Gloria.TV News on the 2nd of July 2013

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Useless and harmful. In an interview with the Italian daily Il Foglio, Cardinal – the former Vicar of the diocese of Rome – called the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court against marriage and for homosexual unions an illusion that presumes to negate reality. According to Ruini the future belongs to those who are able to defend the true human being. The Cardinal calls Civil Unions between homosexuals "useless and harmful".

Russia – the defender of Christianity. Russia is destined to become the center of the Christian world, according to Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplain, the chairman of the Russian Orthodox Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations. Father Vsevolod writes in an article, published in the Rus Derzhavnaya newspaper on Monday, quote:: "It is not accidental that many see Russia as a defender of Christian ideals and traditional moral values, as a country that provides a real alternative to the cult of the golden calf and to a suicidal understanding of what freedom is," Also, "It is not accidental that we said in clear terms, despite pressure coming from the West, that we do want to protect children from early sexualization and from the propaganda of homosexuality. He also said that support for foreign adoptions of Russian children is an extremely irrational step. “We do not want these children, adopted by perverts, to lose the hope in which many of them were baptised, and to lose a normal life."

Dad, what are you doing? Father Mark Kiszelewski was recently ordained for the Archdiocese of Seattle according to theblaze.com. Kiszelewski is the father of two sons who are now 24 and 21 years of age. As a young man he entered the seminary for one year but left and became a financial adviser. His marriage was annulled after 17 years. In the beginning, his son Alex was not pleased when his father decided to become a priest: “Dad, what are you doing? You have a house, you have a nice job, you’ve got a boat, you have all your friends — why would you want to go off and do this?”

I have wept. Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo, OFM, Archbishop Emeritus of Seville, Spain, last Thursday in Rome attended a presentation of three books of Pope Francis: “Love Alone Can Save Us,” “I Ask You to Pray for Me” and “Do Not Let Yourselves Be Robbed of Hope.” Afterwards, he said to zenit.org: “When some pages of Pope Francis were read I believe they should be read kneeling and, on more than one occasion, tears welled up and I wept within, yes, I have wept within many times reading such admirable things.”