Notícias do ms May, 2009
Twelve Mexican states now protect right to life in their constitutions
22 May 2009
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Loading ...Mexico City, Mexico, May 22, 2009 / 02:57 pm (CNA).- The San Luis de Potosi State Congress in Mexico approved a measure Thursday reforming the State Constitution to protect the right to life of children from the moment of conception.
Representative Vicente Toledo Alvarez said the reform would ensure that the State’s Constitution clearly recognizes the [...]
Holy Father to visit Cassino, Italy this Sunday
Rome, Italy, May 22, 2009 / 10:13 am (CNA).- The schedule for Benedict XVI’s May 24 visit to Cassino and Montecassino, Italy was released today. On his agenda are Mass, a visit to the Montecassino abbey and a stop at the nearby Polish military cemetery.
On Sunday, the Holy Father will depart by helicopter from the [...]
Holy Father urges Bulgaria and Macedonia to help build a Christian Europe
Vatican City, May 22, 2009 / 10:29 am (CNA).- The celebration of Sts. Cyril and Methodious, Macedonian missionary brothers who evangelized the Slavs, brought the presidents of Bulgaria and Macedonia to Rome on Friday. Pope Benedict received both of the presidents separately and encouraged them to take inspiration for building a peaceful, Christian Europe.
The first [...]
Learning to Love the Church as we Love the Lord
By Deacon Keith A. Fournier
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) – “Let us love the Lord our God; let us love His Church… Let us love Him as our Father and her as our mother” (St. Augustine) “No one can have God as his Father who does not have the Church as his Mother” (St. Cyprian) “For [...]
Holy Father Receives President of Poland
VATICAN CITY, 19 MAY 2009 (VIS) – The Holy See Press Office released the following communique yesterday evening:
“This afternoon the Holy Father Benedict XVI received in audience Lech Kaczynski, president of the Republic of Poland, who subsequently went on to meet with Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., and Archbishop [...]
War in Sri Lanka ‘will end when we understand that we are one people,’ says archbishop
Rome, Italy, May 19, 2009 / 05:09 am (CNA).- Archbishop Oswald Gomis of Sri Lanka expressed satisfaction over the end of the conflict between the Tamil Tiger rebel group and government forces after 27 years of struggle, and said “the war will end only when we understand that we are one people, on nation with [...]
Cardinal Rouco defends right to life of unborn
Madrid, Spain, May 18, 2009 / 11:07 pm (CNA/Europa Press).- Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela of Madrid presided at a solemn Mass last week honoring the city’s patron, St. Isidore, during which he defended the right to life of the unborn.
Recalling the saint’s love for the poor exemplified by his leaving a place at the [...]
Pope urges Peruvian bishops to relaunch the missionary spirit and to seek unity of the Church
Vatican City, May 18, 2009 / 09:07 pm (CNA).- The Holy Father met with bishops from the Peruvian Episcopal Conference today who recently completed their “ad limina” visit and asked them to relaunch the missionary spirit and work for the unity of the entire Church.
To begin his speech, the Pope spoke of the unity of [...]
The Copts: Persecuted Christians of Egypt
LOS ANGELES (Catholic Online) – The word “Copt” is derived from the Greek word, “Ai-gypt-os” meaning Egypt. The middle part of the word “gypt” was later pronounced as “Copt” and used to mean Egyptian. From the time Egypt embraced Christianity in 54AD to the time Islam invaded Egypt in 642 AD, all people of Egypt [...]
Human Rights and the Social Doctrine of the Church
VATICAN CITY, 4 MAY 2009 (VIS) – Benedict XVI today received members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the end of their fifteenth plenary meeting. The president of the academy is Mary Ann Glendon.
Speaking English, the Pope noted how the academy, “after studying work, democracy, globalisation, solidarity and subsidiarity in [...]