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Topic Started: Saturday, 5. July 2008, 20:50 (32 Views)
KatyA	Saturday, 5. July 2008, 20:50 Post #1
Administrator Posts: 5,390 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	Sunday 6 July is the "Day for Life 2008" and this year prominence is given to mental health issues. Quote: 'Catholics are not immune from mental illness' 'Mental ill-health can happen to anyone 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem at some stage in their life' is the message that the Catholic Church in England and Wales will be highlighting on its annual Day for Life Sunday 6 July 2008. The Day aims to raise awareness of the needs of those affected by mental ill-health, their friends, their family and their carers and the support that the parish community and professional services can bring. It is being backed by a senior Vatican official, Monsignor Elio Sgreccia, Former President of the Pontifical Academy for Life. 'The person in your parish community who may be suffering today is the young mum with post-natal depression, the local businessman with stress, your own parish priest, the man who has recently lost his wife to cancer or the young person who has lost faith in life, as well as someone with an obvious, severe and enduring mental illness,' reads the Day for Life parish material, produced jointly by the Bishops' Conferences of Scotland, Ireland and England and Wales. "The Church's ministry to people with mental health difficulties today is to bring acceptance, love and compassion and where appropriate involvement in the life of the parish," says the Bishop for Day for Life, the Right Reverend Bernard Longley. "Fear of difference can lead to us rejecting and stigmatising the other; this year's Day offers us the opportunity to see what we can do as individuals and as a parish community to reach out to those in need." Professor Sheila Hollins, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a supporter of this year's Day says that people sometimes believe that if they were a better Catholic they wouldn't get sick: "People sometimes feel that they would not get depressed or anxious, or turn to alcohol or other substances to help them cope, if they were a better Catholic! "Sometimes people say that if you are a good Catholic, or if you have a religious belief, surely your relationship with God is going to be enough and that is going to get you through - surely it is a sign of weakness if you cannot pull yourself together and get over whatever the problem is that you are experiencing. "I think that is to misunderstand the nature of mental illness and some of the difficulties that people experience. "Telling somebody who is depressed to pull themselves together is no more effective for depression than it would be for somebody who had cancer or heart disease." Day for Life is celebrated yearly by the Catholic Church in Ireland, Scotland and England and Wales. It is a day dedicated to raising awareness about the meaning and value of life at every stage and in every condition. Source: CCN ICN There is a Day for Life website sponsored by the Bishop's Conference and I confess to being puzzled as to why the "Press" section includes a pdf. of a Tablet article "thousands call for ordination of married priests" Is there a connection KatyA



KatyA	Monday, 7. July 2008, 20:15 Post #2
Administrator Posts: 5,390 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	It seems there are a few people "in the know" at the Vatican who are given to gossip, at least according to Rorate Caeli Quote: According to the most well-informed Vaticanist in this pontificate, Andrea Tornielli, Archbishop Angelo Amato, SDB, current Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, will be the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Tornielli even mentions the probable day of publication of this indication: next Wednesday. This means that the list of those who may be picked by the Pope for the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (Prefect) is reduced to two names: Cardinal Cañizares Llovera, Archbishop of Toledo, and Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith, current secretary of the same dicastery. KatyA



Rose of York	Monday, 7. July 2008, 20:51 Post #3
Administrator Posts: 14,513 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	KatyA Monday, 7. July 2008, 20:15 It seems there are a few people "in the know" at the Vatican who are given to gossip really? Surprise, surprise!
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Karin	Tuesday, 8. July 2008, 14:04 Post #4
Karin Posts: 825 Group: Members Member #9 Joined: September 26, 2006	From the Web Site of the Archdiocese of St. Louis. This is definitely a change for the Vatican Department of the Apostolic Signatura. Archbishop Burke was our bishop here in La Crosse and will be with us on 16 July to dedicate his "baby" - the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe's Basillica (which is really beautiful). Then AB Burke will leave for Rome at the end of the summer. His remarks follow the announcement. Sorry, the video isn't included here. Archbishop Burke To Head Apostolic Signatura, Church's Highest Court The following is the text of Archbishop Raymond L. Burke's statment regarding his appointment as prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. To view a video statement from Archbishop Burke, click on the play button (►) in the video window below. The appointment was announced at the Vatican on Friday, June 27, 2008. Today, at noon in Rome (5 a.m. CDT), it was announced that His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, has named me prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, effective immediately. With the announcement, I ceased to be the Archbishop of St. Louis. I am deeply humbled by the trust which His Holiness has placed in me, and, in priestly obedience, I have pledged to serve our Holy Father to the best of my abilities. Although you will no longer pray for me as your archbishop, especially during the celebration of the Holy Mass, I ask your prayers for me, that I may faithfully and generously cooperate with God's grace in fulfilling my new responsibilities. Leaving the service of the Church in the Archdiocese of St. Louis is most sad for me. It has been an honor and gift for me to serve the archdiocese over the past four years and five months. It had been my hope to serve here for a long time, but, as the bishop who called me to priestly ordination often remarked, "Man proposes, but God disposes." I trust that doing what our Holy Father has asked me to do will bring blessings to the Archdiocese of St. Louis and to me. St. Louis is a great archdiocese which will always have a treasured place in my heart. In a particular way, I am saddened to leave my fellow priests, whom I have so much grown to esteem and love. Often, I have spoken about the remarkable unity and loyalty of our presbyterate. For me, it has been a special grace to work with them in the service of God's flock in the archdiocese. I thank them for the priestly fraternity which they have always shown me, and for the generous obedience with which they have responded to my pastoral care and governance of our beloved archdiocese. With regard to the governance of the archdiocese, the College of Consultors will meet to elect an archdiocesan administrator who, with the help of the consultors, will govern the archdiocese, until the new archbishop is appointed and installed. Please pray for the College of Consultors and for the archdiocesan administrator whom they will elect. Again, I ask your prayers. You can count upon my daily prayers for the Archdiocese of St. Louis, always.
	Karin Hvaljen Isus i Marija. Kraljica Mira, moli za nas. "Praised be Jesus and Mary. Queen of Peace, Pray for Us."


John Sweeney	Tuesday, 8. July 2008, 19:13 Post #5
Posts: 1,833 Group: Members Member #68 Joined: March 20, 2007	I have a sneaking suspicion that the Archbishop would have contributed more to the Church by continuing to serve in the front line rather than going off to head up a Vatican Department but hey I was a civil servant myself! John



Rose of York	Tuesday, 8. July 2008, 23:07 Post #6
Administrator Posts: 14,513 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	Received by email: Hi All: If you are planning on attending the conference in August and have not yet registered, please do so soon so that we can continue to make arrangements. The goal of this conference is to: 1. Help support Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses who are Catholic. 2. Assist former Jehovah's Witnesses who are interested in and investigating the Catholic Church. 3. Help Catholics who have lost loved ones to the Jehovah's Witnesses. 4. Equip Catholics to effectively deal with Jehovah's Witnesses both apologetically and socially. Here is the link for more information on the conference and how to register on-line: http://www.catholicxjw.com/whconference.html If you have any questions, just email me at jschwehm@catholicxjw.com Jeff S www.catholicxjw.com
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Rose of York	Tuesday, 8. July 2008, 23:09 Post #7
Administrator Posts: 14,513 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	Catholic ex-Jehovah Witnesses has a discussion forum. http://catholicxjw.proboards55.com/index.cgi
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KatyA	Thursday, 10. July 2008, 17:50 Post #8
Administrator Posts: 5,390 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	HOLY SEE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR 2007 VATICAN CITY, 10 JUL 2008 (VIS) - The Council of Cardinals for the Study of Organisational and Economic Problems of the Holy See held its 42nd meeting in the Vatican on 3 and 4 July, under the presidency of Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. A communique published yesterday afternoon explains that the consolidated financial statements of the Holy See in 2007 - presented to the assembled cardinals by Archbishop Velasio De Paolis C.S., president of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See - showed a deficit of nine million euro: the difference between an income of 236,737,207 euro and outgoings of 245,805,167. This follows a three year period (2004, 2005 and 2006) that had showed a total surplus of 15,206,587 euro. As regards the institutional activity of the Holy See (Secretariat of State, congregations, councils, tribunals, the Synod of Bishops and various other offices), the communique recalls that this produces no revenue. The sector of financial activities (seven consolidated administrations, the most important of which is the Extraordinary Section of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, APSA) showed a surplus of 1.4 million euro, as compared with the 2006 surplus of 13.7 million euro. This decrease of about 12 million euro, the note explains, "is due above all to a sudden very strong reversal of trend in fluctuations of the rate of exchange, especially of the US dollar." The real estate sector closed with a net gain of 36.3 million euro, higher than that of 2006 which stood at around 32.3 million. The activity of the five media institutions connected with the Holy See (Vatican Radio, the Vatican Printing Office, the Osservatore Romano newspaper, the Vatican Publishing House and the Vatican Television Centre), closed with a deficit of 14.6 million euro, "substantially due to the deficit of Vatican Radio and the publication costs of the 'Osservatore Romano'". Nonetheless, the Vatican Printing Office and the Vatican Television Centre closed with a surplus of 1 million euro and 458,754 euro respectively. The Vatican Publishing House also closed the year with a surplus of 1.6 million euro. The Roman Curia employs a totals of 2,748 people (44 more than in 2006), of whom 778 are clergy, 333 religious and 1,637 lay people (including 425 women). Pensioners number 929. The communique goes on to announce that the consolidated financial statements of the Governorate of Vatican City State in 2007 closed with a surplus of 6.7 million euro, a drop with respect to last year's surplus of 21.8 million. "There has been", says the note, "a considerable and sustained economic and financial commitment to the protection, maintenance and restoration of the artistic patrimony of the Holy See (restoration of the Pauline Chapel, interventions on the basilicas of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls and St. Mary Major), as well as elevated costs for the internal security of Vatican City State". "For the financial year 2007, the Governorate of Vatican City State undertook to support the costs of Vatican Radio, contributing to covering half its deficit (12.2 million euro)", says the communique. Offers from the faithful to Peter's Pence, the fund which goes to the Holy Father's works of evangelical solidarity, fell considerably with respect to the preceding year. In 2006 they stood at 74.6 million euro, while in 2007 they only reached 50.8 million. The communique mentions a single individual "who has chosen to remain anonymous" who made an offer of 9.09 million euro to the Holy See. Finally, contributions from dioceses in accordance with canon 1271 of the Code of Canon Law, reached the sum of 18.7 million euro in 2007.



saundthorp	Friday, 11. July 2008, 16:34 Post #9
Posts: 135 Group: Members Member #90 Joined: June 29, 2007	Rose of York Tuesday, 8. July 2008, 23:09 Catholic ex-Jehovah Witnesses has a discussion forum. http://catholicxjw.proboards55.com/index.cgi Hi Rose, I think that site is a great idea. In the States JW's target Catholics quite a lot. They trade on Catholic's ignorance of their own religion. The web site Catholic Answers have been running a campaign recently trying to make American Catholics more aware of the fact that JW's are targeting Catholics across the country. I have the dubious distinction of living about 200 yards from a Kingdom Hall. My estate contains about 60 houses, which makes it easy for them to notch up the required number of visits Witnesses are expected to make each week. Over the years I have had some interesting encounters Asking them in for a cup of tea doesn't arf take the wind out of their sails
	Truth is still the truth even if no one believes it. Error is still error even if everyone believes it. (Archbishop Fulton Sheen)


Rose of York	Friday, 11. July 2008, 18:29 Post #10
Administrator Posts: 14,513 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	saundthorp Friday, 11. July 2008, 16:34 In the States JW's target Catholics quite a lot. They trade on Catholic's ignorance of their own religion. Ignorance of their own religion, or ignorance of Scripture? Unable to reply "In context, the meaning of that verse is...................".
	$Posted Image$ Catholic and proud of it! Talk to God before Mass. Talk to each other afterwards


Derekap	Saturday, 12. July 2008, 15:01 Post #11
Posts: 3,406 Group: Members Member #14 Joined: September 26, 2006	One suggested that if I liked gardening I would spend my time in Heaven gardening. On the tip of tongue was the response that I would prefer to be in Hell. (jokingly of course)
	Derekap


Rose of York	Saturday, 12. July 2008, 22:46 Post #12
Administrator Posts: 14,513 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	We moderators thought that with the new layout, it would be nice to have a section for Prayer Group, so that members can open a topic for each request they wish to put to members. Here it is: http://s10.zetaboards.com/Catholic_CyberForum/forum/3000226/ The new section is in the Prayer, Liturgy and Sacraments Section. The original Prayer Group thread is in there, I am working on making individual threads from recent posts - from May onwards. It takes time!
	$Posted Image$ Catholic and proud of it! Talk to God before Mass. Talk to each other afterwards


Rose of York	Friday, 18. July 2008, 19:34 Post #13
Administrator Posts: 14,513 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	KatyA Saturday, 5. July 2008, 20:50 Sunday 6 July is the "Day for Life 2008" and this year prominence is given to mental health issues. Quote: "The Church's ministry to people with mental health difficulties today is to bring acceptance, love and compassion and where appropriate involvement in the life of the parish," says the Bishop for Day for Life, the Right Reverend Bernard Longley. "Fear of difference can lead to us rejecting and stigmatising the other; this year's Day offers us the opportunity to see what we can do as individuals and as a parish community to reach out to those in need."................................................................................................... Day for Life is celebrated yearly by the Catholic Church in Ireland, Scotland and England and Wales. It is a day dedicated to raising awareness about the meaning and value of life at every stage and in every condition. Source: CCN ICN "Day for Life" was not mentioned at our church. I think we could do a tremendous amount to help people who are mentally ill. When a new Jehovah Witness Kingdom Hall was built in our area, every member of the community was involved. My friends told me, and old lady with early dementia was given simple tasks to do, that would not put her in any danger, helping with the workers' and she went home feeling valued. We could learn from that.
	$Posted Image$ Catholic and proud of it! Talk to God before Mass. Talk to each other afterwards


Derekap	Saturday, 19. July 2008, 14:49 Post #14
Posts: 3,406 Group: Members Member #14 Joined: September 26, 2006	Non-Catholics can sometimes put us to shame and at least can set a good example.
	Derekap


KatyA	Monday, 21. July 2008, 21:58 Post #15
Administrator Posts: 5,390 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	Whether it is a "fruit" of WYD I know not, but it appears that Australia is to open diplomatic relations with the Holy See for the first time Quote: The Holy Father then received an address from Kevin Rudd, Australian PM. “Your Holiness, it feels very much that you have already become one with us… Indeed, you have become one of us.” The PM also announced Australia’s first ambassador to the Holy See, former Australian deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer. “Your Holiness, I am confident that Mr. Fischer, Ambassador Fischer as he will be, will discharge this position with dignity and enable Australia and the Holy See to be able to work together on the great challenges we face in the world,’ he said. At the conclusion of the brief ceremony, the Pope climbed the stairs in his trademark red shoes to board the chartered Qantas 747, which will make a brief fuelling stop-over in Darwin before arriving in Rome. CNA



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