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| VATICAN CITY STATE | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10
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Politicians Feel No Shame
A crisis
in Catholic thought | OUR SUNDAY VISITOR USA - “Those
who are directly involved in lawmaking bodies have a grave
and clear obligation to oppose any law that attacks human
life.”
Its language is clear, its intent laudable,
but the new document issued by the Vatican on faith and politics
has a bittersweet edge, since many Catholic politicians and
voters act as if “it is impossible to promote such laws or
to vote for them.”
Gerald Korson, editor of Our Sunday
Visitor, takes us deeper inside the story...
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Anti-Catholic Bias | AMERICA MAGAZINE SOUTH AFRICA
- The New York Times labored mightily to bring forth a mountain
of priest abusers in its recent census and produced only a
mouse, as it admitted in the sensationalist prose of "Decades
of Damage" (1/12/03).
Commentary by the editor of America Magazine,
Father Thomas Reese, S.J.... >LISTEN | |
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Prison Chaplin Crisis | THE CATHOLIC REGISTER CANADA - Catholics in Ontario's jails aren't getting the sacraments
on a regular basis, and have hardly any contact with a Catholic
community of faith, say chaplains and volunteers associated
with prison ministry.
There are hardly any Catholic volunteers
visiting inmates or running regular programs for prisoners.
Mass is an infrequent occurrence. Chaplains have trouble lining
up priests for confession. There is very little appropriate Catholic
literature available to Catholic inmates. In
Ontario's largest jails, the salaried, government chaplains
want to deliver Catholic services, but they're not Catholic.
More from the editor of The Catholic
Register, Joseph Sinasac... >LISTEN
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Iraq
and a Hard Place | OUR SUNDAY VISITOR USA -
Fuad Manna is an Iraqi Catholic and publisher of an
opposition journal to the Baghdad regime. He remembers
writing for his old boss, Napoleon Bashi, another outspoken
Chaldean publisher in Michigan openly opposed to Saddam
Hussein.
In 1983, Bashi, who was also a small
retailer, was shot inside his store after his newspaper
took a strident anti-Saddam line, according to press
reports recalling the incident.
The unsolved murder left law- enforcement
officials wondering if Iraqi agents had carried out
a political assassination right under their noses in
the nation's heartland.
Gerald Korson, editor of Our Sunday
Visitor...
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THE SOUTHERN CROSS
USA -
After conducting the funeral of slain Sizzler's massage
parlour owner Aubrey Eric Otgaa, Fr. Christopher Clohessy, former parish
priest of Kraaifontein, said: "I made a statement in my sermon that if the
death of these men causes at least one of their fellow workers to stop and
think for a moment, and give up such a lifestyle, it would not have been
in vain, and not unlike that of Jesus."
Fr. Clohessy conducted the funeral after Mr Otgaar
was shot execution style in what is believed to be a drug-related | |
attack involving underworld figures. He was one of nine men that lost their lives in the attack.
The slayings highlighted the tragic desperation of
life in the world of prostitution, especially male prostitution, and the
endless possibilities for exploitation and abuse it presents.
Such a tragedy presents key challenges to Catholics
to open their hearts to those who feel compelled to live "in the dark," Fr.
Clohessy said.
Gunther
Simmermacher of The Southern
Cross has more... >LISTEN |
| |  | Harsh Reality
Pope John Paul II prays for the millions of people
consigned to a painful destiny, including prostitutes, refugees, and prisoners
on death row. |
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