This Week’s Issue: 3 January – 9 January, 2018
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Church
Church Women and the Church
Saint John Paul II Recognised the Need to Protect Women
A person who was ahead of his time was St John Paul II. In 1995, he wrote a letter to women of the world, still available on the Vatican website. In that letter, he said, “Unfortunately, we are heirs to a history which has conditioned us to a remarkable extent. … Women’s dignity has often been unacknowledged and their prerogatives misrepresented; they have often been relegated to the margins of society and even reduced to servitude.”
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Church Sin in our Lives
Why We Confess Our Sins to God
My mother passed away this summer rather suddenly, but her many lessons remain with our family. While I learned countless things from my mom, one of the most important things she taught me was the significance of an apology.
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Church Women and the Church
HeForShe – Our Church Stands With Women
The Justice and Peace Commission (J&P) of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference has partnered with UN Women through its HeForShe campaign and is working with J&P activists from various dioceses to take a stand against women abuse.
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Church Mass
Ok, What’s Gregorian Chant and Do We Do That?
The tradition of sung prayer dates back to the first millennium, with Gregorian chant becoming the proper music of the mature Roman rite, said Timothy McDonnell, director of the Institute of Sacred Music at The Catholic University of America in Washington.
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Church Raymond Perrier
Forgotten Out At Sea
There is one group whose work over the holiday season will probably go unnoticed since they work invisibly during Christmas and indeed throughout the year. That group are seafarers.
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Bishops condemn selling of Nigerians into slavery in Libya
A trio of Nigerian bishops condemned the enslavement of Nigerians who traveled to Libya for work, calling the practice a horrific abuse of human dignity.
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Church Peace & Justice
African Traditions Can Help Build Peace
The Gospel extends a peace greeting to all men of good will. FR PETER CHIMOMBE argues that traditional African methods of resolving conflict can serve as models for making peace.
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Franciscans involved in making of ‘The Sultan and the Saint’ documentary
The encounter in 1219 between St. Francis of Assisi and Malek al-Kamil, the sultan of Egypt, during yet another flashpoint in the long history of the Crusades – the subject of one famous fresco in Assisi, Italy – has been made into a documentary. “The Sultan and the Saint”.
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