Project Number: 11909 Project Title: Keep Babel Open Description: Baghdad’s Babel College for Philosophy and Theology, which educates Iraq’s seminarians, has been forced to relocate to Arbil. Help keep its doors open. Amount requested: $15,000.00 Contributions from donors: $4,244.10 Amount needed to complete the project: $10,755.90
Urgent Prayers are requested for Malta, Poland, Ireland, Andorra, Monaco and San Marino
Calling all Christians ALL OVER THE WORLD!
The Council of Europe will vote on making abortion a Human Right tomorrow.
We need the troops now at the frontline.
We need PRAYER NOW!
Prayer NOW, that is what we need.
Please spread the word, people of prayer, come together.
Christians all over this globe,
Malta, Poland, Ireland, Andorra, Monaco and San Marino need you.
Come to our aid in prayer to battle this cloud of darkness
that if passed at the Council of Europe tomorrow
Wednesday 16th April,
it will start an unstoppable global swing to making abortion a ‘human right’
This is the time for ALL Christians to come together,
Prayer will make the difference.
In His name, we call you to pray.
In Life,
Paul Vincenti Gift of Life
“…Also this week the Women’s Club is having a bake sale to support adult literacy and our young men in the Scouts - Troupe #5698 “Death To Infidels Troupe” are working on their merit badges in recycling so if we could help them out by bringing your aluminum cans and newspaper to mosque this Tuesday and Thursday they will be collecting them from 5pm to 7:30pm. Oh, one more thing, if you happen to run into Geert Wilders…be a lamb and kill him, would you? Thanks. Allah akbar!”
Why don’t these Moslems understand Islam is as peaceful as Moslems tell us they are?
Geert Wilders of course knew what he was in for… Two of the language translators of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses were stabbed - one died. The Norwegian publisher was shot but lived, and the Turkish translator… Well he made it out of the hotel the “lovers of peace” set on fire (37 others parished in the Sivas Massacre)… And all they did was translation work.
(It seems like only yesterday, though it was 20 years ago,the AyatollahRuhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran and a Shi’a Muslim scholar, issued a fatwa calling on all good Muslims to kill Rushdie and his publishers, or to point him out to those who can kill him if they cannot themselves.)
So every time you are at Mass, fix your intention at the offertory and always make sure it includes “The conversion of the entire world.” The entire world needs it.
In November 2007, the Catholic World News (www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=54919) reported on excommunication of Father Basil Kovpak, the head of the Priestly Society of Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych (SSJK), a group with ties to the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) which has been active among Byzantine Catholics in the Ukraine since the early 1990s. Bishops of the SPPX – themselves excommunicated because they were consecrated without approval from the Holy See – ordained two priests and seven deacons for the SSJK. On 23 March 2008, this past Easter Sunday (according to the Gregorian Calendar), the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC) published a communiqué about the latest schism to divide its unstable ranks. Four members of the Basilian Order of St. Josaphat – Eliáš Dohnal, Metoděj Špiřík, Markian Hitiuk and Robert Oberhauser – were consecrated bishops without having been nominated by the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Synod and without a papal approval. Thus, according to CCEO, canon 1459 §1, they have automatically encurred the penalty of excommunication.
Strangely, the UGCC communiqué has an air of uncertainty about it. It does not explicitly state they are excommunicated; rather, if all that is stated about these four Basilians is true, they await excommunication. What is not certain is who was their consecrator. A possible candidate seems to be Mychajlo Osidach, who claims to have been
As a little background there is a documentary coming out of the Netherlands dealing with the violent side of Islam. Getting it released to theaters is pretty well impossible. These days, showing it on TV is rather out of the question too.
This “Emmaus Problem” is still with us. When the priest elevates the Host, many people still see only bread. Even those of us who believe that Christ is truly present need to grow in our ability to recognize who Christ is for us in the Eucharist and thus enter into fuller, more personal communion with Him.
THE government is to consider abolishing the 300-year-old Act of Settlement that prevents Catholics ascending to the throne.The move was revealed by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, after he unveiled his sweeping draft Constitutional Reform Bill yesterday.While the bill did not include any move to abolish what Catholics say is legalised discrimination, the matter was raised in the Commons by the Livingston Labour MP, Jim Devine, a Catholic.Describing the act as “legalised sectarianism which has no role in the 21st century”, he called for it to be scrapped.Mr Straw told him the position was complicated by the monarch’s position as head of the Anglican church but accepted the law was seen as “antiquated” and said: “We are certainly ready to consider this.”
However, abolishing the Act of Settlement would also require changes to the Act of Union, which safeguards the role of the Protestant Presbyterian Church in Scotland. And, given Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s fears of the influence of Nationalists, the government may be reluctant to unpick parts of the legislation that formally holds the UK together.READ ALL
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland (D) and South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signed into law bills that require abortion clinics to provide fetal ultrasound to those women contemplating abortion. I want to publicly thank them for that. Those states join eleven other states that require ultrasound before an abortion and that is literally turning the tide on the abortion debate in favor of life. There is a entity called Womb with a View that does ultrasound and their selection of that name says it all.The Ohio bill, was passed by their Senate on March 14 and before that their House passed it in December 07. It is named the Ultrasound Viewing Bill, HB 314.
In a private audience with Benedict XVI, the general director of the Legionaries of Christ renewed the congregation’s loyalty to the Pope at the start of a new stage in its history, following the Jan. 30 death of the founder.
AsiaTimes commentator “Spengler” wrote what is below on the day of the election of Pope Benedict XVI - interestingly, it seems to have been written and gone to print just before the election was announced.
Three years on, approaching the 3d anniversary of the pontificate of B16, and the events of the past 36 months, this is proving fascinating to review.
Spengler is best described, I think, as an Evangelical who has had some prophetic visions. I have written about him before on his vision of China and the future of Christianity. He is a man (actually, is he a man?) of big thoughts. Thoughts I don’t always agree with, but thoughts I can never ignore.
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