Holy Father extends condolences to Hurricane victims and praises missionary work with immigrants
     While Pope John Paul II received missionaries who have made a point to bring the faith to immigrants all over the world, he extended condolences to the thousands of victims ravaged by Hurricane Georges, specifically in Catholic Puerto Rico and the Island of Hispania which includes the highly Catholic population of the Dominican Republic and on the west side of the island Haiti as well as Cuba farther west where he visited this past January. The Pope sent telegrams to both Cardinals of the islands. For more, click on Hurricane

Controversy continues over Pope's plans to beatify Croatian Cardinal
      The controversy continues on the eve of the Pope's visit to Croatia next weekend and his plans to beatify Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac after the Jewish Center in Los Angeles called for the pontiff to delay plans to elevate the controversial Archbishop of Zagreb during World War II. They claim there are still too many skeletons in the closet that need to be cleaned out before the Cardinal is afforded such an honor. However, we suspect this is a smokescreen by holocaust hardliners for the Vatican does extensive and thorough investigation before such a move could be initiated in the first place. For more, click on Cardinal Stepinac.

Can the Bible replace the Babel of modern technology, most specifically television?
      This past weekend a special forum was held at the Vatican bringing together Church leaders and film experts in an attempt to decipher how best to implement the Word of God in the media and to offset the Babel permeating the airwaves as technology threatens the Christian way of life. The title of the seminar was "Is God dead on television?" It might not make for a good sitcom or drama of the week, but the results are bound to help religious leaders cope with the ammoral atmosphere spread by this medium. For more, click on Prime Time Religion.

While Cloistered Nuns uphold God's Will, radical feminists tearing Church apart
      The Holy Father took the occasion of a worldwide gathering of abbesses of the Cistercian Order, a cloistered religious order of nuns, to praise and encourage them for the path they have taken "living out their feminine principle to the fullest" while word out of the United States is that feminist principals are living according to their own whims, rejecting Church teaching and holding illicit masses where the Blessed Sacrament cannot possibly be confected by women priestesses masquerading as Catholics. For more, click on A tale of two types of women.

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     Today we celebrate the feasts of the Twenty-Sixth Monday in Ordinary Time and the commemoration of Saint Wenceslaus, Ruler and Martyr, and Saint Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, first Filipino Martyrs. Tomorrow is the great feast of the   Archangels - Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel, and Saint Raphael. For the readings, liturgy, meditations, and vignettes on all of these saints, click on LITURGY FOR THE DAY.

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