# 72 I know whom I have believed
(St. Paul II Timothy 1, 12)
SUMMARY
I. Editorial: The Society of St. Pius X
and the lifting of the excommunication ............... p. 1
II. Good news ......................................... p. 2
III. Proud, I ?........................................ p. 3
IV. At the end, however ........................................... p. 7
V. Letters to the Editor .................................... p. 8
VI. Announcements and readings .................................. p. 11
I. Fraternity of Saint Pius X and the lifting of the excommunication
On December 7, 1965, the eve of the closing of Vatican II, Pope Paul VI promulgated the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World ( Gaudium et Spes: "Joy and Hope). Thus the Council ended in euphoria. Without delay, Pope Paul VI, surrounded by bishops and experts, began making the application of the Constitutions, Decrees and Declarations of the Council: an important step in the time and duration. Christian left waiting neither Rome nor the bishops were themselves this application, sometimes in the opposite of the Council.
This movement was called the meta-Council. Taking advantage of this moment of crisis, groups of Marxists in front and behind the Berlin Wall carefully preparing a revolution that broke out in 1968. This clash with the Church and established the Company, the violence of some groups, the naivete of many Christians who saw the revolution "an exuberance of youth" were originally a serious crisis in the Church from priests, religious, religious break with the consecrated life, etc.. etc..
Facing this situation, the small group of bishops at the Council, had consistently voted "no", which Archbishop Lefebvre has accused the council of serious errors and proposed radical measures. Thus Archbishop Lefebvre has created Ecône, Switzerland, the "Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X" with a seminar for the training of priests "faithful to the tradition of the Church." Seeing the danger of a fundamentalist opposition deviation the Council in 1975, Bishop Mamie, Bishop of Fribourg, he withdrew "the acts and concessions granted." After a period of controversy, discussion and confrontation in June 1988, Archbishop Lefebvre ordained its own four bishops he undertook to lead in the world, "the movement of Ecône.
Automatically, the schism and the excommunication of Lefebvre and the four bishops consecrated by him. Since 1988, no attempt at reconciliation has resulted because of the total refusal to recognize the Second Vatican Council. However, some traditionalists have refused follow Archbishop Lefebvre and returned to Rome, as the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter founded in 1988 (in Belgium: www.fssp.be) and the Institut Saint-Vincent Ferrier, the Institute of Christ the King, he has was established from the outset in communion with Rome.
liberalization of the Missal of Trent and Pius X Pope Benedict XVI was a helping hand by Rome. Also, Bishop Bernard Fellay, received by the Pope in 2007, he said: "We firmly believe in the primacy of Peter and his prerogatives" and demanded the lifting of the excommunication of the four bishops, Benedict XVI has granted. But it is clear that the lifting of the excommunication is not the full communion with the Church. Now we must move forward and accept the First Vatican Council II. In a statement issued by Bishop Fellay, the superior of the Society expressed its "gratitude subsidiary" to Benedict XVI and said he was "pleased that the decree provides for interviews." And dialogue must begin to prepare for the full recognition of Vatican II. Rome is listening.
Update on Bishop Williamson Lefebvrist
This bishop, from Sweden, who held on Holocaust denial to the gas chambers did not represent the Society of Saint Pius X. It is curious that the springs now, when they were held in the Swedish TV ... in November 2008. But the decision to lift the excommunication was made long before, Benedict XVI had said in Paris: "Everyone has a place in the Church." Exercising the ministry of unity which lies to Peter, he thought rightly that a schism that leaves rot becomes ineradicable. He knew this interview at the time of lifting of the excommunication. And he immediately condemned the revisionist position of the bishop: he could not have been clearer about it in 2005 and 2006. And say that the pope himself who is now accused of anti-Semitic!
The Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X himself wrote this release soon: "It is clear that a Catholic bishop can speak with authority on ecclesiastical matters concerning faith and morals. Our Brotherhood claims no authority over other issues (...). It is with great sorrow that we note how the transgression of this mandate may be wrong our mission. Williamson's assertions do not reflect any position in our society. That's why I've banned until further notice, any public stance on political or historical. We ask forgiveness from the Pope, and all men of good will, to the dramatic consequences of such an act. While we recognize the inappropriateness of these statements, we can only note with sadness that they directly reach our fraternity in order to discredit his mission (....). Metzingen, January 27, 2009, + Bernard Fellay, Superior General.
Without doubt, in a letter received January 30, 2009 to the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, Williamson apologized to Benedict XVI to "problems" caused by the revisionist statements required in an interview with Swedish television: "In the midst of the huge media storm caused by my careless remarks on Swedish television, he wrote to Cardinal Hoyos, I ask you, respectfully, kindly accept my sincere regret for having produced so much unnecessary pain and problems to yourself and to the Holy father ".
Yet, summoned by the Secretariat State to withdraw first publicly about it and fully recognize the Second Vatican Council and the magisterium of the Popes since John XXIII, it seems refused, demanding to study the evidence of the Holocaust! Recall that the lifting of the excommunication does not mean the rehabilitation within the Catholic Church was simply lifted a barrier to dialogue and bishops still have no canonical recognition in the Church. One could therefore ask if Williamson did not want to sully the reputation of the pope in his fatherly gesture of mercy. By becoming pope, Benedict XVI said: "Pray, so that I may not flee for fear of the wolves "...
Repairs erratum. In our last issue, p. 4 we have discussed the statistics of a certain "SS Brotherhood. Peter and Paul ": this name does not exist. His real name is "The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter" present in 102 dioceses (Tridentine rite Catholics in communion with Rome). With apologies.
(St. Paul II Timothy 1, 12)
SUMMARY
I. Editorial: The Society of St. Pius X
and the lifting of the excommunication ............... p. 1
II. Good news ......................................... p. 2
III. Proud, I ?........................................ p. 3
IV. At the end, however ........................................... p. 7
V. Letters to the Editor .................................... p. 8
VI. Announcements and readings .................................. p. 11
I. Fraternity of Saint Pius X and the lifting of the excommunication
On December 7, 1965, the eve of the closing of Vatican II, Pope Paul VI promulgated the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World ( Gaudium et Spes: "Joy and Hope). Thus the Council ended in euphoria. Without delay, Pope Paul VI, surrounded by bishops and experts, began making the application of the Constitutions, Decrees and Declarations of the Council: an important step in the time and duration. Christian left waiting neither Rome nor the bishops were themselves this application, sometimes in the opposite of the Council.
This movement was called the meta-Council. Taking advantage of this moment of crisis, groups of Marxists in front and behind the Berlin Wall carefully preparing a revolution that broke out in 1968. This clash with the Church and established the Company, the violence of some groups, the naivete of many Christians who saw the revolution "an exuberance of youth" were originally a serious crisis in the Church from priests, religious, religious break with the consecrated life, etc.. etc..
Facing this situation, the small group of bishops at the Council, had consistently voted "no", which Archbishop Lefebvre has accused the council of serious errors and proposed radical measures. Thus Archbishop Lefebvre has created Ecône, Switzerland, the "Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X" with a seminar for the training of priests "faithful to the tradition of the Church." Seeing the danger of a fundamentalist opposition deviation the Council in 1975, Bishop Mamie, Bishop of Fribourg, he withdrew "the acts and concessions granted." After a period of controversy, discussion and confrontation in June 1988, Archbishop Lefebvre ordained its own four bishops he undertook to lead in the world, "the movement of Ecône.
Automatically, the schism and the excommunication of Lefebvre and the four bishops consecrated by him. Since 1988, no attempt at reconciliation has resulted because of the total refusal to recognize the Second Vatican Council. However, some traditionalists have refused follow Archbishop Lefebvre and returned to Rome, as the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter founded in 1988 (in Belgium: www.fssp.be) and the Institut Saint-Vincent Ferrier, the Institute of Christ the King, he has was established from the outset in communion with Rome.
liberalization of the Missal of Trent and Pius X Pope Benedict XVI was a helping hand by Rome. Also, Bishop Bernard Fellay, received by the Pope in 2007, he said: "We firmly believe in the primacy of Peter and his prerogatives" and demanded the lifting of the excommunication of the four bishops, Benedict XVI has granted. But it is clear that the lifting of the excommunication is not the full communion with the Church. Now we must move forward and accept the First Vatican Council II. In a statement issued by Bishop Fellay, the superior of the Society expressed its "gratitude subsidiary" to Benedict XVI and said he was "pleased that the decree provides for interviews." And dialogue must begin to prepare for the full recognition of Vatican II. Rome is listening.
Update on Bishop Williamson Lefebvrist
This bishop, from Sweden, who held on Holocaust denial to the gas chambers did not represent the Society of Saint Pius X. It is curious that the springs now, when they were held in the Swedish TV ... in November 2008. But the decision to lift the excommunication was made long before, Benedict XVI had said in Paris: "Everyone has a place in the Church." Exercising the ministry of unity which lies to Peter, he thought rightly that a schism that leaves rot becomes ineradicable. He knew this interview at the time of lifting of the excommunication. And he immediately condemned the revisionist position of the bishop: he could not have been clearer about it in 2005 and 2006. And say that the pope himself who is now accused of anti-Semitic!
The Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X himself wrote this release soon: "It is clear that a Catholic bishop can speak with authority on ecclesiastical matters concerning faith and morals. Our Brotherhood claims no authority over other issues (...). It is with great sorrow that we note how the transgression of this mandate may be wrong our mission. Williamson's assertions do not reflect any position in our society. That's why I've banned until further notice, any public stance on political or historical. We ask forgiveness from the Pope, and all men of good will, to the dramatic consequences of such an act. While we recognize the inappropriateness of these statements, we can only note with sadness that they directly reach our fraternity in order to discredit his mission (....). Metzingen, January 27, 2009, + Bernard Fellay, Superior General.
Without doubt, in a letter received January 30, 2009 to the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, Williamson apologized to Benedict XVI to "problems" caused by the revisionist statements required in an interview with Swedish television: "In the midst of the huge media storm caused by my careless remarks on Swedish television, he wrote to Cardinal Hoyos, I ask you, respectfully, kindly accept my sincere regret for having produced so much unnecessary pain and problems to yourself and to the Holy father ".
Yet, summoned by the Secretariat State to withdraw first publicly about it and fully recognize the Second Vatican Council and the magisterium of the Popes since John XXIII, it seems refused, demanding to study the evidence of the Holocaust! Recall that the lifting of the excommunication does not mean the rehabilitation within the Catholic Church was simply lifted a barrier to dialogue and bishops still have no canonical recognition in the Church. One could therefore ask if Williamson did not want to sully the reputation of the pope in his fatherly gesture of mercy. By becoming pope, Benedict XVI said: "Pray, so that I may not flee for fear of the wolves "...
Repairs erratum. In our last issue, p. 4 we have discussed the statistics of a certain "SS Brotherhood. Peter and Paul ": this name does not exist. His real name is "The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter" present in 102 dioceses (Tridentine rite Catholics in communion with Rome). With apologies.
II. GOOD NEWS
Young Catholics
Taizé in Brussels, a sign of hope!
While some newspapers were screaming mad "cult of youth" in the Church would have found a new target late December, a reader writes: "During this week, young Taizé have invaded our churches, our homes, our subways, Brussels and the surrounding area ... They [40,000] prayed in all languages, from the Eastern Europe, Central, North and South, united in the same spirit of spirituality. Our young Europeans bags back and woolen scarves, are left to their own countries, the joy in his eyes "(in La Libre Belgique 6-1-2009). Cheers
Scouts and Guides in Europe !
They were born first in Germany in 1956 and France in 1958, inspired by European ideas of Schuman and Adenauer's Christian roots in the Old Continent. In an unwavering loyalty to the pope, they come to be recognized by Rome as an international private association of faithful. We know they have been dragged out, particularly in France, a reputation for fundamentalists ("they make pilgrimages, refuse abortion, etc..) And militaristic (" they still wear the Scout uniform! "). These Christian groups were already grouped in 1963 in all 55,000 members (1,200 in Belgium, who want "open to anyone, even non-baptized, wishing to participate in their activities and reflect on a spiritual dimension"). "The scout / guide develops the love of God through the sacraments, praying with the patrol, but above all (e) alone (e)".
They are present in most European countries, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Canada. There are troops Protestant and Orthodox. Movement of family, not church movement, they give the Church its spring by many religious vocations or strong family. Book review: Jean-Luc Angelis The True Story of Girl Guides and Scouts of Europe, Presses de la Renaissance, 360 p., 19,90 €. France Website: http://www.scouts-europe.org - Belgium Website: http://www.scouts-europe.be
A 23 year old and the rosary
"(...) The fact as the prayer of the rosary is repetitive does not make it humanly very attractive. But when I really pray the rosary with the heart, the decision to trust strengthens my will. Then, quietly, that prayer detach myself from what is not essential and that often burden myself (laziness, heaviness, quirks ...) ".
RADIATION OF FAITH
Catholic Chapel of the Resurrection in ecumenical vocation in the heart of Europe in Brussels
Besides the library of the European Commission, is a place of Christian presence for EU officials and diplomats in post in Brussels.
expectancy in China
The Taizé Community in China had printed one million Bibles to be distributed in different regions of the country. At Easter, 13,600 Chinese were the three sacraments of Christian initiation (baptism, confirmation, Eucharist). In 2007, they had was 8,000.
Number of Catholics worldwide
From 2005 to 2006, the number of Catholics rose from 1.115 billion baptized 1.131 billion (+1.4%). Catholics in the Americas account for 49.8% of Catholics in the world, Europe is home to 25% and Asia 10.5%, while 61% of world population.
Catholics assert themselves in France without complex
"Gone, self-censorship and concealment: the 'minority' Catholic claims his right to claim. Without shame. And above all without complex "(from the Express). "We can no longer keep silent, it is time to get out of some gentrification by speaking to the risk of being unpopular. Across the country, rituals of popular piety reappear as paths cross (...) or overnight adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (...). We are no longer Catholic by tradition, it is by choice. 2,708 adults have been baptized in 2007, 400 more than in 2000 (Philippe Oswald, Christian Family).
Using the Bible as a mobile phone! P
Ouveze you imagine what would happen if we treated the Bible the same way we treat our phone laptop? If we carried the Bible in our briefcase, in our case, belt or pocket of our jacket? If we threw a glance several times a day?
If we go back to look for when we have forgotten at home or office? If we used it to send messages to our friends? If we treat as if we could not live without it? If we used to take a trip, in case we need help or assistance? If we put the hand in an emergency?
Unlike mobile phones, the Bible has always network. We can connect to it in any location. We do not need to worry about a lack of credit, because Jesus has already paid the bill and the appropriations are unlimited. Even better: communication is never interrupted, and the battery is charged for a lifetime.
Ecumenism
Patriarch Alexis had estimated that the liberalization of the Latin Mass is an event "positive." He hailed "the return of the ancient liturgical tradition."
VOCATIONS
Legionaries of Christ, devoted to the new evangelization, are 3250 members (750 priests and 2,500 seminarians more than 400 Seminar in Rome) and run 15 universities and 175 schools (many small seminars). They started their business in France and Belgium. The biggest mistake in Europe was the transformation of small seminars in mixed colleges.
The "Priest Academy
The Catholic Church of Besancon has launched a website: www.pretres -academy.com. It tells the story of three priests. The operation was a success: 30,000 visitors in seven days, the first episode was viewed 44,000 times (284,000 visitors in total). That changes the image of priests among 15-25 year olds!
The Congregation of the Salesians, the great educators of youth, founded by St. John Bosco, 150 years: 16,234 priests, 26,615 lay cooperators and 14,420 nuns (many in black Africa).
Evidence of a seminary of Namur
"After studying foreign trade, various placements, an Erasmus program and a year of finance in the Netherlands, I was determined to make a career in accounting consultancy. Involved with a "Big Four" (= the four big companies), I was certainly on course to achieve this goal. But by a desire to understand the unexpected signs that my infallible guide, the Holy Spirit, continued to send me, I come to understand God's call. My real mission on earth, certainly in my time in seminary, will do more to address tax and other assessments as originally supposed, but to help souls in search of meaning for their lives, a sense which is that 'in God alone. "
http://www.liturgiecatholique.org http://www.aelf.org or are proposed by the Association of Episcopal liturgy for Francophone countries. Daily You can find all of the Catholic liturgy of the day, the texts of the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours. ETHICAL PROBLEMS
Muzzling the Grand Duke?
The Grand Duke of Luxembourg has announced its refusal to enact a law passed in Parliament and liberalizing euthanasia. The political class reacted illico to deprive the sovereign of the constitutional power to enact laws.
France: French euthanasia
MPs refuse any legalization of "actively assisted death" or "other than euthanasia."
Manual Bioethics
Youth Foundation Jerome Lejeune makes it available free of charge on request: fjl@fondationlejeune.org or 31, rue Galande, 75005 Paris - 01 55 42 55 15.
Respect Life
DB error: "The Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that human beings are born equal in rights ... Human beings are designed with equal rights ... When you give your age, think about your mom and n'ouliez ever to add 9 months! "(Teacher-Loverval Gerpinnes).
The family would it be destroyed?
A French priest living in Brussels has become the adoptive father two unmarried son and two daughters and several times great-great-grandfather. "Every day I pray for the peace of families ... I wonder if I did well, though I am 97 years retrograde. Through the media I learned that the family is destroyed by the priority given to sexual encounters that give up the principles for change 'in the wind like rain'. A reader can he reassure me? .
"In the financial crisis, people discover irresponsibility, amorality and immorality of the system that put money in the center. All values are trampled upon in name of pure profit and personal enrichment "(Jean-François Kahn).
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III. ME PROUD?
If I want to always be right, I admit not my fault if I want to control my life only if I can not stand criticism, if I like, on every occasion, I present ... so I have to get back on track, as I grow worse sins: pride.
is the champion of the cardinal sins. Indeed, so proud that God loves human beings and set aside. And without realizing it, his heart hardened more each day.
This inordinate love of self is the foundation of most other sins and can create the proud home of serious abuses:
- Disobedience. It does not take into account laws of God, despise the social norms that hinder and transgresses the law. It is his only master and heard.
- Aggressive. Soon dissatisfied, anxious, jealous, he feels surrounded by rivals and enemies. Fear of being crushed, he asserts violently. It regent, operates, abusing others.
- Vanity. He wants us to admire his social status, knowledge, possessions, his wealth, his look, or worse, his spiritual progress. Arrogant, conceited, he brags, he brags.
- Intolerance. He despises those who are different from him. It condemns and persecutes people who have other opinions, other pipes.
But in the Gospel invites all Christians to overcome his pride and overcome his selfishness. Jesus condemns the Pharisee pleased with him who prays standing first in the temple, despising the humble sinner public prostrate at last. He said: "Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but who humbles himself will be exalted" (Luke 18, 9-14). This principle is proclaimed by Mary in her Magnificat. Christ himself gave the example of great humility, since its birth in a manger for animals, until his execution slave on the cross of infamy, through the washing of the feet of his apostles. That which the Bible calls "the Servant" said that to enter into the Kingdom, we must have the confidence and simple heart of a small child.
To achieve this goal, here are a few tips, without giving up a healthy self-esteem and knowing, of course, what we say is:
- Hunting pride by its opposite: humility. Recognize its limitations and faults, ask for help from God and his entourage. Accept comments, (small) humiliation. Welcoming humble daily tasks. Separate self with humor.
- Become a familiar of God. To listen to his Word, worship in silence, guided in confidence by Providence. Thank for everything we receive. Imitating the example of Mary, Joseph and the saints.
When we have successfully carried out the attacks against pride, which we stuck with it, we have managed the internal revolution against selfishness, the only revolution that leads to true peace. May Lent and Easter bring us the change of heart.
IV. A blank
bioethical problems
Belgium voting Marketing "material human body!
The Senate had already voted on this project in full holiday 18-7-08, in the absence of thirty senators. On 4-12-08, MPs voted for a bill "concerning the obtaining and use of the material human body, there was no debate in Belgian society and without the media stir. The term is also "the tissues, cells, gametes, embryos, fetuses, and substances extracted from it, whatever the degree of transformation." But "everything that is technically can not render both morally desirable ", declared the bishops of Belgium in 2006. Even if the goal is laudable means (medical applications, scientific research) ...
The same protest again on January 8 (only four days after the vote!): This definition of human being "is something cold"; " anything that objectifies the human is a human regression because there is a "moral boundary invisible" we can not cross.
Thus, the embryo (between fertilization and 8th week) or fetus (> 8 weeks) are merely "a set of cells [...] likely to give birth to a human person." It thus suggests that this is not a person revolutionary text in Belgian law!
Supreme Hypocrisy: the Rector of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven envisages the creation of an independent lab ... of the University: KUL orders him of human material without falling under the charge to put itself to death of embryos !
"O Mary, you have conceived without sin, help us to sin without conceiving"
A professor at the University Catholique de Louvain, confusing Immaculate Conception and virgin birth, mocks the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and attacked the encyclical Humanae Vitae (LLB 9-12-08). Many reactions:
"It's painful and shameful. We therefore regret that an academic (who just so throw his "C" in the trash) spreads his own personal grudge, instead of rational arguments such as the Church does so well, that we greet the latest insight ( ...). If, demagoguery, Pope Paul VI had transferred ... the Paris Match would 26-7-1968 titled: 'The pope said yes to the pill!', And it was too late to turn back ... "(a priest).
"His article has injured many faithful scratching uselessly the faith of the Church. We regret this and are appealing to the moral sense of all that such an incident does not recur "(bishops' reaction).
"With nothing to Catholic, to refrain from judging the Church and it makes us easy grace of his irony and blasphemous about Mary. Christians, particularly the millions of young people cheering the pope yesterday and today, did not care " (A layman).
Hooray! In the United Kingdom, a first child "screened" against cancer after preimplantation diagnosis. Incredible modesty: it is careful to note that other embryos "prequalified" were put to death ...
Deadline legal abortion
In Belgium, the deadline for conditional abortion is 12 weeks. In the Netherlands it is 22 weeks and 24 weeks in Britain. The Evaluation Commission of the law on abortion invites the legislator to consider the legal period for abortion. In 2007, there were 18,705 abortions in Belgium, or 838 more than in 2005. "How human space the most beautiful and most sacred that is the womb could he become the place of unutterable violence? "Wondered painfully Benedict XVI.
"Obamania: a fanatical abortion? "
" Obama started his job. During this time many European Catholics are silent: 'Hush, they say ... Do not shock! " Fortunately the blood of innocents does not shock anyone. Go, sleep well, my friends, Obama is working Dad ... He supported the method of birth abortion partial ( tony.burckhardt @ hotmail.fr , head of the student newspaper The cry of Kot, Namur). "Abortion always involves the intentional killing of an innocent life, and it is always a serious error" (the Archbishop of Denver) is a matter of human right, not a religious matter.
Barack Obama raised by this Friday, January 23 decree restrictions on public funding for associations that contribute to abortions abroad. These restrictions were "unnecessarily broad and unjustified" and "Over the past eight years, they have undermined efforts to promote voluntary family planning, safe and effective in developing countries, "said the president. In fact, they actually placed these associations in a dilemma: choose between denying abortion or give up the considerable assistance of the United States. (Www.lemonde.fr with AFP and Reuters, 01/24/2009)
The practice of medicine or baby-baby-instrument?
Medically assisted procreation designed to create maximum in vitro embryos, preimplantation diagnosis and then to reject (and destroy) those who are carriers of the disease, but also to sort the healthy embryos among those would be genetically compatible with the older patient. Hailed as a first in Spain!
youth and sexuality
Alert! Sex education and emotional imposed in September 2009 all secondary schools in francophone Belgium?
This is a presentation materialistic, purely biological and technical EVRAS called and conducted in their premises by the only family planning centers (whose orientation is unfortunately well known). All without parental consent and without consulting the private associations that already offers a real education sexual and emotional.
But the United States, each day more than 8,000 teenagers contract infections "Sexually Transmitted Diseases": the avalanche is the price to pay to sleep with the person of his choice! Condoms encourage irresponsible, young imagining being protected. In Switzerland, the anti-AIDS has tripled the number of pregnancies in condoms. Condom promotion, according to the Lancet, could increase rather than decrease unprotected sex.
So the only effective protection against STDs and AIDS is abstinence or sexual relationships sex only with "partners" uninfected and faithful. The first lady of Uganda has denounced that huge sums are poured around the world by the UN to send out millions of condoms, sexual abstinence campaign has already cut two-thirds of new AIDS cases in Uganda from 1995 to 2000.
Despite this, many Belgian ministers arrested did not even respond to a warning or unload on others. We expect all our Belgian bishops an immediate and robust response before it is too late. Catholic teaching urgently needs for its schools offer a real alternative program.
(inspired by Families United, December 2008)
The distraught young
38% of youth aged 15-16 have smoked a joint. 28% of 15-19 year olds have been drunk more than four times a year, "stoned" being practiced by teens increasingly youth: 12-13 years old are victims of ethyl coma. At 14 years, 2 boys 3 and 36% of girls had ever seen a porn movie. "They would both need a Savior! "(St. Exupery).
Hyper sexualization
Teens are bombarded from all sides sent obscene text messages chain, porn pictures on the Net, music videos hot, sexy fashion. But what impact this "hyper-sexualization" have on the construction of their sexuality? What image do they have the body and the couple? (Le Soir 13-12).
VARIOUS
The demographic winter, more alarming than global warming
The current demographic balance between "Christians" in Europe and the Mediterranean Muslim will strongly consider the benefit of the latter. "The economic and political decline follows step by step the progress of aging population "(Alfred Sauvy, French demographer). In Europe, the fertility rate is well below the threshold required for the replacement of generations is 2.1. Since 1980, there are a million fewer births per year.
treacherous art of The titration
28-12, the pope has spoken at length before the Roman Curia WYD in Sydney. He also justified the public positions of the Church must not only defend the beauty of creation, but "protect the man against his own destruction," which would be the case if "the nature of being human as man and wife " is not respected. He then criticized the theory of "gender" that man is not determined by her gender: it would be self-emancipation of the man in the creation and Creator. It was too much and newspapers headlined "A speech of Pope faces gay! "Give
dolls to boys?
Life Women Namur urges parents to provide tanks to girls and Barbies to the latter. Maternal instinct does not exist. For some, it would convince us that it is education that grew a beard or chest.
Satanism and the power of Darkness
Satan is becoming increasingly popular among young people. It seeps into mass culture and manners inspired by "Gothic" through Internet sites that promote satanic rituals and black masses, but also during evenings or concerts (rock extreme), or by spiritualism which many have tried. Some healers do not hesitate to trade with the spirit of evil, for money, causing incalculable damage.
Spending
Hunger 4 corners of the four world is far from being eradicated. Now, 800 billion is spent on armaments, 40 billion for advertising and publicity obscene 13 billion purchase of cosmetics.
"Nothing much n'enhardit the audacity of the wicked as weak good"
(Leo XIII, Sapientia Christiana, 10-01-1890)
PERSECUTION AND ATTACKS AGAINST THE CHURCH
Twenty missionaries were killed in 2008. Among them, the Chaldean archbishop of Mosul (Iraq), and sixteen priests, a monk and two lay volunteers. Christians, Catholic or otherwise, are fleeing simply because there is no security for them. On all these dramatic situations in Iraq and other Middle East is the 'silence' of the Western media, as leaders of our country ...
European Christian communities in India are particularly persecuted for several months. We can not count the number of dead and injured, churches burnt, villages destroyed. The West does not seem to be mobilized to respond to its violence. The Atheist Bus
! Some 800 buses in the cities of Great Britain and metro trains run with the slogan "God is probably not. Then you stop to worry and enjoy life. " In Rome it was replicated by signs: "God exists. Atheists themselves know it "(December 2008).
Towards the Future (19-12-08) was passing the church to a business: Mark 'Church' is twice as Coca-Cola. Reply (rejected): "As for the cost of religious funeral, he is nowhere near that of the obituary in the newspaper, and, with the price of an advertisement, you can say enough mass to exit Purgatory few rogue journalists.
V. READERS
"About pharmacists who can not abuse the conscience clause in a guard (VE # 71). I want to say that I am not at all agree with the interpretation that the journalist Laporte in the opinion of the College of Pharmacists. By refusing to sell contraceptives, abortifacients and euthanizing, I have absolutely no conscience to injure anyone should. Indeed, the person can get them in most pharmacies. I reply that it is foreign to my profession to kill human beings, which is always the result of contraceptive use to potential abortion (what few people know), and of course abortion and euthanized. Finally, I commend you for your publication V & E. Believe me, the attacks it is subject are proof of its excellence "(A pharmacist Flanders).
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VI. Announcements and readings
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David Healy wrote in the New Scientist (see my previous post and translation in Courier International). : 
Following the request of some users, I propose the partial translation of the article by David Healy in the New Scientist (My post of January 7) (
, they are often overwhelmed by their environment (stress) because of their hypersensitivity and retreated in quiet places: Proust in his cork-covered part in which he labored for years or Vigny in his "Ivory Tower ". The tranquility and mentally stimulating, contrary to the true adventurers who need real excitement in real life - and then lead them to seek novelty (novelty craving). Martindale evokes the arousal levels of the brain but we can also think of cycles related to mood or season (if that Schumann composed in the summer and spring). For Marcel Proust, we imagine what genius "neurotic" surely Cyclothymic alternating phases of observation and those of socialization and withdrawal necessary for its literary creativity. 