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| MONDAY vol. 10, no. 178 September 20, 1999 |
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Today we bring you the 59th person selected out of the TOP 100 CATHOLICS OF THE CENTURY. The voters chose Father Robert J. Fox, the 72 year-old founder and director of the Fatima Family Apostolate and author of numerous books 
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 WORLDWIDENEWS & VIEWS  
Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo flew out of Rome Friday after meeting last week with the Pope and gaining great support from Church and the Italian people. Meanwhile, the Bishop of West Timor Bishop Anton Pain Radu of the Diocese of
Atambua reaffirmed Indonesia militias are hunting down refugees who had been taken there and he called for international help to combat these atrocities after his appeals to the Indonesian army and pro-Jakarta militias failed. Bishop Belo hopes to return to his beloved East Timor this week, protected by UN troops composed mostly of Australian units. For more, click on East Timor turmoil
Russian Orthodox Church at a crossroads. Could Our Lady's words at Fatima be fulfilled with its eventual return to the true fold?  
By the admission of one of the higher Patriarchs in the Russian Orthodox Church, the Church is in an identity crisis and is adopting many of Rome's statutes to impress upon the people the necessity of living their faith and turning their backs totally on the communist regime and any government interference. As the new millennium dawns, these are merely signs that Our Lady's words that if we pray Russia will be converted could materialize but we all need to continue to pray. For more, click on Russian Orthodox Church.
Bishops of Canada unanimous in preserving the sacredness of the Seal of Confession as Canadian government representative proposes abolition of it  
The Canadian Bishops Conference has sounded a severe warning that the Canadian government's representative of the International Criminal Court is pushing to ban the sacred and secret nature of the confessional by forcing priests to reveal sources and sins when they concern crimes. The Bishops have said this is a litmus test that could have catastrophic repercussions for one billion Catholics universally and must be defended at all costs for it is intrinsic to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. For more, click on Confesson and crime .
New Manual on Indulgences emphasizes nature of indulgences and fulfillment of all requirements with the proper disposition   Ready for the Jubilee Year 2000, the Apostolic Penitentiary Tribunal, headed by United States' Cardinal William Baum, is preparing a 100-page manual that will emphasize Pope Paul VI's Apostolic Constitution which reminds all that the indulgence is not granted if the person does not have the proper dispensation. Nothing is automatic and God knows the heart. There is also no new indulgences listed and none eliminated from the Church's official list of indulgences. For more, click on Indulgences .
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 tomorrow we celebrate the Feast of the Apostle and Evangelist Saint Matthew. For the readings, liturgies, meditations, and vignettes on these feasts, click on DAILY LITURGY.
O God, You have created all nations and You are their salvation. In the land of Korea Your call to the Catholic Faith formed a people of adoption, whose growth You nurtured by the blood of Andrew, Paul and their companions. Through their martyrdom and their intercession grant us strength that we, too, may remain faithful to Your commandments even until death.
102 and counting, Tuesday:
"It makes little difference in the moral character of a person whether we believe golf is better exercise than tennis, but it makes all the difference in the world whether we believe that a human being is a creature of God or a beast."
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Got Milk? If we are not nourished slowly, our faith can turn sour and then we will cry over spilt milk! 
In his column today, 
Appreciation of the Sacred Congregations
Florence's present greatest treasure could be her shepherd Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli 
We continue with this special series introducing you to the Princes of the Church. Our one-hundredth red-hat we feature, in alphabetical order is 75 year-old Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli, Archbishop of Florence. He was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope John Paul II during the Consistory of May 24, 1985 For more on Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli, click on 
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder 
This date 129 years ago in 1874 officially signaled the death knell of the Papal States when Pope Pius IX was forced to surrender to King Victor Emmanuel to avoid bloodshed. The 255th successor of Peter chose to become a self-prisoner inside the Vatican never venturing outside. The Vatican would not receive its freedom, so to speak, until the Lateran Treaty in 1929. For other pertinent events throughout the centuries that are memorable in Church history today, click on 
Dear children! Also today I call you to give glory to God the Creator in the colors of nature. He speaks to you also through the smallest flower about His beauty and the depth of love with which He has created you. Little children, may prayer flow from your hearts like fresh water from a spring. May the wheat fields speak to you about the mercy of God towards every creature. That is why, renew prayer of
thanksgiving for everything He gives you. Thank you for having responded to my call.
