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Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Margaret of Scotland. Who Hears Is Part of the Kingdom Vatican With thousands of faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Sunday Angelus, Pope Benedict XVI …More
Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Margaret of Scotland.

Who Hears Is Part of the Kingdom

Vatican

With thousands of faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Sunday Angelus, Pope Benedict XVI focused his address on Sunday’s Mass reading from the Gospel of St. Mark. While creation is “destined to end,” he said, Jesus’ words are "eternal." The Holy Father added: in a well-known parable in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Jesus compares himself to a sower and explains that the seed is the Word. “The ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit” are part of the Kingdom of God”.

Ex-Priest in Gay-Marriage

Canada

A Canadian Catholic priest who has been suspended from ministry and become a full-time advocate for homosexual rights plan to join his longtime partner in a marriage ceremony on November 14. Father Karl Clemens, who moved to Toronto after 33 years as a priest of the Kingston diocese, told reporters: “I’m leading the way-- or pioneering, as it were-- in something that I think is very important.”

Obama Wants to Restrictions For Abortion

United States

White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod suggested Sunday that President Obama will intervene to make sure a controversial amendment restricting federal funding for abortion coverage is stripped from final health care reform legislation – Fox News has reported. In doing so, the president would be heeding the call of abortion supporters like Planned Parenthood that have called the White House their "strongest weapon" in keeping such restrictions out of the bill. The president already said last week that he did not support the amendment.

New Vatican torture?

United Kingdom

The British journalist Damian Thompson has commented on the new CD „Alma Mater. Music from the Vatican“. The CD features the voice of the Holy Father combining it with music. Thompson’s overall verdict: “The Catholic Church may have abolished the Inquisition, but it still knows the meaning of torture.” The title of his article on the CD: How dare they subject Pope Benedict to this musical atrocity?
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