Sep

25

Funds for Bailout But Not Development?

September 25, 2008 | 2 Comments

The Holy See is asking why it is possible to find funds to bailout a broken financial system, but finding fewer resources to invest in the development of all regions of the world seems impossible.
This was a “pressing question” raised today at the United Nations by Archbishop Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the Holy See [...]

Sep

25

Caritas Leader Urges UN to Use Imagination

September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The cardinal-president of Caritas Internationalis says a lack of political leadership is keeping the millennium development goals delayed, and he urged the United Nations to imagine a planet without divisions into First and Third World.
Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga addressed the United Nations today, having been invited along with five others by U.N. Secretary General Ban [...]

Sep

25

Mary Unites Christians, Cardinal Tells Anglicans

September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Ecumenical Pilgrimage to Lourdes Called a Miracle
By Inmaculada Álvarez
Devotion to the Virgin Mary has an essential role in ecumenical dialogue and the journey to full and visible unity among Christians, says the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
Cardinal Walter Kasper affirmed this Wednesday when he presided over an ecumenical celebration in Lourdes, [...]

Sep

25

Rabbi to Address Synod

September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The rabbi who will address the upcoming synod of bishops says the invitation to participate in the meeting is a message of love.
Shear Yashuv Cohen, chief rabbi of Haifa and co-chairman of the Jewish-Catholic bilateral commission, will be a “fraternal delegate” at the 12th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. The Oct. 5-26 [...]

Sep

25

America’s Future in Rome

September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

North American College Nears Capacity
By Elizabeth Lev
The return of the seminarians invariably signals the arrival of Roman fall. Nowhere else in the world does the Church seem as vibrant, youthful and energetic than Rome at the end of September, when fresh faces in Roman collars fill the streets, striding purposefully across town toward their classes.
A [...]

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