Let’s Turn Alcohol Abuse Around
Alcohol abuse is one of the causes of violence against women and children. Even people who are normally gentle can become violent after too much alcohol.
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Parish Life
God Prayer Scripture
Learning Psalm 131
Psalm 131 is “one of the shortest psalms to read but one of the longest psalms to learn”. It’s a lone prayer – a private prayer to God which expresses trust and a childlike dependence on God.
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Church
This Week’s Issue: 23 August – 29 August, 2017
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History
Secret Deal? Vatican Archives and the Holocaust
Secret negotiations between Heinrich Himmler and a Swiss Catholic politician, hired by a Jewish woman and helped by an Italian papal nuncio, may have contributed to ending the mass extermination of the Jewish people.
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Crisis War and Refugees
Central African Priests use Facebook to Express Outrage, Appeal for Help
Catholic priests whose villages have been attacked have taken to Facebook to express outrage and appeal for help. One priest accused U.N. peacekeepers of “deliberately abandoning” his town and leaving parishioners to be murdered by rebels.
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Church Priests
Cardinal: Priest who Fathers Child has Moral Obligation to Child
If a Catholic priest violates his vow of celibacy and fathers a child, he has “a moral obligation to step aside from ministry and provide for the care and needs of the mother and the child,” said Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley.
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God Pope Francis Suffering and Pain
Pope: God Weeps With Those Who Suffer
While the world reels from terrorism, natural disasters and division, God weeps with those who suffer and offers the hope of a future full of joy and consolation, Pope Francis said.
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Poverty & Social Justice Suffering and Pain
World Governments Combat Famine in East Africa, Yemen
Countries such as the US, the United Kingdom and Canada have pledged large sums of money to assist countries facing severe food emergencies, but a gap exists between pledged aid and the amount of aid collected.
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Jesus Your Letters
Hellenism and Jesus’ death
Did the Jews hate Jesus because they thought he was under Greek influence?
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