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| TUESDAY vol. 10, no. 204 October 26, 1999 |
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Today we bring you the 33rd person selected out of the TOP 100 CATHOLICS OF THE CENTURY. The voters chose Father Rene Laurentin, the 82 year-old esteemed and respected French Theologian and leading Mariologist in the Church today who has written thousands of articles, hundreds of books on the subject of Marian Apparitions, supernatural phenomena and Church doctrine. He has been a lecturer in several universities and played a significant role in drafting the document on Marian Doctrine for Vatican II. He has traveled to the most remote sites on all continents to study and meet visionaries throughout the world. For more on the 33rd selection, click on
 October 25th Medjugorje Monthly Message For more on Medjugorje, click on MEDJUGORJE AND MORE |
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 WORLDWIDENEWS & VIEWS 
His Holiness John Paul II took the opportunity on World Mission Sunday to entreat all Catholics to be faithful to their charge to be missionaries where they are planted, encouraging them to preach the Gospel in word and action to all they meet. He made his remarks during his Angelus message at St. Peter's Square, emphasizing the need to evangelize to newer and younger generations especially in Europe which has been under the magnifying glass with the European Synod which wrapped up this weekend. For more, click on Sunday Angelus
Holy Father receives Russian Foreign Minister at Vatican, calls for solution in Chechnya and improved relations between Russia and Holy See  
With his trip to India very much on his mind, and the Iraq Papal Visit still very much up in the air, the Holy Father turned his attention to Russia and the situation in Chechnya and possible salvaging rapport with the Russian Orthodox Church as the Pope received the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Vatican yesterday morning. The Pope called for a swift solution to the conflict in the Chechnya region where turmoil has existed. He also expressed hope that Church-State relations in Russia would improve. For more, click on Russian relations
Paris Archbishop brings seminarians to meet Pope reinforce need for strong formation in the seminaries 
The Holy Father welcomed a group of French seminarians from Paris Monday morning accompanied by Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the Archbishop of Paris. The Pope praised them for their loyalty and determination to uphold all the Church teaches and challenged them to continue this trend with their younger classmates and be fruitful and multiply in vocations through their actions and total dedication to Jesus and His Holy Church. He reminded them that the Church's future depends on the formation of seminarians in the new millennium. For more, click on Future Priests .
Roman billing department tries to short circuit Vatican with humongous utility bill while headaches persist with delays in building due to archeological finds 
Someone is threatening to turn out the lights in the Vatican if they don't pay a 24 million dollar utility bill but the Holy See stands on the Lateran Treaty that exempted the Vatican from all utility and sewer charges. Chalk it up to computer error but someone has to pay and odds are the Italian government will get stuck with the bill. But that's not the only problem facing Rome right now for excavation of ancient Roman frescoes is delaying completion of badly needed parking garage for the anticipated traffic overflow during Jubilee 2000 celebrations. For more, click on Short-circuited in Rome.
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hoping and praying...   Wednesday:
"The professor of moral theology and of canon law will generally be found to be less sympathetic to human weakness than the priest or minister or rabbi who works in the slums, or with delinquents, and certainly less merciful than one who is truly saintly, for he above all knows how weak he is."
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scare tactics to save our children from the fires of hell
In today's editorial, we examine the shocking scenes today that our children are constantly being exposed to and bombarded with through images that are not pleasing to Jesus and His Blessed Mother. With Halloween just days away we suggest a revolutionary twist: If kids want to be scared then let's start doing the scaring by describing the horrors of hell to them. It might be the only solution to saving them from everlasting haunting. For the editorial, This Halloween let's turn the tables by doing some scaring of our own! see 
Appreciation of the Infallibility of the Church
On this date 49 years ago a frail little nun left her Order of the Sisters of Loretto to begin a new religious order of nuns - sisters dedicated to caring for the poor in the most desolate slums with no regard to creed, color, race or caste system. They would be called the Missionaries of Charity and this nun was of course Mother Teresa who established her order on this date in 1950 in Calcutta, India. For other pertinent events throughout the centuries that are memorable in Church history today, click on 
Retroactive articles on Church history from 33 to 1515 A.D. for review 
Only by walking in another's shoes...
