Cardinal Tauran meets Indonesian Muslim leaders

On a visit to Indonesia, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue President, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, has stressed the importance of dialogue in meetings with Muslim leaders in Indonesia.
After an earlier visit to a mosque, Cardinal Tauran met with Muslim leaders at the two largest Islamic organizations in Indonesia — Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, UCA News [...]

Dalat’s Pontifical College demolished

Vietnamese Episcopal Conference President, Bishop Peter Nguyen Van Nhon, has said that he and other bishops including the archbishops of Hanoi, Hue and Saigon, had failed to stop the demolition by the government of Dalat’s Pontificium Collegium.
The government wants to convert the college into a public park, Viet Catholic reports.
In 1956, bishops in South Vietnam [...]

Lankan church helps ‘despairing’ Tamil Tigers

Sri Lanka church workers are trying to help former Tamil Tiger rebels, who are said to be living in the “blackest of despair,” claiming many should be released.
Press-ganged into fighting as children, many are now living with injury, disability and mental trauma, cut off from their loved ones, UCA News reports.
The rebels should not continue [...]

Koreans fund peace center in Mindanao

An inter-faith center has opened in Mindanao in the country’s south, thanks to work by Korean religious leaders and funding from the Seoul government.
The center in Davao City will focus on faith, culture and dialogue between religions in troubled Mindanao.
Korean Coadjutor Archbishop Hyginus Kim Hee-joong of Kwangju had discussed the project with Archbishop Fernando Capalla, [...]

Look to your consciences: Martin tells Irish bishops

Saying that he had no authority to ask anyone to resign, Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has told bishops implicated in the Irish government report into child sex abuse to look into their consciences.
However, Archbishop Martin also said that a bishop could be removed if criminal proceedings are brought, Ireland Online reports.
Irish police are currently studying [...]

Mary Ward to be declared Venerable

Mary Ward, who founded the IBVM sisters and promoted women’s rights in the 17th century, is to be declared ‘Venerable’ by Pope Benedict.
Ward was also dragged before the Inquisition for trying to promote women’s rights 300 years before the Suffragettes, the Daily Mail reports.
Mary Ward was born into a devout Catholic family in Ripon, Yorkshire, [...]

Jesuit program for East Nepal refugee camps

The Jesuit Refugee Service has stepped in to break a cycle of violence, drug and sexual abuse that had been plaguing thousands of ethnic Nepali youths from Bhutan living in refugee camps in East Nepal. (UCA News)
“All kinds of evils were plaguing the camps,” says Jesuit Father Peter Jong Lepcha, program coordinator of Youth Friendly [...]

Cherishing life as a Jesuit volunteer

When I decided to apply for the Jesuit Volunteers Philippines (JVP), I knew there would be questions from my parents and friends about my decision to choose this path after graduation. I was moved during the JVP recruitment talk on volunteerism in our school. But I wanted to discern whether this mission was really meant [...]

Appeal for detained, ill Vietnamese priest

This page on the Amnesty International website lists an appeal for Vietnamese priest Father Nguyen Van Ly, who is in hospital and partially paralyzed.
It calls for urgent action and encourages people to write to the government of Vietname to agitate for the priest’s release and proper care.
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Amnesty International appeal for Fr Nguyen Van Ly

Discernment Of Spirits

During the course of this CatholicTV.com series, Father Tim Gallagher looks at the 14 Ignatian rules for discernment of spirits.
Through his real-life examples, the rules come alive for the panel on each show and for those at home.  The entire series can be found on the CatholicTV.com website.
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Discernment Of Spirits (CatholicTV.com)

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