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Thursday, September 2, 2010 |
Where to see Pope Benedict in London
During Pope Benedict's visit, there will be two occasions to see him as he travel in the Popemobile through the streets of central London. The first is on the early evening of Friday 17 September when he travels from Lambeth Palace to Westminster Hall via Lambeth Bridge and Millbank. The second is on the early evening of Saturday 18 September
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Claire Bergin - Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 1:41 pm |
WCC appeal for Holy Land Christians at Washington peace talks
The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has sent a message to the Middle East negotiators in Washington to stress the concerns of Palestinian Christians. The message conveys concern over the final status of Jerusalem, the future of the Christians there and the need for a just peace in the region. Read More ...
Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 12:40 pm |
Walking for Right To Life
There are some unforgettable moments. When I practised as a midwife in a remote area of Zambia, I would regularly accompany the mobile ante-natal and Under-Five clinic to even more remote villages. Often this would mean setting up in a classroom or even inside the church where villages had no school. Read More ...
Sr Janet Fearns - Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 12:03 pm |
Hong Kong missionary, Fr Luigi Colombo, has died
Fr Luigi Colombo, an Italian missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), greatly loved by the faithful of Hong Kong, has returned to the Father's house on August 22 at the age of 94, having spent 40 dedicated to the mission of Hong Kong. According to the biography published by the Kong Ko Bao (the Chinese version of the diocesan bulletin), Read More ...
Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 12:04 am |
Time for Creation
Every year, from 1 September - the first day of the Orthodox Church year - to 4 October - the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi in the Catholic tradition - churches are called to become involved in the 'Time for Creation' for the protection of God's creation and the promotion of sustainable lifestyles. This year, churches are encouraged to focus on the theme of biodiversity, Read More ...
Ellen Teague - Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 11:54 pm |
Catholic woman honoured for work in Korea
A Catholic lay missionary who spent 50 years providing social services in South Korea, will be honored by a secular welfare foundation in October. The Paradise Welfare Foundation announced today that it will confer its Social Welfare Award on Susannah Mary Younger, 74, on 19 October. Read More ...
Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 3:52 pm |
Scottish bishop withdraws from Papal visit on health grounds
The Bishop of Dunkeld, Right Rev Vincent Logan, has been forced to withdraw from all events organised to mark the visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to Great Britain. Bishop Logan has a broken shoulder and has reluctantly made his decision on the advice of his doctors. Read More ...
Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 1:50 pm |
World churches condemn killings in Hebron
The Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, has condemned the killings of four Israeli settlers near Hebron in the West Bank yesterday and expressed his condolences to the affected families. He rejects any use of violence as a means to gain the much-desired and needed peace for this region. Read More ...
Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 1:45 pm |
'Busloads of parish groups should go to Greenbelt'
Catholics were among 21,000 participants in the colourful Greenbelt Christian Festival over the Bank Holiday weekend at Cheltenham Racecourse, but more could be supporting it, according to Bruce Kent, the Vice-Chair of Pax Christi UK. “Busloads of parish groups should go to Greenbelt” he said, Read More ...
Ellen Teague - Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 10:11 pm |
A contemplative Greenbelt
The Upanishads say that in the deepest centre of the human heart is a space that contains the whole cosmos. This year’s Greenbelt Festival offered a wealth of opportunities – different forms of worship – to discover that space. I made a spiritual tour of five of them. Read More ...
Rima Devereaux - Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:20 pm |
Greenbelt report: Just Peace – voices from Israel and Palestine
In 2008 Greenbelt launched Just Peace, a three-year campaign focusing on the crisis in Israel and Palestine, which aims to raise awareness of the plight of the Palestinian people. Two landmarks in this year’s campaign were talks by the Jewish Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, who comes from Haifa, and the human rights lawyer Jonathan Kuttab, who is based in Jerusalem. Read More ...
Rima Devereaux - Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:12 pm |
‘God comes to us disguised as our life’ - Richard Rohr at Greenbelt
In a series of four talks at this year’s Greenbelt Festival, Richard Rohr, a Franciscan priest and the founder and director of Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, addressed his large audiences on the Greenbelt theme for the year, ‘the art of looking sideways’. Looking sideways, he argued, means developing a ‘non-dualistic mind’. Read More ...
Rima Devereaux - Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:01 pm |
Pakistan: Christian village deliberately flooded
NGOs in Pakistan report that a dam to save land has diverted floodwater towards areas inhabited by Christians. In Punjab, near Multan, inhabitants of the Christian village of Khokharabad near Muzaffargarh, a city of 250,000 inhabitants, in the southern Punjab Province, central Pakistan, suffered severe damage from deliberately diverted water. Read More ...
Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 6:24 pm |
Website for Saint Rose of Lima
The Archdiocese of Lima yesterday unveiled a new website dedicated to Saint Rose of Lima, a patron saint of the Americas, India, and the Philippines. (Her feast day is celebrated on 30 August in Peru and 23 August elsewhere.) Read More ...
Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 6:03 pm |
Feature: Loving your neighbour in the Middle East
Military checkpoints are a way of life for Palestinians in Palestine and Israel. Each day tens of thousands of Palestinians move patiently through turnstiles and narrow caged walkways to go to work, school or home. It is a humiliating experience.
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Mark Beach - Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 5:10 pm |
Catholic Voices to debate with Protest the Pope
A group of Catholics formed to put the Church's case during Pope Benedict's visit will later this week oppose the 'Protest the Pope' coalition at a debate organised by the Central London Humanist Group and the British Humanist Association.
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Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 4:41 pm |
Scotland to welcome Pope with spectacular parade
Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien today launched the St Ninian's Day Parade - a 'grand Scottish spectacle' to welcome Pope Benedict XVI to this country next month while also raising money for good causes at home and abroad. At the launch, the Cardinal was joined by the Minister for Culture and External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop MSP. Read More ...
Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 4:05 pm |
Scottish poll shows opposition to Papal visit evaporating
Opposition to next month’s Papal Visit to Scotland seems to be dramatically smaller than predicted, according to a new poll out today. The survey suggests that a few as 2% of Scots say they’re “strongly opposed” to the visit with over fifteen times as many people saying they’re in favour of it. Read More ...
Posted: Monday, August 30, 2010 9:55 pm |
Blessed Cyprian Tansi pilgrimage
As Catholics prepare to mark the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman next month, the last English-based priest to be beatified was celebrated in the annual Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi pilgrimage at Mt St Bernard Abbey in Leicestershire on Saturday. Read More ...
Posted: Monday, August 30, 2010 8:41 pm |
New York: Pax Christi supports Islamic community centre plan
Pax Christi Metro New York, a regional chapter of the international Catholic peace movement, has express its full support for the proposed Islamic community centre in Park 51, in lower Manhattan, saying: 'As an organization with members who lost loved ones at the World Trade Center site on September 11th, 2001, we recognize the excruciating suffering endured by so many. Read More ...
Posted: Monday, August 30, 2010 8:10 pm |
Reflection on male priesthood
As Catholic Women's Ordination launches its bus campaign, the Dean of Studies at Allen Hall Seminary, Fr Stephen Wang, offers a reflection on the male priesthood: Popes, Priesthood, and Patriarchy. Read More ...
Posted: Monday, August 30, 2010 7:25 pm |
Future leaders plan CAFOD gap year
Following the release of A-level results, many teenagers are now scrambling to secure a place at University and decide on the next path to take. But Jonathon Lord, 21, Rachel McCarthy, 21, Maria Horkan, 23, Rebecca Ewenhies, 18, and Tom Kitchen, 18, have chosen to put university plans on hold. Read More ...
Posted: Monday, August 30, 2010 6:02 pm |
Brother Lewis Berry speaks on Birmingham Three reports
In the wake of a number of press and blog reports concerning the movements of three members of the Birmingham Oratory, Brother Lewis Berry has issued the following statement today: 'I would like to dissociate myself completely from recent reporting which has made criticisms of the exercise of legitimate authority, and made uncharitable and even defamatory statements Read More ...
Posted: Monday, August 30, 2010 5:12 pm |
ICN on holiday
Independent Catholic News is on holiday now. While we are still updating the Saint of the Day and Listings, the next full news service will be on 30 August. There are still a few seats left for the inaugural Independent Catholic News lecture at Heythrop College, which will be given by award-winning broadcast journalist and campaigner Mark Dowd,
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Posted: Sunday, August 8, 2010 10:45 pm |
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