Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Vincent Ferrer. Koran Burner Should Be Arrested Pakistan Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha, the leader of the Catholic Church in Pakistan, has called for the arrest of …More
Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Vincent Ferrer.
Koran Burner Should Be Arrested
Pakistan
Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha, the leader of the Catholic Church in Pakistan, has called for the arrest of the Protestant US pastor Wayne Sapp. Sapp’s decision to burn the Koran triggered protests that have killed at least 24 people in Afghanistan. Archbishop Saldanha is president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Lahore. He condemned the desecration of the Koran carried out by Sapp under the supervision of Pastor Terry Jones. The bishop said: “The US government talks about religious freedom – but we call upon the US government to prevent such actions by extremists and other fundamentalist Christians.”
Bishop Says Old Pontifical Mass in Amsterdam
Netherlands
Coming Sunday, Bishop Czeslaw Kozon of Copenhagen, will confer the sacrament of Confirmation and offer an old rite Pontifical Mass at the Throne at St. Agnes Church in Amsterdam, rorate-caeli.blogspot.com reports. The ceremonies will start at 11 am.
Abortion Kills Girls
India
An Indian diocese is working to counter the increasing prevalence of sex-selective abortions. 914 girls are born in India for every 1,000 boys, according to a recent census report. “Can we afford to be silent spectators and not do anything about these missing women?” said of Ajmer, a city of 485,000 in northwestern India.
Priests Are Not Immune From the Devil’s Snares
Chili
Retired Cardinal Jorge Medina has reminded Catholics that priests are not immune from the devil's snares. He made his statement during an interview with the magazine Caras in reaction to a sexual abuse case involving the prominent Chilean priest Fernando Karadima. Medina defended the Vatican-imposed sanctions on Fr. Karadima. “Canon Law allows for leniency, especially when the person in question is elderly or recognized for his merits” – the Cardinal said. Fr. Karadima was found guilty of sexual abuse by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. After the investigation, he was ordered to retire to life of prayer and penance.
If You Don’t Have a Backbone
The website “abbey-roads.blogspot.com” has published yesterday a great quote from Fr. John Corapi. Regarding the failure of leadership by bishops and other Catholic leaders, Fr. Corapi, states, "I sympathize with anybody's dilemma who is in authority - but I only sympathize with it to a point." He explains, "If you don't have a backbone, you can't stand up straight. And if you can't stand, you're apt to fall for anything."
Koran Burner Should Be Arrested
Pakistan
Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha, the leader of the Catholic Church in Pakistan, has called for the arrest of the Protestant US pastor Wayne Sapp. Sapp’s decision to burn the Koran triggered protests that have killed at least 24 people in Afghanistan. Archbishop Saldanha is president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Lahore. He condemned the desecration of the Koran carried out by Sapp under the supervision of Pastor Terry Jones. The bishop said: “The US government talks about religious freedom – but we call upon the US government to prevent such actions by extremists and other fundamentalist Christians.”
Bishop Says Old Pontifical Mass in Amsterdam
Netherlands
Coming Sunday, Bishop Czeslaw Kozon of Copenhagen, will confer the sacrament of Confirmation and offer an old rite Pontifical Mass at the Throne at St. Agnes Church in Amsterdam, rorate-caeli.blogspot.com reports. The ceremonies will start at 11 am.
Abortion Kills Girls
India
An Indian diocese is working to counter the increasing prevalence of sex-selective abortions. 914 girls are born in India for every 1,000 boys, according to a recent census report. “Can we afford to be silent spectators and not do anything about these missing women?” said of Ajmer, a city of 485,000 in northwestern India.
Priests Are Not Immune From the Devil’s Snares
Chili
Retired Cardinal Jorge Medina has reminded Catholics that priests are not immune from the devil's snares. He made his statement during an interview with the magazine Caras in reaction to a sexual abuse case involving the prominent Chilean priest Fernando Karadima. Medina defended the Vatican-imposed sanctions on Fr. Karadima. “Canon Law allows for leniency, especially when the person in question is elderly or recognized for his merits” – the Cardinal said. Fr. Karadima was found guilty of sexual abuse by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. After the investigation, he was ordered to retire to life of prayer and penance.
If You Don’t Have a Backbone
The website “abbey-roads.blogspot.com” has published yesterday a great quote from Fr. John Corapi. Regarding the failure of leadership by bishops and other Catholic leaders, Fr. Corapi, states, "I sympathize with anybody's dilemma who is in authority - but I only sympathize with it to a point." He explains, "If you don't have a backbone, you can't stand up straight. And if you can't stand, you're apt to fall for anything."
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“Do on Earth the will of our Heavenly Father. For I saw eyes that asked, even though hey never said a thing."
Father Airton Freire, founder of the Earth Foundation, in the community known as Trash Street in Arcoverde, state of Pernambuco, Brazil.
The social work carried out by Father Airton started two years after his ordination, when he met the community of Trash Street and was profoundly touched …More
“Do on Earth the will of our Heavenly Father. For I saw eyes that asked, even though hey never said a thing."
Father Airton Freire, founder of the Earth Foundation, in the community known as Trash Street in Arcoverde, state of Pernambuco, Brazil.
The social work carried out by Father Airton started two years after his ordination, when he met the community of Trash Street and was profoundly touched by what was happening in that community at the time, where extreme poverty reigned everywhere. People were left to fend for themselves, feeding on leftover food found in trashcans or from alms given by passerbys; "living" in cardboard, tin or mud shanties; no sanitation of any kind, no electric lights, no pavement on the streets, no school, no medical assistance... People kept apart from the values and progress of Christian society. He felt the need to go live in that community, with those who lived without hope of a better future.
On a certain day, during Mass, at the time of Holy Communion, he heard the crying of children that hungrily asked "I want a cookie", and that moment never left his heart. His unrest and his wish to do something for these people made Father Airton join forces with the mothers who begged for alms to feed their children. He then started to identify the works needed to be done by people of Trash Street, dividing the functions according the possibilities of each person. "Find your talents and do the will of God". Simple as that, serving using the things one knows how to do.
In this simplicity Father Airton lives still, urging every person to put himself or herself to service, like he says himself: "There is no mistery, it is plain and simple, just like Jesus showed us in the house ofEmaus, in the simplicity of parting bread, everything is extraordinarily simple." A profound lover of God's Mercy, Father Airton invites us to live this sharing of talents to help one another. Give of yourself is to love truly. Today the foundation gives assistance to over 680 children, giving everything from cultural upbringing to medical assistance to the children and their families. Technical centers were created, where children and yougsters learn computing, painting, dance, and sports.
Just watching the serenity and meekness of Father Airton makes us ponder on our own values. Simply dressed and using simple slippers on his feet, he declares he has everything he needs and lacks nothing. What about us, do we share the gifts we received from God with others, or do we create obstacles to anything we can do to join the construction of God's Work? Saint Augustine used to say that Love has hands to help others, has feet to rush towards the poor and needy, Love has eyes to see misery and deprivation, has ears to listen to he moans and laments of Man. So is love. May we live that in a concrete way, putting ourselves at the disposal to serve, seeing the great and merciful love of God one in the other.
Father Airton Freire, founder of the Earth Foundation, in the community known as Trash Street in Arcoverde, state of Pernambuco, Brazil.
The social work carried out by Father Airton started two years after his ordination, when he met the community of Trash Street and was profoundly touched by what was happening in that community at the time, where extreme poverty reigned everywhere. People were left to fend for themselves, feeding on leftover food found in trashcans or from alms given by passerbys; "living" in cardboard, tin or mud shanties; no sanitation of any kind, no electric lights, no pavement on the streets, no school, no medical assistance... People kept apart from the values and progress of Christian society. He felt the need to go live in that community, with those who lived without hope of a better future.
On a certain day, during Mass, at the time of Holy Communion, he heard the crying of children that hungrily asked "I want a cookie", and that moment never left his heart. His unrest and his wish to do something for these people made Father Airton join forces with the mothers who begged for alms to feed their children. He then started to identify the works needed to be done by people of Trash Street, dividing the functions according the possibilities of each person. "Find your talents and do the will of God". Simple as that, serving using the things one knows how to do.
In this simplicity Father Airton lives still, urging every person to put himself or herself to service, like he says himself: "There is no mistery, it is plain and simple, just like Jesus showed us in the house ofEmaus, in the simplicity of parting bread, everything is extraordinarily simple." A profound lover of God's Mercy, Father Airton invites us to live this sharing of talents to help one another. Give of yourself is to love truly. Today the foundation gives assistance to over 680 children, giving everything from cultural upbringing to medical assistance to the children and their families. Technical centers were created, where children and yougsters learn computing, painting, dance, and sports.
Just watching the serenity and meekness of Father Airton makes us ponder on our own values. Simply dressed and using simple slippers on his feet, he declares he has everything he needs and lacks nothing. What about us, do we share the gifts we received from God with others, or do we create obstacles to anything we can do to join the construction of God's Work? Saint Augustine used to say that Love has hands to help others, has feet to rush towards the poor and needy, Love has eyes to see misery and deprivation, has ears to listen to he moans and laments of Man. So is love. May we live that in a concrete way, putting ourselves at the disposal to serve, seeing the great and merciful love of God one in the other.
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