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| MONDAY vol. 10, no. 183 September 27, 1999 |
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Today we bring you the 54th person selected out of the TOP 100 CATHOLICS OF THE CENTURY. The voters chose the late Malachi Martin, the 78 year-old former Jesuit who is best known for his best-selling novels on the Church and the Vatican. Through all his novels there is a fine line between fact and fiction and many claim his work is prophetic, but we will not go that far. A confidant of two Popes, he was a voracious reader and collector of information and is believed, when he received his dispensation from the Jesuit Order, to have been placed under special Pontifical protection according to Martin. This, many think, gave him the freedom to write what he did and reap the many years of research and actual Vatican dealings he experienced in translating into novel thrillers of intrigue and espionage in the genre of John Le Carre and John Grisham that many believe are truer than fiction. For more on the 54th selection, click on |
For additional news from other Catholic wire services, see HEADLINES immediately below on the left |
 WORLDWIDENEWS & VIEWS  
In Geneva to address the UN's Human Rights Commission, Vatican representatives are insisting on inquiries as to how such a travesty as East Timor could ever have happened. The Holy See is asserting that this was a planned demolition of a population and the Church charted well before the vote had been taken and that Indonesia knew exactly what the military and their own trained militia would do. Their feigning ignorance to this is part of the guilt that lies with Indonesia. For more, click on Seeking answers for East Timor
German Bishops give their response: We will not abandon the counseling centers but will never advocate abortion!  
Per the Holy Father's instructions, the German Episcopal Conference, meeting in Fulda, Germany Friday voted to continue the counseling centers for women, but with new guidelines that will prevent loopholes where the German government can make certificates from the centers a passport to having an abortion. That the bishops will not stand for and will instruct all counselors as to the dire consequences of such actions. One way to prevent this abuse is to no longer issue certificates. For more, click on German Bishops.
Showdown looming for November NCCB Meeting of Bishops vs. Universities in upholding Catholic values and principles  
Parishioners of Roman parish finally get their church after forty years of waiting. Dedicate it to Saint Peter's immediate successor  A parish established during the early reign of Pope John XXIII finally has its sanctuary 40 years later in the 21st year of the Pope John Paul II's pontificate. The church in question is the new temple dedicated to Saint Peter's immediate successor Pope Saint Linus, which until now had not been built. Some 10,000 parishioners used the parish hall for Masses and liturgical celebrations. The new church will seat 500 at a time and was consecrated by the Holy Father's Vicar of Rome, Cardinal Camillo Ruini. For more, click on New church for St. Linus .
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Today is the Feast of Saint Vincent de Paul, priest and religious founder while tomorrow, besides being the Twenty-sixth Tuesday in Ordinary Time is also the Feast of Saint Wenceslaus, ruler and martyr and Saint Lawrence Ruiz, husband, father and martyr along with his companion martyrs in Nagasaki, Japan. For the readings, liturgies, meditations, and vignettes on these feasts, click on DAILY LITURGY.
O God, Who, for the preaching of the Gospel to the poor, and for advancing the honor of the priesthood, didst endow Blessed Vincent with apostolic power; grant, we beseech Thee that we who honor his godly life, may likewise be taught by the example of his virtues. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end. Amen.
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"If we are proud, covetous, conceited, selfish, lustful, constantly wanting our own way, it is far better to come face to face with our own ugliness than to live in a fool's paradise. The basis of all criticism of neighbor, the source of false judgments, slander, jealousies and pulling down the reputation of others is our refusal to look into our own soul."
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In his column today, 
Dear children! Today again I call you to become carriers of my peace. In a special way, now when it is being said that God is far away, He has truly never been nearer to you. I call you to renew prayer in your families by reading the Sacred Scripture and to experience joy in meeting with God who infinitely loves His creatures. Thank you for having responded to my call.
Appreciation of the Sacred Offices
Archbishop of Cordoba Cardinal Raul Francisco Primatesta has always placed formation of priests foremost 
We continue with this special series introducing you to the Princes of the Church. Our one-hundred-third red-hat we feature, in alphabetical order is 80 year-old Cardinal Raul Francisco Primatesta, Archbishop of Cordoba. He was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope Paul VI during the Consistory of March 5, 1973. For more on Cardinal Raul Francisco Primatesta, click on 
Clear the beam in our own eye first!
On this day 459 years ago in 1540 Pope Paul II officially approved the Society of Jesus religious order of priests founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola and others. The Holy Father's Papal Bull Regimini militantis ecclesiae gave solemn recognition to the Company known as Jesuit Fathers with the specific purpose of defending the Faith against Protestantism and to be the vanguard for the Pope. For other pertinent events throughout the centuries that are memorable in Church history today, click on 
