Pope Francis left Rome on Wednesday morning,
September 6, to begin the 20th foreign trip of his pontificate: a visit
to Colombia.
The Pontiff is scheduled to arrive in Bogota at 4:30 in the afternoon,
local time. Apart from an airport welcoming ceremony, no public events
have been scheduled for...
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Editor's Note: Since 1964, the Colombian conflict has claimed over 175,000 lives and displaced over 4.7 million people.
Vatican Radio - September 6
Vatican Radio - September 6
Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, the retired Archbishop of
Bologna, Italy, died on September 6 at the age of 79.
Cardinal Caffarra was one of the four cardinals who submitted dubia to
Pope Francis, asking for clarification of Amoris Laetitia. Another one
of the “dubia cardinals,” Cardinal...
CWN - 20 hours ago
Editor's Note: If current trends continue, China
will have more Protestant residents than any other country in the world
by 2025, a Purdue sociologist calculates.
Daily Telegraph - 20 hours ago
Editor's Note: While the Colombian government's
peace agreement with rebel groups may dominate the headlines, Archbishop
Ettore Balestrero, the apostolic nuncio in Colombia, tells Vatican
Radio that "the Pope himself has underlined the pastoral nature of his
visit."
The Pope's trip-- the 20th voyage of his pontificate-- will begin on
September 6 with his arrival in Bogota. he will make stops in
Villavicencio, Medellin, and Cartagena before returning to Rome on
Monday, September 11.
The last papal visit to Colombia was by Pope John Paul II, 31 years ago.
Vatican Radio - September 5
Editor's Note: The ELN is the smaller of two
groups that have been fighting the government for years. The larger
group, the FARC, had already struck a peace agreement.
Fides - September 5
Editor's Note: The Pope's apostolic journey to Colombia begins on September 6. To watch the Spanish-language video, click here.
Holy See Press Office - September 5
Editor's Note: The "status quo" is the
agreement, dating back to the Ottoman Empire, that protects the existing
arrangements of religious bodies in the Holy Land.
Orthodox and Catholic leaders united in a statement protesting Israeli
policy decisions that, they say, undermine the "laws, agreements, and
regulations that have ordered our life for centuries."
Fides - September 5
Editor's Note: Father Diego Javier Fares, an
Argentine Jesuit, notes that Pope Francis has said that a good shepherd
has "the smell of the sheep." The bad shepherd, on the other hand, is
the one who "sells, or rather, undersells the inheritance received
freely."
La Civiltà Cattolica - September 5
Editor's Note: Pope Francis will visit Myanmar in late November.
The Guardian - September 5
Editor's Note: An international convention is
not effective, since some of the world's most powerful nations-- the US,
Russia, China, India, Brazil, Israel, and Pakistan-- have not accepted
it.
Vatican Radio - September 5
Editor's Note: Soaking rain was no deterrent as
5,000 Catholics joined their bishops in the consecration of Scotland to
the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The ceremony took place at the Marian
shrine of Carfin.
CNA - September 5
Pope Francis devoted his September 3 Sunday Angelus
address to the Gospel passage of the day (Matthew 16:21-27). After
reflecting on the passage, he prayed:
May Mary Most Holy, who followed Jesus unto Calvary, accompany us too,
and help us not to fear the cross, but with Jesus nailed to is,...
CWN - September 4
Editor's Note: "The Bishops' Conference is to be
lauded for taking this decision," Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the
Congregation for Divine Worship, said in an August letter.
The Catholic Church in England and Wales - September 4
Editor's Note: Father Cyriacus Onunkwo was taken
from his vehicle on September 1; his body was found in a neighboring
town the next day. Police see the killing as "a clear case of abduction
and murder."
Crux - September 4
Editor's Note: As the Filipino military
completes its drive to oust Islamic terrorists who had sought to seize
the city of Marawi, Bishop Edwin de La Pena pleads for a cautious
approach that will safeguard the lives of hostages captured in the
city’s cathedral.
"Unfortunately, there are no negotiations,” the bishop reports, “because
the militants are extremists and in their hate ideology they have left
no room for dialogue. Moreover President Duterte has chosen the hard
line and there are no channels for possible negotiations.”
Fides - September 4
Global Christian News - September 4
Catholic Sun - September 4
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity - September 4
Editor's Note: Bishop George Murry called for
prayer on September 9, the feast of St. Peter Claver and the US bishops'
annual Day of Prayer for Peace in Our Communities.
USCCB - September 4
Editor's Note: Chicago's Cardinal Blase Cupich
speaks of parish closings, politics, and secularization in a
wide-ranging interview. Speaking about the question of unbelief, he says
that "some of the greatest Christians I know are people who don’t
actually have a faith system that they believe in, but in their
activity, in the way they conduct themselves, there is a goodness
there.”
Religion News - September 4
Editor's Note: Father Paul Couturier (1881-1953), a French ecumenical pioneer, established the Dombes Group in 1937.
Cath.ch - September 4
Editor's Note: The Pontiff received an Argentine bishop, the founder of the Neocatechumenal Way, and the bishops of Honduras.
Holy See Press Office - September 4
Editor's Note: Click here for video of the welcoming ceremony.
Vatican Radio - 3 hours ago
Editor's Note: Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the
Vatican's Secretary for Relations with States, made his remarks during a
panel discussion in Slovenia.
Bled Strategic Forum - 3 hours ago
Aid to the Church in Need - 2 hours ago
Editor's Note: "The people need to occupy the
streets in a conscious and organized way to gain, defend, and guarantee
their rights," said Bishop Angélico Sândalo Bernardino, the retired
prelate who is in charge of the initiative.
CNBB - 2 hours ago
Religión Digital - September 6
Editor's Note: The Vatican newspaper gave this story front-page coverage in its September 6 edition.
Reuters - September 6
National Catholic Register - 2 hours ago
Religion Clause - 24 hours ago
Editor's Note: Josef Seifert was dismissed from
his post at the International Academy of Philosophy by Archbishop Javier
Martinez Fernandez of Granada. The archbishop said that Seifert's
criticism of Amoris Laetitia "damages the communion of the Church, confuses the faith of the faithful, and sows distrust in the successor fo St. Peter."
LifeSite News - 20 hours ago
Editor's Note: The Nairobi cardinal, still recalled with much fondness in Kenya, died 14 years ago.
Daily Nation - September 6
National Catholic Register - 24 hours ago
Editor's Note: A medical ethics professor
discusses the lack of adequate care for those in a minimally conscious
state. "Legal protections have eluded this population precisely because
they have been disenfranchised by their injury," he writes. "They have
fallen outside the scope of legal protections and been subject to abuse
and neglect."
New York Times - 24 hours ago
Vatican press office - 19 hours ago
Editor's Note: Pope Francis met in Paul VI Audience Hall with a large crowd from Shalom, a Brazilian charismatic community founded in 1982 that was later recognized as an international association of the faithful. Click here for video coverage of the September 4 audience.
Vatican Radio - September 5
Editor's Note: The two spoke in favor of
European unity and immigration and warned against “discrediting or
excluding” anyone on the basis of “faith, color of the skin, sexual
orientation, or ethnicity.”
SIR - September 5
Editor's Note: The Vatican newspaper's report on North Korea's latest nuclear test appeared on the top of the front page.
AP - September 5
Vatican Radio - September 5
Il Messaggero - September 5
Lambda Legal - September 5
Editor's Note: The late Cardinal Cormac
Murphy-O’Connor held a reception in Rome just before the 2013 conclave
to encourage cardinals from the British Commonwealth nations to support
the election of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, according to a new book.
The British cardinal, who died last week, was ineligible to participate
in the papal election because of his age. But he joined in pre-conclave
talks and organized a reception at the British embassy to discuss his
enthusiasm for the Argentine cardinal. That account appears in a
forthcoming book, The Keys and the Kingdom” Britain and the Papacy from John Paul II to Francis, by Catherine Pepinster, the former editor of the Catholic weekly The Tablet.
If the report of the reception is accurate, it would seem to be a clear
violation of the rule against lobbying before a conclave.
Daily Telegraph - September 4
Editor's Note: The Pontiff called for a "shared
commitment to various issues: the sacred dignity of the human person,
the hunger and poverty which still afflict too many peoples, the
rejection of violence, in particular that violence which profanes the
name of God and desecrates religion, the corruption that gives rise to
injustice, moral decay, and the crisis of the family, of the economy
and, not least of all, the crisis of hope."
Holy See Press Office - September 2
Editor's Note: In an address to the Third Summer
Theological Institute for Catholic Priests, Patriarch Kirill praised
the impact of the February 2016 meeting in Havana with Pope Francis. The patriarch also took aim at "uniatism" (the Eastern Catholic churches).
Moscow Patriarchate - September 4
Editor's Note: A Mexican bishop says that the
judiciary system has 'lost credibility' after the leader of a powerful
drug-trafficking gang was released shortly after his arrest. "Impunity
exists," said Bishop Rutilo Muñoz Zamora of Coatzacoalcos.
Fides - September 4
Editor's Note: Boston Globe reporter
Michael Rezendes won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his involvement in the
“Spotlight” series that tore open the sex-abuse scandal in the Catholic
Church. But in a new “Spotlight” series, on children fathered by
priests, Rezendes ignores some facts and invents others, argues Thomas
Nash in this Catholic World Report critique. In fact Nash argues that in a television interview with CBS This Morning, Rezendes showed a “reckless disregard for the truth”—the standard for libel.
Catholic World Report - September 4
Editor's Note: The Vatican newspaper covered this story on the top of its front page.
International Business Times - September 4
Editor's Note: "Irregular migration is not
freely chosen, but rather forced on people because legal and secure
channels are simply not available," a Vatican spokesman says, in a
statement urging world leaders to protect migrants from exploitation.
Vatican Radio - September 4
German Bishops' Conference - September 4
General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops - September 4
Editor's Note: The article's author is a Protestant who delivered a talk the conference.
ChinaSource - September 4
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Holy See Press Office - 4 hours ago
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Editor's Note: The "moment of prayer and union,"
attended by Catholics, Jews, and Muslims, took place at the Al Ahmad
Mosque in Buenos Aires. The theme of the bishops' reflection for the day
was water as a gift from God and a human right.
CEA - 1 hours ago
Editor's Note: The Vatican newspaper placed its
coverage of President Trump's decision--and the protests against it--on
the top of the front page on September 7.
Bing - 3 hours ago
Editor's Note: The Vatican newspaper gave this story front-page coverage on September 7.
Reuters - 3 hours ago
El Nacional - 24 hours ago
Editor's Note: "We must teach even if they
threaten us," said Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan, the
former president of the Filipino bishops' conference. "We must tech
even if they kill us, and if they kill us our message will echo even
more because the best way to teach is through martyrdom."
CBCP - 19 hours ago
Amnesty International - 23 hours ago
Editor's Note: Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Catholic
lawmaker who has been touted as future Conservative Party leader,
states: "Life is sacrosanct and begins at the point of conception."
Rees-Mogg also indicated that he is firmly opposed to same-sex
marriage.
Catholic Herald - 20 hours ago
Editor's Note: Pope Francis will visit Myanmar in late November.
AP - September 6
National Catholic Register - 24 hours ago
Alliance Defending Freedom - 24 hours ago
Editor's Note: Gauri Lankesh, a leftist who
styled herself as a "secular, non-sectarian citizen," and criticized the
ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, was shot and killed near her home.
AsiaNews - 20 hours ago
Editor's Note: Archbishop Thomas D'Souza
announced that Mother Teresa will be Calcutta's 2nd patron saint,
alongside St. Francis Xavier.
AsiaNews - September 5
Editor's Note: The Pope's special envoy for the
September 5 dedication is Cardinal Ernest Simoni, 88, who suffered
torture and imprisonment under Albania's Communist regime.
SIR - September 5
Editor's Note: Pope Francis will visit the nation in January 2018.
Reuters - September 5
Editor's Note: Last week a spokesman for Muqtada al Sadr said that the Iraqi Shi'ite leader would meet with Pope Francis
during a forthcoming trip to Europe. The Vatican has revealed that no
such meeting is scheduled, nor has any request for a meeting been
received.
Fides - September 5
Editor's Note: The Bose Monastic Community is an
Italian ecumenical monastery founded in 1965 by Enzo Bianchi, a
Catholic layman. This year's conference--the 25th annual
conference--begins on September 6 and is devoted to "the gift of
hospitality."
Monastery of Bose - September 5
Editor's Note: Father Michael Czerny, head of the Vatican delegation, made his remarks at the UN's 5th thematic session this year on facilitating safe, orderly, and regular migration.
Vatican Radio - September 5
Irish Catholic - September 5
Editor's Note: Other members of the Alliance for
World-Openness, Solidarity, Democracy, and the Rule of Law include
Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim groups, as well as organizations
associated with employers, trade unions, and the Olympics.
German Bishops' Conference - September 5
Editor's Note: The prelate's cathedral is
located in the largest city in Rojava, a self-declared Syrian Kurdish
autonomous region.
Fides - September 5
Editor's Note: The French ecumenical monastic community was founded in 1940 and hosts thousands of young adults every summer.
Taizé - September 5
Editor's Note: As Irish bishops consider a plan
to train the country's first permanent deacons, the Association of
Catholic Priests-- a group that has called for major changes in Church
teachings-- suggests postponing implementation until a Vatican
commission on female deacons reports its findings.
National Catholic Reporter - September 5
Holy See Press Office - September 5
Editor's Note: The theme of the 2017 world's
fair (officially called Expo 2017), which is taking place in Kazakhstan,
is "Future Energy"; the Holy See's pavilion has the theme of "Energy
for the Common Good: Caring for our Common Home." Accordingly, the Holy
Father, in his brief message, reflects on the use of energy resources.
Holy See Press Office - September 2
Editor's Note: Canon-law expert Edward Peters
responds to Father Frank Brennan's announcement that he favors legal
recognition of same-sex marriage.
Peters dismisses Father Brennan’s explanation that civil marriage is a
separate matter from the Catholic ideal of marriage. Peters explains the
relationship between civil and sacramental marriage. In the process he
also explains the requirement of “canonical form”—which can complicate
the discussion, but does not alter the fundamental character of
marriage.
In the Light of the Law - September 4
Editor's Note: The Chaldean Catholic
Patriarchate of Baghdad has dismissed criticism from a group called the
Chaldean National Congress, saying that the US-based organization has
sought to "use the Chaldean name for personal interests." The
Patriarchate said that the group has made no positive contribution to
the effort to provide security for Christians living in the Nineveh
Plains.
Fides - September 4
Editor's Note: Pope Francis is scheduled to visit the nation in late November.
Relief Web - September 4
Editor's Note: More than two years after his
appointment by Pope Francis, Archbishop Piergiorgio Bertoldi has begun
his diplomatic mission in the largely Muslim nation of Niger. In 2015,
dozens of churches were burned down in the African nation; the prelate
observed reconstruction efforts and celebrated Mass in a parish that had
been rebuilt.
L'Osservatore Romano, p. 7 - September 4
Houston Chronicle - September 4
Editor's Note: The Diocese of
Concordia-Pordenone, Italy, has opened a cause for the beatification of
Cardinal Celso Costantini (1876–1958), who was appointed the Vatican's
first apostolic delegate to China in 1922. His work is credited with
giving the Chinese hierarchy the organizational strength that ensured
the survival of the "underground" Church in the Communist era. The
process for his beatification is likely to be slow, because of remaining
tensions between Rome and Beijing.
UCANews - September 4
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