Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen told Reuters he might have stayed away if he had known the major Church gathering coincided with ceremonies to honor Pius on the 50th anniversary of his... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Benodette) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/51043 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:11:23 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/51036/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-51036 The rabbi in question is Shear Yashuv Cohen, the chief Ashkenazi rabbi of Haifa, Israel, and a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Benodette) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/51036 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:49:28 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/51033/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-51033 Daily Mail - The exhumation of the grave of one of the best-known English churchmen of the 19th Century has found that his body has disintegrated, the Catholic Church said today.

There were plans for the remains of Cardinal John Henry Newman to be moved from his grave in Rednal, Worcestershire, to the Birmingham Oratory, where they would be placed in a marble sarcophagus.

However, the oratory said the exhumation of Cardinal Newman's grave on Thursday revealed his... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Benodette) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/51033 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:50:33 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50973/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50973 Intermountain Catholic News - The Church worries about which road you take in life… and in your car. The Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People has created a new decalogue for drivers since "driving a vehicle is basically a way of relating with and getting closer to other people, and of integrating within a community of people;" but it could also be an "occasion of sin."

According to the document issued by the Vatican... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Benodette) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50973 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:27:03 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50947/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50947 More news on Cardinal Newman, from Catholic Online:

Cardinal Newman to lie in state in Birmingham
By Simon Caldwell

Theologians met on... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unicorn) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50947 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:52:05 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50942/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50942 Birmingham Mail - The exhumed remains of Birmingham's greatest churchman are to lie in state in the latest step on his path to sainthood.

Thousands of Catholics are expected to pay their respects to Cardinal Newman at Birmingham Oratory, in Edgbaston, on October 31 and November 1, followed by re-interment at the Oratory on November 2.

John Henry Newman, a 19th century priest and writer, converted to Catholicism and settled in Birmingham, where he founded the first... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Benodette) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50942 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:11:29 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50921/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50921 Catholic film critics lauded the work of actor Paul Newman, who died Sept. 26 at age 83 of cancer. Other praise came from the Vatican's newspaper.

"In his films he was the tough guy and the braggart, the rebel and the conquistador," said a notice in the Sept. 29 issue of L'Osservatore Romano. "In reality Newman was a generous heart, an actor of a dignity and style rare in Hollywood quarters."

The... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Benodette) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50921 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:38:31 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50907/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50907 Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's No. 2 official, delivered a major speech on religion in a globalized world, following Pope Benedict XVI's call for religion to be given more room in society.

Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Benodette) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50907 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:24:54 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50897/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50897 The Democratic Party in the United States "risks transforming itself definitively into a 'party of death,'" said U.S. Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Vatican's highest court.

An interview with the former archbishop of St. Louis was published in the Sept. 27 edition of Avvenire, a daily Catholic newspaper sponsored by the Italian bishops' conference.

The newspaper asked the archbishop, the new head of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Benodette) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50897 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:06:10 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50892/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50892 The Tidings - Key theological ideas emphasized by Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to the U.S. --- wisdom which can assist Catholics in their task of faithful citizenship, particularly during the election season --- were cited by Cardinal William Levada during a recent visit to his native Southern California.

As featured speaker of the 2008 Los Angeles Catholic Prayer Breakfast Sept. 16 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the head of the Congregation for the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Benodette) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50892 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:13:33 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50889/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50889 Benodette, what intriguing news about the impending decision on Cardinal Newman's beatification. As I type this, it is now around 5:30 PM in Rome -- in a few hours, we shall know whether the good Cardinal will join the ranks of the "Blessed". I am crossing all my fingers and toes that we -- and especially our brethren in the United Kingdom -- will soon have some very happy news indeed! It is known that Il Papa greatly admired Cardinal Newman, and I do think that... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unicorn) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50889 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:50:51 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50883/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50883 Daily Mail - The Vatican will on Tuesday decide whether Cardinal John Henry Newman should be declared 'Blessed' - a move which would put him just one step away from becoming Britain's next saint. Theologians will meet to consider if the inexplicable healing of a man with a crippling spinal condition was a result of the intercession of the Victorian cleric.

If they conclude in favour, then Pope Benedict XVI will declare Newman 'blessed' in December and he will... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Benodette) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50883 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:12:47 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50850/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50850 OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 24 SEP 2008 ( VIS ) - The Holy Father... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (letmel) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50850 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:17:57 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50843/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50843 Alright, I must say this is certainly one for the books ...

From ADNKronos International:

Iran: Jailed ayatollah asks Pope to help free him


Tehran, 26 Sept. (AKI) - Iran's jailed Ayatollah Sayyid Hossein Kazemeini Boroujerdi has written a letter to Pope Benedict XVI and other religious leaders asking them to help secure his release.

The ayatollah asked the pontiff to... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unicorn) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50843 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:06:33 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50837/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50837 Benodette, many thanks for your comments -- to be honest, I was rather hoping that such a legislation would pass, but given your insights, perhaps it is better that the status quo be retained. It would be a complete tragedy if such a law, passed ostensibly to support religious "equality" for the Catholic Church, would ultimately pave the way for a purely secular state, where there may yet be no room for faith in the lives of the people, or in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unicorn) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50837 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:42:51 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50822/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50822 Unicorn.

First of all, any change of this nature would depend on the Labour government being returned for a fourth term and I think it is highly unlikely that they will be elected to a fourth term. Even if they were elected, I doubt if passing such legislation would be top of their agenda.

Stories like this surface from time to time, usually fuelled by the left-wing press. Don't be deceived into thinking that the people who... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Benodette) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50822 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:06:42 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50817/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50817 Benodette, the America article on Archbishop Rowan Williams' truly historic visit to Lourdes seems particularly timely, given these news reports that have just broken a few hours ago over the Internet - if this legislation is passed by the British Parliament, it will certainly be one of the most important events in the history of Great Britain, and yes, of the Catholic Church! feeds@yuku.com (Unicorn) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50817 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:46:20 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/reply/50816/t/People-in-the-News.html#reply-50816 America Magazine - Back during the Anglican communion crisis I half-mischievously suggested that the Archbishop of Canterbury should dispatch his quarrelling bishops to the Marian shrine of Lourdes in south-west France because -- and here I was in deadly earnest -- it is the one of the greatest forgers of communion available to the believer.

Just... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Benodette) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/sreply/50816 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:20:59 GMT http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/topic/508/t/People-in-the-News.html feeds@yuku.com (Budwud) http://theratzingerforum.yuku.com/topic/508 Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:45:31 GMT