Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. John Eudes. Raid Against Bishops Was Illegal Belgium A Belgian court has ruled that the June 24 police raid on the offices of the country’s Episcopal conference was …More
Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. John Eudes.
Raid Against Bishops Was Illegal
Belgium
A Belgian court has ruled that the June 24 police raid on the offices of the country’s Episcopal conference was illegal. Evidence collected in that raid, cannot be used by prosecutors. The disclosure was made by Fernand Keuleneer, the attorney representing the archdiocese. The Belgian bishops had protested the June 24 raid, in which police seized files from the Episcopal conference and from an independent commission set up by the bishops to investigate child-abuse charges. Those files will now be returned, Keuleneer indicated.
Bishop Remains Firm
Spain
Bishop Demetrio Fernández González of the southern Spanish city of Córdoba is remaining firm in his resolve not to permit Islamic worship at the city’s cathedral. Cordoba was once the seat of Muslim power in Spain. The cathedral was formerly a mosque. It had been built on the site of a Catholic church. “Would the Muslim be happy to do the same in any of their mosques?” the bishop asked. “Absolutely not. Because I understand their religious feeling and they have to understand ours as well.” “We wouldn’t think of asking for the Damascus mosque” he added -- referring to the Umayyad Mosque, once the site of a Catholic church.
The Bones of John the Baptist?
Bulgaria
Archaeologists and clerics in Bulgaria claim they have unearthed bones belonging to John the Baptist. The country's government hopes that this will bring salvation through tourism. The remains, including a skull fragment and a tooth. They were uncovered last month during the excavation of a fourth-century monastery on St. Ivan Island, off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast. The relics were in a sealed reliquary buried next to a tiny urn inscribed with St. John's name and his birth date, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Wahlberg in Church
Australia
39-year-old Hollywood actor and former rap star Mark Wahlberg has attended Mass at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney. He took time out of the Australian promotional tour of his new film. Wahlberg was at Mass on Monday, wearing his golf clothes after a game, reports the Herald Sun. "I love golf and I love church. I do both every day,'' the committed Catholic and Calvin Klein underwear model said as he entered the cathedral. Wahlberg was raised a Roman Catholic in Boston. He is a former drug addict and had several run-ins with police as a teenager. But he cleaned up his image and has settled down wife Rhea Durham and their four children.
Raid Against Bishops Was Illegal
Belgium
A Belgian court has ruled that the June 24 police raid on the offices of the country’s Episcopal conference was illegal. Evidence collected in that raid, cannot be used by prosecutors. The disclosure was made by Fernand Keuleneer, the attorney representing the archdiocese. The Belgian bishops had protested the June 24 raid, in which police seized files from the Episcopal conference and from an independent commission set up by the bishops to investigate child-abuse charges. Those files will now be returned, Keuleneer indicated.
Bishop Remains Firm
Spain
Bishop Demetrio Fernández González of the southern Spanish city of Córdoba is remaining firm in his resolve not to permit Islamic worship at the city’s cathedral. Cordoba was once the seat of Muslim power in Spain. The cathedral was formerly a mosque. It had been built on the site of a Catholic church. “Would the Muslim be happy to do the same in any of their mosques?” the bishop asked. “Absolutely not. Because I understand their religious feeling and they have to understand ours as well.” “We wouldn’t think of asking for the Damascus mosque” he added -- referring to the Umayyad Mosque, once the site of a Catholic church.
The Bones of John the Baptist?
Bulgaria
Archaeologists and clerics in Bulgaria claim they have unearthed bones belonging to John the Baptist. The country's government hopes that this will bring salvation through tourism. The remains, including a skull fragment and a tooth. They were uncovered last month during the excavation of a fourth-century monastery on St. Ivan Island, off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast. The relics were in a sealed reliquary buried next to a tiny urn inscribed with St. John's name and his birth date, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Wahlberg in Church
Australia
39-year-old Hollywood actor and former rap star Mark Wahlberg has attended Mass at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney. He took time out of the Australian promotional tour of his new film. Wahlberg was at Mass on Monday, wearing his golf clothes after a game, reports the Herald Sun. "I love golf and I love church. I do both every day,'' the committed Catholic and Calvin Klein underwear model said as he entered the cathedral. Wahlberg was raised a Roman Catholic in Boston. He is a former drug addict and had several run-ins with police as a teenager. But he cleaned up his image and has settled down wife Rhea Durham and their four children.