Apr

12

Hopes Good Friday Prayer Will be Chance to Go Deeper

April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The new formulation of the 1962 Missal’s Good Friday Prayer for the Jews has “important improvements” to the original text, but touches on sensitive issues for the Jewish people, noted the Vatican official in charge of relations with the Jews.
Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations With the Jews, spoke in […]

Apr

12

English Missionary Slain in Kenya

April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

An English missionary brother was killed in Kenya on Wednesday, the victim of unknown assailants. Brother Brian Thorp, 77, was slain in Lamu parish in the Archdiocese of Mombasa. The parish priest there, Father Francis Schouten, told the Catholic Information Service of Africa that investigations are under way to determine what happened. The brother was […]

Apr

12

Cardinal Urges End to Hybrid-Creating

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Notes Human-Animal Embryos “Appalling” to Majority of People. A Scottish cardinal is appealing through YouTube for a stop to the creation of human-animal hybrids. Cardinal Keith O’Brien of St. Andrews and Edinburgh has a five-minute video to warn about the dangers of the “Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill.”
The bill is to be debated in parliament […]

Apr

12

Rome’s Exorcist Gives Inside Look at Devil

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Urges Separating Possession From Psychiatric Problems
Some of the mystery surrounding the devil and exorcism is being unveiled in a television and Internet report series, detailing the work of the exorcist of the Diocese of Rome.
Society of St. Paul Father Gabriele Amorth, Rome’s exorcist for the past 21 years and a specialist in the figure of […]