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Friday, May 31, 2013
2013 Ordination Mass Diocese of Charlotte
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
Pope Francis' Prayer Intentions For June
Vatican
City, 31 May 2013 (VIS) - The Pope's general prayer intention for
June is: “That a culture of dialogue, listening, and mutual respect
may prevail among peoples.”
His
mission intention is: “That where secularization is strongest,
Christian communities may effectively promote a new evangelization.”
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
New South Wales Parliament kills assisted suicide bill | LifeSiteNews.com
The following excerpts are from LifeSiteNews.com:
New South Wales Parliament kills assisted suicide bill | LifeSiteNews.com
- Another euthanasia and assisted suicide bill was decisively defeated in Australia last week – this time in the Upper House of the New South Wales’ State Parliament.
- The private members bill was introduced by Greens MLC, Cate Faehrmann, who adopted the title of the original Northern Territory Bill that passed back in 1995, and which was overturned by the Federal Parliament nine months later. The "Rights of the Terminally Ill Bill 2013" was principally an assisted suicide bill with the ‘option’ of euthanasia if the patient was found to be unable to take the drugs for themselves.
- A number of politicians had raised off-the-record concerns that Faehrmann’s bill was primarily a publicity stunt. Faehrmann will resign from the State Parliament shortly to contest for a seat in the Senate in the September 2013 Federal Election for the Greens in New South Wales.
- Legislators overwhelmingly rejected the bill, with 23 votes in favour to 13 against. There were also five abstentions plus one non-vote due to a resignation.
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Sunday, May 26, 2013
From The Dignitatis Humanae Institute: Luca Volontè rallies millions of supporters to defence of the traditional family
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The following is a press release from The
Dignitatis Humanae Institute
Rome,
26 May 2013
In
a letter to the millions of French citizens who comprise 'Manif pour
Tous' (March for All), the Hon. Luca Volontè, president of EPP-ED
group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, lauded
this momentous breakout of grassroots support for the traditional
family and their willingness to stand up and be recognised. While
admitting of the great hardships to come in this "battle for
civilisation", Mr Volontè reminded his French audience of the
words of Paul Claudel, "Pour se poser, il faut s'opposer!"
- "If you want to count for something, stand up and be counted!"
In
describing the upsurge of grassroots campaigners as "the most
beautiful surprise of Europe this year" Mr Volontè painted a
stark picture of the generational struggle underway: "In recent
months, from the UK to Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, many
believers and non-believers, Christians and Muslims alike, have
descended to the streets with the courage to protest against the laws
and policies of governments that seek to change society and our very
human nature. In recent months, it seems to be politically incorrect
to affirm the simple truth of the facts, the truth of human life, the
truth of all ages, the dignity of human life from conception to
natural death, truth of the family founded on the love of a father
and mother, truth of the freedom to express their own religious
beliefs in public."
As
opposed to the authoritarian nature of their detractors, Mr Volontè
praised the restrained, peaceful courage of March for All, "Your
daily presence in public places with candles, your silence for
reflection and prayer are the most resonant sound you could give the
French government. A silence that can move mountains and ideological
preconceptions throughout France and across Europe."
Striking
back at the violence brought to bear upon such protesters, the
Italian politician decried the creeping censorship being embedded
throughout European nations, and highlighted the police repression
witnessed so recently in France against large-scale, peaceful
demonstrations: "Many of us are still horrified by the violence
of the police in different countries of the world...so today, in this
civilized Europe, images of unprecedented violence against children,
parents, young people and priests in France are not provided by the
public and private television."
Yet
in spite of these struggles, the letter was filled with hope and
encouraged the many millions, hailed by one commentator as a
"formidable and diverse mass of people" to draw strength
from their unity, and evoke the memory a France's former heroes:
"From Scandinavia to Hungary, Poland, the United Kingdom, the
Netherlands to Bulgaria, a secular and Christian people, Jewish and
Muslim rises to defend his convictions and affirm their dignity. You
are not alone, I tell you with strength! You have shining examples
before you, who defended the unity and sanctity of the French nation,
from St. Joan of Arc to Jacques Maritain, Charles Peguy and today
many other brave promoters of the truth of man."
Luca
Volontè concluded with G.K. Chesterton's prophetic words of a
hundred years ago: "Fires will be kindled to testify that two
and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are
green in summer. We shall be left defending, not only the incredible
virtues and sanities of human life, but something more incredible
still, this huge impossible universe which stares us in the face. We
shall fight for visible prodigies as if they were invisible. We shall
look on the impossible grass and the skies with a strange courage."
Speaking
during his visit to France, Luca added "I would like to thank
the leaders of Mainf pour Tous for inviting me to their
manifestation, it is a great honour and a great sign of our close
friendship."
The
Dignitatis
Humanae Institute
aims
to uphold human dignity based on the anthropological truth that man
is born in the image and likeness of God and therefore has an innate
human dignity of infinite worth to be upheld. The Institute promotes
this understanding by supporting Christians in public life, assisting
them to present effective and coherent responses to increasing
efforts to silence the Christian voice in the public square.
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