Gloria TV News on the Feast of Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian. Trapped Christians Jerusalem Patriarch Fouad Twal, Archbishop of Jerusalem, has lamented the effects of Israel’s security wall upon the …More
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Trapped Christians
Jerusalem
Patriarch Fouad Twal, Archbishop of Jerusalem, has lamented the effects of Israel’s security wall upon the Palestinian Christian communion. Twal predicted that the number of Christians would dwindle from 10,000 today to 5,000 in 2016 because of emigration fostered by the wall. The barrage has “enclosed many Palestinians in ghetto-like areas where access to work, medical care, schooling and other basic services have been badly affected,” he said. “We have a new generation of Christians who cannot visit the Holy Places of their faith that are only a few kilometers from their place of residence.”
Russians in Rome
Russia – Vatican
Archbishop Hilarion, the chief ecumenical official of the Russian Orthodox Church is visiting the Vatican this week, for talks with several ranking officials of the Holy See. The orthodox Archbishop became the head of the external-affairs department for the Moscow patriarchate when his predecessor in that post, Metropolitan Kirill, was elected Patriarch. He will be hosted by Cardinal Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity. Hilarion will also meet with Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, the prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, to discuss relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Churches of the Byzantine rite.
Successful Roman Parish
Italy
In an interview with Vatican Radio, Father Joseph Kramer of the Priestly Society of Saint Peter emphasized that the average age of those attending Mass at his parish is 30. Reacting to a lack of discipline, the younger generation, he says, is drawn to the prayerfulness, silence, order, and symmetry of the Mass. Father Kramer is pastor of a parish in Rome devoted to the celebration of the sacraments in the extraordinary form. He said that the postwar generation reacted against an overly disciplined environment characterized by coldness and distance between bishops and priests and priests and laity. A positive effect of the Second Vatican Council, he said, was warmer relations within the Church, but the proverbial baby was thrown out with that bathwater.
Second Collection Against Gay-Marriage Law
Portland
The campaign to overturn Maine's new gay-marriage law is heating up within the Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland asked parishioners to donate in a second collection on Sunday. Church officials said they need money to help repeal the state's same-sex marriage law. Officials said donations like the ones collected at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception will go to pay for television ads aimed at overturning the state law that legislators passed last spring. Outside the church, two former nuns who now belong to a group called "Catholics for Marriage Equality" said they are disappointed by the Church's decision to ask for a second collection.
Trapped Christians
Jerusalem
Patriarch Fouad Twal, Archbishop of Jerusalem, has lamented the effects of Israel’s security wall upon the Palestinian Christian communion. Twal predicted that the number of Christians would dwindle from 10,000 today to 5,000 in 2016 because of emigration fostered by the wall. The barrage has “enclosed many Palestinians in ghetto-like areas where access to work, medical care, schooling and other basic services have been badly affected,” he said. “We have a new generation of Christians who cannot visit the Holy Places of their faith that are only a few kilometers from their place of residence.”
Russians in Rome
Russia – Vatican
Archbishop Hilarion, the chief ecumenical official of the Russian Orthodox Church is visiting the Vatican this week, for talks with several ranking officials of the Holy See. The orthodox Archbishop became the head of the external-affairs department for the Moscow patriarchate when his predecessor in that post, Metropolitan Kirill, was elected Patriarch. He will be hosted by Cardinal Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity. Hilarion will also meet with Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, the prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, to discuss relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Churches of the Byzantine rite.
Successful Roman Parish
Italy
In an interview with Vatican Radio, Father Joseph Kramer of the Priestly Society of Saint Peter emphasized that the average age of those attending Mass at his parish is 30. Reacting to a lack of discipline, the younger generation, he says, is drawn to the prayerfulness, silence, order, and symmetry of the Mass. Father Kramer is pastor of a parish in Rome devoted to the celebration of the sacraments in the extraordinary form. He said that the postwar generation reacted against an overly disciplined environment characterized by coldness and distance between bishops and priests and priests and laity. A positive effect of the Second Vatican Council, he said, was warmer relations within the Church, but the proverbial baby was thrown out with that bathwater.
Second Collection Against Gay-Marriage Law
Portland
The campaign to overturn Maine's new gay-marriage law is heating up within the Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland asked parishioners to donate in a second collection on Sunday. Church officials said they need money to help repeal the state's same-sex marriage law. Officials said donations like the ones collected at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception will go to pay for television ads aimed at overturning the state law that legislators passed last spring. Outside the church, two former nuns who now belong to a group called "Catholics for Marriage Equality" said they are disappointed by the Church's decision to ask for a second collection.