"The
grace abounded where sin abounded "(Romans 5, 20)
CONTENTS I. Editorial: The Synod for Africa ......... p. 1
II. Anglicans:
"finally back at home »............... p. 3
III. Good news ...................................... p. 4
IV. May our faith and our hope are foolproof
............................. p. 7
V. A blank ............................................ p. 8
VI. Letters to the Editor ............................... p. 10
VII. Right of reply ...................................... p. 11
VIII. Announcements and readings ............................. p. 11
I. Editorial: The Synod for Africa?
From 4 to 25 October 2009 at the Vatican, 1297 bishops from 153 countries in Africa have gathered around Pope Benedict XVI. A few months ago, the Holy Father had an apostolic visit to Cameroon and Angola, where he had met with delegates from African bishops' conferences and with them he developed the program of the Synod. The Western media had shouted loud, but even then the African bishops had responded by speaking of "dictatorship of the West" and "neo-colonialism culture."
October 4, at the opening of the synod, Benedict XVI, referring to the preparatory document, spoke of "spiritual toxic waste" exported to Africa by the West. The major axis defined the early sessions is obvious: the family of God in Africa's mission is to transform this vast continent, and keep the lungs healthy spiritual releasing all fears the people, ensuring an ongoing conversion and looking squarely at the difficulties and problems of the entire African society.
At various times, courageous voices have been raised to warn against Western cultural imperialism and against its contagion. Thus, in his speech, Cardinal Sarr, archbishop of Dakar, a brilliant and uninhibited prelate said: "We Africans, we are living in great esteem from its beginning to its end. We have inherited from our ancestors wisdom of life and a love of life reinforced by the Christian religion. Imperialism Western claims that sexuality is a pleasure. By cons, we say it is a collaborative creation by God. "
In Africa, say the bishops in each diocese, the seminar is full of seminarians intent on preparing for the priesthood. Our mission is to train all bishops for the priesthood. Also African families are a valuable asset in themselves and for society as a whole. In the area of families, the Catholic Church is invited to play a leading role.
In various African countries themselves up many universities for the development of "knowledge". Here too the Church has a great mission: training of an elite in various fields, teaching the social doctrine of the Church, creating a teaching value.
The last few days have been reserved in the formulation of projects for various African countries and the establishment of structures of a permanent dialogue between the churches from Tunis to Cape Town. Africa is running.
Conclusions Synod shall be given to Pope told the bishops 24-10:
"Now, the term 'Church-Family of God 'is no longer just a concept, an idea, but a living experience of those weeks we were really united here as the Family of God (...). The theme in itself represented a difficult challenge, with two dangers, I would say. The theme 'Reconciliation, Justice and Peace' certainly implies a strong political dimension (...). The other danger was - just to escape the temptation - to withdraw into a purely spiritual world, in an abstract world and beautiful, but that is not realistic (...). It was the great problem of the Synod, and it seems to me that, thank God, we managed to solve it, This represents for me a source of gratitude, because the development of post-synodal document is so much easier. " The spokesman for the bishops said: "The synod fathers do not wear gloves, the message is sharp."
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II. Anglicans' FINALLY BACK AT HOME "
Reverend Anthony John Hepworth, Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), founded 30 years ago in North America because of women's ordination and gay marriage , is the main actor of some approximation of Anglicans with the Roman Catholic Church. It responds exclusively to Family Issues Christian (31-10, at pp. 8-12): "The night I heard the pope's decision, he said, I called the bishops of the forty-four countries where we operate and we cried with joy ... It is over four hundred years that Anglicans awaited this day. "
"On behalf of the 400,000 faithful of the TAC, I would say our immense gratitude to the pope! We prayed and fasted that day comes ... Finally, we move from uncertainty to certainty, since we are now under the authority of one who has received from Christ's delegation to establish the truth. We are finally back home! He believes that Cardinal Newman was a leading figure in the reconciliation with the Roman Catholic roots: "The Pope's decision is the answer to tears and prayer of Cardinal Newman! The Primate of Nigeria (20 million followers) also admits that this decision does reflect Rome; other churches in Africa and Asia also threatens to break.
Pope has indeed made history, announcing an Apostolic Constitution, the fruit of 40 years of ecumenical dialogue. The Catholic Church is ready to host the Anglicans who seek full communion with Rome (the "Anglo-Catholics"), while retaining their liturgy: in fact there are already twenty rites in the Catholic Church. It will create "ordinariates (dioceses) worldwide and married former Anglican priests will be ordained as Catholic priests. The bishops again become married priests, but future seminarians will commit to celibacy, only the bishops remain unmarried bishops. In short, a Catholic does not make a more Anglican less. It is believed that thousands of priests and dozens of bishops will be seduced by this opening. Instead of individual conversions, the Pope - that's new - calls for reconciliation in droves. "This is the biggest event since the beginnings of our church! "Exclaims St. Parkinson lay London to a combination of 5 bishops, 1,000 priests and 7,000 faithful.
course there are negative reactions who see a way to entice the Anglican communities. "The Church of England is in shock" (the Times), "The shot is deadly and it sounded the death knell of the established church" (National Secular Society). We really regret that Sunday (1-11) is shown critical with the headline "The Anglicans unhappy! Yet
Vincent Gerard Nichols, Catholic Archbishop of Westminster and Rowan Williams, Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury have made a joint statement in London on October 20. Excerpts: "The announcement today of the Apostolic Constitution is an answer given by Pope Benedict XVI to numerous requests for several years at Holy groups of Anglicans who wish to join in a full and visible communion with the Roman Catholic Church, and with a desire to declare that they share a common Catholic faith and accept the Petrine ministry as Christ has willed for his Church. "
Editorial Le Figaro (22-10), by Yves Thréard: "The Pope, as many observers have been pleased to present as a Catholic sectarian (...), is currently administering a lesson to all critics steeped in prejudice, ignorance and caricatures (...). It was announced transitional pope, he will perhaps be one of reconciliation: 'Have faith', he had launched at the beginning of his pontificate (...). He plays cards on the table, causing the spirit of concord (...). His proselytizing is not militant. He appealed first to the intelligence .
We think the suddenness of this information would also be a positive signal to the fundamentalists seeking communion with Rome: 26-10 began discussions with the doctrinal Lefebvrists ...
III. GOOD NEWS
Vocations
"Dare to ask the Lord for the grace of a priestly vocation in your family." Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Claudio Hummes has called "deeply Christian families" have not "fear the Lord chooses one of (their) children to be a priest (from Christian Family, 15 / 08/09). "We can not do without priests. Our situation has become that of a mission country. The former mission countries - Africa Star - give us priests today. This is because mothers transmitting their son on their knees, unconditional love of Jesus, led in turn to vocations to hatch "(Marie-Joëlle Guillaune, Family Christian, 7-11).
Vitality of the Community of St. John. 15 priests and 14 deacons to be ordained to come Vezelay, in this year priesthood. The Community of St. John has 530 brothers, 200 priests from 35 countries, in 60 priories. The founder, the Dominican Marie-Dominique Philippe (1912-2006), wanted to establish small communities (silent prayer life and apostolic service to the Church). Already present in Belgium and Libramont Banneux, she will settle in 2010 Jette (Brussels) in the convent of La Madeleine, left by the Redemptorists: a monastery in the city, a place of meditation and listening. Priority: supporting youth and families (youth camps, Sunday families, family session, children worship, marriage preparation, home to the blockade, etc.. (According to Stella Maris, 09/09 and Families United, 09/09).
Moms and vocations in France. This country has become a mission country. If the former mission countries (Africa in the lead) give us priests today, it is because "moms, transmitting to their son on their knees, unconditional love of Jesus, led in turn to vocations to hatch "(after Guillaume A.-M., Family Christian, 7-11-09).
Belgium: 5 new seminarians in Flanders; total seminarians, unknown. French-speaking Belgium: 11 new. Total: Liège (including 3 new) 8: Namur 32 (including 8 new) Mechelen-Brussels French: 3 (no new); Tournai 3 (no again).
"On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen: day and night, they will never be silent" (Isaiah, 62, 6).
Defense Life
Surprising news from UNAIDS, the official organ of prevention against AIDS: the male and female condoms are guaranteed quality products only currently available to protect against STDs, including HIV. However, aside from abstinence, no protective method is 100% and condom use can not guarantee protection absolute against STIs!
Prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation. Francois Fillon, in a letter to the State Council on February 11, 2008 revision of the bioethics law, became concerned about the use of prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation: "The provisions governing the practice ensure an application Effective rule against any eugenic practice? "(After Gènéthique, 02/09).
Winds of Change in the Netherlands? A Congress for the defense of life and family was held in The Hague. In this country of excessive tolerance, a minister Liberal, despite pressure from his party who left the Congress, has dared to say that "back to the defense of the family normally consists was a great help to our society." Commentary Friesh Dagblad: "People are willing to accept anything, as the presence of a minister to gay pride. And when a minister is saying things make sense, everyone is serious and wants it banned! "(Youth for Life, July-August 2009).
Against abortion in Cameroon: Cardinal Tumi (Archbishop of Douala) and 20,000 people marched against the abortion and homosexuality, the call of the Catholic Church. A petition of 30,000 signatures was handed to the President of the Republic.
(http://yvesdaoudal.hautetfort.com)
against abortion in Spain. In March, between 100,000 and 500,000 people marched in Madrid to "the right to life" and against the proposed partially liberalize abortion: a first major mobilization supported by the Catholic Church, which claims that animals being disappearance, as the lynx, are better protected than human embryos ... (La Libre, 30.03.2009).
At various times, courageous voices have been raised to warn against Western cultural imperialism and against its contagion. Thus, in his speech, Cardinal Sarr, archbishop of Dakar, a brilliant and uninhibited prelate said: "We Africans, we are living in great esteem from its beginning to its end. We have inherited from our ancestors wisdom of life and a love of life reinforced by the Christian religion. Imperialism Western claims that sexuality is a pleasure. By cons, we say it is a collaborative creation by God. "
In Africa, say the bishops in each diocese, the seminar is full of seminarians intent on preparing for the priesthood. Our mission is to train all bishops for the priesthood. Also African families are a valuable asset in themselves and for society as a whole. In the area of families, the Catholic Church is invited to play a leading role.
In various African countries themselves up many universities for the development of "knowledge". Here too the Church has a great mission: training of an elite in various fields, teaching the social doctrine of the Church, creating a teaching value.
The last few days have been reserved in the formulation of projects for various African countries and the establishment of structures of a permanent dialogue between the churches from Tunis to Cape Town. Africa is running.
Conclusions Synod shall be given to Pope told the bishops 24-10:
"Now, the term 'Church-Family of God 'is no longer just a concept, an idea, but a living experience of those weeks we were really united here as the Family of God (...). The theme in itself represented a difficult challenge, with two dangers, I would say. The theme 'Reconciliation, Justice and Peace' certainly implies a strong political dimension (...). The other danger was - just to escape the temptation - to withdraw into a purely spiritual world, in an abstract world and beautiful, but that is not realistic (...). It was the great problem of the Synod, and it seems to me that, thank God, we managed to solve it, This represents for me a source of gratitude, because the development of post-synodal document is so much easier. " The spokesman for the bishops said: "The synod fathers do not wear gloves, the message is sharp."
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II. Anglicans' FINALLY BACK AT HOME "
Reverend Anthony John Hepworth, Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), founded 30 years ago in North America because of women's ordination and gay marriage , is the main actor of some approximation of Anglicans with the Roman Catholic Church. It responds exclusively to Family Issues Christian (31-10, at pp. 8-12): "The night I heard the pope's decision, he said, I called the bishops of the forty-four countries where we operate and we cried with joy ... It is over four hundred years that Anglicans awaited this day. "
"On behalf of the 400,000 faithful of the TAC, I would say our immense gratitude to the pope! We prayed and fasted that day comes ... Finally, we move from uncertainty to certainty, since we are now under the authority of one who has received from Christ's delegation to establish the truth. We are finally back home! He believes that Cardinal Newman was a leading figure in the reconciliation with the Roman Catholic roots: "The Pope's decision is the answer to tears and prayer of Cardinal Newman! The Primate of Nigeria (20 million followers) also admits that this decision does reflect Rome; other churches in Africa and Asia also threatens to break.
Pope has indeed made history, announcing an Apostolic Constitution, the fruit of 40 years of ecumenical dialogue. The Catholic Church is ready to host the Anglicans who seek full communion with Rome (the "Anglo-Catholics"), while retaining their liturgy: in fact there are already twenty rites in the Catholic Church. It will create "ordinariates (dioceses) worldwide and married former Anglican priests will be ordained as Catholic priests. The bishops again become married priests, but future seminarians will commit to celibacy, only the bishops remain unmarried bishops. In short, a Catholic does not make a more Anglican less. It is believed that thousands of priests and dozens of bishops will be seduced by this opening. Instead of individual conversions, the Pope - that's new - calls for reconciliation in droves. "This is the biggest event since the beginnings of our church! "Exclaims St. Parkinson lay London to a combination of 5 bishops, 1,000 priests and 7,000 faithful.
course there are negative reactions who see a way to entice the Anglican communities. "The Church of England is in shock" (the Times), "The shot is deadly and it sounded the death knell of the established church" (National Secular Society). We really regret that Sunday (1-11) is shown critical with the headline "The Anglicans unhappy! Yet
Vincent Gerard Nichols, Catholic Archbishop of Westminster and Rowan Williams, Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury have made a joint statement in London on October 20. Excerpts: "The announcement today of the Apostolic Constitution is an answer given by Pope Benedict XVI to numerous requests for several years at Holy groups of Anglicans who wish to join in a full and visible communion with the Roman Catholic Church, and with a desire to declare that they share a common Catholic faith and accept the Petrine ministry as Christ has willed for his Church. "
Editorial Le Figaro (22-10), by Yves Thréard: "The Pope, as many observers have been pleased to present as a Catholic sectarian (...), is currently administering a lesson to all critics steeped in prejudice, ignorance and caricatures (...). It was announced transitional pope, he will perhaps be one of reconciliation: 'Have faith', he had launched at the beginning of his pontificate (...). He plays cards on the table, causing the spirit of concord (...). His proselytizing is not militant. He appealed first to the intelligence .
We think the suddenness of this information would also be a positive signal to the fundamentalists seeking communion with Rome: 26-10 began discussions with the doctrinal Lefebvrists ...
III. GOOD NEWS
Vocations
"Dare to ask the Lord for the grace of a priestly vocation in your family." Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Claudio Hummes has called "deeply Christian families" have not "fear the Lord chooses one of (their) children to be a priest (from Christian Family, 15 / 08/09). "We can not do without priests. Our situation has become that of a mission country. The former mission countries - Africa Star - give us priests today. This is because mothers transmitting their son on their knees, unconditional love of Jesus, led in turn to vocations to hatch "(Marie-Joëlle Guillaune, Family Christian, 7-11).
Vitality of the Community of St. John. 15 priests and 14 deacons to be ordained to come Vezelay, in this year priesthood. The Community of St. John has 530 brothers, 200 priests from 35 countries, in 60 priories. The founder, the Dominican Marie-Dominique Philippe (1912-2006), wanted to establish small communities (silent prayer life and apostolic service to the Church). Already present in Belgium and Libramont Banneux, she will settle in 2010 Jette (Brussels) in the convent of La Madeleine, left by the Redemptorists: a monastery in the city, a place of meditation and listening. Priority: supporting youth and families (youth camps, Sunday families, family session, children worship, marriage preparation, home to the blockade, etc.. (According to Stella Maris, 09/09 and Families United, 09/09).
Moms and vocations in France. This country has become a mission country. If the former mission countries (Africa in the lead) give us priests today, it is because "moms, transmitting to their son on their knees, unconditional love of Jesus, led in turn to vocations to hatch "(after Guillaume A.-M., Family Christian, 7-11-09).
Belgium: 5 new seminarians in Flanders; total seminarians, unknown. French-speaking Belgium: 11 new. Total: Liège (including 3 new) 8: Namur 32 (including 8 new) Mechelen-Brussels French: 3 (no new); Tournai 3 (no again).
"On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen: day and night, they will never be silent" (Isaiah, 62, 6).
Defense Life
Surprising news from UNAIDS, the official organ of prevention against AIDS: the male and female condoms are guaranteed quality products only currently available to protect against STDs, including HIV. However, aside from abstinence, no protective method is 100% and condom use can not guarantee protection absolute against STIs!
Prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation. Francois Fillon, in a letter to the State Council on February 11, 2008 revision of the bioethics law, became concerned about the use of prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation: "The provisions governing the practice ensure an application Effective rule against any eugenic practice? "(After Gènéthique, 02/09).
Winds of Change in the Netherlands? A Congress for the defense of life and family was held in The Hague. In this country of excessive tolerance, a minister Liberal, despite pressure from his party who left the Congress, has dared to say that "back to the defense of the family normally consists was a great help to our society." Commentary Friesh Dagblad: "People are willing to accept anything, as the presence of a minister to gay pride. And when a minister is saying things make sense, everyone is serious and wants it banned! "(Youth for Life, July-August 2009).
Against abortion in Cameroon: Cardinal Tumi (Archbishop of Douala) and 20,000 people marched against the abortion and homosexuality, the call of the Catholic Church. A petition of 30,000 signatures was handed to the President of the Republic.
(http://yvesdaoudal.hautetfort.com)
against abortion in Spain. In March, between 100,000 and 500,000 people marched in Madrid to "the right to life" and against the proposed partially liberalize abortion: a first major mobilization supported by the Catholic Church, which claims that animals being disappearance, as the lynx, are better protected than human embryos ... (La Libre, 30.03.2009).
adolescents of 16 years may abort without parental consent. We will consider abortion as a right. And doctors could no longer invoke conscientious objection. The Popular Party has announced that if the law was passed, he denounces the Constitutional Court. It evokes for the first time the possibility of revising the 1985 law. Another walk a million demonstrators took place in Madrid on October 17 (the Belgians were). The episcopate is the spearhead of this battle: Cardinal Varela has promised that this crusade "will intensify until the withdrawal of the bill" (after Le Figaro, 24-10-09).
The surprising conversion of the director of a U.S. abortion mill
Abby Johnson worked for eight years in the Planned Parenthood abortion mill Bryan (Texas), she became director in 2007. However, before an abortion mill that David Bereit, national director of 40 Days for Life, launched in 2004 as the first and only security guard that year: the most powerful campaign to life in the world. "From the first campaign in 2004, we prayed for Abby, and all other abortion workers, come to see what abortion really drop and the industry of death". Five years later, Abby has left the management of this abortion mill in the fourteenth day of the sixth vigil 40 Days for Life. His real catch: he could see the ultrasound image of a genuine abortion: a fetus curled up, sucked from the womb of the mother. It was "a spiritual conversion." This is the eighth person working in abortion mill to have resigned during the campaign of 40 Days for Life. Another abortion mill also shut its doors. The campaign takes place in 212 cities in 25 states, 5 Canadian provinces and Denmark.
40 Days for Life: D + 32, more than 542 babies (already) saved: a cautionary tale! On the evening of the 32nd day of the autumn campaign of 40 Days for Life, more than 400 babies had been saved from death. Here's a cautionary tale. A vigil was held just outside the Planned Parenthood abortion mill in 24 hours 24. A car stops a few meters from the group praying, the driver of the car is a sign to approach: a member of the group realizes that she is crying bitterly. She said that at the age of 27, she underwent an abortion in the same abortion mill, and she bitterly regrets. Had there been someone, anyone, being pray at the abortion mill on the day she went, she would certainly have renounced abortion. Similarly, a woman who had an abortion 26 years here and never got delivered to the point of considering suicide: now it is a pro-life.
Vitality of faith
Strengthening of Catholicism in the United States. Rene Girard, French philosopher living there, answered in an interview: "I see American Catholicism as ever grow stronger in the U.S. ... The dominant vision of Catholicism in America is that it has become, by far, the first American church over the past half-century (...). There is no collapse of the image of Pope ... His visit in spring 2008 was a success (...). I am surprised by the hostility that you mentioned. I have not seen signs of it "(Le Figaro, 22-10).
Return of bap-tems adults. In France, the Church has welcomed nearly 3,000 catechumens during the Easter vigil. Their num-ber is on the rise. In Belgium, the adults were baptized 140 at the Easter Vigil in 2009 (109 last year), especially women and youth (20-35 years) applications are more important in the south. For cons, the number of requests for baptism of infants is narrowing. Baptisms of adults are more frequent in areas that have already undergone head-secularization. Preparation (discernment and tracking) lasts two years. According to La Libre, 13.04.2009, these catechumens Belgian 20 to 35 years, from diverse backgrounds, of Belgian origin, but also foreign, seeking baptism, confirmation and the sacrament of the Eucharist . Among them, there are repeating (read: people who had been baptized, but had cut ties with the Church), in addition, many people who had no contact with religion.
Acolyte, a service provided a good heart. In Arlon, 50 youth participated in the day acolytes. For Arlon, they are 38: smaller start at 6 years, but it is not uncommon to see Alexi don the dress. A young 21, who finished his "career" 2 years ago, said: "Yes, it's a way of saying his Christian faith. For the young also means being on a mission. To be also recognized. (...). This opens spiritual doors "(from L'Avenir du Luxembourg, 28/09/09). - It's "The boom cohorts", title Family Christian (6-6-09) in recent years is a revival that became a place of education, brotherhood and awakening to the priestly vocation. In France, about 30,000 altar servers! A young
Blessed death at age 28. Alberto Marvelli in Rimini in 1943, saved from deportation for many prisoners to concentration camps. "Jesus has shrouded his grace, I only see him, I think only him ... My program is summed up in one word: holiness "(in his diary). Influenced by Don Bosco, he is a founder of Catholic Action Workers Italian. At 27, this young engineer in 1945 involved the reconstruction of the city and the homeless. While Marxists are propagating in the factories, he expects the workers to exit and tell them about Jesus Christ. A sports enthusiast, October 5, 1946, he went biking at a meeting of electors: run over by a truck, he died soon after at the age of 28 years.
Saint Damien De Veuster, pride of the Belgians. He was canonized in Rome on October 11. It can be viewed as the saint of hopeless causes and one of the first great architects of ecumenism. "I feel the happiest missionary the world, "he said. In October 1885 he wrote to his Superior: "Well, Reverend, there's no doubt in my mind: I am a leper. May God be praised! Do not pity me too much. " Various
Encyclical "Caritas in Veritate. According to the French Minister of Labour, she arrived "at the right time, as lightning tearing the dark clouds" in "a disoriented world, unequal and traumatized by the spasms of a global crisis" (from Family Christian , 15/08/09). Several representatives of the Evangelical Church also expressed their agreement on the teaching of the Pope in his encyclical (from The New Man, 12/09/09).
A first in Belgium! : At the University of Liege in front of more than 500 people, 19 October, Prime Minister Van Rompuy, a practicing Catholic and believe, spoke of "the social teaching of Benedict XVI," just as Rocco Buttiglione, Speaker of the House Deputies of Italy! Bishop Michel Schooyans had previously proposed a masterful synthesis of the encyclical. To a question on abortion, deadpan laugh, the Prime Minister responded that "the mores can also change laws "!....
The surprising conversion of the director of a U.S. abortion mill
Abby Johnson worked for eight years in the Planned Parenthood abortion mill Bryan (Texas), she became director in 2007. However, before an abortion mill that David Bereit, national director of 40 Days for Life, launched in 2004 as the first and only security guard that year: the most powerful campaign to life in the world. "From the first campaign in 2004, we prayed for Abby, and all other abortion workers, come to see what abortion really drop and the industry of death". Five years later, Abby has left the management of this abortion mill in the fourteenth day of the sixth vigil 40 Days for Life. His real catch: he could see the ultrasound image of a genuine abortion: a fetus curled up, sucked from the womb of the mother. It was "a spiritual conversion." This is the eighth person working in abortion mill to have resigned during the campaign of 40 Days for Life. Another abortion mill also shut its doors. The campaign takes place in 212 cities in 25 states, 5 Canadian provinces and Denmark.
40 Days for Life: D + 32, more than 542 babies (already) saved: a cautionary tale! On the evening of the 32nd day of the autumn campaign of 40 Days for Life, more than 400 babies had been saved from death. Here's a cautionary tale. A vigil was held just outside the Planned Parenthood abortion mill in 24 hours 24. A car stops a few meters from the group praying, the driver of the car is a sign to approach: a member of the group realizes that she is crying bitterly. She said that at the age of 27, she underwent an abortion in the same abortion mill, and she bitterly regrets. Had there been someone, anyone, being pray at the abortion mill on the day she went, she would certainly have renounced abortion. Similarly, a woman who had an abortion 26 years here and never got delivered to the point of considering suicide: now it is a pro-life.
Vitality of faith
Strengthening of Catholicism in the United States. Rene Girard, French philosopher living there, answered in an interview: "I see American Catholicism as ever grow stronger in the U.S. ... The dominant vision of Catholicism in America is that it has become, by far, the first American church over the past half-century (...). There is no collapse of the image of Pope ... His visit in spring 2008 was a success (...). I am surprised by the hostility that you mentioned. I have not seen signs of it "(Le Figaro, 22-10).
Return of bap-tems adults. In France, the Church has welcomed nearly 3,000 catechumens during the Easter vigil. Their num-ber is on the rise. In Belgium, the adults were baptized 140 at the Easter Vigil in 2009 (109 last year), especially women and youth (20-35 years) applications are more important in the south. For cons, the number of requests for baptism of infants is narrowing. Baptisms of adults are more frequent in areas that have already undergone head-secularization. Preparation (discernment and tracking) lasts two years. According to La Libre, 13.04.2009, these catechumens Belgian 20 to 35 years, from diverse backgrounds, of Belgian origin, but also foreign, seeking baptism, confirmation and the sacrament of the Eucharist . Among them, there are repeating (read: people who had been baptized, but had cut ties with the Church), in addition, many people who had no contact with religion.
Acolyte, a service provided a good heart. In Arlon, 50 youth participated in the day acolytes. For Arlon, they are 38: smaller start at 6 years, but it is not uncommon to see Alexi don the dress. A young 21, who finished his "career" 2 years ago, said: "Yes, it's a way of saying his Christian faith. For the young also means being on a mission. To be also recognized. (...). This opens spiritual doors "(from L'Avenir du Luxembourg, 28/09/09). - It's "The boom cohorts", title Family Christian (6-6-09) in recent years is a revival that became a place of education, brotherhood and awakening to the priestly vocation. In France, about 30,000 altar servers! A young
Blessed death at age 28. Alberto Marvelli in Rimini in 1943, saved from deportation for many prisoners to concentration camps. "Jesus has shrouded his grace, I only see him, I think only him ... My program is summed up in one word: holiness "(in his diary). Influenced by Don Bosco, he is a founder of Catholic Action Workers Italian. At 27, this young engineer in 1945 involved the reconstruction of the city and the homeless. While Marxists are propagating in the factories, he expects the workers to exit and tell them about Jesus Christ. A sports enthusiast, October 5, 1946, he went biking at a meeting of electors: run over by a truck, he died soon after at the age of 28 years.
Saint Damien De Veuster, pride of the Belgians. He was canonized in Rome on October 11. It can be viewed as the saint of hopeless causes and one of the first great architects of ecumenism. "I feel the happiest missionary the world, "he said. In October 1885 he wrote to his Superior: "Well, Reverend, there's no doubt in my mind: I am a leper. May God be praised! Do not pity me too much. " Various
Encyclical "Caritas in Veritate. According to the French Minister of Labour, she arrived "at the right time, as lightning tearing the dark clouds" in "a disoriented world, unequal and traumatized by the spasms of a global crisis" (from Family Christian , 15/08/09). Several representatives of the Evangelical Church also expressed their agreement on the teaching of the Pope in his encyclical (from The New Man, 12/09/09).
A first in Belgium! : At the University of Liege in front of more than 500 people, 19 October, Prime Minister Van Rompuy, a practicing Catholic and believe, spoke of "the social teaching of Benedict XVI," just as Rocco Buttiglione, Speaker of the House Deputies of Italy! Bishop Michel Schooyans had previously proposed a masterful synthesis of the encyclical. To a question on abortion, deadpan laugh, the Prime Minister responded that "the mores can also change laws "!....
"Homosexuality is morally wrong" and an American think of 2, according to a poll last August (Alliance-presse.info, Oct. 2009).
God is found in the brain. Our brain is "programmed" to feel religious experiences. Several areas would form and the biological foundations of religious belief. The brain has evolved to become sensitive to all forms of belief that can improve the chances of survival. That explains why belief in God and the supernatural is so prevalent in history (Towards the Future 16-03-09).
"We are the only religion that says God remained nine months in the womb of a woman." (Father Bernard Lejeu on FCR)
God is found in the brain. Our brain is "programmed" to feel religious experiences. Several areas would form and the biological foundations of religious belief. The brain has evolved to become sensitive to all forms of belief that can improve the chances of survival. That explains why belief in God and the supernatural is so prevalent in history (Towards the Future 16-03-09).
"We are the only religion that says God remained nine months in the womb of a woman." (Father Bernard Lejeu on FCR)
If you believe Richard Wurmbrand (If I was 3 minutes Apostolate Editions, Paris 1981), Darwin is the only one not taken from his writings Conclusions atheists. At the end of his life, he studied the Bible carefully and said: "I was young, with vague ideas. I asked questions, made suggestions (...). Then to my surprise, my ideas took like a fire lit. People have made a religion. " Only matter what we think of our death bed ...
is the story of the sole survivor of a shipwreck, stranded on a Pacific island. He had succeeded, after a while, to build a kind of hut where he put the little he had been saved from disaster. Every day he prayed God to deliver and anxiously watched the horizon to signal to any vessel which eventually could move around. Returning one day with his food, he was horrified at the sight of his hut in flames. Worse, it seemed, had happened: everything which enabled him to survive went up in smoke! But what, at first, seemed a great tragedy and, in the limited mind of man, proved disastrous was in fact a unique opportunity for him.
In the infinite wisdom of God, this apparent loss was the answer to his fervent prayer. The same day, in fact, came a boat: "We saw your smoke signal, I come to save you," said the captain ... . At a time when everything seems to crumble, why not take what we think of disasters in a positive direction and discover what God has made us better? Let us remember always the assertion of St. Paul: "To those who love God works in all things for good. "(Rom 8, 28).
Jesus was on his way to save in extremis, the daughter of Jairus (picture above). The servants of the latter came to tell him it was too late, that he should no longer disturb the master. But Jesus said to Jairus: "Do not be afraid, just believe! Then it humanly nothing left to do, that any calls to discouragement, the time of supernatural hope has arrived. No, Jesus never comes too late. Prior to resurrect this 12 year old girl, he asks only for a deeper faith, a unlimited confidence in him, who can do anything, anytime. It would also require full trust to the two sisters of Lazarus, before leaving it to his grave. Often, it seems that Jesus did not come to meet our needs, but then he gives us a much greater thanks!
"How long you will dance from one foot to the other? If the Lord is God, follow him! But if Baal, follow him "(I Kings 18, 21)
reviews Christians AGAINST their own church
plenary indulgence. According to La Libre February 3, drifts like indulgences whole, it seems, ridicule the Church and away from her many lay people involved ...
Response from a reader of Brabant Wallon Movement "Wallonia-Church" in connection with an article for Sunday 25-10-09:
1) If you "dimension of the Roman Church is increasingly an obstacle for many, would you more or less of Churches autocephalous, freed a Roman Church, which language would you think "complicated and sanitized? It would reject the universal vocation of our Church.
2) "The scale disproportionately linked to life sexual ecclesiastical documents? But the responsibility lies with the Western media. Our society is obsessed with sex.
3) The Church "obscures the richness of the Christian message" and "veil bold pronouncements on social and economic? And to think that Benedict XVI, in his Caritas in Veritate, offers a perspective full blast a stunning panorama of the bubbling of the global economy! Would it be that the Western Europeans to miss the treasures offered by their Church, always eager to catch her out, whatever they do or not do? That is exactly what the Church wants. A faithful to play!
According to the Secretary General of the CSC (Confederation of Christian Trade Unions) "(...) the Vatican is positioned as an ultra-conservative force, at odds with the experiences of Christians as non-Christians. It is a far cry from the reality of people's lives, miles away from their problems and suffering. " (According to La Libre, 31/03/09)
Objections against Bishops in Europe
is the story of the sole survivor of a shipwreck, stranded on a Pacific island. He had succeeded, after a while, to build a kind of hut where he put the little he had been saved from disaster. Every day he prayed God to deliver and anxiously watched the horizon to signal to any vessel which eventually could move around. Returning one day with his food, he was horrified at the sight of his hut in flames. Worse, it seemed, had happened: everything which enabled him to survive went up in smoke! But what, at first, seemed a great tragedy and, in the limited mind of man, proved disastrous was in fact a unique opportunity for him.
In the infinite wisdom of God, this apparent loss was the answer to his fervent prayer. The same day, in fact, came a boat: "We saw your smoke signal, I come to save you," said the captain ... . At a time when everything seems to crumble, why not take what we think of disasters in a positive direction and discover what God has made us better? Let us remember always the assertion of St. Paul: "To those who love God works in all things for good. "(Rom 8, 28).
Jesus was on his way to save in extremis, the daughter of Jairus (picture above). The servants of the latter came to tell him it was too late, that he should no longer disturb the master. But Jesus said to Jairus: "Do not be afraid, just believe! Then it humanly nothing left to do, that any calls to discouragement, the time of supernatural hope has arrived. No, Jesus never comes too late. Prior to resurrect this 12 year old girl, he asks only for a deeper faith, a unlimited confidence in him, who can do anything, anytime. It would also require full trust to the two sisters of Lazarus, before leaving it to his grave. Often, it seems that Jesus did not come to meet our needs, but then he gives us a much greater thanks!
"How long you will dance from one foot to the other? If the Lord is God, follow him! But if Baal, follow him "(I Kings 18, 21)
reviews Christians AGAINST their own church
plenary indulgence. According to La Libre February 3, drifts like indulgences whole, it seems, ridicule the Church and away from her many lay people involved ...
Response from a reader of Brabant Wallon Movement "Wallonia-Church" in connection with an article for Sunday 25-10-09:
1) If you "dimension of the Roman Church is increasingly an obstacle for many, would you more or less of Churches autocephalous, freed a Roman Church, which language would you think "complicated and sanitized? It would reject the universal vocation of our Church.
2) "The scale disproportionately linked to life sexual ecclesiastical documents? But the responsibility lies with the Western media. Our society is obsessed with sex.
3) The Church "obscures the richness of the Christian message" and "veil bold pronouncements on social and economic? And to think that Benedict XVI, in his Caritas in Veritate, offers a perspective full blast a stunning panorama of the bubbling of the global economy! Would it be that the Western Europeans to miss the treasures offered by their Church, always eager to catch her out, whatever they do or not do? That is exactly what the Church wants. A faithful to play!
According to the Secretary General of the CSC (Confederation of Christian Trade Unions) "(...) the Vatican is positioned as an ultra-conservative force, at odds with the experiences of Christians as non-Christians. It is a far cry from the reality of people's lives, miles away from their problems and suffering. " (According to La Libre, 31/03/09)
Objections against Bishops in Europe
In Avignon, eight priests deans have resigned on February 3 the parish council of Bishop Cattenoz, protesting against their authoritarian Archbishop who wanted to appeal to communities and priests in Latin America, to Africa and Eastern Europe to counter the lack of local vocations. It is simply the resignation of the Archbishop who is desired by some clergy and laity: they fear that the arrival of new priests for an end to privileges they were granted. In the diocese of Lucon, Archbishop Castet also known a wind of controversy: priests and faithful clericalized blame him .... Vatican to respect the letter! Situation even more explosive in Bayeux, Saint-Brieuc or Poitiers, company when it shall be appointed bishops who want to redress the situation by following the way traced out by Sovereign Pontiff.
In Austria, liberal Catholics have called to remove what appeared to be restrictive and frustrating the priesthood for men, obedience to the Apostolic See, liturgical rites, morals, etc.. Basically, they are happy to see the fall of priestly vocations: the scarcity of priests allows them to be even more active in parishes and preparing minds for the emergence of a "new church".
"Decline of the Catholic Church: it is five! "Shameful article by a Jesuit Cairo, presented without comment (!) By Sunday of 30-8-09 as" a connoisseur of the Catholic Church. " An open letter to Pope criticizing 10 points, including "On the moral injunctions of the Magisterium, repeated ad nauseam, [which] will affect more people and generate only lassitude and indifference," etc.. Worthy of a film anti-Christian!
Christianophobia
Attack of Turkish Christians. In some parts of Turkey, the homes of Christians were marked by stickers of different colors, making reference to their Greek and Armenian origin (from The New Man, 12/09/09).
Father Damien, a new target of Christianophobia RTBF
"As luck on the eve of the canonization of Father Damien, RTBF (Belgian public television) has reaffirmed his anti-Catholic bias primary and has aired a poor report attempting to undermine the miracles attributed to this fine example of what the Belgian missionary this holy priest dedicated to the salvation of lepers. Dare she attack the way to other religions? No, it is only and always Catholics! Catholics, it is your duty to protest! Wake up, defend the Faith! (Belgium and Christianity, 8-10-09)
"Big commotion among the laity" to escape the Roman rulers of our accompanied a government delegation. Which cost € 50,000, less than 0.005 € per citizen! And it happened that the King was a Muslim, we would prohibit the pilgrimage to Mecca? "(A reader, to the future, 14-10). And laïcards to be scandalized because the king made a genuflection before the Pope at the canonization of Damien! "In autumn, when the duck-yard pass to see wild ducks in the sky, some are hit by stirring frantically flap their wings and rump shaking. Veterinarians say such gestures are periodic but temporary. " (A reader of the valley of the Meuse)
Civilization death
Abortions: the Netherlands, 600,000 from the liberalization law ; 36,000 a year. Worldwide 50 million per year.
Incredible! A nun from Chicago "companion" of women who go for abortion. New abominable, as is the crime with which it deals and which depicts a nun actively engaged in abortion and is therefore excommunicated latae sententiae ... Sister Donna Quinn, a Dominican nun (Wisconsin), was recognized many times to accompany women from abortion, to convince them they do nothing wrong ... She never misses an opportunity to insult the pro-life activists, especially when they are men: "No, but Look at me these men who claim to tell women what to do with their bodies! "Did you hear the howling on one occasion. She is now the coordinator of a small group in dissent complete with the Church on issues of abortion - which is not an intrinsic evil, according to her! -, Homosexuality, contraception and the priesthood for men. We understand why the canonical visitation of all monasteries of nuns apostolic United States was necessary and why they are so hostile religious apostolic visit to that canon ...
"The wicked are called Hades [The god of the underworld] gesture and voice, Espousing friendship for him, they swooned, and then they made a pact with him "(Wisdom, 1, 16).
The European Commission is funding Planned Parenthood. She spent six years 32 million euros to finance actions in support of motherhood and reproductive choice (!) (Contraception, etc..) Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and Madagascar. It passes through the National Fund of the United Nations and based on the network of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)). She intends to continue its actions from a government fund of 86 million €, available until 2013 and from the EU budget. Various
World hunger. Every 6 seconds, the hungry hard life of a child (Caritas International).
Afghans before the immorality our democracy: they combine fornication, nudity and Western decadence to Western democracy ... (La Libre, 07/08/09)
Catholic Schools: Danger! In a Catholic College (southern France), a manager wanted to organize a general distribution of condoms to students ... Day of the Immaculate Conception! It is the courage a young person who gets the bishop that forbids it. From primary school children are told how to use it ...
Prophetic Reflections on Catholicism (in 1968!):
"Everyone does not believe, no longer practicing what he sings. But the last vicar or the last chaplain of Catholic Action, as the most ignorant journalists, all with a slice of certainty and infallible judge intolerable that other priests and faithful can not think like him. When one has lost any sense of authority, we see a kind of rebirth neo-clericalism of the laity Moreover, as clerics, more limited, more intolerant, more meddlesome than anything we had ever seen.
"The word today is to lay people, it seems, but on this point as on all others, provided of course they stick to repeating what they said meekly. If they protest and want, for example, keep at least the Latin hymns of the Ordinary of the Mass, with which they are familiar, they reply that their protest is worthless (....). This is all the more curious they want exactly what the Council had recommended. It emphasized once
that traditional churches and the Catholic Church primarily, their liturgy objective, safeguarding the spiritual liberty of the faithful against the intrusive and oppressive subjectivity easily clerics. But that, it remains nothing. The contemporary Catholics have no right to have the religion of their parish priest, with all its idiosyncrasies, its limitations, his mannerisms and his trivia.
Father Louis Bouyer, The Decomposition of Catholicism, Aubier / Montaigne 1968.
VI. READERS
"What nonsense have we not told on behalf of our Holy Father the Pope since he was elected! You do well to put the record straight regarding his trip to Africa (...). "The attack against the truth, which is sin in our world": this is reflected in all areas of information. This shows that journalists are not stupid copy down further, that everything is done for the modern man or post-modern does reflect more and swallows lots of snakes, he need reviews like yours boldly to restore the truth! (...) The subject of evolution is really taboo, and too many priests and Catholics do not even want to think: they are prone to the 'Science' !(...) Thank you for your review: all the work involved! "A reader of Arlon
Truth and Hope 3000, No. 73: what riches! ... I also disseminates timely as possible. " A reader Vendee
"What, my lord! Celebrate before God? Even from the offertory! Allow our parish choirs prefer Gregorian chant to JS Bach and pleasant coo supporting texts from an unfathomable depth through which we are raising the level of meditation of the faithful? But you do not think! Why not ask us to return to the time of Julius Caesar asking for the return of the Latin? No! A thousand times no! But it's certainly a good joke you want us! ... "(Reply ironically put in the mouths of opponents by a reader of the province of Luxembourg).
VII. RIGHT OF REPLY about "Mohamed Sabaou"
(No. 74, "Truth and Hope 3000 "pp. 8-9).
We, in good faith, published an article entitled "Islamic Threat to Europe ', repeating remarks attributed to Mahomed Sabaou and received via the Internet. It appears that these are excerpts from an interview with someone who presents himself as a young sociologist Muslim of Algerian origin, naturalized French, and reproduced in a book by Philippe Aziz, The paradox of Roubaix, Plon, 1996. This text would be inserted regularly in "All boxes" of the North and was taken up in a prayer bulletin of June 2008, the Sentinel of prayer. This would be about transcribed by reporters while exaggerating to emphasize the danger of radical Islamism. Without prejudging the merits of the case, we ask our readers and the University of Lille excuse us, and we give the benefit of good faith. In fact the person concerned is no teacher at the Catholic University of Lille, which has denounced the thing and asked us to publish the right answer here:
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LILLE
RELEASE OF THE CHAIR OF
The CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LILLE
several years of messages circulating on the internet about immigration and Islam in the region, and incorporating the comments attributed to a certain Mohamed Sabawi, described as "young sociologist at the Catholic University of Lille, Algerian-born, naturalized French." The Catholic University of Lille confirms that since 1996, when the first release of this information, this "alleged" person was never part of the staff of the University, whether as a student, teacher or member staff. The University strongly condemns the theories developed in these messages and articles.
The Catholic University of Lille has complained to the prosecutor Tribunal de Grande Instance de Lille has opened a criminal investigation be entrusted to the Judicial Police. It shows that: the judicial police are able to identify the perpetrators of these items email; Mohamed Sabawi never existed. The Catholic University of Lille application to any person receiving such messages do not repost to avoid further fuel this false rumor.
September 2009.
Thérèse Lebrun, President-Rector.
60 bd Vauban. BP 109.59016 Lille Cedex
* NB In No. 74, p. 5, first line, a few words of the encyclical were omitted, should read: "transform into an opportunity exploitation and moral degradation. "
VIII. ANNOUNCEMENTS / READINGS
March for Life in Brussels on Palm Sunday 28 March 2010 to 14 h. Note the date now. Channel: www.28march2010.be . To encourage donations pouring in 088-2142577-36! And March for Life in Paris January 17, 2010. "For 20 years he is allowed to eliminate the weaker, the innocent child. We, the young no longer know how to live in a society that kills its own children. We want to walk to the little unborn and the dignity of women. Yes, because what is really feminist in Belgium is defense of life "(Youth for Life, September-October 2009). Also March for Life in the Netherlands. - Contact: Youth for Life, 02-649 August 1979.
Recollection inclusive of Friday, January 8 (18h) to 10 (14h) in Libramont, Priory OL Peace (Brothers of St. John) Street Dominicans 6 (061-32 50 73). "Georges Bernanos, writer committed Christian and a prophet of hope for our time" with Msgr. Michel Dangoisse. Registration before December 15: 081-22 42 46 / 0497-04 94 41.
Patrick Kechichian, Small praise of Catholicism, Folio, 129 p., August 2009, 2 €. This little book reflects the upheaval of a journalist and literary critic who finds a "commitment to the Church free, voluntary, joyful." Highlight this sentence Peguy: "I have not said everything ... I found my faith .... I'm Catholic. " Finally a breath of fresh air: how to read and render!
Bishop Jean-Michel di Falco / Frederick BIEGBEDER, I think - I do not either. Dialogue between a bishop and a miscreant, Calmann-Lévy, 253 p., 2004, 17,50 €. They battled for 3 years on all hot topics, with a raw truth and candor. To give large youth who believe they have settled the basic questions!
Father René-Luc, God in the heart. Testimony. Presses de la Renaissance, 234 p., 2008, 19.65 €. "Born of an unknown father, raised by a gangster 'shocking tale, full of enthusiasm and hope, an offender who seemed hardly to the priesthood. He testifies in front of thousands of young people. Despair is prohibited!
Channel:
Vatican Radio: http://www.radiovaticana.org
Year 2009-2010 priestly
"Oh! that the priest is something great! If he realized, he would die ... God obeys him: he said two words and the Lord descended from heaven at his voice to be contained within a small host ... "And to explain to his followers the importance of the sacraments, he said:" If we don ' had not the Sacrament of Orders, we would not our Lord. Who was it who put it there in the tabernacle? The priest. Who is it that our soul has received its entry into the world? The priest. Who feeds your soul and give strength to his pilgrimage? The priest. Who will prepare to appear before God, by washing that soul for the last time in the blood of Jesus Christ? The priest, always the priest. And if the soul dies [because of sin], who will raise, who will restore calm and peace? Again, the priest ... After God, the priest is everything ... the priest does he fully realize that in the sky. "
(Song of the Cure of Ars, in Benedict XVI, Letter to Priests on the occasion of the year Priestly 2009). A photocopy
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In Austria, liberal Catholics have called to remove what appeared to be restrictive and frustrating the priesthood for men, obedience to the Apostolic See, liturgical rites, morals, etc.. Basically, they are happy to see the fall of priestly vocations: the scarcity of priests allows them to be even more active in parishes and preparing minds for the emergence of a "new church".
"Decline of the Catholic Church: it is five! "Shameful article by a Jesuit Cairo, presented without comment (!) By Sunday of 30-8-09 as" a connoisseur of the Catholic Church. " An open letter to Pope criticizing 10 points, including "On the moral injunctions of the Magisterium, repeated ad nauseam, [which] will affect more people and generate only lassitude and indifference," etc.. Worthy of a film anti-Christian!
Christianophobia
Attack of Turkish Christians. In some parts of Turkey, the homes of Christians were marked by stickers of different colors, making reference to their Greek and Armenian origin (from The New Man, 12/09/09).
Father Damien, a new target of Christianophobia RTBF
"As luck on the eve of the canonization of Father Damien, RTBF (Belgian public television) has reaffirmed his anti-Catholic bias primary and has aired a poor report attempting to undermine the miracles attributed to this fine example of what the Belgian missionary this holy priest dedicated to the salvation of lepers. Dare she attack the way to other religions? No, it is only and always Catholics! Catholics, it is your duty to protest! Wake up, defend the Faith! (Belgium and Christianity, 8-10-09)
"Big commotion among the laity" to escape the Roman rulers of our accompanied a government delegation. Which cost € 50,000, less than 0.005 € per citizen! And it happened that the King was a Muslim, we would prohibit the pilgrimage to Mecca? "(A reader, to the future, 14-10). And laïcards to be scandalized because the king made a genuflection before the Pope at the canonization of Damien! "In autumn, when the duck-yard pass to see wild ducks in the sky, some are hit by stirring frantically flap their wings and rump shaking. Veterinarians say such gestures are periodic but temporary. " (A reader of the valley of the Meuse)
Civilization death
Abortions: the Netherlands, 600,000 from the liberalization law ; 36,000 a year. Worldwide 50 million per year.
Incredible! A nun from Chicago "companion" of women who go for abortion. New abominable, as is the crime with which it deals and which depicts a nun actively engaged in abortion and is therefore excommunicated latae sententiae ... Sister Donna Quinn, a Dominican nun (Wisconsin), was recognized many times to accompany women from abortion, to convince them they do nothing wrong ... She never misses an opportunity to insult the pro-life activists, especially when they are men: "No, but Look at me these men who claim to tell women what to do with their bodies! "Did you hear the howling on one occasion. She is now the coordinator of a small group in dissent complete with the Church on issues of abortion - which is not an intrinsic evil, according to her! -, Homosexuality, contraception and the priesthood for men. We understand why the canonical visitation of all monasteries of nuns apostolic United States was necessary and why they are so hostile religious apostolic visit to that canon ...
"The wicked are called Hades [The god of the underworld] gesture and voice, Espousing friendship for him, they swooned, and then they made a pact with him "(Wisdom, 1, 16).
The European Commission is funding Planned Parenthood. She spent six years 32 million euros to finance actions in support of motherhood and reproductive choice (!) (Contraception, etc..) Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and Madagascar. It passes through the National Fund of the United Nations and based on the network of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)). She intends to continue its actions from a government fund of 86 million €, available until 2013 and from the EU budget. Various
World hunger. Every 6 seconds, the hungry hard life of a child (Caritas International).
Afghans before the immorality our democracy: they combine fornication, nudity and Western decadence to Western democracy ... (La Libre, 07/08/09)
Catholic Schools: Danger! In a Catholic College (southern France), a manager wanted to organize a general distribution of condoms to students ... Day of the Immaculate Conception! It is the courage a young person who gets the bishop that forbids it. From primary school children are told how to use it ...
Prophetic Reflections on Catholicism (in 1968!):
"Everyone does not believe, no longer practicing what he sings. But the last vicar or the last chaplain of Catholic Action, as the most ignorant journalists, all with a slice of certainty and infallible judge intolerable that other priests and faithful can not think like him. When one has lost any sense of authority, we see a kind of rebirth neo-clericalism of the laity Moreover, as clerics, more limited, more intolerant, more meddlesome than anything we had ever seen.
"The word today is to lay people, it seems, but on this point as on all others, provided of course they stick to repeating what they said meekly. If they protest and want, for example, keep at least the Latin hymns of the Ordinary of the Mass, with which they are familiar, they reply that their protest is worthless (....). This is all the more curious they want exactly what the Council had recommended. It emphasized once
that traditional churches and the Catholic Church primarily, their liturgy objective, safeguarding the spiritual liberty of the faithful against the intrusive and oppressive subjectivity easily clerics. But that, it remains nothing. The contemporary Catholics have no right to have the religion of their parish priest, with all its idiosyncrasies, its limitations, his mannerisms and his trivia.
Father Louis Bouyer, The Decomposition of Catholicism, Aubier / Montaigne 1968.
VI. READERS
"What nonsense have we not told on behalf of our Holy Father the Pope since he was elected! You do well to put the record straight regarding his trip to Africa (...). "The attack against the truth, which is sin in our world": this is reflected in all areas of information. This shows that journalists are not stupid copy down further, that everything is done for the modern man or post-modern does reflect more and swallows lots of snakes, he need reviews like yours boldly to restore the truth! (...) The subject of evolution is really taboo, and too many priests and Catholics do not even want to think: they are prone to the 'Science' !(...) Thank you for your review: all the work involved! "A reader of Arlon
Truth and Hope 3000, No. 73: what riches! ... I also disseminates timely as possible. " A reader Vendee
"What, my lord! Celebrate before God? Even from the offertory! Allow our parish choirs prefer Gregorian chant to JS Bach and pleasant coo supporting texts from an unfathomable depth through which we are raising the level of meditation of the faithful? But you do not think! Why not ask us to return to the time of Julius Caesar asking for the return of the Latin? No! A thousand times no! But it's certainly a good joke you want us! ... "(Reply ironically put in the mouths of opponents by a reader of the province of Luxembourg).
VII. RIGHT OF REPLY about "Mohamed Sabaou"
(No. 74, "Truth and Hope 3000 "pp. 8-9).
We, in good faith, published an article entitled "Islamic Threat to Europe ', repeating remarks attributed to Mahomed Sabaou and received via the Internet. It appears that these are excerpts from an interview with someone who presents himself as a young sociologist Muslim of Algerian origin, naturalized French, and reproduced in a book by Philippe Aziz, The paradox of Roubaix, Plon, 1996. This text would be inserted regularly in "All boxes" of the North and was taken up in a prayer bulletin of June 2008, the Sentinel of prayer. This would be about transcribed by reporters while exaggerating to emphasize the danger of radical Islamism. Without prejudging the merits of the case, we ask our readers and the University of Lille excuse us, and we give the benefit of good faith. In fact the person concerned is no teacher at the Catholic University of Lille, which has denounced the thing and asked us to publish the right answer here:
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LILLE
RELEASE OF THE CHAIR OF
The CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LILLE
several years of messages circulating on the internet about immigration and Islam in the region, and incorporating the comments attributed to a certain Mohamed Sabawi, described as "young sociologist at the Catholic University of Lille, Algerian-born, naturalized French." The Catholic University of Lille confirms that since 1996, when the first release of this information, this "alleged" person was never part of the staff of the University, whether as a student, teacher or member staff. The University strongly condemns the theories developed in these messages and articles.
The Catholic University of Lille has complained to the prosecutor Tribunal de Grande Instance de Lille has opened a criminal investigation be entrusted to the Judicial Police. It shows that: the judicial police are able to identify the perpetrators of these items email; Mohamed Sabawi never existed. The Catholic University of Lille application to any person receiving such messages do not repost to avoid further fuel this false rumor.
September 2009.
Thérèse Lebrun, President-Rector.
60 bd Vauban. BP 109.59016 Lille Cedex
* NB In No. 74, p. 5, first line, a few words of the encyclical were omitted, should read: "transform into an opportunity exploitation and moral degradation. "
VIII. ANNOUNCEMENTS / READINGS
March for Life in Brussels on Palm Sunday 28 March 2010 to 14 h. Note the date now. Channel: www.28march2010.be . To encourage donations pouring in 088-2142577-36! And March for Life in Paris January 17, 2010. "For 20 years he is allowed to eliminate the weaker, the innocent child. We, the young no longer know how to live in a society that kills its own children. We want to walk to the little unborn and the dignity of women. Yes, because what is really feminist in Belgium is defense of life "(Youth for Life, September-October 2009). Also March for Life in the Netherlands. - Contact: Youth for Life, 02-649 August 1979.
Recollection inclusive of Friday, January 8 (18h) to 10 (14h) in Libramont, Priory OL Peace (Brothers of St. John) Street Dominicans 6 (061-32 50 73). "Georges Bernanos, writer committed Christian and a prophet of hope for our time" with Msgr. Michel Dangoisse. Registration before December 15: 081-22 42 46 / 0497-04 94 41.
Patrick Kechichian, Small praise of Catholicism, Folio, 129 p., August 2009, 2 €. This little book reflects the upheaval of a journalist and literary critic who finds a "commitment to the Church free, voluntary, joyful." Highlight this sentence Peguy: "I have not said everything ... I found my faith .... I'm Catholic. " Finally a breath of fresh air: how to read and render!
Bishop Jean-Michel di Falco / Frederick BIEGBEDER, I think - I do not either. Dialogue between a bishop and a miscreant, Calmann-Lévy, 253 p., 2004, 17,50 €. They battled for 3 years on all hot topics, with a raw truth and candor. To give large youth who believe they have settled the basic questions!
Father René-Luc, God in the heart. Testimony. Presses de la Renaissance, 234 p., 2008, 19.65 €. "Born of an unknown father, raised by a gangster 'shocking tale, full of enthusiasm and hope, an offender who seemed hardly to the priesthood. He testifies in front of thousands of young people. Despair is prohibited!
Channel:
Vatican Radio: http://www.radiovaticana.org
Year 2009-2010 priestly
"Oh! that the priest is something great! If he realized, he would die ... God obeys him: he said two words and the Lord descended from heaven at his voice to be contained within a small host ... "And to explain to his followers the importance of the sacraments, he said:" If we don ' had not the Sacrament of Orders, we would not our Lord. Who was it who put it there in the tabernacle? The priest. Who is it that our soul has received its entry into the world? The priest. Who feeds your soul and give strength to his pilgrimage? The priest. Who will prepare to appear before God, by washing that soul for the last time in the blood of Jesus Christ? The priest, always the priest. And if the soul dies [because of sin], who will raise, who will restore calm and peace? Again, the priest ... After God, the priest is everything ... the priest does he fully realize that in the sky. "
(Song of the Cure of Ars, in Benedict XVI, Letter to Priests on the occasion of the year Priestly 2009). A photocopy
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