Catholic Church Way Too Serious. CARIBBEAN CATHOLIC - May 19, 2013 ... regions. Roy also presented the pope with a small basket of bread to symbolize the more than 1 billion people who go hungry in the world and to highlight a new campaign Caritas will launch this year to fight world ...http://caribbeancatholic.blogspot.com/2013/05/catholic-church-way-too-serious.html
Hymn for Pentecost A WING AND A PRAYER - May 19, 2013 Creator Spiritus, mentes tuorum visita, imple superna gratia quae tu creasti pectora. Qui diceris Paraclitus, altissimi donum Dei, fons vivus, ignis, caritas, et spiritalis unctio. Tu, septiformis munere, digitus paternae dexterae, Tu rite promissum Patris, sermone ditans guttura. Accende lumen sensibus: infunde amorem cordibus: infirma nostri corporis virtute firmans perpeti. Hostem repellas longius, pacemque dones protinus: ductore sic te praevio vitemus omne noxium. Per te sciamus ...http://awingandaprayer.blogspot.com/2006/06/hymn-for-pentecost.html
Pope Receives Caritas Internationalis' Executive Committee VIS NEWS - HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE - May 16, 2013 Vatican City, 16 May 2013 (VIS) – This morning, after celebrating Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae chapel, Pope Francis met with the Executive Committee of Caritas Internationalis, with their president, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, for a presentation of their Campaign Against Hunger, which will be launched soon.http://visnews-en.blogspot.com/2013/05/pope-receives-caritas-internationalis.html
Caritas Official: Bombing of New Tanzanian Parish Surpasses Other Attacks CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 10, 2013 A top official with the charity Caritas Tanzania says a Sunday attack on a new Catholic parish was the first of its kind for the East African country. "It is not normal and this has never happened in our country before," said Joachim Wangabo, executive secretary of Caritas Tanzania, in a May 6 interview with CNA. "The government says it is associated with Muslim terrorists, but it is necessary to know why it happened," he stated. The attack happened May 5 ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/caritas-official-bombing-of-new.html
Take Responsibility! BATTLE FOR THE CORE - May 3, 2013 ... done. Don't wait for the next person, the priest or the bishop to do it. If you have an idea, YOU DO IT and get people to help you! I'm sure you all heard about the 1.3 million ( reported as thousands again --which is still technically true) that marched on Paris to protest ...http://www.battleforthecoreoftheworld.com/2013/05/vatican-cardinal-bishops-not-bishop.html
"In Addition to Justice, Man Needs, and Will Always Need, Love." FIAX LUX - May 2, 2013 "In addition to justice, man needs, and will always need, Love." - Deus Caritas Est, pope-emeritus Benedict XVIhttp://fiaxlux.tumblr.com/post/49428188185
Cardinal Burke: Bishop's Conferences Stifle the Message of the Gospel THAT THE BONES YOU HAVE CRUSHED MAY THRILL - May 2, 2013 http://thatthebonesyouhavecrushedmaythrill.blogspot.com/2013/05/cardinal-burke-bishops-conferences.html
Pope's Plans for Encyclical, Travel Disclosed CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 30, 2013 ... final decision has not been ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/popes-plans-for-encyclical-travel.html
Pope Francis' First Encyclical Might Be Out This Year, Says Spokesman CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 29, 2013 ... between the end of April and early May, the spokesman said. In the meantime, he said Pope Francis will continue to reside in the Vatican guesthouse where he has been staying since the beginning of the conclave that elected him, instead of the papal apartment in the apostolic palace. The Domus Sanctae Marthae houses permanent residents as well as some guests who come to the Vatican for meetings. Pope Francis "likes it there very much," the spokesman said, and, at the moment, it doesn't seem he ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/pope-francis-first-encyclical-might-be.html
The Legacy of Pope Benedict FOUNTAIN OF ELIAS - April 28, 2013 Faith and the future. From Fr. Angelo : In his first encyclical letter, Deus Caritas Est , "On Christian Love" (December, 25, 2005), Pope Benedict began his exposition on the three theological virtues, and there distinguishes the love of God from its counterfeits in relativistic society. Modern secular society has exalted erotic love, or desire, and has accused the Church of destroying it. But Pope Benedict directs our attention toward Jesus Christ and His friendship ...http://fountainofelias.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-legacy-of-pope-benedict.html
Ex-Catholic Has No Right to Church Job - German Court CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 28, 2013 ... for the mainline Protestant and Catholic churches, which together are Germany's largest employer after the public sector, against some lay employees and unions challenging the churches' special status in German labour law. "The defendant's freedom of religion and conscience is certainly very important," the Erfurt-based court said in a statement. But it added that judges could not order the Church to employ someone who had officially given up his membership. Pope Francis has stressed the ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/ex-catholic-has-no-right-to-church-job.html
A New Way of Loving THE WORD FOR THE WORLD - April 27, 2013 ... the most used, abused and misused word to which we attach different meanings! Benedict XVI's first encyclical "Deus Caritas Est" (God is Love) teaches us many things about love. We say love to mean a lot of things. We say: "I love my father, mother, brothers, sisters, my friends", etc. We also say "I love my pet; I love ice cream; I love my clothes and gadgets; I love my country; I love the weather; I love my home, garden, room", etc. We use the word "love" when we refer to a ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KJEIY/~3/SCa0_tbkrz8/a-new-way-of-loving_27.html
Director of Scottish Catholic Aid Fund Quits After Five Months CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 24, 2013 ... charity said: "Patricia Chale's employment with Sciaf will end on 2 May...For the time being Sciaf will be led by the members of the senior management team working together." Before taking up her Sciaf role Ms Chale had been executive director of Caritas Westminster, a newly created social action arm of the Archdiocese of Westminster, for seven ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/director-of-scottish-catholic-aid-fund.html
Vatican Office Works to Create Community of 'One Heart' CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 22, 2013 http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/vatican-office-works-to-create.html
Pope Sympathises With Spain's Jobless CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 18, 2013 ... made to the country's current political-institutional structure, noting the need for dialogue in society and among all its components, dialogue that is based on mutual respect and keeping in mind values such as justice and solidarity, in seeking the common good." The meeting came in the midst of mass protests by Spanish youths angry over the high unemployment, which has caused thousands to leave the country in search of work. Unemployment stands at a staggering 55 per cent among 16 to ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/pope-sympathises-with-spains-jobless.html
Pope Francis to Revolutionise Running of Church With New Advisory Panel CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 18, 2013 ... pope Benedict's correspondence last year had identified "substantial problems" that needed to be addressed "in a real way". Another formidably savvy member of the panel will be Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, the archbishop of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the 1990s, he was handed the responsibility of overseeing his country's transition to democracy following the dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko. A statement from the Vatican said the group would not be meeting until October. ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/pope-francis-to-revolutionise-running.html
Caritas Lebanon Asks for Help With Syrian Refugees ZENIT - THE WORLD SEEN FROM ROME - April 17, 2013 The president of Caritas in Lebanon says they need international aid to care for refugees from Syria, whose numbers are "growing in an incredible way." Father Simon Faddoul spoke with Vatican Radio about the crisis, saying the Lebanese government and aid agencies are increasingly unable to cope. "The Lebanese ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zenit/english/~3/bBnthG-qWjI/caritas-lebanon-asks-for-help-with-syrian-refugees
Caritas Lebanon: Desperate Appeal for Help for Syrian Refugees NEWS.VA - April 17, 2013 (Vatican Radio) Caritas Lebanon is launching a desperate appeal for international assistance to meet the needs of an overwhelming number of Syrian refugees coming over the border. President of Caritas Lebanon, Fr. Simon Faddoul tells Tracey McClure "the situation is getting worse. It's getting disastrous." Listen: Humanitarian agencies and the Lebanese government itself, he says are increasingly unable, without international help, to house the refugees, ...http://www.news.va/en/news/caritas-lebanon-desperate-appeal-for-help-for-syri
FBI Award Received SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY - April 16, 2013 http://blog.holyfamilysisters.org/2013/04/16/fbi-award-received/
Growing Presence Demands Increased Responsibilities, Say Latino Leaders CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 16, 2013 http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/growing-presence-demands-increased.html
