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Gloria.TV News on the 31st of May 2013 To watch all the news click here: @Gloria.TV News Vatican The Vatican has felt the need to play down the importance of the daily morning homilies of Pope Francis …More
Gloria.TV News on the 31st of May 2013

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Vatican

The Vatican has felt the need to play down the importance of the daily morning homilies of Pope Francis. On May 30 Vatican press office director Father Federico Lombardi said that these homilies are published only in a summary because of – quote - “the character of the situation, and the spontaneity and familiarity of the Pope’s remarks.”

Switzerland

The Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X, Bishop Bernard Fellay, has confirmed that he will attend the conference “Fatima: The Path To Peace!” taking place this September in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The conference is organized by The Fatima Center of Fr Nicholas Gruner. Bishop Fellay joins a growing number of prominent speakers including former Texas U.S. Representative an Southern Baptist Dr. Ron Paul, Pro-Life warrior Joe Scheidler and the Canadian Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire. Bishop Fellay’s talk is titled “The Rosary Crusade and the Need for Catholic Nations”.

USA

Family-owned U.S. businesses have filed lawsuits against the Department of Health and Human Services' contraceptive mandate. These lawsuits are now making their way through the courts. The businesses offer a range of services including making wooden cabinets, selling car supplies, and running a chain of arts and crafts stores. Their owners include Catholics, evangelical Christians and Mennonites. They all believe that their businesses should be allowed to seek an exemption from that part of the health law that violates their religious beliefs. An example: On May 23, a Denver court heard the appeal of the Greens, owners of Hobby Lobby, an Oklahoma-based craft store chain. They filed suit against the U.S. government over the contraceptive mandate's requirement to cover emergency contraceptives such as the morning-after pill.

Turkey

On Wednesday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the rule of the Christian Byzantines in what is now Turkey a "dark chapter". According to him with their victory over the Byzantine Empire, the Muslim Ottomans started a – quote - "age of enlightenment." Erdogan spoke at a ceremony for a new highway bridge over the Bosphorus in Istanbul, on the anniversary of the conquest of Constantinople, which took place on 29 May 1453. The Byzantine Empire was the reign of Orthodox Christianity in the Christian state of the Greeks in Eastern Mediterranean territory.
gloriaburnsenoch
I like the Pope's daily homilies. The people like the Pope so why not?
Not going to comment on the Turkey comments, why bother. Pax et Bonum
Leone
Well said, Paradise 👍
Paradise
Concerning Francis' morning homilies: Pope Francis has stated that he is too old to change and that he wants to go on as a pope the way he proceeded as archbishop of Buenos Aires. But his morning homilies show that this does not work. The former archbishop Bergoglio is pope now, and all the words he utters will be taken as words of the pope.
Germen
Thank you, Lucia and Doina, for the news today.
Happy weekend. Blessings.
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