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CARDINAL BRADY RESPONDS TO CRITICS
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Vaticaninsider
9 and a half years for priest who asked for needy boys
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Ncr
LCWR crackdown more complicated than Rome vs. America'
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Insidethevatican
Pro Multis
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Chiesa
For many" or "for all
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Fides
General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies
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USCCB
Catholics Care. Catholics Vote: Untangling the International Knot
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Tablet
Syrian prelate warns against military intervention
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Spero
Sacred Haggadah from Spain survives in Bosnia
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Jewish press
Vatican Rep Wants Alliance With Jews, Muslims, to Combat Gay Marriage
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Haaretz
Electricity pole sparks tension between Vatican and Jerusalem municipality
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…. BBC series “… accused Cardinal Seán Brady, the archbishop of Armagh, of not taking action to protect a boy abused by a pedophile priest… did not pass on the details to the police or parents…. Brady stated that his role was limited to that of being a notary or note taker…. in 1975 there were no State or Church guidelines … no training was given to priests, or police … gives the impression that he was the only person who knew …. had the power to stop Brendan Smyth … from having contact with children …
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Vaticaninsider
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A Genoa court has sentenced a parish priest to just under 10 years … told a drug dealer to arrange sexual encounters with minors…. online Centre for Child Protection was launched …
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Ncr
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…. crackdown on the Leadership Conference of Woman Religious would seem to be "Rome vs. America," … decreed by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith… part of the original momentum … came from America… tension between the doctrinal congregation and another agency … Congregation for Religious … LCWR story parallels the broader apostolic visitation of women religious in America… wild card … regime change at the doctrinal congregation. Levada … successor … Müller … favorite …
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Insidethevatican
“Pro Multis” May 3, By Robert Moynihan, PhD.
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… decisive letter to the German bishops’ conference…. April 14 … “for many” (“für viele”) and not “for all” (“für alle…. Benedict… still able to take decisive action… dialogue, reason, and persuasion as his preferred tools in contested matters… continues… too slow for many traditionalists, too fast for most progressives—to restore traditional Catholic teaching… against temptations to innovate… has never been…a rigorist … so anxious to persuade the German bishops … that he took the time to explain the whole post-conciliar period, in miniature… Roman rite “has its own style and structure that must be respected in so far as possible in translation,” the instruction recommended a translation … “not so much a work of creative inventiveness as one of fidelity and exactness in rendering the Latin … “the many” and “many” in Is. 53, 11 … a Hebrew expression to indicate the community, the “all”. … in the accounts of Matthew and Mark was accordingly considered a Semitism to be translated as “all”. … not a pure translation, but an interpretation… in both Matthew and in Mark there is no article… regular visitors of the church … will ask: did Christ not die for all? Has the Church changed her teaching? … Matthew and Mark, said “for many”, but according to Luke and St. Paul “for you”. … not a constriction, but a specification …
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Chiesa
Vatican Diary / "For many" or "for all"? The right answer is the first, May 3
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… in Italy … of 187 voting bishops only 11 sided with "per molti." … indifferent to the Vatican guidelines. … instruction encountered extremely strong resistance… restoration of a correct translation of "pro multis" immediately became an objective of (B16’s) "reform of the reform" in the liturgical arena….
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… opened by Archbishop Piergiuseppe Vacchelli, … intervention of … Filoni… Giordano … Del Prete… reports of … budget estimates and subsidy requests … Lehane… Dumon… Rossi…Ralamboarison… Prete… May 12 the audience … Benedict …
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Catholics Care. Catholics Vote: Untangling the International Knot, BY DON CLEMMER, MAY 3
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Stephen Colecchi, director of Int’l Justice & Peace 4 the U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops, interview
… Catholic Church, under the Vatican's leadership, has worked for decades toward peace in the Holy Land and that the bishops have urged strong U.S. leadership for a two-state solution with a secure and recognized Israel living in peace alongside a viable and independent Palestinian state. … but in many countries religious minorities are discriminated against and even persecuted… Catholics can be empowered to take action on international issues, at election time and all year round.
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… a "disaster… Syrian Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo… Ibrahim… idea of splitting Syria along ethnic lines into separate states … Speaking in London last week … proposal would leave Christians,… vulnerable … scattered. …
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Spero
Sacred Haggadah from Spain survives in Bosnia, May 02, By Martin Barillas
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…650 years old… illuminated … Sarajevo Haggadah… survived Spain's expulsion … Nazi and Ustashe persecutors … seige of Sarajevo … created in the mid-1300s in Barcelona… 1600s, the book made it to Italy. … sold to the National Museum in Sarajevo in 1894…. hidden from both Nazis and their local Ustashe allies by the museum's chief librarian, Derviš Korkut… gave it to a Muslim cleric for safekeeping. … in nearby Zenica, was hidden under the floor of either a mosque or a Muslim home … 1957, a facsimile of the Haggadah was published by the Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest… in 1992 during the Bosnian War… discovered on the floor of the museum …taken to an underground bank … rumors that the government had sold the Haggadah in order to buy weapons, the Bosnian president presented the manuscript at a community Seder in 1995… restored with financing from the United Nations and the Bosnian Jewish community in 2001… display at the Sarajevo museum in December 2002. … publishing house Rabic Ltd. … 613 facsimile copies on handmade parchment will be published.
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Vatican Rep Wants Alliance With Jews, Muslims, to Combat Gay Marriage, By Malkah Fleisher, May 3rd
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… Archbishop Antonio Mennini, the “Apostolic Nuncio” (Vatican representative) to Great Britain … Local Quakers, Buddhists, and members of the Pagan Federation have already publicly supported the right of religious leaders to decline to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies… after a series of high-level discussions between Muslim and Jewish leaders and Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone … Liberal and Reform synagogues, on the other hand, have expressed support for same-sex marriages… no official contact has yet been made between the Catholic Church and Jewish groups…
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Haaretz
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An electricity pylon erected in front of the Church of All Nations …Custody … submitted on Wednesday an administrative appeal against the Jerusalem municipality and the Israel Electric Corp… municipality approved the action illegally…. lines … labeled "Ir David," and "Ma'aleh Zeitim," the two large Jewish settlements … infrastructure meant to serve East Jerusalem settlers, who demanded to be connected to the Israel Electric Corporation instead of the Palestinian East Jerusalem Electricity Company…. Farid Jubran, the legal advisor of the Franciscan Custody. "The Custody opposes this opportunistic move, which was carried out without permits and in contradiction of the law… callous violation of the treaties signed by Israel, while ignoring the sanctity of the site … there is an underground electricity line at the site. … tweet by Aryeh King, a right-wing activist … celebrated … another step toward the liberation of Jerusalem… Danny Seidmann…ignores whatever isn't Jewish…spokesperson for …municipality … permits were granted according to law…
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