enter into his glory? "
(Luke 24, 26)
SUMMARY
I. Editorial: St. Paul
and pagan customs
II. Good news
III. A blank
IV. Reflections on pedophilia
V. Readers'
VI. Announcements and readings
I. EDITORIAL
THE APOSTLE PAUL TO FACE pagan customs
priestly Prior year that will end in June 2010, the Catholic Church celebrated the year St. Paul, who was better known to Christians the great "Apostle to the Nations." During the three missionary journeys, this giant of evangelism has founded dozens of Christian communities through preaching the Word of Christ.
order to keep them in line and in the fervor of gospel, he addressed them letters recalling his preaching and dictating to them what to do again in the midst of the corruption of the pagan world, in the spring of year 57 Paul wrote a long letter to the Christians of Rome who, remember, at that time lived under the reign of Nero! Exegetes and theologians of various Christian churches consider this letter to the Romans as an important text for the life of the disciples of Jesus.
From the first chapter, with an extraordinary freedom of speech, Paul describes the pagan customs of the time. Here are some verses (chapter 1):
"[22] Professing to be wise, they became fools, [23] and they changed the glory of the incorruptible God for images resembling mortal man or birds, quadrupeds, and reptiles. [24] Therefore God gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor themselves their own bodies [25] Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen! [26] Therefore God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women exchanged the natural use into that which is against nature [27] and even the men also abandoned natural relations with women, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing shameful things, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error. " Then in verse 32, after a long list of depravity, Paul adds: [32] And although they know the ruling of God, deserve to die those who do such things, not only do the same, but approve those who practice them. "
In their homilies, the Apostolic Fathers and the Fathers of the Church have taken up these texts and many others to enlighten consciences and Christian to show how the way of the Gospel of Christ illuminates the dignity of the humans and their behavior.
That made it clear in no uncertain terms that condemn homosexuality remains dramatically, especially in our world who returned to paganism.
Truth and Hope 3000
II. GOOD NEWS
ETHICAL ISSUES
March for Life in Brussels. With the support of the episcopate bluntly Belgian, about 2000 people, including many youth and young families, marched in Brussels on March 28 in favor of respect for life. According to the Future [and La Libre Belgique], this "Walk for Life 'March 28 meeting would have some 550 people! But for other media [including Le Soir], referring to the police report, if anything 1600, and the participants themselves considered themselves 2000 ... In response, a thirty anti-fascists easier to count, proclaimed without hesitation: "A child when I want." (...) A reader Towards the Future, 29-03-10
slogan of the march: "Women are better than abortion." It was 20 years after the passage of the law decriminalizing abortion, the King Baudouin refused to sign ...
Initiative came from students, including Tony and Michel De Keukelaere Burckhardt (barely older than the "Old Belgian law).
organizers of this march calling on public authorities:
- better information for women before abortion on aid and support the scene which would enable them to carry their pregnancy to term;
- financial support to young pregnant students and better opportunities to care for babies in educational institutions (schools, universities ...)
- full information on opportunities adoption of the unborn child, an adoption of happiness fill her host family;
- a major information campaign on the psychological consequences associated with abortion;
- an ultrasound is proposed each woman prior to abortion. Visit
Belgian bishops' Ad Limina square of 2 to 8 May It was comforting: the bishops have received the full backing of the Pope, who acknowledged that "your church itself has been proven by sin." Bishop Leonard has decided some very firm on the issues of pedophilia, especially after the scandal of the Bishop of Bruges, he acknowledged that the situation of priestly vocations "has never been so bad" and the ainsisté movement of acolytes and the urgency to give true Catholic religion classes. Benedict XVII, he spoke of "issues relating to respect for life and the institution of marriage and family, "recalled that the liturgical célébratiions must take place" in accordance with the tradition of the Church, with active participation of the faithful, as the role that corresponds to each (!). "This is the Christ alone, he said, any storm that soothes and restores strength and courage. "
The Church and AIDS." (...) One wonders at the global advocacy of condoms. frieze is here grotesque outside the condom, no salvation for man! Will we make it mandatory (like the belt ...) and send controllers alcoves? It would, in any case, the pope frankly do promotion. You already imagine the headlines of Paris Match: 'Benedict XVI finally converted to the hood! " In reality, journalists who interview him know in advance the answer, not imagining that it could break with the traditional teaching of the Church, but they are seeking a new pretext for the pin, hold it responsible of the epidemic. A shame, because precisely, if the world had listened to the Church, there would be no epidemic: it does not prevent long ago? Whence, in Indeed, its spread lightning struck first in homosexuals and drug addicts, then with the many variants of debauched, that is to say, those who break the moral of the Church? (...). So we cease to attack the Church, especially its moral course is aimed at the traditional family, where the risks are virtually nil, but who might be tempted to use condoms as a contraceptive , which is its original function, it must be remembered? (...). A reader
de Namur, published by Towards the Future "
Abortion surprise guest in the U.S. ... An American football star, Tim Tebow, appeared in an anti-abortion advertising during the Super Bowl. This is not the first time that the American star triggered the controversy by posting his faith on the football field.
La Libre Belgique, 08/02/10
www.sosbebe.org. A website was created to listen and advise, in a confidential and free pregnancy where the pregnancy "grave evil" e-mail: contact@sosbebe.org.
A very, very premature survives in Germany: a 15-week fetus, born by caesarean section at Faculty of Medicine in Göttingen in June 2009 and is the youngest ever. At birth, this very large premature (less than 4 months of gestation) did not measure 21 cm and weighed 275 grams. And he weighed just over 4 kg in December - mean birth weight of babies in Germany - and was here just returned to his parents. Those who think that abortion is to get rid of a "cluster" cells "would do well to meditate on this picture." The 4 truths, 15/03/10
The Catholic Church suspicious vis-à-vis the sex? "(...) No matter that it joins the obsession of the media about it. It is necessary, we read in La Libre Belgique, about this suspicion, save 'the values of modernity, combining them in Gospel values. What modernity? The Church should it bow to what she sees as 'intrinsically evil'? Our company is a daily witness to abuses galloping on a moral level, presented as progress of the liberation of man (cf. Skins Party!), And then we will hypocritically moaning about their effects! This ensures that our sexual morality and doctrinal rigor are out very net with contemporary culture, which plunges gently and smiling in a deadly neopaganism? But it is well over 2000 years: it disturbs and prevents dancing on a volcano. "We run carelessly to the precipice, after we put something before us to prevent us from seeing" (Pascal, Pensee 183). (...) Therefore we look for a scapegoat ... the side of Rome and of course the lamb was chased by wolves. If he wanted to please them, Lamb knows exactly what he should say, but we despise even more. Frankly, the Church remains almost the only bulwark against the civilization of death, although his language is sometimes clumsy. I am not a "free thinker" I'd rather be a free thinker, "The Truth will set you free" (John 8:32). Mr. Bishop Dangoisse, La Libre Belgique (14-04-10)
DEFENCE OF THE CHURCH
Catholic Response. Embittered by the campaign of hatred that anti-Catholic French media have launched in 2009, Daniel Hamiche, a Catholic journalist and writer invites us to visit www.riposte-catholique.fr. In addition to the ignorance of journalists, he denounced the hatred of Catholicism.
Bernard-Henri Levy denounces disinformation on Pius XII. He recalled that Rolf Hochhuth, author of the post-war play "The Vicar" is "a Holocaust denier patented, such as convicted several times and the last provocation, 5 years ago, was to stand in an interview with 'right-wing weekly Junge Freiheit ", the one who denied the existence of gas chambers, David Irving." In 1937, "the terrible Pius XII when he was still a Cardinal Pacelli, was co-author with Pius XI's encyclical" Mit brennender Sorge, "which continues today to be one of the overt anti-Nazi strongest and most eloquent "(...). One particularly surprising that, in the silence deafening that marked the world during the Holocaust, we do carry all the weight, or almost to that, among the leaders of that time: a) had no guns or planes available, b) does not spare his efforts to share with those who had guns avionset, information which he had knowledge c) saved in person in Rome and elsewhere, a large number of those under his responsibility. "Rome, 21-1 - 10, Zenit.org.
VARIOUS
The Shroud has already spilled much ink. And it continues to generate interest. In the U.S., for example through information on the Holy Shroud computer scientists claim to have recreated the face of Jesus in 3D (Vers l'Avenir, 2-04-10). Pope Benedict XVI has called for new Ostensions the Shroud during this year. The attitude of the Church has not changed: "The shroud is not an object of faith but also of contemplation and research. There is no waiting for an official authentication or definitive proof. " As summarized Cardinal Saldarini, "the Shroud is not Christ, but it leads to Christ." Family Christian Testimony 03/04/10
an Iraqi converted to Christianity
Mohammed-Joseph is an al-Sayyid al-Musawi A family in Baghdad going back to the Prophet. During his military service at age 23, he shared the room of a Christian. "I wanted to vomit on hearing this," he recalls. With us, treat the enemy "face of Christian" is to risk death as an insult is humiliating. " Nevertheless, over the weeks, he is touched by the kindness of Christians.
'A mysterious dream followed by the reading of the Gospel of John Muhammad upsets. Christ takes it to heart. He returns home converted, without any authority entrusted to his family (...) He tries to find support in the churches of Baghdad strikes the doors of the presbyteries. In vain. These communities barricaded themselves persecuted - to host a Muslim can claim their being accused of proselytizing. And would not he a spy? "
When his family discovers his secret, it's a catastrophe. He was defeated by his own, shunned by his mother. He will be interned. We want to force him to renounce his faith, but he refuses. His family then want to kill him, but he miraculously survived their attempted murder. Having fled under the orders of a "mysterious woman's voice", he went into exile in France with his wife and children. Here, against all prudence, he comes every day, participates Mass in a nearby church, greets countrymen in cafes with Muslims meet (...). "If I renounce my baptism, and if I go back there, I palaces, servants, money ... But I want to live in a country where Christians have the right of citizenship. Until that day, I am condemned to be an alien. "
Family Christian 27/03/10
Switzerland and minarets
"The minaret is the tower of a mosque in the top of which the muezzin calls the faithful Muslims. The prayer is recited five times a day by faithful Muslims. Muslims are Only 4% of the Swiss population, or about 300,000 of which only 10% practice, about 30,000. (...). Did that make sense to raise the minarets for a tiny minority of immigrants or descendants of immigrants also fall where religious practice? In the Maghreb, in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, etc.. The State does not tolerate the Christian churches. We would like some more reciprocity. "
Most Europeans "know some prohibited in certain Muslim countries, Saudi Arabia in particular: the crosses are systematically prohibited. Examples: Swiss aircraft with their white cross on red are banned from there, because they represent, for them, an attempt to crusade! The 'Red Cross' (International Relief Agency) is prohibited there. It took into the "Red Crescent" for it to work. "
La Libre Belgique, 03/12/2009
150 elected officials from France took part in the pilgrimage "Chretien elected public 'from April 9 to 11 in Lourdes. "The fact is displayed in the best way to get respect." "We need to get out of schizophrenia: a Christian family and not in politics. The condition to find the word, maybe to accept a minority. "
Vatican Radio, the "Pope's Radio", has existed since 1931 and has evolved. Www.radiovaticana.org via the website, you live with Vatican Radio broadcasting from Rome to the world.
Churches in Africa. "A good way to help the churches in Africa to bring its expertise, but also support the establishment of a fair use of natural resources by taking him round the waist problems of insecurity and corruption and putting offside those operating in every sense of the term African resources. Iil be addressed vultures internally and externally that make our peoples do not enjoy all the riches that surround them "(The President of the Commission for Justice and Peace in the DRC).
La Libre Belgique, 16/03/10
III. A blank
SEXUALITY AND YOUNG
For Professor Philippe van Meerbeeck (Faculty of Medicine at UCL), [specialist adolescent issues], "young people's sexuality is not doing well (...) Who trains them to this responsibility? We lost all the initiation rites that characterize ancient societies. They are taught not to catch the dead. So, we see disturbing drift (...) On the sites, accessible to all without control, they can attend all the excesses of sexuality (...). It has all the postures heterosexual and homosexual. And the variable of alcohol is often mixed with early sexual experiences. They made a toxic idea of sexuality (...). Sexuality is experienced off childbearing until the age of 30-35 years (...) We must rethink a real sentimental education and find out what young people really want. "
Sunday, 28-03-10
Skins Party was
Namur the privilege of hosting a "Skins Party" April 17, the first having been held "successful" in Liège. Where? Mystery: a bit like rave parties, the "spot" of the appointment is announced at the last minute. The golden rule is simple: "There is no rule" ... They are teenagers face the wounds of the pre-adult age, divorce of parents to anorexia, to search for sexual identity. Teens consume anything other than soft drinks (spirits, attached to the chain, ecstasy) carnal and maintain trade facing the camera, beyond any moral rule. No children under 18 years ... In Belgium, a preview, released BeTV Secret Party: You can find a passage where young absolutely orgiastic invest an abandoned property, ingest almost all alcohol, make tripe and intestines on the carpet and kiss on the mouth . The participants, who may be disguised or hidden Grimes, can get away with anything: alcohol and carnal exchange (according to the Future, 19-3-10).
Thus "The 'Skins Parties'" landed in Wallonia! (...). What is shocking is the design of these parties, whose explicit goal is the absence of all moral rules! (...). For the design and organization of these parties, there are adults ... and it must be said: their behavior is irresponsible and undermines the work of those who patiently in families, schools, parishes and associations inculcate youth with a moral, which gives direction demanding but beneficial to their personal life (...) ". And afterwards, he will then "develop support services to youth as IPPJ to help youth and protect society against their behavior harmful "!
Pierre Dujardin, La Libre Belgique, 10/04/10
ABORTION
- Anthony Burckhardt is the spokesman for the group of students who rallied in Belgium against the law liberalizing abortion. (...) "We, we passed between the cracks. 300,000 children of my generation have not had the chance to be born. Personally, if my mother had not resisted the pressure for medical use it has an abortion, I would not be here to talk about (...) ". If they had the opportunity, a majority of women who choose abortions to keep their babies. But they are constrained by multiple social pressures, family, medical. (...). Abortion cases are increasing: it was at 10,000 at the beginning of decriminalization. Was arrived at over 18,000 and Madam Minister Onkelinx think to extend the period of 12 weeks. "
Le Jour Verviers,
27/03/10 - Mrs Roynet, the family planning centers, we feel sorry for the horrors of pregnancy and at the same time, excuse women who voluntarily expose them ... the sole purpose of verifying their fertility and therefore determined to remove the embryo expected. We can exploit a human being more coldly. Reader to the Future, 29/03/10
Soon trade eggs? On January 22, 2009, the Archbishop of Johannesburg (South Africa) expressed his fears to develop a "biological colonialism". "In Britain, he says, it is illegal to use English women's eggs for research." But the law allows "to fetch the eggs of African women to help meet the demands of research on embryonic stem cells. Sunday, 03/15/2009
Murder human fetuses and save ... animals ...
Companies animal rights denounce the brutal slaughter every year and bloodthirsty that reproduces the Faroe Islands (Denmark, member of the European Union). It's absolutely incredible, they say, nothing has been done to stop this massacre, this barbarism against the Dolphins' Calderones "super intelligent and sociable people who come out of curiosity. They also protest against castration carried out on pigs to make them more succulent meat ...
PERSECUTION AGAINST CHRISTIANS
Martyrs churches worldwide
- In India, there are countless churches burned by Buddhist extremists. Christians are terrorized -. Message received, translated to English: "Please pray for the Christian churches of India: Buddhist extremists in India are 200 churches burned. They plan to kill 200 missionaries. Currently, all Christians are hiding in villages. Please ask God to forgive the brothers and sisters of India. "
- In Iraq, minorities, including Christians, are the collateral victims of the conflict between Arabs and Kurds. Hundreds of Christians staged a demonstration near Mosul after a series of murders committed against their community (March 2010).
- In Egypt, January 7, six Copts and one Muslim policeman of Naga Hammadi were killed in the output of the Orthodox Christmas mass.
- Malaysia. The High Court had "hired" to Christians the right to write the word Allah (or the One God in Arabic). Since then six churches have been attacked for protesting against this decision
(Little Lantern, Alsace, 2010).
Nigeria. Genocide: 500 Christians slaughtered. Organized by the carnage of Muslims took place during Overnight Saturday to Sunday between 3 and 6 o'clock in the morning the streets of Christian villages were littered with dead bodies horribly mutilated, including women and children. The army did not arrive until the end of the attack!
- The killing of a growing number of Christians find little echo in the media. Cons were largely reflected by the case of pedophile priests and other scandals. If they were journalists or humanitarian, they would have made a wide echo (from L'Osservatore Romano, January 2010).
- "Nobody mentions reciprocity. A when steeples and churches in Saudi Arabia? When will the free circulation of the Algerians in their country? Restitution of their churches to Assyrian and Chaldean Christians in Turkey? The end of unpunished killings and discrimination against Christians in many Muslim countries? Outcry for minarets in Switzerland, but when silence is shaved churches, when Christians are killed or deprived of their basic rights. Why this silence, why this 'double standards'? "
A priest of the Diocese of Namur (Libre Belgique, 30/11/2009)
- When a mosque or a synagogue is attacked, the press, governments and political and public opinion indignant. When is a church, it passes almost unnoticed.
(according to Le Figaro, 10/03/10)
Holocaust and Islam. In England, all programs relating to the commemoration of the Holocaust have been removed from some schools, with the ground that it "faces" the Muslim population which denies the existence of the Holocaust. (...). Today more than ever, with the efforts of Iran and other countries reporting that the Holocaust was a "legend", it is imperative to do everything possible to the world never forgets. " A reader of Hainaut in Belgium also
persecution of faithful priests! ... As pastor deploring deviations within his diocese spoke to some colleagues: the latter, far from helping provoked in him a true moral disease which, despite his young age (quarantine), led to suicide . Its own dean at his funeral did not fail to reproach her acerbic in his homily. Dean denies such a vicar to hold the keys of the church and he refuses to celebrate including Sundays, plus other annoyances. A layman who, through fear, writing pseudonymously
Censorship at RTBF. Covering the air disaster of Smolensk, the same sequence was placed on Euro-news, RTBF and RTL. On RTBF, a few seconds were cut: those where viewers saw Messrs Medvedev and Putin make the sign of a large Orthodox cross with crucifix in the background. A reader of VE, 10/04/10
Masonic role in Belgian society. 'Number of advanced social, political or ethical were discussed previously in the lodge. The action humanist Masons was instrumental in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the abortion, the introduction of social security laws, euthanasia ... sensitive issues, but so today. " Read a flyer announcing an exhibition on Freemasonry at Castle Waroux (Belgium) in late 2008.
"Christians get married like everyone else, they have children, but do not abandon their babies .... They are in the flesh, but they do not live in the flesh. They spend their life on earth, but they are citizens of heaven .... They love everyone, and everyone persecutes them. We do not know, but they are condemned, they kill them and thus they find life ... The flesh hates the soul and makes war, not that it has hurt him, but because it prevents him from enjoying the pleasures of even the world hates Christians, without them it have done wrong, but because they oppose its pleasures. "
Epistle to Diognetus, 5-6 (to 190).
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Number of seminarians
Belgium in 2009-2010.
(unofficial figures from December 2009)
Antwerpen
0 (0 new)
Brugge 11 (1 new)
Gent 1 (0 new)
Hasselt
3 (2 new)
Mechelen-Brussel
1 (0 new) Dutch
Total: 16 seminarians
New Dutch: 3
Liege
8 (3 new)
Malines-Brussels 3
(3 new)
Namur Notre Dame
15 (2 new)
Namur Redempt.
Mater 17 (3 new)
Tournai 3 (0 new)
Total Francophone: 46 seminarians
New Francophone: 8 Total
Kingdom: 62 seminarians (75 in 2008-2009)
(11 new)
Divorced and remarried in front of the Church
- An article sulfur (La Libre Belgique 2-3-10) proposed the following approach: "It our role to judge whether there was wrongdoing at the base. But if so, on one hand every sin mercy! And secondly, there is a time when it is possible to backtrack. There is therefore no longer completely free, and therefore more serious sin. "
- Abbé Stéphane Seminckx responds: "It's not the sinner is called to conversion, but the Church should ignore the word of Christ. Then 'mercy to all sin ": we seem to forget that God's mercy goes to all sin, acknowledged and regretted." Finally, if there is an impasse, in a sense, we are saved, since one is freer and therefore more sinful: perhaps one might consider the cause of the impasse and attempt 'remedy? (...). Divorced-remarried person is presented as being irresponsible, taught to recognize possible misconduct and cover. " La Libre Belgique, 06/04/10
- "The indissoluble marriage is not an invention of the Church. It's not 'notice' the Pope is thinking of Christ. (...). It opposes the hardness of the Church and Christ's mercy. We forget that there is a mercy from the truth. The truth will set you free. Brothers and sisters divorced and remarried testify. This is not the choice of the Church which puts them in an uncomfortable situation, and, for most believers, almost unbearable. Separate is sometimes unavoidable. But remarriage is never required. It is a choice. "Father Bandelier in Family Christian 10/03/2009
IV. REFLECTIONS ON THE PEDOPHILIA
- You make us the target of neighbors: our enemies are really laughing! God, bring us back : Let your face shine and we shall be saved! "(Ps 79.7-8).
- "Outraged by my opponents, I am bruised to the bone, which I hear every day: 'Where is your God?" Why do you grieve, O my soul, and moan about me? Hope in God again, I will praise him: he is my savior and my God! (Ps 41, 11-12).
(Psalms are cited in the numbering of the Vulgate). LETTER OF CARDINAL
Andre Vingt-Trois, archbishop of Paris (31-03-10).
Dear brothers and sisters,
(...) Our Church is in charge in the face men. She is responsible for the sins of the world. Contempt de.la true facts, which no one doubts the horror and outrage they have caused, it works to endorse our church - and especially its priests - the moral responsibility for acts of pedophilia that have been committed for several decades.
Attributing the status of priest pedophilia committed to celibacy prevents timely look at the reality of this social evil that everyone can know it hits mostly within family relationships and in networks of close family. Out of old facts and long known as new revelations give a lot to think about the intellectual honesty of the informant and sufficient to reveal their true purpose: to pose doubts about the moral legitimacy of the Church.
Far be it from me to deny the reality of pedophilia or to forget the suffering, irreparable
often, victims. (...) Yes we are immersed in shame and le.désarroi .. We join the regret expressed by the Pope in his letter to Irish Catholics. But we are not willing to let the blame onto the whole twenty thousand priests and religious from France. Of these, a thirty priests and religious serving the sentence which they were convicted, according to law. Is too much, but not a mass phenomenon. The vast majority of priests and religious in this country live with joy their commitment to the Gospel. I have no doubt. We have no doubt and we trust their fidelity.
The offensive aimed at destabilizing the Pope, and through him the Church, we must not hide our weaknesses and possible mistakes. Our society that lives in the exhibition sex without boundary forces us to be ever vigilant and humble in our ways live (...). But this caution does not turn us into potential culprits in all our relationships.
(...) All those who are less informed and less involved in the life of our church will be bombarded with issues that arise as ". critical "and which are merely propaganda operations, and even crude propaganda. In our democratic country, Christians are still full citizens, it is not certain they are in the information processing (...). We are prepared to take such situations. We have been prepared by the Lord himself: "The disciple is not above his master nor the servant above his Lord, etc.. "(Mt 10,24).
FACTS AND FIGURES ... .
Cases of child abuse also exist in other religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.. In Islam, according ayatolah Khomeini, "A man can obtain sexual pleasure of a young child and even a baby. However he can not penetrate, but the sodomy. " In Gaza, Hamas celebrated the marriage of 450 couples: the majority of engaged couples were between 25 and 30 years, but the majority of "sweetheart" had less than 12 years. Courtesy of Islamic law. The International Centre for Women estimates that there are 51 million "girls brides" in the world, mostly in Muslim countries, 30% are abused by their husbands each year 3 million are subject to mutilation.
Benedict XVI is "the first pope to show as much courage" (Bernard Lecomte, journalist, Family Christian 20-3).
Priests are certainly far less dangerous than the parents in Ireland, 50.8% of child molesters are the own parents, 34% are neighbors or members of the family circle, 3.4% are professors monitors, or priests (from The Night of 12-03). And we forget that Dutroux was married!
400,000 priests worldwide: pedophiles are a tiny minority. Many cases in Ireland well in the U.S., but since the drastic measures taken by the Church in 2009 over 62,000 complaints, only 0.0097% of the priests involved. Remember that "a crumbling bridge makes more noise than 100 bridges that take."
In France, a man has served as a juror in 15 cases of rape against children: 13 were the work of married or cohabiting. And 2 / 3 of the accusations against priests have been proven wrong (personal revenge, etc..) (Family Christian 27-03), but several priests were cleared after a few years in prison ...
One cause of pedophilia: a climate in which we do every day in praise of homosexuality and has continually ephebes young as models and the ravages of the Internet. Moreover, we even required the lowering of consent! One must wonder about the hypocrisy of a society that imagines pedophiles all over the place (danger of a "witch hunt ...), but features a hyper-sexualization of younger on displays, posters and magazines ...
It is true that the Church has lately preferred the tactic of silence and camouflage, but it was also well in areas such as economics or politics (cf. the financial corruption that erupt in Belgium 10 or 15 years later!).
Today since the paper very hard Cardinal Ratzinger in 2001, a bishop who knows a case by confession must do everything, without betraying the secret of the sacrament, the penitent to be denounced Justice. If he knows outside of confession, he is bound in conscience to condemn the guilty to justice. Ecclesiastical sanctions are required to retire to a monastery, for example, and lead a life of penance ban on celebrating Mass in public and confess, sometimes reduced to the lay state.
In Malta, the Pope received 8 young male victims of priests. Their spokesman said after the meeting: "The pope prayed and wept with us. I was impressed by his humility. He took upon himself the embarrassment of others. "
Open Letter to a Christian boy, Frederick Espieux student Catholic, in drafting the Le Monde (22-04-10).
"If crimes are pedophiles themselves that concern you, why this silence about manners Mickael Jackson, Roman Polanski, and Frederic Mitterand? (...). But no! You prefer to attack an institution focusing on exceptions (...). You'd better make your newspaper any positive action of our priests and the blessing that the Church has brought to mankind for 2000 years (...). I feel attacked when you attack the Church and the successor of Peter. "
V. READERS
"This is more a dozen years since I received your excellent publication Truth and Hope 3000 and I can only give you every encouragement to continue for many years yet this task is, no doubt, your ministry of Christians actually incurred. " A reader of Charleroi
What was there before the Big Bang? "Knowing that non-being is sterile, that presence can not arise from an absence, it inevitably follows that the first is uncreated existence (...).
Our universe must be rooted not great but a lot less Moreover, not 'something', but 'someone' (...). Author of this world, believers call 'God' "
Snyers J.-P., Louveigné, 01/04/10
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