Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Crescentia Hoess. Talks With Moscow Ukraine Greek-Catholic Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev would like to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill. The …More
Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Crescentia Hoess.
Talks With Moscow
Ukraine
Greek-Catholic Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev would like to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill. The archbishop intends to resolve tensions between the Moscow patriarchate and the Byzantine Catholics of Ukraine. Shevchuk was enthroned last week as Major Archbishop of Kyiv. The Greek-Catholic Chrch in the Ukraine was brutally persecuted during the Stalin era. It emerged vigorously after the fall of the Communist regime. The Church has been the frequent focus of attacks from Moscow. Moscow views the Ukraine as part of its “canonical territory,” and resents the presence of a Byzantine Church in communion with Rome. Shevchuk said “we should heal the wounds rather than irritate and deepen them.”
French Interior Minister Speaks Out Against Moslems
France
A new French law banning garments that hide the face comes into effect on April 11. It is obviously aimed at Muslim women wearing their traditional veil. There are an estimated 5 million Muslims now living in France, more than in any other European country. As presidential elections draw near, political figures are speaking frequently about the limits of accommodation to this rapidly rising religious minority. Interior minister Claude Gueant said: "There is no reason why the nation should accord to one particular religion more rights than religions that were formerly anchored in our country."
Catholic Church Losing Ground in Mexico
Mexico
The Catholic Church has been losing about 1,000 members a day in Mexico for the past decade, a new study shows. Catholicism remains the dominant religion in Mexico, accounting for about 93 million of the country’s 112 million people. But other religious groups are growing. In 1950, more than 98% of Mexicans identified themselves as Catholic. That number has dropped each decade, and is now a bit below 84%. Over the same period, the number identifying themselves as Protestant rose from 1% to almost 8%.
Australian Priests in Crisis
Australia
542 of 3000 Australian priests participated in a survey organized by the team of Dr. John O'Carroll, a communications lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. The survey was released this week. The results are that many of the priests are critical of their bishops. They also admit that they do not believe crucial Church teachings. For example only about 40 percent of them said pre-marital sex was sinful, and just 19.2 percent thought it sinful for married couples to use birth control.
Talks With Moscow
Ukraine
Greek-Catholic Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev would like to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill. The archbishop intends to resolve tensions between the Moscow patriarchate and the Byzantine Catholics of Ukraine. Shevchuk was enthroned last week as Major Archbishop of Kyiv. The Greek-Catholic Chrch in the Ukraine was brutally persecuted during the Stalin era. It emerged vigorously after the fall of the Communist regime. The Church has been the frequent focus of attacks from Moscow. Moscow views the Ukraine as part of its “canonical territory,” and resents the presence of a Byzantine Church in communion with Rome. Shevchuk said “we should heal the wounds rather than irritate and deepen them.”
French Interior Minister Speaks Out Against Moslems
France
A new French law banning garments that hide the face comes into effect on April 11. It is obviously aimed at Muslim women wearing their traditional veil. There are an estimated 5 million Muslims now living in France, more than in any other European country. As presidential elections draw near, political figures are speaking frequently about the limits of accommodation to this rapidly rising religious minority. Interior minister Claude Gueant said: "There is no reason why the nation should accord to one particular religion more rights than religions that were formerly anchored in our country."
Catholic Church Losing Ground in Mexico
Mexico
The Catholic Church has been losing about 1,000 members a day in Mexico for the past decade, a new study shows. Catholicism remains the dominant religion in Mexico, accounting for about 93 million of the country’s 112 million people. But other religious groups are growing. In 1950, more than 98% of Mexicans identified themselves as Catholic. That number has dropped each decade, and is now a bit below 84%. Over the same period, the number identifying themselves as Protestant rose from 1% to almost 8%.
Australian Priests in Crisis
Australia
542 of 3000 Australian priests participated in a survey organized by the team of Dr. John O'Carroll, a communications lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. The survey was released this week. The results are that many of the priests are critical of their bishops. They also admit that they do not believe crucial Church teachings. For example only about 40 percent of them said pre-marital sex was sinful, and just 19.2 percent thought it sinful for married couples to use birth control.
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Georgian woman cuts off web access to whole of Armenia
Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75, slices through cable while scavenging for copper
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Georgian woman cuts off web access to whole of Armenia
Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75, slices through cable while scavenging for copper
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An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighbouring Armenia, it emerged on Wednesday.
The woman, 75, had been digging for the metal not far from the capital Tbilisi when her spade damaged the fibre-optic cable on 28 March.
As Georgia provides 90% of Armenia's internet, the woman's unwitting sabotage had catastrophic consequences. Web users in the nation of 3.2 million people were left twiddling their thumbs for up to five hours as the country's main internet providers - ArmenTel, FiberNet Communication and GNC-Alfa – were prevented from supplying their normal service. Television pictures showed reporters at a news agency in the capital Yerevan staring glumly at blank screens.
Large parts of Georgia and some areas of Azerbaijan were also affected.
"It was a 75-year-old woman who was digging for copper in the ground so that she could sell it for scrap," said a spokesman for Georgia's interior ministry said yesterday.
Dubbed "the spade-hacker" by local media, the woman – who has not been named – is being investigated on suspicion of damaging property. She faces up to three years in prison if charged and convicted.
A spokesman for Georgia's interior ministry said the woman was temporarily released "on account of her old age" but could face more questioning.
The damage was detected by a system monitoring the fibre-optic link from western Europe and a security team was immediately dispatched to the spot, where the woman was arrested. The interior ministry said she had no accomplices.
The cable is owned by the Georgian railway network. It is heavily protected, but landslides or heavy rain may have exposed it to scavengers.
Pulling up unused copper cables for scrap is a common means of making money in the former Soviet Union. Some entrepreneurs have even used tractors to wrench out hundreds of metres of cable from the former nuclear testing ground at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.
Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75, slices through cable while scavenging for copper
www.guardian.co.uk/…/georgian-woman-…
An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighbouring Armenia, it emerged on Wednesday.
The woman, 75, had been digging for the metal not far from the capital Tbilisi when her spade damaged the fibre-optic cable on 28 March.
As Georgia provides 90% of Armenia's internet, the woman's unwitting sabotage had catastrophic consequences. Web users in the nation of 3.2 million people were left twiddling their thumbs for up to five hours as the country's main internet providers - ArmenTel, FiberNet Communication and GNC-Alfa – were prevented from supplying their normal service. Television pictures showed reporters at a news agency in the capital Yerevan staring glumly at blank screens.
Large parts of Georgia and some areas of Azerbaijan were also affected.
"It was a 75-year-old woman who was digging for copper in the ground so that she could sell it for scrap," said a spokesman for Georgia's interior ministry said yesterday.
Dubbed "the spade-hacker" by local media, the woman – who has not been named – is being investigated on suspicion of damaging property. She faces up to three years in prison if charged and convicted.
A spokesman for Georgia's interior ministry said the woman was temporarily released "on account of her old age" but could face more questioning.
The damage was detected by a system monitoring the fibre-optic link from western Europe and a security team was immediately dispatched to the spot, where the woman was arrested. The interior ministry said she had no accomplices.
The cable is owned by the Georgian railway network. It is heavily protected, but landslides or heavy rain may have exposed it to scavengers.
Pulling up unused copper cables for scrap is a common means of making money in the former Soviet Union. Some entrepreneurs have even used tractors to wrench out hundreds of metres of cable from the former nuclear testing ground at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.
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Catholic League says NH Republicans' new insults cross the line
“The standards of discourse in our society have collapsed to such an extent that I think we're at a dangerous level. We at the Catholic League, along with others, are prepared to hold up a 'STOP' sign and call attention to it.”
New York City, N.Y., Apr 6, 2011 / 08:10 pm (CNA).- Catholic League President Bill Donohue says Republican …More
Catholic League says NH Republicans' new insults cross the line
“The standards of discourse in our society have collapsed to such an extent that I think we're at a dangerous level. We at the Catholic League, along with others, are prepared to hold up a 'STOP' sign and call attention to it.”
New York City, N.Y., Apr 6, 2011 / 08:10 pm (CNA).- Catholic League President Bill Donohue says Republican lawmakers in New Hampshire “crossed the line” with comments threatening to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Catholic Church in their state and by associating the league with cases of child abuse.
“I've never seen such an incredible reaction from state lawmakers in my entire life,” said Donohue, describing the response he received from state representatives after speaking out against remarks by Republican state representative David Bettencourt. The leading Republican called Bishop John B. McCormack of Manchester a “pedophile pimp” after the bishop criticized proposed budget cuts.
Bettencourt eventually apologized for the remark and is scheduled to meet with the bishop on April 7. But several of Bettencourt's fellow party members lashed out at Donohue for asking state legislators to censure him. Donohue highlighted two messages in particular, one accusing the league of defending an enabler of sexual abuse, and another threatening the Church's tax-exempt status in New Hampshire.
“I am now considering a bill to remove the Church's tax exempt status in New Hampshire, for you have clearly shown that you no longer want it,” Rep. Andrew Manuse wrote in an e-mail to the league, after Donohue called for Bettencourt to be censured.
Donohue said another Republican, Representative Lynne Ober, told him it was “certainly unfortunate that the Catholic League chooses to harbor a person who helped pedophiles continue abusing children.” Bishop McCormack, who became head of the Manchester diocese in 1998, was once an administrator for Cardinal Bernard F. Law in Boston and investigated sexual abuse complaints.
Rep. Manuse told CNA that he had received a large volume of e-mailed responses after Donohue informed Catholic League supporters of the threat. Manuse confirmed that he was now “no longer considering legislation” to begin taxing the Church and said he retracted the threat.
A colleague of Rep. Ober said she was not available for comment on April 6.
New Hampshire lawmakers, unlike those in many other states, are “citizen legislators” who do not hold a full-time government position. While Donohue sees some advantages to this system, he also believes it may partly account for the conduct of Bettencourt, Ober, and Manuse.
“I wish the rest of the country had part-time legislators,” said Donohue, who believes the system tends to make government less intrusive. “But, there's a negative side. They don't know what's expected of the public servant, because they're not full-time public servants.”
Donohue believes that the entire incident shows political discourse reaching a low point. “If that's the road we're going to go down, it means everybody who disagrees with someone, on whatever issue, can have a free-for-all – and we can all now engage in the most incredible vitriol and name-calling of the most scurrilous sort, and expect that to stand.”
“It'd be one thing if we had a bunch of bratty teenagers throwing a temper tantrum – one might expect that. But you're talking about public servants, who are there to represent the citizens of New Hampshire, carrying on in this manner.”
“The standards of discourse in our society have collapsed to such an extent that I think we're at a dangerous level. We at the Catholic League, along with others, are prepared to hold up a 'STOP' sign and call attention to it.”
www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/catholic-league…
“The standards of discourse in our society have collapsed to such an extent that I think we're at a dangerous level. We at the Catholic League, along with others, are prepared to hold up a 'STOP' sign and call attention to it.”
New York City, N.Y., Apr 6, 2011 / 08:10 pm (CNA).- Catholic League President Bill Donohue says Republican lawmakers in New Hampshire “crossed the line” with comments threatening to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Catholic Church in their state and by associating the league with cases of child abuse.
“I've never seen such an incredible reaction from state lawmakers in my entire life,” said Donohue, describing the response he received from state representatives after speaking out against remarks by Republican state representative David Bettencourt. The leading Republican called Bishop John B. McCormack of Manchester a “pedophile pimp” after the bishop criticized proposed budget cuts.
Bettencourt eventually apologized for the remark and is scheduled to meet with the bishop on April 7. But several of Bettencourt's fellow party members lashed out at Donohue for asking state legislators to censure him. Donohue highlighted two messages in particular, one accusing the league of defending an enabler of sexual abuse, and another threatening the Church's tax-exempt status in New Hampshire.
“I am now considering a bill to remove the Church's tax exempt status in New Hampshire, for you have clearly shown that you no longer want it,” Rep. Andrew Manuse wrote in an e-mail to the league, after Donohue called for Bettencourt to be censured.
Donohue said another Republican, Representative Lynne Ober, told him it was “certainly unfortunate that the Catholic League chooses to harbor a person who helped pedophiles continue abusing children.” Bishop McCormack, who became head of the Manchester diocese in 1998, was once an administrator for Cardinal Bernard F. Law in Boston and investigated sexual abuse complaints.
Rep. Manuse told CNA that he had received a large volume of e-mailed responses after Donohue informed Catholic League supporters of the threat. Manuse confirmed that he was now “no longer considering legislation” to begin taxing the Church and said he retracted the threat.
A colleague of Rep. Ober said she was not available for comment on April 6.
New Hampshire lawmakers, unlike those in many other states, are “citizen legislators” who do not hold a full-time government position. While Donohue sees some advantages to this system, he also believes it may partly account for the conduct of Bettencourt, Ober, and Manuse.
“I wish the rest of the country had part-time legislators,” said Donohue, who believes the system tends to make government less intrusive. “But, there's a negative side. They don't know what's expected of the public servant, because they're not full-time public servants.”
Donohue believes that the entire incident shows political discourse reaching a low point. “If that's the road we're going to go down, it means everybody who disagrees with someone, on whatever issue, can have a free-for-all – and we can all now engage in the most incredible vitriol and name-calling of the most scurrilous sort, and expect that to stand.”
“It'd be one thing if we had a bunch of bratty teenagers throwing a temper tantrum – one might expect that. But you're talking about public servants, who are there to represent the citizens of New Hampshire, carrying on in this manner.”
“The standards of discourse in our society have collapsed to such an extent that I think we're at a dangerous level. We at the Catholic League, along with others, are prepared to hold up a 'STOP' sign and call attention to it.”
www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/catholic-league…
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Pope Benedict Chronicles Jesus Christ's Final Days
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ZENIT wishes to confirm that it has not published this article and that ZENIT has no relationship whatsoever with the Web site that has circulated it.
ROME, APRIL 4, 2011 (Zenit.org).- A jesting blogger caused a media stir April 1 by posting a story titled "John Paul II's Beatification Postponed Indefinitely. Late Pontiff's Postulator Replaced; Miracle Questioned."
The blogger used graphics from …More
ZENIT wishes to confirm that it has not published this article and that ZENIT has no relationship whatsoever with the Web site that has circulated it.
ROME, APRIL 4, 2011 (Zenit.org).- A jesting blogger caused a media stir April 1 by posting a story titled "John Paul II's Beatification Postponed Indefinitely. Late Pontiff's Postulator Replaced; Miracle Questioned."
The blogger used graphics from ZENIT, such that the article appeared authentic, though it concluded with "Just Kidding. You have been had," with a link to the blog.
Given the subsequent circulation of this "news," ZENIT wishes to confirm that it has not published this article and that ZENIT has no relationship whatsoever with the Web site that has circulated it.
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ROME, APRIL 4, 2011 (Zenit.org).- A jesting blogger caused a media stir April 1 by posting a story titled "John Paul II's Beatification Postponed Indefinitely. Late Pontiff's Postulator Replaced; Miracle Questioned."
The blogger used graphics from ZENIT, such that the article appeared authentic, though it concluded with "Just Kidding. You have been had," with a link to the blog.
Given the subsequent circulation of this "news," ZENIT wishes to confirm that it has not published this article and that ZENIT has no relationship whatsoever with the Web site that has circulated it.
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St. Crescentia Hoess
(1682-1744)
Crescentia was born in 1682 in a little town near Augsburg, the daughter of a poor weaver. She spent play time praying in the parish church, assisted those even poorer than herself and had so mastered the truths of her religion that she was permitted to make her holy Communion at the then unusually early age of seven. In the town she was called "the little angel."…More
St. Crescentia Hoess
(1682-1744)
Crescentia was born in 1682 in a little town near Augsburg, the daughter of a poor weaver. She spent play time praying in the parish church, assisted those even poorer than herself and had so mastered the truths of her religion that she was permitted to make her holy Communion at the then unusually early age of seven. In the town she was called "the little angel." As she grew older she desired to enter the convent of the Tertiaries of St. Francis. But the convent was poor and, because Crescentia had no dowry, the superiors refused her admission. Her case was then pleaded by the Protestant mayor of the town to whom the convent owed a favor. The community felt it was forced into receiving her, and her new life was made miserable. She was considered a burden and assigned nothing other than menial tasks. Even her cheerful spirit was misinterpreted as flattery or hypocrisy.
Conditions improved four years later when a new superior was elected who realized her virtue. Crescentia herself was appointed mistress of novices. She so won the love and respect of the sisters that, upon the death of the superior, Crescentia herself was unanimously elected to that position. Under her the financial state of the convent improved and her reputation in spiritual matters spread. She was soon being consulted by princes and princesses as well as by bishops and cardinals seeking her advice. And yet, a true daughter of Francis, she remained ever humble.
Bodily afflictions and pain were always with her. First it was headaches and toothaches. Then she lost the ability to walk, her hands and feet gradually becoming so crippled that her body curled up into a fetal position. In the spirit of Francis she cried out, "Oh, you bodily members, praise God that he has given you the capacity to suffer." Despite her sufferings she was filled with peace and joy as she died on Easter Sunday in 1744.
She was beatified in 1900 and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2001.
Comment:
Although she grew up in poverty and willingly embraced it in her vocation, Crescentia had a good head for business. Under her able administration, her convent regained financial stability. Too often we think of good money management as, at best, a less-than-holy gift. But Crescentia was wise enough to balance her worldly skills with such acumen in spiritual matters that heads of State and Church both sought her advice.
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(1682-1744)
Crescentia was born in 1682 in a little town near Augsburg, the daughter of a poor weaver. She spent play time praying in the parish church, assisted those even poorer than herself and had so mastered the truths of her religion that she was permitted to make her holy Communion at the then unusually early age of seven. In the town she was called "the little angel." As she grew older she desired to enter the convent of the Tertiaries of St. Francis. But the convent was poor and, because Crescentia had no dowry, the superiors refused her admission. Her case was then pleaded by the Protestant mayor of the town to whom the convent owed a favor. The community felt it was forced into receiving her, and her new life was made miserable. She was considered a burden and assigned nothing other than menial tasks. Even her cheerful spirit was misinterpreted as flattery or hypocrisy.
Conditions improved four years later when a new superior was elected who realized her virtue. Crescentia herself was appointed mistress of novices. She so won the love and respect of the sisters that, upon the death of the superior, Crescentia herself was unanimously elected to that position. Under her the financial state of the convent improved and her reputation in spiritual matters spread. She was soon being consulted by princes and princesses as well as by bishops and cardinals seeking her advice. And yet, a true daughter of Francis, she remained ever humble.
Bodily afflictions and pain were always with her. First it was headaches and toothaches. Then she lost the ability to walk, her hands and feet gradually becoming so crippled that her body curled up into a fetal position. In the spirit of Francis she cried out, "Oh, you bodily members, praise God that he has given you the capacity to suffer." Despite her sufferings she was filled with peace and joy as she died on Easter Sunday in 1744.
She was beatified in 1900 and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2001.
Comment:
Although she grew up in poverty and willingly embraced it in her vocation, Crescentia had a good head for business. Under her able administration, her convent regained financial stability. Too often we think of good money management as, at best, a less-than-holy gift. But Crescentia was wise enough to balance her worldly skills with such acumen in spiritual matters that heads of State and Church both sought her advice.
www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx
Talks With Moscow
Ukraine
Greek-Catholic Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev would like to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill. The archbishop intends to resolve tensions between the Moscow patriarchate and the Byzantine Catholics of Ukraine. Shevchuk was enthroned last week as Major Archbishop of Kyiv. The Greek-Catholic Chrch in the Ukraine was brutally persecuted during the Stalin …More
Talks With Moscow
Ukraine
Greek-Catholic Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev would like to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill. The archbishop intends to resolve tensions between the Moscow patriarchate and the Byzantine Catholics of Ukraine. Shevchuk was enthroned last week as Major Archbishop of Kyiv. The Greek-Catholic Chrch in the Ukraine was brutally persecuted during the Stalin era. It emerged vigorously after the fall of the Communist regime. The Church has been the frequent focus of attacks from Moscow. Moscow views the Ukraine as part of its “canonical territory,” and resents the presence of a Byzantine Church in communion with Rome. Shevchuk said “we should heal the wounds rather than irritate and deepen them.”
French Interior Minister Speaks Out Against Moslems
France
A new French law banning garments that hide the face comes into effect on April 11. It is obviously aimed at Muslim women wearing their traditional veil. There are an estimated 5 million Muslims now living in France, more than in any other European country. As presidential elections draw near, political figures are speaking frequently about the limits of accommodation to this rapidly rising religious minority. Interior minister Claude Gueant said: "There is no reason why the nation should accord to one particular religion more rights than religions that were formerly anchored in our country."
Catholic Church Losing Ground in Mexico
Mexico
The Catholic Church has been losing about 1,000 members a day in Mexico for the past decade, a new study shows. Catholicism remains the dominant religion in Mexico, accounting for about 93 million of the country’s 112 million people. But other religious groups are growing. In 1950, more than 98% of Mexicans identified themselves as Catholic. That number has dropped each decade, and is now a bit below 84%. Over the same period, the number identifying themselves as Protestant rose from 1% to almost 8%.
Australian Priests in Crisis
Australia
542 of 3000 Australian priests participated in a survey organized by the team of Dr. John O'Carroll, a communications lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. The survey was released this week. The results are that many of the priests are critical of their bishops. They also admit that they do not believe crucial Church teachings. For example only about 40 percent of them said pre-marital sex was sinful, and just 19.2 percent thought it sinful for married couples to use birth control.