Religion (general)

Papal Message on Progress in Ties With Greek Orthodox

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Notes the Publication of “Menologion of Basil II”

Here is the message Benedict XVI sent to Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, archivist and librarian of the Holy Roman Church, on the occasion of the publication of the “Menologion of Basil II.” The Vatican Library collaborated with the Greek Orthodox Church on the project.

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Lord Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran
Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church

I received with interest the news of the collaboration that has been created between the Vatican Apostolic Library and the Orthodox Church of Greece on the occasion of the publication of the “Menologion of Basil II,” the manuscript of which is kept in the Vatican Apostolic Library, and I express my gratitude for the good development of the different stages of this project.
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Vatican: Sexually Active Gays Unwelcome

Breitbart.com Nov 22 2:54 PM US/Eastern

VATICAN CITY The Vatican says homosexuals who are sexually active or support “gay culture” are unwelcome in the priesthood unless they have overcome their homosexual tendencies for at least three years, according to a church document posted on the Internet by an Italian Catholic news agency.

The long-awaited document is scheduled to be released by the Vatican on Nov. 29. A church official who has read the document confirmed the authenticity of the Internet posting by the Adista news agency. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the document has not yet been officially released by the Vatican.
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Pope and Orthodox Patriarch Express Words of Unity

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BOLOGNA, Italy, NOV. 21, 2005 (Zenit.org).- In a message to the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople, Benedict XVI renewed his intention to continue on the path of Christian unity.

The message to Patriarch Bartholomew I also stated that the Pope hoped to travel soon to Istanbul, Turkey, headquarters of the Orthodox patriarchate.

The papal message was read by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, retired president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, during the Byzantine-rite vespers he presided over Saturday in the Basilica of St. Petronius in Bologna. On hand was Archbishop Carlo Caffarra of
Bologna.
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Archbishop reveals his unorthodox way to God

London Times Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent

THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has revealed how his first encounter with God was not at an Anglican or even a Roman Catholic service but at a Mass of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Dr Williams was only 14 when his local Anglican curate took him along to an Orthodox Mass in Swansea celebrated by a visiting Russian priest.

Although his long journey of faith began at his “mother’s knee”, Dr Williams said the Russian Orthodox Mass was one of only two moments in his teenage years when he met the “living God”.
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So That’s the Reason: A scientist blames America’s problems on religion.

Wall Street Opinion Journal THEODORE DALRYMPLE Friday, October 14, 2005

The Victorian militant atheist Charles Bradlaugh, who went on tub-thumping speaking tours, used to stride onto the stage, take out his pocket watch and challenge God to strike him dead in 60 seconds. His survival at the end of the minute was, for him, proof positive that God did not exist.

Very much in the same tradition, Gregory S. Paul, writing in the Journal of Religion and Society, attempts to prove that religious belief, far from contributing to the moral fiber of society, actually causes social disintegration. Mr. Paul is a paleontologist whose previous works have included “Predatory Dinosaurs of the World” and “Dinosaurs of the Air.”

He finds that highly developed countries with the lowest levels of belief in God also have the lowest levels of social pathology and the best physical health; and that the U.S., with its uniquely high level of religious belief, “is so inefficient that it is experiencing a much higher degree of societal distress than are less religious and wealthy, prosperous democracies.”

It is interesting that Mr. Paul’s paper makes no mention of Russia, whose 70-year experiment with enforced atheism did not create a society altogether lacking in social pathology, to put it mildly, and where the life expectancy of men is now appreciably lower than that of credulous countries such as Guatemala.

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Cardinal Would Ban Communion for Certain Lawmakers

Those Who Deny Christian Principles

VATICAN CITY, OCT. 9, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo asked a blunt question when addressing the Synod of Bishops: “May access to Eucharistic Communion be allowed to those who deny human and Christian values and principles?”

The president of the Pontifical Council for the Family raised the question in connection with politicians and lawmakers. He answered his own question with a “no.”

“So-called personal option cannot be separated from the sociopolitical duty,” the cardinal said Friday. “It is not a ‘private’ problem. The acceptance of the Gospel, of the magisterium and of right reasoning are needed!”
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Why I object to Homosexuality and Same-sex unions

The Most Rev’d Peter Akinola is the Archbishop and Primate of Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion

THE CHURCH of Nigeria is an Evangelical Church. It upholds the authority of scripture and is unreservedly committed to mission and evangelism that results in conversion of people to the Lord, church-planting and the caring ministry. In this Church, we teach about the total depravity of man and his absolute need for salvation through faith in Jesus the Christ. For us, therefore, adherence to scripture is not only paramount, it is also non-negotiable. In matters of faith and practice, scripture provides sufficient warrant for what is considered right and what is judged to be wrong.
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Mass convertion from islam to Orthoodox Christianity after Beslan

Orthodox monastery reports mass baptism amongst Northern Osetia
citizens. Osetins, ancient inhabitants of North Caucasus were baptised
in 10 century. Some memorials are still from first centuries of
Christianity. Now about 20% of Osetins are islamised, 70% are
Orthodox. After severe act of islamic terrorism in Beslan monastery
reports mass convertion of muslems into Orthodox Christianity.

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http://www.pravoslavie.ru/news/050923114245

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Pope bans homosexuals from ordination as priests

World Net Daily September 19, 2005

Applicants with ‘gay’ tendencies won’t be admitted to seminaries

Pope Benedict XVI has given his approval to a new Vatican policy document that bans men with homosexual tendencies from being ordained as priests, reports Catholic World News.

The policy statement is a direct result of the pope’s concern about the pedophilia scandal in the church – especially in the U.S.

The new document, prepared by the Congregation for Catholic Education in response to a request made by the late Pope John Paul II in 1994, will be published soon. It will take the form of an “Instruction,” signed by the prefect and secretary of the congregation: Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski and Archbishop Michael Miller, according to the report.
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THE PSEUDO-SCIENCE OF SOCIALISM

The majority of the intellectual leaders of the socialist movement…are socialists because socialism appears to them…as “science applied in clear awareness and with full insight to all fields of human activity.”…

Compared with the work of the engineer that of the merchant is in a sense much more “social,” that is, interwoven with the free activities of other people…. His special knowledge is almost entirely knowledge of particular circumstances of time or place…. But though this knowledge is not of a kind which can be formulated in generic propositions, or acquired once for all, and though in an age of Science it is for that reason regarded as knowledge of an inferior kind, it is for all practical purposes no less important than scientific knowledge…
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