tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89587454683826524182023-06-20T20:23:21.286+08:00Civilization of LoveRev. Fr. Jessie G. Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-44085250052987440862010-05-14T13:13:00.000+08:002010-05-14T13:15:15.672+08:00Vatican Aide: Christians Are Victims of Hatred<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h6 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Father Lombardi Analyzes Violence in Iraq</h6><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: justify;">VATICAN CITY, FEB. 28, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- In many parts of the world, Christians are suffering the hatred that is generated by religious fundamentalism, says a Vatican spokesman. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, presented this analysis in his editorial on the most recent episode of "Octava Dies," a weekly Vatican Television program.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Again, in recent days, violence against Christians has been rekindled," he explained. "Some time ago I had in my hand flyers with terrible threats that were systematically distributed in Mosul in Iraq to the houses of Christians asking them to leave the city. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The recent brutal murders confirm the same systematic strategy against which the local authorities do not seem capable of providing effective remedies."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At least eight Christians have been killed in the last two weeks. The last murder occurred Tuesday, when an armed commando entered the home of an Assyrian Christian family, killing the father and two sons in front of his wife and daughter, whose lives were spared by the criminals.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some 15,000 Christians remain in the Muslim-majority city of Mosul, where their families have lived for 2,000 years.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"How can the Christian communities survive in these conditions?" he asked. "And yet they are native communities, totally inserted into the culture and the local history, of which they constitute a vital component.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It's not hatred of the West or of foreigners, but [hatred] of the Christian community."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Today Iraq is the most well-known case, but in some regions of India anti-Christian violence continues, as in Pakistan and other countries in Asia and Africa," he said. "Religious fundamentalism generates hatred and violence, and religious minorities -- and Christianity is a minority in many parts of the world -- are suffering on account of it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Often one calls upon the international community to mobilize. But on the current scene in the Western world many forces are working to fight and destroy the Christian presence and its influence in the areas where it is, or was, a majority. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Is it realistic to expect its sincere defense there where it is in the minority and does not count much from the point of view of political or economic interests?" </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Christians," Father Lombardi concluded, "who remember the fate of their Master, cannot be surprised about being persecuted, but justice and law must prevail everywhere, even for them."</div></div></span><hr /><a href="http://catholiccoatofarms.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SQxpvD_HrxI/AAAAAAAACPQ/xd3BPHzd_Ls/s200/Somosierra2.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="44" /></a><a href="http://liturgicals.blogspot.com/"><img 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Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-11854037831963958502010-05-14T13:11:00.000+08:002010-05-14T13:13:17.883+08:00Benedict XVI Pope Reflects on Meaning of Priesthood<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h5 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Concludes Annual Lenten Retreat</span></h5><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: justify;">VATICAN CITY, FEB. 28, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- During his Lenten spiritual exercises, Benedict XVI reflected on the priesthood and what it means to be a priest.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">The Pope noted this Saturday at the end of the annual seven-day spiritual exercises for the Pontiff and the Roman Curia, preached by Salesian Father Enrico dal Covolo.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">This year's retreat focused on "The Lessons of God and of the Church in the Priestly Vocation." This theme was chosen to reflect the Year for Priests currently under way.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "></p><div style="text-align: justify;">"In the name of all of us present here," the Holy Father said in a brief address, "I would like to say thank you with my whole heart to you, Father Enrico, for this retreat, for the impassioned and very personal way in which you guided our path toward Christ, on path of renewal of our priesthood."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Benedict XVI recounted how the Salesian preacher chose as his "starting point, as an always present background, as destination [...] Solomon's prayer for 'a heart that hears.'"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"In truth, it seems to me that here the whole Christian vision of man is recapitulated," the Pope said. "Man is not perfect in himself, man has need of relation -- he is a being in relation. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It is not his 'cogito' that can 'cogitare' the whole of reality. He needs to listen, to listen to the other, above all the Other -- with a capital 'O' -- who is God. Only in this way does he know himself, only in this way does he become himself."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Pontiff noted that during the spiritual exercises, he had full view of an image of the Mother of the Redeemer, "the 'Sedes Sapietiae,' the living seat of wisdom, with Wisdom incarnate in her womb."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"St. Luke presents Mary precisely as a woman who listens from the heart," Benedict XVI explained, "who is immersed in the Word of God, who listens to the Word, who meditates (synballein) on it, composes and treasures it, who carries it in her heart."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Fathers of the Church say that in the moment of the conception of the eternal Word in the womb of the Virgin the Holy Spirit entered into Mary through her ear," he said. "In listening she conceived the eternal Word, she gave her flesh to this Word. And thus she tells what it means to have a heart that listens.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Mary is surrounded here by the fathers and the mothers of the Church, by the communion of saints. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"And so we see and we have understood during these days that we cannot truly hear the Word in the isolated 'I' but only in the 'we' of the Church, in the 'we' of the communion of saints."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"And you, dear Father Enrico, have shown us, have provided a voice for five exemplary figures of the priesthood, beginning with Ignatius of Antioch and continuing to the dear and venerable Pope John Paul II," continued the Pope. 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During these days we have penetrated our consecration more deeply with God's help. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Thus, with new courage, we would like now to take up our mission."</div><p></p></div></span><hr style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://catholiccoatofarms.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://catholiccoatofarms.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SQxpvD_HrxI/AAAAAAAACPQ/xd3BPHzd_Ls/s200/Somosierra2.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="44" /></a><a href="http://liturgicals.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SYg8kTk9JFI/AAAAAAAACYM/m5-1a2fCQrE/s200/songs.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="25" /></a><a href="http://blog.360.yahoo.com/rss-Novlsx47aKnWjnUpGBy3t6bfpw--?cq=1"><img 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Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-49838606753024133692010-05-14T13:09:00.000+08:002010-05-14T13:10:26.492+08:00Pontiff Praying for Quake-stricken Chile<div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; ">VATICAN CITY, FEB. 28, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- Benedict XVI is praying for Chile, which was hit Saturday with a 8.8-magnitude earthquake.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"My thought goes out to Chile and the populations affected by the earthquake, which caused numerous losses of human life and much damage," the Pope said today after praying the Angelus with those gathered in St. Peter's Square.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest death toll climbed to 708, and authorities said some 1.5 million Chileans were affected and 500,000 homes severely damaged.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I pray for the victims and am spiritually near to the persons tried by so grave a calamity; for them I implore from God relief from suffering and courage in these adversities," the Holy Father said. 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Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-62692681409814840472010-05-14T13:06:00.000+08:002010-05-14T13:08:12.706+08:00Pope Urges End to Mosul's Christian Killings<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h6 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Calls on Iraqi Government to Protect Vulnerable Minorities</h6><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: justify;">VATICAN CITY, FEB. 28, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- Benedict XVI is calling on the Iraqi government to do all they can to stop the recent killing spree of Christians in the northern city of Mosul. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before praying the midday Angelus with those gathered in St. Peter's Square, the Pope called the recent killings of Christians as "tragic news," and that it filled him with "deep sadness."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At least eight Christians have been killed in the last two weeks. The last murder occurred Tuesday, when an armed commando entered the home of an Assyrian Christian family, killing the father and two sons in front of his wife and daughter, whose lives were spared by the criminals. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some 15,000 Christians remain in the Muslim-majority city of Mosul, where their families have lived for 2,000 years.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Holy Father said that during his weeklong spiritual exercises, which ended Saturday, he "followed with much concern the other episodes of violence, perpetrated in the martyred land of Iraq, which have harmed defenseless persons of various religious affiliations."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I often prayed for all the victims of those attacks and today I would like to join myself spiritually in prayer for peace and the restoration of security promoted by the council of bishops at Nineveh," he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I am affectionately near to the Christians communities of the whole country," said Benedict XVI. "Do not weary of being a ferment for good for the homeland to which, for centuries, you have rightfully belonged!"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Protest</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some 1,000 Christians gathered today in Mosul to protest the almost-daily killings. In Kirkuk, a similar march will take place Monday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2000, as many as 5,000 Christian families lived in Mosul. They have endured multiple attacks, particularly in September 2008, after which about half the Christian population fled the city. Many of those subsequently returned.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The murders come just ahead of March 7 parliamentary elections in the country, which many see to be decisive for determining the future direction of the country.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"In the delicate political phase that Iraq is passing through I call upon the civil authorities that they do everything possible to restore security to the population and, especially to the most vulnerable religious minorities," urged Benedict XVI.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It is my wish that they do not given in to the temptation to allow the temporary and special interests prevail over the safety and the fundamental rights of every citizen," he continued.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Finally," the Pope added, "as I greet the Iraqis present here in the piazza, I exhort the international community to do its best to give the Iraqis a future of reconciliation and justice, while I ask with confidence from God almighty the precious gift of peace."</div></div></span><hr /><a href="http://catholiccoatofarms.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SQxpvD_HrxI/AAAAAAAACPQ/xd3BPHzd_Ls/s200/Somosierra2.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="44" /></a><a href="http://liturgicals.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SYg8kTk9JFI/AAAAAAAACYM/m5-1a2fCQrE/s200/songs.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="25" /></a><a href="http://blog.360.yahoo.com/rss-Novlsx47aKnWjnUpGBy3t6bfpw--?cq=1"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SQBPIXOP_HI/AAAAAAAACOw/W7Xq8T0Jea0/s200/shepherd2.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="25" /></a><a href="http://katesismo.blogspot.com/"><img 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Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-23545302215244761282010-05-14T12:53:00.001+08:002010-05-14T12:55:38.921+08:00Life's Joys Are Not the Goal, Says Pope<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h6 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Calls Them Lights on Earthly Pilgrimage</h6><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: justify;">VATICAN CITY, FEB. 28, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- The joys of life are not the final goal, but rather lights on the path to an eternal destination, says Benedict XVI. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This was the conclusion the Pope came to at the end of a reflection today on the Transfiguration, which he called an "extraordinary event" that is "an encouragement in following Jesus."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before praying the midday Angelus with those gathered in St. Peter's Square, he noted that the three disciples who witness the Transfiguration were asleep: "It is the attitude of those who, although spectators of divine prodigies, do not understand them. Only the struggle against the torpor that assails them allows Peter, James and John to 'see' Jesus' glory."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"As Moses and Elijah depart from Jesus," the Holy Father said recounting the Gospel account, "Peter speaks, and while he is speaking, a cloud covers him and the other disciples with its shadow; it is a cloud that, although it conceals also reveals God's glory, as happened for the people of Israel on pilgrimage through the desert."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The eyes can no longer see," he added, "but the ears can hear the voice that comes from the cloud: 'This is my Son, my chosen one; listen to him!'"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Benedict XVI explained that suddenly, "the disciples are no longer before a transfigured face, nor before a dazzling garment, nor a cloud that reveals the divine presence. Before their eyes there is 'only Jesus.'</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Jesus is alone before his Father as he prays, but at the same time, Jesus is everything that is given to the disciples of all times: It is what must suffice on the journey. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"He is the only voice to listen to, the only one to follow, he who, going up to Jerusalem, will give his life and one day 'will transfigure our miserable body to conform it to his glorious body.'"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Transfiguration reminds us that the joys sown by God in our life are not the destination," reflected the Holy Father, "but they are lights that he gives us on the earthly pilgrimage, so that 'only Jesus' is our Law and his Word the criterion that guides our existence."</div></div></span><hr /><a 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Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-351265294015171142010-05-14T10:45:00.001+08:002010-05-14T10:47:06.889+08:00Bishops Give Pastoral View of Dominican Republic<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h6 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Prepare Voters for May Elections</h6><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, MARCH 1, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- Marking Dominican Independence Day, the island's bishops are giving a pastoral viewpoint to the problems and possibilities facing the Republic.</p><div style="text-align: justify;">For the Feb. 27 anniversary of independence, the prelates addressed a message to the faithful called "From Closeness to Our People."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The bishops noted that the country has 11 dioceses, a military ordinariate and 584 parishes. Its 9.6 million people are 95% Catholic.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Global economics</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The bishops wrote of the global recession, saying it is the fruit of a series of bad decisions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We must not forget" that "when things are not done well and remedies are not given in time, the evil is aggravated and a moment arrives when it bursts, causing unsuspected evils," they said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prelates pointed to Benedict XVI's "Caritas in Veritate" as a source of solutions, saying it has "incisive pronouncements that merit being reflected upon by us, Dominicans."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Regarding the budget in their home nation, the bishops contended there is a "notable lack of prioritization," and they affirmed that education should always have "absolute priority."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Problems related to electric energy are the greatest failure on the island, the prelates suggested, urging the government and business to "spare no efforts in seeking a definitive solution to such a serious problem." The Dominican Republic endures frequent blackouts and the electric energy sector needs to be reformed in order to facilitate the development of the island's economy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Life's grandeur</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The bishops also lamented that "life has lost its grandeur and inviolability" for many Dominicans. "Distressing is the growing number of persons who die violently to even scores, or because of gender violence, internal problems in the world of drugs, imprudence on the highways and avenues, and the presence among us of hired assassins and even suicides."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Trust in the political system is also waning, the prelates observed, saying many "yearn for more dynamism and speedy and effective action in face of the problems that accost us."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Parties and politicians," they recommended, must recover and "live the dignity of their job."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Problems, they stated, "do not resolve themselves. Their remedy calls for the action of everyone."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Poverty</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Dominican prelates called on the government to improve living conditions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Poverty on the island is marked by a notable difference between rich and poor: The poorest 50% of the population receives less than 20% of gross domestic product; the richest 10%, meanwhile, enjoys nearly 40% of GDP.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Regarding agriculture, the bishops called for "better planning and greater investment by the government," also in regard to "the quality of life of the man who works the land."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Campaigning</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As the Dominican Republic is hard-hit by the economic crisis, it would be "folly to carry out a costly, expensive campaign" for the upcoming elections, the bishops said. "It must be austere."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Elections to the Senate and House of Representatives are scheduled for May. "And it must not be forgotten that citizens are disgusted by promises and the discrediting of some vis-à-vis others. The society calls for a serene, respectful and dignified campaign," the prelates affirmed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They called voters to "act according to a right conscience, selecting the most ideal candidates and those they consider can best serve the common good and the homeland and, above all, to appreciate those who in the course of their public life have demonstrated greater consistency with ethical principles and moral values."</div><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Finally, the prelates urged solidarity with Haiti, which shares the island with the Dominican Republic and which was devastated by an earthquake in January.</p></div></span><hr /><a 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Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-51032836370174428102010-05-14T00:42:00.001+08:002010-05-14T00:45:55.760+08:00Minority Status Seen as Commitment to Witness<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h6 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Prelates of Eastern Europe Call for Respect of Rights</h6><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: justify;">CHISINAU, Moldova, MARCH 1, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- Though a minority status entails a special commitment to be "leaven in the dough," there is still a need for respect of minority rights, a group of prelates from southeastern Europe are recalling. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This was a conclusion of the 10th meeting of the presidents of the episcopal conferences of the southeastern European countries, which focused on the rights and duties of religious minorities. The four-day assembly concluded Sunday in Moldova.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Attending this meeting were representatives of six episcopal conferences (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Romania, the International Conference of Sts. Cyril and Methodius -- which embraces the bishops of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia -- and Turkey), in addition to the Maronite archbishop of Cyprus and the bishop of Chisinau.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also present were the nuncio in Romania and Moldova, Archbishop Francisco-Javier Lozano, and the permanent observer of the Holy See to the Council of Europe, Monsignor Aldo Giordano.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Work to do </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the final communiqué, made public today, the bishops stressed that there is "still much to be done" on the issue of recognition of religious minorities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite the fact that 20 years have gone by since the fall of the totalitarian regimes and the signing of concordats with the Holy See (except Turkey), there is still no full recognition of the rights of the Catholic minority, the prelates noted.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The juridical instrument does not automatically mean justice and the protection of the rights of Catholic minorities," the bishops observed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The communiqué stated, "Several communities are not even protected against the violation of human rights, especially rights linked to the liberty of religion and the institutional rights of the Churches."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The problem still lingers of properties nationalized under Communism, the prelates added, saying this issue involves not just Catholics, but other religious communities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Vlad Filat, prime minister of Moldova, who attended the working sessions of the meeting, stressed the role that the Catholic minority must carry out in "the reconstruction of the social fabric and values" of the country.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Common good</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The bishops affirmed that the Catholic Church, despite being a minority, "feels no less the duty to contribute to the common good and to the integral development of the societies in which it is present."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">This contribution is especially marked in two areas: in charitable social service and in the Church's participation in debates on ethics.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">"In some countries, the participation and intervention of the Church is often sought in topics of public debate, so that there can be debates on topics of an ethical nature," the communiqué noted. "The commitment of the Church at the service of the local peoples is only the statistical measure of its awareness of being a living part of the realms in which every day the priests, religious and laity use their own material and spiritual resources so that the nations' peoples can grow and rediscover, in solidarity with the whole Catholic world, reasons for great hope."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Responsible Christians</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the conclusions, the bishops stressed that the minority situation of Catholics constitutes "a challenge to live the faith in an ever more responsible way," attempting to "resolve the problem of religious identity and pluralism without giving up the truths of our faith, but making us capable of accepting all that is positive in the other religious creeds."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The pluralist attitude does not make our convictions relative, but removes from them the venom of absolutism and intolerance," they stressed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">At the same time, to be a minority is a "commitment," the bishops suggested: "that of leaven in the dough. It is a question of transforming, of making grow, of fermenting, but from within, as witnesses and martyrs."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The next meeting will be March 3-6, 2011, in Cyprus, at the invitation of the Maronite archbishop of the island, Youssef Soueif.</div></div></span><hr /><a href="http://catholiccoatofarms.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SQxpvD_HrxI/AAAAAAAACPQ/xd3BPHzd_Ls/s200/Somosierra2.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="44" /></a><a href="http://liturgicals.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SYg8kTk9JFI/AAAAAAAACYM/m5-1a2fCQrE/s200/songs.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="25" /></a><a href="http://blog.360.yahoo.com/rss-Novlsx47aKnWjnUpGBy3t6bfpw--?cq=1"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SQBPIXOP_HI/AAAAAAAACOw/W7Xq8T0Jea0/s200/shepherd2.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="25" /></a><a href="http://katesismo.blogspot.com/"><img 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Fr. Jessie G. Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-85483646982015184242010-05-14T00:33:00.004+08:002010-05-14T00:41:55.840+08:00Bombed Images of Mary to Be Exhibited<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h6 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Nagasaki and Guernica Join in Call for Peace</h6><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: justify;">By Patricia Navas</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">GUERNICA, Spain, MARCH 1, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- On April 26, 1937, an aerial bombing on the Basque town of Guernica killed hundreds of civilians and destroyed many buildings, including part of St. Mary's Church.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Basque government reported that some 1,650 people were killed by the German and Italian planes under the command of the nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After the attack, a figure of the Virgin Mary was uncovered in the Church, destroyed except for her head, the current pastor, Father Inaki Jauregui, explained to ZENIT.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Eight years after that attack, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb destroyed the Urakami Cathedral, in the Japanese city of Nagasaki.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">A wooden carving inspired by Bartolomé Murillo's painting of the Immaculate Conception, which stood in the center of the altar of the cathedral, suffered a similar fate as that of the Virgin of Guernica. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Among the ashes of the church, the head of the Immaculate Virgin figure was found with the eye sockets empty, the cheeks and hair charred and a crack next to the left eye that many interpret as a tear. At present she is known there as the "bombed Mary."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Next month, the two "bombed Marys" will meet and be exhibited together for a time in the Museum of Peace in Guernica. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The meeting is part of a "pilgrimage of peace" of the Virgin of Urakami to the Basque city, on the occasion of this year's 65th anniversary of the bombing of Japan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Archbishop Mitsuaki Takami of Nagasaki will lead the pilgrimage. He will preside over a Mass for the deceased in the Guernica parish on April 26, the anniversary of the bombing of the Basque city, Luis Iriondo, who is organizing the ceremonies, reported to ZENIT.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From the group of Japanese pilgrims, some musicians will perform in Guernica's theater, during a ceremony in the cemetery, and also at an exhibition in the Museum of Peace about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hope</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Iriondo, who lived through the bombing of his city, and event immortalized in one of Pablo Picasso's paintings, expressed his hope for a better future.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, he said, both attackers and victims "can understand one another and walk together in peace."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Archbishop Takami, whose closest relatives died as a result of the atomic bomb, said that "peace can never be created with violence."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">He affirmed: "The elimination of nuclear arms has not progressed much. I hope that the pilgrimage will not only allow more people to know the suffering caused by the atomic bombing, but that it will also be turned into an appeal for peace in the use of non-violent methods."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In reference to the head of the Virgin damaged in the bombing of Guernica, the archbishop exclaimed: "We also have one here: It's incredible!"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Virgin of Urakami left Japan twice before, visiting the Vatican in 1985 and traveling to Belarus in 2000. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Although the program is not yet finalized, the group of Japanese faithful accompanying the figure of the Immaculate Virgin plan to also visit other places in Spain, such as the Basilica of Pilar in Zaragoza and the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div 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Fr. Jessie G. Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-31392208684254700412010-05-14T00:04:00.001+08:002010-05-14T00:07:39.908+08:00Caritas Aids Chilean Quake Victims<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h6 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Archbishop Laments Chaotic "Second Earthquake"</h6><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: justify;">CONCEPCION, Chile, MARCH 1, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- Caritas is mobilizing its staff to bring aid to the two million Chileans affected by the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck near Concepcion on Saturday. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The death toll is over 700 people at present, but some 500,000 have been displaced and hundreds of thousands more have been affected.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The president of the Chilean bishops' conference, Bishop Alejandro Goic of Rancagua, affirmed that the parishes and local Caritas centers are already working to provide emergency aid.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lorenzo Figueroa, director of Caritas Chile, stated that his aid workers are "working in coordination with governmental and civil society organizations in establishing a national help network in spite of enormous communications difficulties."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He continued: "We are collecting food to be sent immediately to communities which have been most affected by the earthquake and where shortages are already being reported. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Our own communications network and capacity to offer warehouses and points of collection and distribution are immediately available."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The magnitude and depth of the catastrophe which has affected the poorest regions of the country will require the support of Caritas members in Latin America and worldwide," Figueroa affirmed. "Above all, hope is needed among our suffering people."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Catastrophe</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The agency reported that it sent an emergency response and search and rescue teams to Santiago today. It includes international and Latin American Caritas workers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, president of Caritas Internationalis, stated, "Caritas Chile and the bishops are keeping us updated on the needs of the people."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He continued: "Chile has faced a terrible catastrophe. The Caritas confederation will be there in support of the survivors in this initial phase of emergency response and as they look to rebuild the country."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati of Concepcion spoke out against the looting that is currently taking place, in which people are stealing not only food, but electronic equipment and other non-emergency items.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He stated that these looters are causing a "second earthquake."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Over a hundred aftershocks have already followed the initial quake, eight of them measuring over 6.0 on the Richter scale.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Saturday's earthquake was 500 times more forceful than the Jan. 12 quake in Haiti.</div></div></span><hr 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Fr. Jessie G. Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-89957325743906972472010-05-14T00:01:00.001+08:002010-05-14T00:04:33.669+08:00Iraqis Fasting Today for End to Killing Spree<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h6 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Protest "Heinous" Slayings of Christians in the North</h6><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: justify;">KIRKUK, Iraq, MARCH 1, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- With less than a week before national elections, and in the wake of a killing spree in Mosul that left eight Christians dead in 10 days, the archbishop of Kirkuk has declared today a day of fasting and prayer. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During his homily Sunday, Archbishop Louis Sako decried the killings in northern Iraq that are leading more Christians to flee the country.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mosul is about 360 kilometers (220 miles) north of Baghdad; Kirkuk is roughly between the two cities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The targeting of innocent Christians, especially in these days in Mosul, in a barbarous manner, coinciding with the elections, is a shameful act," the archbishop said. "It affects the design of God who created us different, violates human rights, hits the national partnership and insults religious values. [...]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Wiping out Christianity from the region, or forcing [Christians] to follow the Islamic banner, will only lead the country to become more radical.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Therefore we have chosen to fast and pray in protest against these heinous acts and in solidarity with our brothers, confident that the justice of God is inevitable."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Motives are unclear for the killing spree in Mosul, though Archbishop Sako attributed it to "tension and struggle between political forces."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It is unfortunate that the country today is going more toward ethnic intolerance, religious and sectarian division," he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This Sunday's elections are expected to be complicated at best. Many candidates were barred because of ties to Saddam Hussein's party and it is unclear if any group will emerge with enough votes to make a government. If not, tensions between rival Muslim groups are only expected to deteriorate further.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The last murder in Mosul was less than a week ago: A father and his two sons were killed in their home, in front of his wife and daughter.</div></div></span><hr /><a href="http://catholiccoatofarms.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SQxpvD_HrxI/AAAAAAAACPQ/xd3BPHzd_Ls/s200/Somosierra2.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="44" /></a><a href="http://liturgicals.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SYg8kTk9JFI/AAAAAAAACYM/m5-1a2fCQrE/s200/songs.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="25" /></a><a href="http://blog.360.yahoo.com/rss-Novlsx47aKnWjnUpGBy3t6bfpw--?cq=1"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SQBPIXOP_HI/AAAAAAAACOw/W7Xq8T0Jea0/s200/shepherd2.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="25" /></a><a href="http://katesismo.blogspot.com/"><img 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Fr. Jessie G. Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-24562000036882332242010-05-13T23:59:00.000+08:002010-05-14T00:00:46.717+08:00Pope Prays for World Economy<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; ">VATICAN CITY, MARCH 1, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- Benedict XVI will pray this month that justice and equity will be the ruling principles for the world's economy. </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Apostleship of Prayer announced the intentions chosen by the Pope for March. His general intention is: "That the world economy may be managed according to the principles of justice and equity, taking account of the real needs of peoples, especially the poorest."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Holy Father also chooses an apostolic intention for each month. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In March he will pray: "That the Churches in Africa may be signs and instruments of reconciliation and justice in every part of that continent."</div></span><hr /><a href="http://catholiccoatofarms.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SQxpvD_HrxI/AAAAAAAACPQ/xd3BPHzd_Ls/s200/Somosierra2.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="44" /></a><a href="http://liturgicals.blogspot.com/"><img 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Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-22127385553905199812010-05-13T23:57:00.000+08:002010-05-13T23:59:21.534+08:00Cardinal: Stay-at-Home Moms Need to Be Paid<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h6 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Pontifical Council President Urges Family-Friendly Economics</h6><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: justify;">ROME, MARCH 1, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- The president of the Pontifical Council for the Family is stressing the importance of work done by those in the home and suggesting economic compensation for it. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cardinal Ennio Antonelli called for financial and professional perks to encourage families when he spoke on "Family and Business, Vital Cells of Society," at a meeting of the Catholic Union of Businessmen and Executives (UCID) in Rome.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">His proposals were reported last Friday in the Italian edition of L'Osservatore Romano.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">During his address the Italian cardinal stressed that "domestic work deserves economic recognition."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">He also said that "numerous families deserve special reductions and financial facilities," pointing to the examples of France and Germany where "families with three children pay €2,000 [$2,720] or €3,000 [$4,080] less."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Vatican official noted that raising a family and seeking a career outside the home are compatible for women, but he urged support services: day care centers in businesses and neighborhoods, and for the elderly and handicapped, other social services.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He also pointed out the importance of offering women a "variety of opportunities in professional work: part-time work, telework, flexibility of hours and vacations."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cardinal Antonelli cautioned against the price paid by marriage and family when women see careers and social success as the path to self-fulfillment. 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Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-27978661917108853872010-05-13T23:17:00.002+08:002010-05-13T23:25:47.172+08:00Muslims, Catholics Discredit Religion-Inspired Violence<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h6 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Vatican and Sunni Voices Join in Historic Declaration</h6><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: justify;">By Jesús Colina </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">CAIRO, Egypt, MARCH 1, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- Muslim and Catholic representatives have joined their voices in rejecting the manipulation of religion to justify political interests, violence or discrimination.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A historic declaration signed by the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and a Sunni leader from the Al-Azhar university marked the conclusion of an annual meeting held last week in Cairo. The meetings gather members of the pontifical council and the Al-Azhar permanent committee for dialogue among the monotheistic religions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheik Muhammad Abd al-Aziz Wasil and Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran were the co-signers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The final declaration explains that the participants were received by the grand imam of Al-Azhar, professor and sheik Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi. Cardinal Tauran thanked him for having condemned the acts of violence in which six Christians and a Muslim policeman died in Naga Hamadi, Egypt, on the past Orthodox Christmas, and for having expressed solidarity to the victims' families and reaffirmed the equality of rights and duties of all citizens, regardless of their religious membership. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheik Tantawi said he only did what he thought was his duty in face of those tragic events.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Manipulation</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">With the help of documents presented by Monsignor Bernard Munono Muyembe and by professor Abdallah Mabrouk al-Naggar, the committee analyzed the topic "The Phenomenon of Confessional Violence: To Understand the Phenomenon and Its Causes and Propose Solutions, Making Particular Reference to the Role of Religions in This Connection."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">At the end of the meeting, the participants agreed to make these recommendations: "to pay greater attention to the manipulation of religion with political objectives or of another character that can be a source of violence; to avoid discrimination in virtue of religious identity; to open the heart to mutual forgiveness and reconciliation, necessary conditions for a peaceful and fruitful coexistence."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Muslims and Catholics urged the public "to recognize similarities and respect differences as requisite of a culture of dialogue, based on common values; to affirm that both sides commit themselves again in the recognition and respect of the dignity of every human being, without distinction of ethnic or religious membership; to oppose religious discrimination in all fields -- just laws should guarantee a fundamental equality; to promote ideals of justice, solidarity and cooperation to guarantee a peaceful and prosperous life for all."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The bilateral meeting ended with the commitment to "oppose with determination any act that tends to create tensions, divisions and conflicts in societies; to promote a culture of mutual respect and dialogue through education in the family, in schools, in churches and in mosques, spreading a spirit of fraternity between all persons and the community; to oppose attacks against religions by means of social communication."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finally Catholics and Muslims called for "ensuring that the preaching of religious leaders, as well as school teaching and textbooks, not emit statements or make references to historical events that, directly or indirectly, can arouse a violent attitude among followers of the different religions."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nuanced</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, papal nuncio in Egypt and the Holy See’s representative to the Cairo-based Arab League, spoke with Vatican Radio last week about that final point.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said that textbooks have inaccuracies "and things that don’t help appreciate the other religion or the other person." This problem applies not only to the history of religion, but to the teaching of history itself, he suggested.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"There is work to be done in fact to give a more nuanced view of certain periods of history, whether it is the Islamic invasions of other countries or whether it is the Crusades," Archbishop Fitzgerald proposed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div>The committee scheduled its next meeting in Rome on Feb. 23-24, 2011.</div></span><hr /><a href="http://catholiccoatofarms.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SQxpvD_HrxI/AAAAAAAACPQ/xd3BPHzd_Ls/s200/Somosierra2.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="44" /></a><a href="http://liturgicals.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SYg8kTk9JFI/AAAAAAAACYM/m5-1a2fCQrE/s200/songs.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="25" /></a><a href="http://blog.360.yahoo.com/rss-Novlsx47aKnWjnUpGBy3t6bfpw--?cq=1"><img 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Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-89282906709107138352010-04-16T17:35:00.000+08:002010-04-16T17:37:23.611+08:00Archbishop Gómez Named to Los Angeles<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h5 style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">LOS ANGELES, APRIL 11, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- The archbishop of San Antonio has been named the coadjutor of Los Angeles, one of the largest archdioceses in the world.</span></h5><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Archbishop José Gómez, 58, was appointed to the California archdiocese last Tuesday.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">He will assist Cardinal Roger Mahony, 74, until the cardinal retires.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">José Gómez was born in Monterrey, Mexico, in 1951. He was ordained a priest for Opus Dei in 1978. He has been serving in the episcopate for nearly a decade, having been named auxiliary bishop of Denver in 2001, and then the archbishop of San Antonio in 2004.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">He has a well-established history of advocacy for Hispanic Catholics. The year he was installed as archbishop of San Antonio, he was named one of Time Magazine's 25 most influential Hispanics in the United States, and in 2007 he was on a CNN list of "Notable Hispanics."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">In Los Angeles, Archbishop Gómez will lead more than 4.3 million Catholics (according to 2005 statistics), served by 530 diocesan priests, 640 religious priests and 1,710 religious sisters. The archdiocese has a significant Hispanic population.</p></div></span><hr /><br /><a href="http://catholiccoatofarms.blogspot.com/"><br /><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SQxpvD_HrxI/AAAAAAAACPQ/xd3BPHzd_Ls/s200/Somosierra2.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="44" /></a><a href="http://liturgicals.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SYg8kTk9JFI/AAAAAAAACYM/m5-1a2fCQrE/s200/songs.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="25" /></a><a href="http://blog.360.yahoo.com/rss-Novlsx47aKnWjnUpGBy3t6bfpw--?cq=1"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SQBPIXOP_HI/AAAAAAAACOw/W7Xq8T0Jea0/s200/shepherd2.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="25" /></a><a href="http://katesismo.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SRESc7Rk1cI/AAAAAAAACPo/Kg00T06Py34/s200/katesismo.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="25" /></a><a href="http://canonlawdictionary.blogspot.com/"><img 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Fr. Jessie G. Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-67470085201446138322010-04-16T17:32:00.001+08:002010-04-16T17:35:12.895+08:00Cardinal Bertone Brings Papal Support to Chile<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h5 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Lauds People’s Faith After Tragedy of Quake</span></h5><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">CONCEPCION, Chile, APRIL 11, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- Benedict XVI's secretary of state is assuring earthquake and tsunami victims in Chile that they have the Pope's spiritual closeness and support.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone is in the South American nation, and has encouraged those affected by the disaster to "pick themselves up again," according to a report by the communications office of the Archdiocese of Concepcion.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">The prelate arrived in Chile last Friday. He has met with various government and Church leaders, and presided over a Mass at an altar in the square in front of the cathedral of Concepción, which was badly damaged by the Feb. 27 earthquake.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">In his homily Cardinal Bertone conveyed the greetings of Benedict XVI, noting that from the first moment that the Pope had received news of the earthquake he had prayed and kept himself continually informed of the situation. The Pontiff, he said, has entrusted the reconstruction of the country to the Blessed Virgin.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">The prelate also invited those present to keep alive the flame of hope. He dedicated part of his reflections to the priesthood, in the context of the Year for Priests, asking the clergy to take on the work of the Church with a missionary spirit that "opens doors and windows" to motivate those who have strayed.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">The cardinal encouraged Chileans to build upon the living rock of Jesus Christ and on the solid hope of his love, and to build a more fraternal, just and solidary world.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">At the offertory, three brothers of the indigenous Muche people brought up a loom and food typical of the Arauca region; a family from Santa Clara de Talcahuano, who had lost their house in the tsunami but were able to escape, offered a triptych of the continental mission.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Before the final blessing, Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati offered Cardinal Bertone a cross of "piedra cruz." "[W]e would like to offer you a cross particular to our region, from a river, the Rio Cruces, where rock is found that bears a cross in it. We would like to give this gift to you with great affection, but may it not be a cross that weighs upon your shoulders, but one full of light, of hope that accompanies your ministry at the Holy Father's side."</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">The mayor of Concepcion, Patricio Kuhn, gave him a parchment. Cardinal Bertone offered a monstrance for the cathedral, which was welcomed by loud applause from those present.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Afterward, before a luncheon with local officials, there was a brief press conference during which the cardinal spoke to the people of Chile, noting the confidence that "Chilean society has placed in the Church, in her pastors and her institutions in such a difficult time as the present one." He further observed how Chileans "are nourished by a growing hope that points to material reconstruction but also to the recomposition of confidence, of values."</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">"A tragedy like this," he continued, "always raises major questions about life, values, social coexistence, our image of God and our relationship with him. It is touching to see the great faith of the Chilean people in moments of suffering. The Church has placed all of its network of parishes and communities at the service of the most vulnerable, furnishing spiritual accompaniment and solidarity during this emergency, above all through Caritas."</p></div></span><hr /><br /><a href="http://catholiccoatofarms.blogspot.com/"><br /><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SQxpvD_HrxI/AAAAAAAACPQ/xd3BPHzd_Ls/s200/Somosierra2.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="44" /></a><a href="http://liturgicals.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SYg8kTk9JFI/AAAAAAAACYM/m5-1a2fCQrE/s200/songs.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="25" /></a><a href="http://blog.360.yahoo.com/rss-Novlsx47aKnWjnUpGBy3t6bfpw--?cq=1"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SQBPIXOP_HI/AAAAAAAACOw/W7Xq8T0Jea0/s200/shepherd2.jpg" border="0" width="25" height="25" /></a><a href="http://katesismo.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jLfaXw2xiJs/SRESc7Rk1cI/AAAAAAAACPo/Kg00T06Py34/s200/katesismo.jpg" border="0" 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Fr. Jessie G. Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-87023921900698488412010-04-13T21:42:00.002+08:002010-04-13T21:46:31.341+08:00Is the Media Helping People or Confusing Them?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h5 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Vatican Spokesman Responds to Sex Abuse Scandal</span></h5><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">VATICAN CITY, APRIL 11, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- The director of the Vatican press office is suggesting three steps for responding to the scandal of sexual abuse of minors. He is also calling communicators to a love for the truth if they wish to "serve rather than confuse."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi responded to the ongoing scandal in a statement published Friday by Vatican Radio.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">He began by recommending steps to "sail through these stormy waters while maintaining a secure course."</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">First, he called for "continuing to seek truth and peace for the victims." Father Lombardi noted how "so many inner wounds" are coming to light, though they date back many years or even decades.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">"There is something that we have yet to fully understand; perhaps we need a more profound experience of events that have had such a negative impact on the lives of individuals, of the Church and of society," the Jesuit reflected. "[...] Abuse opens wounds at a deep inner level."</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">In addition to concern for victims, the Vatican spokesman affirmed, there must continue to be an implementing of "correct procedures for the canonical judgment of the guilty, and for collaborating with the civil authorities in matters concerning their judicial and penal competencies."</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Father Lombardi said that only in this way "can we hope effectively to rebuild a climate of justice and complete trust in the ecclesiastical institution."</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">He acknowledged that various leaders "have not had a ready understanding of the protocols and criteria for intervention."</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Finally, the Vatican spokesman reiterated the importance of selecting and forming candidates for the priesthood.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">"Achieving a healthy maturity of the personality, also from a sexual point of view, has always been a difficult challenge, but today it is particularly so," he contended.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Father Lombardi noted how the greatest frequency of abuse coincided with the most intense period of the sexual revolution.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">"Formation must take account of this context and of the more general context of secularization," he said. "In the final analysis, this means rediscovering and reaffirming the sense and importance of sexuality, chastity and emotional relationships in today's world."</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Church response</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Father Lombardi said that those who seek truth and an objective evaluation of the situation can find information on it and thus "will be able to achieve a better understanding of the degree to which the Catholic Church shares problems that are not only her own, to what extent they have particular gravity for her and require specific interventions, and, finally, the extent to which the experience the Church is going through in this field may also be useful for other institutions or for society as a whole."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">In this context, the Vatican spokesman lamented that "the communications media have not yet worked sufficiently."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Father Lombardi went on to defend Benedict XVI as a "coherent guide along the path of rigor and truth," saying the Pope "merits all respect and support, testimony of which is reaching him from all parts of the Church."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">"He is a pastor well capable of facing -- with great rectitude and confidence -- this difficult time in which there is no lack of criticism and unfounded insinuations," the priest stated. "It must be said that he is a Pope who has spoken a lot about the Truth of God and about respect for truth; and he has become a credible witness of this. We accompany him, learning from him the constancy necessary to grow in truth and transparency, continuing to open our horizons to the serious problems of the world and responding patiently to the slow and gradual release of partial or presumed 'revelations' which seek to undermine his credibility, and that of other institutions or individuals of the Church.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">"This patient and solid love of truth is necessary, in the Church, in the society in 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Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-35411710554543564802010-04-13T20:43:00.000+08:002010-04-13T20:44:50.386+08:00Pope Notes Hopes for Shroud of Turin<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h5 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, APRIL 11, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- Benedict XVI says he hopes veneration of the Shroud of Turin will help people to seek the Face of God.</span></h5><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">The Pope said this today after praying the midday Regina Caeli with crowds that had gathered at the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo. The Holy Father is at the papal summer residence for a few days, following his intense Holy Week and Easter schedule.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">The exhibition of the Holy Shroud began in Turin on Saturday. The Pontiff himself is scheduled for a trip to Turin to venerate the shroud on May 2.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">"I rejoice for this event, which once again is encouraging a large movement of pilgrims as well as studies, reflections and above all an extraordinary recollection of the mystery of Christ's suffering," he said. 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/></a>Rev. Fr. Jessie G. Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-43657834002191559002010-04-13T20:30:00.002+08:002010-04-13T20:34:45.886+08:00Benedict XVI Sends Condolences to Poland<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><h5 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Entrusts President and Other Victims to Mercy of God</span></h5><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, APRIL 11, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- Benedict XVI is expressing his sorrow at the plane crash in western Russia that took the lives of the president of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, his wife and more than 95 others who were on the flight with them.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Shortly after being informed of the incident, the Pontiff sent a message to the president of the Polish Parliament, Bronislaw Korowski, in which he also mentioned other victims of the disaster, including the former president of the Polish Republic in exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski, Catholic bishop Tadeusz Ploski, Orthodox bishop Miron Chodakowski and evangelical military chaplain Adam Pilsch.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">President Kaczynski and the large group of officials were killed when their plane crashed during an attempted landing at the Smolensk airport shortly before 9 a.m. Saturday.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">The group -- which included relatives of Polish prisoners of war, intellectuals, political officials, priests and others massacred by the Soviets in the Katyn forest in 1940 -- were traveling with the presidential entourage to commemorate the 70th anniversary of that tragic event.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">"I entrust all the victims of this dramatic incident [...] to the goodness of the merciful God. May he welcome them into his glory," the Pope said in his message.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">The Holy Father offered to the families of the victims and all the people of Poland his "sincere condolences, assuring them of my spiritual nearness."</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">"In this difficult moment I implore for the Polish people a special blessing of almighty God," the message concluded. </p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Today after praying the midday Regina Caeli, Benedict XVI also mentioned the tragedy.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">"In expressing my deepest condolences," he said, "from my heart I assure intercessory prayers for the victims and prayers of support for the beloved Polish </p></div></span><hr style="text-align: 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Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-20377065837579302382010-04-13T20:21:00.002+08:002010-04-13T20:28:38.939+08:00Peace and Joy Are For Everyone, Says Pope<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; ">Notes Mission of Church Is to Spread God’s Mercy</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; "><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; "><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, APRIL 11, 2010 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Zenit.org</a>).- Benedict XVI says the mission of the Church is to bring to all people the "joyous reality" of God's merciful love.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">The Pope proposed this today when he addressed crowds gathered at the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo to pray the midday Regina Caeli. The Holy Father is taking a few days of rest at the summer papal residence following his intense Holy Week and Easter schedule.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">"The Gospel passage from St. John for this Sunday is rich with divine mercy and goodness," the Pontiff noted. "[...] Jesus showed the signs of the passion to the point of permitting the incredulous Thomas to touch him."</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">Benedict XVI said that the "divine condescension" with the incredulous Thomas "allows us to draw profit."</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">"In fact, touching the Lord's wounds, the hesitant disciple not only heals his own diffidence but ours too," the Pope said.</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">He went on to explain how the mission of the Church, "perennially assisted by the Paraclete [is] to bring to all the glad tidings, the joyous reality of the merciful Love of God, ‘so that,' as St. John says, ‘you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, believing, you may have life in his name.'"</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">The Holy Father made reference to the Year for Priests, encouraging pastors to follow St. John Vianney. He cited his own letter proclaiming the year, in which he noted that the Curé d'Ars "was able to transform the hearts and the lives of so many people because he enabled them to experience the Lord's merciful love."</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">"Our own time urgently needs a similar proclamation and witness to the truth of Love," he affirmed. "In this way we will render ever more familiar and close him who our eyes have not seen but whose infinite mercy we are absolutely certain of."</p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; ">The Pontiff concluded by entrusting the mission of the Church to Our Lady, adding that "we invoke her exultant with joy."</p></div></span><hr /><br /><a href="http://catholiccoatofarms.blogspot.com/"><br /><img 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Fr. Jessie G. Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-53409730920614194012010-04-11T08:18:00.000+08:002010-04-11T14:04:36.952+08:00Father Cantalamessa Clarifies His Reference to Jews<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"></span><br /><h6 style="display: block; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Notes Vatican Didn’t Preview His Sermon</h6><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">ROME, APRIL 4, 2010 (<a href="http://www.zenit.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0000ee; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Zenit.org</a>).- The preacher of the Pontifical Household is expressing regret if Jewish sensibilities were offended by his Good Friday sermon given in the presence of Benedict XVI. He says his intention was a “friendly one.”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Father Raniero Cantalamessa, during the liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, read a passage from a letter he had received from a Jewish friend. The letter’s author stated that he saw in recent media attacks of the Pope and the Church something reminiscent of the “more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism.”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Afterward, some press reports of Father Cantalamessa’s remarks stirred up fierce criticism from the Jewish world.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">In response to the criticism Father Cantalamessa said: “If, against any intention of mine, I offended the sensibility of Jews and the victims of pedophilia, I sincerely regret it and ask forgiveness, reaffirming my solidarity with both.”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“There is one thing that I must clarify,” Father Cantalamessa added. “Not only did the Pope not ask me to say what I did, but, like everyone else, heard my words for the first time during the liturgy in St. Peter’s. No one in the Vatican ever asked to read the text of my sermons ahead of time, something that I regard as a great act of confidence in me and in the media.”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Capuchin Friar explained to the Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera” his intention in citing his Jewish friend’s letter: “This year the Jewish Passover occurs during the same week as Christian Easter. This gave me the idea, even before I had received the letter from my Jewish friend, to offer them a greeting from Christians, precisely in the context of Good Friday, which, unfortunately, has always been an occasion of conflict and, for them, of understandable suffering … .”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“I inserted the letter from [my] Jewish friend only because it seemed to me a witness of solidarity with the Pope so harshly attacked in recent weeks,” he continued. “My intention therefore was a friendly one, not at all hostile.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“In his letter, my Jewish friend, an Italian who is deeply identified with his religion, even authorized me to give his name. I was the one who decided it was not prudent to involve him directly, and much more do I think so now.”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Later on Good Friday, the director of the Vatican press office, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, clarified that “it is not the line of the Holy See to compare the attacks on the Pope over the pedophilia scandal to anti-Semitism.”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“Father Cantalamessa’s intention,” the Jesuit added, “was merely to disclose the solidarity with the Pope that a Jew has expressed in light of the particular experience of suffering that his people have had. But it was a citation that could have given rise to misunderstandings.”</div></div>Rev. Fr. Jessie G. Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-21459314962471395542010-04-11T08:15:00.000+08:002010-04-11T14:04:36.980+08:00Cardinal: People of God Not Frightened by Gossip<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"></span><br /><h6 style="display: block; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Affirms Support, Prayer for Pope</h6><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">VATICAN CITY, APRIL 4, 2010 (<a href="http://www.zenit.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0000ee; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Zenit.org</a>).- Cardinal Angelo Sodano assured Benedict XVI today that the Church is particularly united to him even as the media continues its frenzy of attacks related to the scandal of sexual abuse.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The dean of the College of Cardinals made this affirmation when he presented the Pope with official Easter greetings.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">At the beginning of the Mass that the Pope celebrated in St. Peter's Square, the former secretary of state assured: “We are rallying around you.”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“We are deeply grateful for the strength of soul and the apostolic courage with which you proclaim Christ’s Gospel,” he said.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“The People of God are with you,” the cardinal affirmed. “They do not let themselves be frightened by the ‘gossip’ of the moment, by the trials that sometimes befall the community of believers.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“The cardinals, your co-workers in the Roman Curia are with you. Your brother bishops throughout the world, who lead the planet’s 3,000 ecclesiastical districts, are with you. In these days the 400,000 priests, who generously serve the People of God in parishes, oratories, schools, hospitals and in many other contexts, and in the missions in the remotest parts of the world, are with you.”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Cardinal Sodano recalled that last Thursday in the Mass for the blessing of the holy oils, the Pope recalled that Peter described Christ’s attitude during the Passion in the following way: “Insulted, he did not respond with insults; mistreated, he did not threaten, but entrusted himself to him who judges with justice.”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“On this Pascal Solemnity,” Cardinal Sodano concluded, “we pray for you that the Lord, the Good Shepherd, continues to support you in your mission of service to the Church and the world.”</div></div>Rev. Fr. Jessie G. Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-3734206242928099662010-04-11T02:40:00.000+08:002010-04-11T14:04:36.997+08:00Benedict XVI Says Baptism Is Death’s Cure<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"></span><br /><h6 style="display: block; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Affirms Christ Is Tree of Life and Within Our Reach</h6><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">VATICAN CITY, APRIL 4, 2010 (<a href="http://www.zenit.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0000ee; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Zenit.org</a>).- Human beings have always sought a way to extend life, to cure death. Such a cure does indeed exist, Benedict XVI says.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Pope spoke of this cure for death – baptism -- during his homily at the Easter Vigil Mass in St. Peter’s.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">He reflected that an endless prolongation of life as we know it would hardly be a cure.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“The true cure for death must be different,” the Holy Father proposed. “It cannot lead simply to an indefinite prolongation of this current life. It would have to transform our lives from within. It would need to create a new life within us, truly fit for eternity: it would need to transform us in such a way as not to come to an end with death, but only then to begin in fullness.”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Pontiff said that the “new and exciting” of the Christian message is the affirmation that this “cure for death, this true medicine of immortality, does exist.”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“It has been found,” he assured. “It is within our reach. In baptism, this medicine is given to us.”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">At the Easter Vigil, the Bishop of Rome baptized six people: two women from Albania, one from Somalia and another from Sudan; a man from Japan, and a five-year-old boy from Russia.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“A new life begins in us,” Benedict XVI told the faithful and the newly baptized, “a life that matures in faith and is not extinguished by the death of the old life, but is only then fully revealed.”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“Indeed, the cure for death does exist,” the Pope concluded. “Christ is the tree of life, once more within our reach. If we remain close to him, then we have life. Hence, during this night of resurrection, with all our hearts we shall sing the alleluia, the song of joy that has no need of words.”</div></div>Rev. Fr. Jessie G. Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-91754638380502970492010-04-11T02:31:00.000+08:002010-04-11T14:04:37.011+08:00Pope: Easter Changed World, but Isn’t Magic<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"><h6 style="display: block; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Affirms Glorious Triumph of Christ</h6><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">VATICAN CITY, APRIL 4, 2010 (<a href="http://www.zenit.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0000ee; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Zenit.org</a>).- The resurrection of Christ is an event that changed the course of history and reversed the destiny of death the whole world faced, says Benedict XVI.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Pope affirmed this today before tens of thousands, many hiding under umbrellas to escape the rain in St. Peter’s Square. The Holy Father offered his Easter greetings in 65 languages before giving his blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world).</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“Yes, my brothers and sisters, Easter is the true salvation of humanity,” the Pontiff proclaimed. “If Christ -- the Lamb of God -- had not poured out his blood for us, we would be without hope, our destiny and the destiny of the whole world would inevitably be death.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“But Easter has reversed that trend: Christ’s resurrection is a new creation, like a graft that can regenerate the whole plant. It is an event that has profoundly changed the course of history, tipping the scales once and for all on the side of good, of life, of pardon.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“We are free, we are saved! Hence from deep within our hearts we cry out: ‘Let us sing to the Lord: glorious his triumph!’”</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Awaiting</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Benedict XVI went on to mention some of the places in the world awaiting this triumph of Christ.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“I pray to the Lord Jesus that in the Middle East, and especially in the land sanctified by his death and resurrection, the peoples will accomplish a true and definitive ‘exodus’ from war and violence to peace and concord,” the Pope said. He particularly mentioned the plight of Christians in Iraq.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Holy Father also spoke of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, “seeing a dangerous resurgence of crimes linked to drug trafficking,” and he remembered quake-stricken Haiti and Chile.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Pontiff called to mind Africa, saying, “In the strength of the risen Jesus, may the conflicts in Africa come to an end.” He recalled specifically the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea and Nigeria.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Finally, he spoke of Christians who suffer persecution and even death for their faith, as for example in Pakistan; and countries afflicted by terrorism and by social and religious discrimination.</div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="display: block; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">“Easter does not work magic,” Benedict XVI reflected. “Just as the Israelites found the desert awaiting them on the far side of the Red Sea, so the Church, after the resurrection, always finds history filled with joy and hope, grief and anguish. And yet, this history is changed, it is marked by a new and eternal covenant, it is truly open to the future. For this reason, saved by hope, let us continue our pilgrimage, bearing in our hearts the song that is ancient and yet ever new: ‘Let us sing to the Lord: glorious his triumph!’"</div></div></span>Rev. Fr. Jessie G. Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-34505171901800188182010-04-11T02:07:00.000+08:002010-04-11T14:04:37.037+08:00New Site<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://a323.yahoofs.com/coreid/4973d7e3i18fbzul8sp1/Novlsx47aKnWjnUpGBy3t6bfpw--/2/t192.jpg?ciAAToMBj6vsDD7C"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 192px; height: 192px;" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/coreid/4973d7e3i18fbzul8sp1/Novlsx47aKnWjnUpGBy3t6bfpw--/2/t192.jpg?ciAAToMBj6vsDD7C" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Since 1996 or 1997 I have complied all the news taken from <a href="http://zenit.org/">Zenit</a> to one site I called shepherd in Yahoo's 360 site. However, for more than a year ago, yahoo have closed the said blog site. My problem with internet connection has also deferred me to continue posting. It is until now that my connection was reestablished. So for the new site of all the catholic news starting today will be housed here. in continuation with what can be found in my <a href="http://profiles.yahoo.com/blog/MG4E6X2WVV5MQTRRFZITQE7CDY">yahoo profile</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The very reason I repost the catholic news on this site whether worldwide or local is simply it correspond also to my belief that these are relevant for my faith which I would like also to share to others which may have the same interest. On the same way it will impel me to read more on this topic.</div>Rev. Fr. Jessie G. Somosierrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052359042596358300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958745468382652418.post-87006031175647915662009-07-17T08:30:00.000+08:002009-07-17T08:32:04.489+08:00Women Religious on Human Trafficking<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; line-height: 22px; "><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></p><div style="text-align: justify;">ROME, OCT. 22, 2007 (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zenit.org/" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Zenit.org</a>).- Here are the conclusions of a five-day seminar of religious women held in Rome entitled "Building a Network: The Prophetic Role of Women Religious in the Fight Against Trafficking in Persons."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Oct. 15-20 event was organized by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See and the Italian Union of Major Superiors. The more than 30 women religious from 26 countries launched the International Network of Religious Against Trafficking in Persons (INRATIP).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">* * *</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Introduction</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At their first international conference on human trafficking, Catholic sisters from 26 countries and all continents gathered in Rome. Statistics indicate that there are 800 congregations and over 1 million Catholic sisters in the world. Delegates to the conference committed to use their personnel, resources and historical commitment to those living in situations of poverty to eradicate human trafficking -- a modern-day form of slavery. The following is their statement to the world. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Definition</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Trafficking in human beings means the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons using threat, force, coercion, fraud, deception or abuse of power by payments to achieve consent of control over a person for the purpose of exploitation. Trafficking in children requires only the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall mean, among other things, sexual exploitation, domestic service, forced labor or removal of organs. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To victims</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We say to you who have been trafficked -- especially women and children -- we stand with you, you are not alone. We will fight with you to release you from your bondage. In solidarity with you, we will confront the traffickers. We challenge unjust systems and those who exploit you. Do not give up hope. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To traffickers</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We, the women religious from across the world say to you traffickers: Stop the exploitation! Look at the children, women and men you are destroying with your physical and psychological abuse. By violating their fundamental human rights you damage, deny and destroy their identities, names and status. We condemn these actions as well as the subtle ways you use to exploit them. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To demanders and exploiters</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We call on you who exploit women, children and men for commercial sex or forced labor to stop buying human beings, for without your demand, the evil of human trafficking would not exist. We call on you to realize that all women, children and men have equal rights and dignity and that in your demand you cause irreparable harm and lose your own dignity. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To governments</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We acknowledge that many governments have laws against trafficking and call for an increased enforcement of these laws. We further call on the governments of the world to address the issues of economic inequality, poverty and corruption that lead to the destruction of so many lives. The physical, emotional, spiritual and psychological torture of millions of people, hidden in back streets, ghettoes, hotels and parlors all over the world is criminal activity. We urge governments to create and implement policies and strong legislation to criminalize the exploiters. Good governance demands that traffickers do not benefit from the vulnerability of others. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To all religious leaders</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We appreciate all the religious leaders who have supported us in the fight against trafficking in persons. We call on all religious leaders to end religious practices and customs that discriminate against women and girls, and hence contribute to the attitude of gender inequality underlying the growth of human trafficking in our world today. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We urge all religious leaders to denounce injustice and violence against women, children and men who are exploited or used in the sale of organs. We encourage you to relentlessly use your pastoral responsibility to defend and promote the human dignity of persons exploited by these forms of slavery.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To people of good will</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We urge all people of good will to open your hearts to the victims and to act to change the root causes of human trafficking -- poverty, gender inequality, discrimination, greed and corruption. Each small action of restoring dignity to another person furthers the dignity of each on of us. Our hope rests in that vision of humanity that honors the principle that no woman, child or man is a commodity for sale. 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