". Sorour said that in a meeting with a delegation from the Bundestag (German parliament) yesterday, he had stressed that "the terrorist attack against the Alexandrian church targeted Muslims and Christians alike and the European Parliament's statements about repression of Christians in Egypt are entirely unfounded"
Supporting Sorour, senior NDP MPs accused the European Parliament of propagating lies about Egypt. Abdel-Ahad Gamaleddin, NDP spokesman in the People's Assembly, insisted that "the European Parliament's statement claiming that Coptic Christians face persecution shows how most European institutions are completely ignorant of the situation in Egypt."
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Speaker of the People's Assembly Fathi Sorour told MPs in a session on Monday morning that he condemned the way in which the European Parliament had "tried to exploit the attack which hit the Two Saints Church on the New Year's Eve in order to imply that there is a systematic policy of repression against Coptic Christians in Egypt". Sorour said that in a meeting with a delegation from the Bundestag (German parliament) yesterday, he had stressed that "the terrorist attack against the Alexandrian church targeted Muslims and Christians alike and the European Parliament's statements about repression of Christians in Egypt are entirely unfounded"
Supporting Sorour, senior NDP MPs accused the European Parliament of propagating lies about Egypt. Abdel-Ahad Gamaleddin, NDP spokesman in the People's Assembly, insisted that "the European Parliament's statement claiming that Coptic Christians face persecution shows how most European institutions are completely ignorant of the situation in Egypt."
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Homily of Father Nichols on "Primiz" Mass of Father Andre Burnham
We are, at this Mass, on a cusp, or boundary, or threshold. What I have in mind is in the first place the ritual calendar we're using. We are on the cusp between, on the one hand, the Christmas season, which celebrates the Theophany, the manifestation of God the Word as a human being to other human beings, and, on the other hand, so-called 'Ordinary Time', a time which is far from ordinary because it consists in the telling of his story, the story of the public ministry of the Christ as it unfolds in all its dramatic action. Appropriately, then, today's Gospel-reading points both backwards and forwards, and its key is the identification of Jesus as the 'Lamb of God'. Twice, actually, within a few verses of the Fourth Gospel, when the Baptist wants to identify who Jesus is, to locate him (so to say) on the map of salvation geography, these are the words he comes up with. The best explanation of that, I think, is that John the Baptist is rehearsing what it was his cousin told him. At the Baptism, the heavens were opened for Jesus, and in the open heavens he saw… well, what did he see? He saw himself as the Lamb, sent by the Father to make the atoning sacrifice which will reconcile to the Father Israel and all the world, and bring humankind home to the Father's house. Jesus would go on to comport himself in just this fashion in his public ministry, in the strength of the Holy Spirit whose descent on him in the form of a dove verified what it was, in the opened heavens, that he saw. The Lamb of God: that is the One we follow, it is how the God-man wishes to be known and loved. He came to make sacrifice for us. That is the impetus that drives his ministry forward till it reaches its climax in the Paschal Mystery of his Death and Resurrection. It is the attitude in which he still stands before the Father, showing the marks of his now glorious wounds. And it is why the continuing sign of that sacrifice – the Mass – is the true centre of the Christian religion.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Anglican Bishop Questions Elton John's Suitability as Father
The former Bishop of Rochester, Dr. Michael Nazir Ali has raised ethical and moral concerns over the artificial insemination of an American woman to produce a child for Sir Elton John and his civil partner, David Furnish.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Bishop Nazir Ali questioned the wisdom of the arrangement and its baleful consequences for the child: Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John.
"I believe that surrogacy, inevitably, introduces a 'third' party to the legal parents," the bishop said and "will affect the welfare of the child, psychologically and in other ways."
http://geoconger.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/bishop-questions-elton-john%e2%80%99s-fitness-to-be-a-first-time-father-the-church-of-england-newspaper-jan-14-2011-p-3/
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Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Bishop Nazir Ali questioned the wisdom of the arrangement and its baleful consequences for the child: Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John.
"I believe that surrogacy, inevitably, introduces a 'third' party to the legal parents," the bishop said and "will affect the welfare of the child, psychologically and in other ways."
http://geoconger.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/bishop-questions-elton-john%e2%80%99s-fitness-to-be-a-first-time-father-the-church-of-england-newspaper-jan-14-2011-p-3/
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Fidelity of Syrian Catholics Recognized by Pope
Cardinal Consecrates Cathedral in Aleppo
ROME, JAN. 17, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is thanking the Catholic community of Syria for its "fidelity to the Lord and to his Church and fidelity to the Bishop of Rome and to his ministry as Successor of Peter." The Pope affirmed his gratitude in a message sent to the community by his secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
The message marked Saturday's consecration of the cathedral in Aleppo by Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches. "The Holy Father is well aware of the fidelity of the Catholic community of Syria," the message stated, as reported by L'Osservatore Romano. "He thanks the community for this fidelity and for its prayer for the fruitfulness of his service of the truth and of unity."
http://www.zenit.org/article-31487?l=english
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ROME, JAN. 17, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is thanking the Catholic community of Syria for its "fidelity to the Lord and to his Church and fidelity to the Bishop of Rome and to his ministry as Successor of Peter." The Pope affirmed his gratitude in a message sent to the community by his secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
The message marked Saturday's consecration of the cathedral in Aleppo by Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches. "The Holy Father is well aware of the fidelity of the Catholic community of Syria," the message stated, as reported by L'Osservatore Romano. "He thanks the community for this fidelity and for its prayer for the fruitfulness of his service of the truth and of unity."
http://www.zenit.org/article-31487?l=english
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