The official theme is “The vocation and the mission of the family in the Church and contemporary world“.
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So, back to the pope.
Francis told reporters on September 28 that he is interested in becoming the first pope to visit mainland China. He doesn’t yet agree to their ordination as priests – or to married male priests for that matter – but he doesn’t want nuns and other female Catholics to feel left out of the picture, which they are, relatively speaking.
“He didn’t try to ruffle too many feathers”, Gosar said. “We know what happened in the past and the mishandling of those scandals”.
Not debatable is his emphasis on the poor and vulnerable, who merit his special attention.
“It would prevent the very teaching of Jesus Christ from being watered-down and would dispel the darkness looming over our children’s future should that beacon no longer light their way”, the petition states. “It’s a challenge to be family today”. African Bishops released letters demanding “western powers stop pushing their filthy campaigns that promote a civilization of death on our continent”, according to Breitbart News.
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An editorial in the Catholic Worker in April 1949 said that from the start, the paper had said “the strike was justified” and, despite the outcome, “we say it still”.
Jay and Tracie Ciccarone, members of St. Katharine of Siena Catholic Church in Wayne, Pennsylvania, brought their four pre-teen boys-Wylder, Truitt, Tommy and David-to the festival. “No two sides tended to be clapping all at the same time”.
Two of those paragraphs dealt with a controversial proposal by German Cardinal Walter Kasper that would make it easier for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Holy Communion.
The final report quoted a 2003 document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: “There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family”.
“War is the negation of all rights and a dramatic assault on the environment“, he said, while expressing the need for the world to rid itself of nuclear weapons. Nevertheless, as he read his remarks aloud in a slow, careful English (his fifth language), he was frequently interrupted by rousing, bipartisan standing ovations. Lovette-Colyer has been very involved in the pope’s arrival, from television interviews to managing viewings for the Dollars community. He reminded us of the biblical challenge the prophets had for all political leaders-that the test of a society’s morality is how they treat the most vulnerable, not the most powerful.
Meanwhile, Archbishop Eamon Martin travels to Rome next week to attend an Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.
The archbishop said the synod has been radically different as, thanks to the Pope, it has led to open dialogue and genuine debate. He avoided using words like “gay”, which he has used in the past, or “homosexuality”, which the previous pope, Benedict XVI, preferred.
Twenty years ago, on a cold, damp day in the New Jersey Meadowlands, I was present for the Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II (now St. John Paul the Great) at Giants Stadium.
“I was speechless. Everybody was in tears”.
“We’re doing this so the people who didn’t think they could make the trip to Philadelphia to see the pope and participate in the Festival of Families had an opportunity to do it on a smaller scale”, said Patti Houwen, Incarnation’s business administrator and coordinator of the gathering.
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About 800,000 people worldwide petitioned Pope Francis to clarify the Catholic Church’s teachings about family and marriage. As soon as I heard that then cardinal Bergloglio had selected Francis as his new “papal name”, I said to myself, “Whoa!” “It is the temptation of do-gooders, of the timorous and also of the so-called progressives and liberals”. “These bishops would all go home and tell the bishops in their country what the pope said and to take it seriously”.
