CATHOLIC WORLD NEWS: MON. AUG. 30, 2010: HEADLINES-
VATICAN: POPE: RECEIVES MONS. KURT KOCH CHRISTIAN UNITY COUNCIL-
SOUTH PACIFIC: INDONESIA: 30,000 DISPLACED BY VOLCANIC ERUPTION-
CHINA: AFTER 30 YEAR EMPRISONMENT- UNDERGROUND BISHOP SHUDAO DIES-
AMERICA: USA: FR. EUTENEUER RESIGNS FROM HLI RETURNS TO PARISH MINISTRY-
EUROPE: ENGLAND: CARDINAL NEWMAN'S FEAST TO BE OCTOBER 9-
AFRICA: GUINEA BISSAU: COURSE FOR NEW MISSIONARIES AND PRIEST ORDAINED-
AUSTRALIA: BISHOP INGHAM CALLS FOR OPENESS TO REFUGEES-
VATICAN: POPE: RECEIVES MONS. KURT KOCH CHRISTIAN UNITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT
AUDIENCE
Pope Benedict XVI received in audience:
Mons. Kurt Koch, Archbishop-Bishop emeritus of Basel, President of the Pontifical Council for promoting Christian Unity.
SOURCE http://press.catholica.va/news_services/bulletin/news/25952.php?index=25952&lang=en
http://jceworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/vatican-pope-receives-mons-kurt-koch.html
SOUTH PACIFIC: INDONESIA: 30,000 DISPLACED BY VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN SUMATRA
More eight thousand people have fled the slopes of Mount Sinabung after a new volcanic eruption in northern Sumatra, bringing the total to at least 30 000 displaced persons.
The volcano was dormant for 400 years, but for the past two days it has continued to emit smoke and ash and many expect possible lava floods. This morning, the eruption occurred at 6.30 (local time), creating a massive column of smoke 2,000 feet high at least. At least 31 villages six kilometers from the mouth of the crater were evacuated. Mount Sinabung is located in North Sumatra province, 1300 km northwest of Jakarta.
The National Civil Protection is advising residents and displaced people to wear masks. In fact a man died from breathing problems because of the ashes scattered in the atmosphere.
Volcanologists have had to admit little knowledge of the characteristics of Sinabung Mountain, since it’s remained dormant for a long time.
Indonesia is considered the area with the highest number of active volcanoes in the world: at least 500, of which 68 are the most dangerous because they are situated in populated areas like Java and Sumatra.
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/30-thousand-displaced-by-new-eruption-in-Sumatra-19311.html
http://jceworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/south-pacific-indonesia-30000-displaced.html
CHINA: AFTER 30 YEAR EMPRISONMENT- UNDERGROUND BISHOP SHUDAO DIES
UCAN REPORT: Retired Bishop John Yang Shudao of Fuzhou who spent at least 30 years in prison life because of his faith has died at the age of 91.
Several Church sources told ucanews.com that many government officers came to the church on hearing of the bishop’s death. “They are concerned about security issues and have restricted the number of people paying tribute,” one said.
Fuzhou diocese currently has about 250,000 Catholics, with 81 “underground” and 27 “open” priests. The government recognizes the “open” Catholic community but not the ”underground” one.
Father Joseph Li Ronghua, coordinator of the open community, told ucanews.com that he heard of Bishop Yang’s death but has received no further information from the underground side. He and many of the ”open” priests had never met the bishop, he said.
Bishop Yang told ucanews.com in 2004 that reconciliation with the open Church would mean “a betrayal of faith.”
In addition to the spilt between the open and underground communities since 1980s, the ”underground” Catholics have in the past decade themselves split into two factions, one led by Bishops Yang and Lin and another led by Father Lin Yuntuan.Currently, “underground” Bishop Vincent Huang Zhoucheng of neighboring Mindong diocese is the administrator of Fuzhou diocese, according to a Church source close to the Holy See.
Church sources are concerned about the diocese’s future. They agreed the funeral is a testing case for reconciliation. “If factions cooperate for the funeral, there can be room for communications. Otherwise, reconciliation will be distant,” a source said.
Bishop Yang was born on April 16, 1919 and was ordained a priest in 1947. The then Father Yang was arrested with other priests and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1955 for refusing to denounce the Pope and to join the government-sanctioned independent church.
Bishop Yang was released in 1981 after 26 years in prison. He was clandestinely ordained a bishop in 1987. He was rearrested in 1988 and jailed for another three years. Since then, he has been arrested several times and was under surveillance.
http://www.ucanews.com/2010/08/30/underground-bishop-of-fuzhou-dies/
http://jceworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/china-after-30-year-emprisonment.html
AMERICA: USA: FR. EUTENEUER RESIGNS FROM HLI RETURNS TO PARISH MINISTRY
Catholic Online REPORT: Will Return to Diocese to Serve in Parish
The board of directors of Human Life International (HLI) has announced that after nearly 10 years of meritorious service to HLI as president, Reverend Thomas J Euteneuer has stepped down from his position after being asked by his Bishop to return to his Diocese in West Palm Beach, Florida.
There is no doubt that when the history of the Pro-Life movement and the struggle to build a new culture of life is written, Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer, now the former President of Human Life International, will be acknowledged as one of its most articulate and courageous champions.
The news of his immediate departure from the Presidency of Human Life International comes as a real surprise. It was completely unexpected. It was accompanied by very little explanation. He will apparently return to his Diocese, West Palm Beach. However, he has no parish assignment as of the announcement. Of course, we honor Father's extraordinary work for the Church and courage over all these years. We ask our readers around the globe to pray for him and the transition at HLI.
Stephen Phelan, the Communications Manager for Human Life International, just issued the following Press Release:
HLI President to Return to Diocese
"The board of directors of Human Life International (HLI) has announced that after nearly 10 years of meritorious service to HLI as president, Reverend Thomas J Euteneuer has stepped down from his position after being asked by his Bishop to return to his Diocese in West Palm Beach, Florida.
"The board thanks Fr. Euteneuer for his leadership, hard work and dedication in carrying on the legacy of Fr. Paul Marx. During his tenure Fr. Euteneuer traveled more than one million miles as a pro-life missionary to the world. "While Fr. Euteneuer's leadership at HLI and his influence on the pro-life movement around the world will be greatly missed, we are blessed to have gifted staff who will continue to carry out our mission while a search for a new president is undertaken.
"Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro Carámbula, Executive Director of HLI's office in Rome, will assume Fr. Euteneuer's responsibilities until such time as a permanent replacement is named"
Fr. Euteneuer's acknowledgement of his immediate departure from this significant leadership came in the form of a column in HLI's Spirit & Life Newsletter. Again, there is very little explanation; simply a statement of fidelity from a good priest. We present it in full below:
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Dear Friends of Life, Nearly ten years ago I answered the call of the Lord to come to Human Life International and work full-time in pro-life work with the permission of my bishop. I have been utterly privileged to serve this great mission for a decade, and now I am called back to my diocese to continue my priestly service in parish work, which was the original calling of my vocation. A priest is a soldier of Christ and the Church, and obedience is the primary virtue of his state in life, but for my part, my discernment about this decision tells me that this is the right thing for me to do and at the right time. I have great peace about the road that lies ahead and about all that has been accomplished up to this point. Our international mission remains in good hands with my departure. HLI's Board of Directors has asked Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro of our Rome office to assume my responsibilities until such a time as a permanent replacement is named. Our tremendously competent staff and generous supporters are looking to the future with great hope despite the many challenges of the death peddlers on a global scale which are only increasing. There is more need of our mission now than ever! HLI's network of affiliates and associates is more than 100 countries strong, and our international leaders, so often highlighted in our publications, are literally the best in the world! Our dear founder, Fr. Paul Marx would be extremely proud of what we have accomplished in the past decade. I am sure he is smiling on us from where he is now.
I do not have a parish assignment in my diocese as of yet, but I hope to take some time out before I go back into full-time parish work. I expect that some time of rest and renewal will help me to make the transition. It has been 15 years since I last had any significant time for renewal, and after traveling more than 1.1 million miles, authoring two books, visiting 58 countries and making thousands of public appearances, I am ready for a break! I intend to continue to do pro-life work wherever I may be called to serve, and my bishop agrees that this is a vital charism of my priestly life. A true pro-lifer is not oriented to a job so much as to the daily task of fighting the culture of death and building the culture of life!
I ask for your kind prayers as I move forward and for your continued support of HLI and the new leadership that will come soon. I will not be a stranger to HLI's mission or life but I promise that I will remember each of you every day in the Eucharistic Sacrifice, the font of all unity and LIFE!
Blessings in Christ,
Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer
President, Human Life International
***** We ask our readers around the globe to pray for this heroic priest and for the vital work of Human Life International.
http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=38026
http://jceworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/america-usa-fr-euteneuer-resigns-from.html
EUROPE: ENGLAND: CARDINAL NEWMAN'S FEAST TO BE OCTOBER 9
Catholic Herald report: Cardinal John Henry Newman’s feast will be celebrated on October 9, the date of his conversion in 1845, Pope Benedict XVI will declare next month.
During the Mass at Cofton Park on September 19, Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham will ask the Pope formally to beatify the Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman. The vice-postular of the Cause will then read a short biography of the cardinal.
Then the Pope will say: “Acceding to the request of our Brother Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham, of many other Brothers in in the episcopate, and many of the faithful, after consultation with the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, by our apostolic authority we declare that the venerable servant of God John Henry, Cardinal, Newman, priest of the Congregation of the Oratory, shall henceforth be invoked as Blessed and that his feast shall be celebrated every year of the ninth of October, in the places and according to the norms established by Church law.”
This will be the first – and possibly only – time that Benedict XVI personally pronounces the formula of beatification during his pontificate.
A portrait of the new Blessed will then be unveiled and his relics will be placed beside the altar.
The Magnificat booklet also contains prayers of preparation for the visit and texts for daily Mass from September 12 to September 29, including the Masses of the papal visit.
It contains the hymns to be sung at the beatification Mass, including Newman’s own “Praise to the Holiest in the Height”, and “Firmly I Believe and Truly”, but also more modern works, such as Bernadette Farrell’s “Christ Be Our Light”, “Be Still for the Presence of the Lord”, and “Make Me A Channel of Your Peace”.
The Creed will be in Latin, according to a plainchant setting, and Eucharistic Prayer III will be used for the Mass in Latin.
The booklet has forewords by Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, Lord Patten of Barnes and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.
It also contains essays by leading Catholics such as Newman scholar Fr Ian Ker, Bishop Malcolm McMahon of Nottingham, and the current British Ambassador to the Holy See, Francis Campbell.
The booklet is being distributed by Gabriel Communications and the bishops’ conferences of England and Wales and Scotland. A million copies will be sent to parishes in Britain.
Mgr Andrew Summersgill, papal visit coordinator, has said that while this “isn’t enough for everybody who regularly attends Mass”, there will “certainly” be enough copies “for each household”, as well as for those attending papal events http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2010/08/26/official-cardinal-newmans-feast-day-will-be-october-9/
http://jceworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/europe-england-cardinal-newmans-feast.html
AFRICA: GUINEA BISSAU: COURSE FOR NEW MISSIONARIES AND PRIEST ORDAINED FOR MISSIONS
Agenzia Fides REPORT – The sessions of the Missionary Training Course begun August 2 ended on August 27 with a Mass presided by two bishops of Guinea Bissau. According to information sent to Fides from the Curia of Bissau. The course was attended by 20 missionaries, religious and lay people, from 13 different nationalities, who had the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of the local language and were introduced into the social-cultural context of Guinea Bissau. Among the topics discussed during the meetings were: inter-ethnic and interreligious dialogue, inculturation and initiation, forms of evangelization, social and political situation of the country. The closing the course featured the Mass presided over by Bishop Jose Camnate na Bissign of Bissau. The Bishop of Bafata, Bishop Carlos Pedro Zilli, addressed the new missionaries urging them to always feel sent, making an effort to offer their presence in the community, more so than material things. On the eve of the course for new missionaries, the Church of Guinea Bissau experienced an event of great joy and intense prayer with the priestly ordination of Fr. Gaudencio Francisco Pereira, age 35, Guinea-Bissau's first priest to be ordained in the PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions), and the 2nd African in the Institute. The ordination was celebrated in the Parish of “Nossa Senhora de Fátima,” on July 31, presided by the Bishop of Bissau, Archbishop José Camnate na Bissign. Gaudencio Pereira comes from a religious family. One year after having received baptism in 1996, he entered the Minor Seminary of São Kizito, after which he decided to enter the PIME. He studied philosophy and theology in Brazil and Italy. PIME Missionaries have been present in Guinea-Bissau since 1947.
http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=27298&lan=eng http://jceworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/africa-guinea-bissau-course-for-new.html
AUSTRALIA: BISHOP INGHAM CALLS FOR OPENESS TO REFUGEES
Cath News report: Wollongong's Bishop Peter Ingham has celebrated Refugee and Migrant Sunday at his diocese with a call for openess and tolerance towards new arrivals.
"This attitude only fosters distrust and is contrary to the Australian spirit and our Christian heritage which fundamentally is a call to care for the human person, whatever their circumstance.
"I call for a bipartisan political approach to genuine refugees who come from traumatic situations, fleeing conflict and persecution.
"Today is a time to remember the many migrants and refugees who seek a new home in Australia, and to reflect on how we can better serve their needs."
http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=23029
http://jceworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/australia-bishop-ingham-calls-for.html
TODAY'S SAINT: ST. PAMMACHIUS, DIED 409
St. Pammachius
ROMAN SENATOR
Feast: August 30
Information: Feast Day: August 30
Born: 340
Died: 409 at Rome
Roman senator, d. about 409. In youth he frequented the schools of rehetoric with St. Jerome. In 385 he married Paulina, second daughter of St. Paula. He was probably among the viri genere optimi religione præclari, who in 390 denounced Jovinian to Pope St. Siricius (Ambrose, Ep. xli). When he attacked St. Jerorme's book against Jovinian for prudential reasons, Jerome wrote him two letters (Epp. xlviii-ix, ed. Vallarsi) thanking him; the first, vindicating the book, was probably intended for publication. On Paulina's death in 397, Pammachius became a monk, that is, put on a religious habit and gave himself up to works of charity (Jerome, Ep. lxvi; Paulinus of Nola, Ep. xiii). In 399 Pammachius and Oceanus wrote to St. Jerome asking him to translate Origen's "De Principiis", and repudiate the insinuation of Rufinus that St. Jerome was of one mind with himself with regard to Origen. St. Jerome replied the following year (Epp. lxxxiii-iv). In 401 Pammachius was thanked by St. Augustine (Ep. lviii) for a letter he wrote to the people of Numidia, where he owned property, exhorting them to abandon the Donatist schism. Many of St. Jerome's commentaries on Scripture were dedicated to Pammachius. After his wife's death Pammachius built in conjunction with St. Fabiola (Jerome, Epp. lxvi, lxxvii), a hospice at Porto, at the mouth of the Tiber, for poor strangers. The site has been excavated, and the excavations have disclosed the plan and the arrangement of this only building of its kind. Rooms and halls for the sick and poor were grouped around it (Frothingham, "The Monuments of Christian Rome," p. 49). The church of SS. John and Paul was founded either by Pammachius or his father. It was anciently known first as the Titulus Bizantis, and then as the Titulus Pammachii. The feast of Pammachius is kept on 30 August.
SOURCE http://www.ewtn.com/saintsHoly/saints/P/stpammachius.asp
http://jceworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/todays-saint-st-pammachius-died-409.html
TODAY'S GOSPEL: AUG. 30- Luke 4: 16 - 30
Luke 4: 16 - 30
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16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and he went to the synagogue, as his custom was, on the sabbath day. And he stood up to read; \
17 and there was given to him the book of the prophet Isaiah. He opened the book and found the place where it was written,
18 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
19 to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."
20 And he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.
21 And he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
22 And all spoke well of him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, "Is not this Joseph's son?"
23 And he said to them, "Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, `Physician, heal yourself; what we have heard you did at Caper'na-um, do here also in your own country.'"
24 And he said, "Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own country.
25 But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Eli'jah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;
26 and Eli'jah was sent to none of them but only to Zar'ephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Eli'sha; and none of them was cleansed, but only Na'aman the Syrian."
28 When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath.
29 And they rose up and put him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong.
30 But passing through the midst of them he went away.
http://jceworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/todays-gospel-aug-30-luke-4-16-30.html
