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The Diocese of Peoria announced on Monday that Venerable Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified on December 21, 2019. The beatification ceremony will take place at The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Peoria. Fulton J. Sheen was ordained a priest at the same Cathedral on September 20, 1919.The Diocese of Peoria said in a statement published on Monday that It seems entirely fitting that the Beatification will take place at the end of this 100-year anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was born on May 8, 1895 in Illinois and was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Peoria in 1919. Sheen was a famous televangelist. His television Life is Worth Living, reached an audience of millions. Fulton J. Sheen was called to his eternal reward on December 9, 1979 at the age of 84. The Diocese of Peoria started the cause for his canonization in 2002.
Pope Francis hosts meal for Homeless People on World Day of the Poor
Pope Francis celebrated Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday to mark the 3rd World Day of the Poor. Holy Father told believers that the poor facilitate our access to heaven. “Pope Francis said that the presence of the poor makes us breathe the fresh air of the Gospel, where the poor in spirit are blessed. He said instead of feeling annoyed when they knock on our doors; let us welcome their cry for help as a summons to go out of ourselves, to welcome them with God's own loving gaze. Later that day The Holy Father hosted a meal for 1500 homeless and downtrodden people in the Paul VI Hall.
Vatican medical experts approve miracle attributed to Carlo Acutis
On Thursday, November 14, The Medical Board of the Congregation for Saints' Causes approved an alleged miracle attributed to the intercession of Carlo Acutis, a young Italian boy who died at the age of 15. The miracle concerns the healing of a Brazilian boy. Carlo Acutis was born in London in the year 1991. His parents raised him as a devout Catholic. In 2006 Carlo Acutis was diagnosed with leukemia. He offered his pain for both Pope Benedict XVI and for the Universal Church. Carlo was called to his eternal reward on October 12, 2006. Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi said that if the other steps foreseen in the process are also positive, it is expected that the beatification is not far away.
Pope names Archbishop Gabriele Caccia as Vatican’s ambassador to UN
Pope Francis on appointed Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia as the new Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations. Archbishop Caccia will succeed Archbishop Bernardito Auza, who was appointed as the Apostolic Nuncio to the Kingdom of Spain. Archbishop Caccia was born in Milan on February 24, 1958, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1983.He was consecrated bishop in 2009, by Pope Benedict XVI. Archbishop Gabriele Caccia would assume his new position as Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations on January 16, 2020.
Pope Francis condemns the possession of nuclear weapons ahead of Japan visit
Ahead of his visit to Japan, Pope Francis has strongly condemned the use of nuclear weapons and called it immoral. Pope Francis said that he prays that the power of nuclear weapons will never again be used in the world. He said that the total elimination of nuclear arms is both a challenge and a moral and humanitarian imperative. Apart from Tokyo, the Pope is expected to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two cities that were devastated in the atomic bombing in 1946 during World War II. Pope Francis will be the second pontiff to visit Japan. St. Pope John Paul II visited Japan in 1981.
New cardinals react as they are greeted by friends and family
(28 Jun 2018) Pope Francis gave the Catholic Church 14 new cardinals on Thursday, with many of the choices reflecting his determination that the church be known for tireless attention to those on society's margins.
He also turned his attention to countries located far from the Vatican after centuries of European dominance of the ranks of cardinals, honouring churchmen from Peru, Madagascar and Japan, which has a tiny minority of Catholics.
Among those receiving the cardinals' biretta - a crimson-red square cap with three ridges - was Peru's new cardinal, Huancayo Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno, a Jesuit like Pope Francis.
Speaking to reporters inside the Vatican Paul VI Hall during a post-ceremony reception, Baretto Jimeno said that the social exclusion of migrants is an issue all must address.
The cardinal also stressed that humanity is at stake when people, especially women, are mistreated.
With Thursday's ceremony, there are now 226 cardinals worldwide, 74 of them named by Francis during his 5-year-old papacy.
Of that total, 125 cardinals are younger than 80 and can vote in a conclave for the next pope when the current pope dies or resigns: 59 of them appointed by Francis, 47 by Pope Benedict XVI, his predecessor, and 19 named by Pope John Paul II.
Three of those named Thursday are too old to participate in selecting the next pope.
In his homily, Francis told the new cardinals to avoid the quest of honors, jealousy, envy, intrigue, accommodation and compromise.
Other new cardinals include:
Monsignor Antonio dos Santos Marto, bishop of Leiria-Fatima, which includes Portugal's popular shrine town;
Monsignor Desire Tsarahazana, archbishop of Toamasina, Madagascar;
Monsignor Thomas Aquinas Manyo, who was bishop of Hiroshima before Francis made him archbishop of Osaka, Japan;
Monsignor Luis Ladaria, a Spanish theologian who heads the powerful Vatican office in charge of ensuring doctrinal orthodoxy;
Monsignor Giovanni Angelo Becciu, an Italian whose diplomatic career includes serving as ambassador to Cuba;
Monsignor Angelo De Donatis, the Rome vicar general;
The three new prelates too old to vote in a conclave included Sergio Obeso Rivera, Emeritus Archbishop of Xalapa, Mexico; Spanish priest Aquilino Bocos Merino; and Bolivian Monsignor Toribio Ticona Porco.
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被爆十字架、父が背負った痛み「原爆に何の価値もない」
長崎・浦上天主堂に飾られていたとみられる十字架が今夏、７４年ぶりに米国から返還される。原爆投下後に駐留した米兵が譲り受けたものだ。その米兵は被爆地の光景を目の当たりにして、何を思ったのか――。
米オハイオ州のウィルミントン大学平和資料センター。反核活動家の故バーバラ・レイノルズさんが１９７５年に設立した。十字架が飾られていたのは２階の一室の壁。木製で大きさは約１メートル、金色に縁取られ、花の紋章が付いている。その特徴が一致する十字架が、浦上天主堂のガレキとともに写っている写真がある。４５年８月９日に原爆が投下されてから、２週間余り後に長崎入りした朝日新聞出版写真課員（当時）の故・松本栄一氏が撮影したものだ。
「被爆前の浦上天主堂にあったものは、ほとんど残されていません。十字架は浦上に帰すべきだと思うようになりました」
こう語るのは、センターの責任者、ターニャ・マウスさん。「原爆投下を正当化する米国人の認識がすぐに変わるとは思いませんが、この十字架に光があたることで、核兵器がもたらす非人道的で破壊的な側面を思い起こしてほしい」という。十字架は、長崎に駐留し、２０１０年に９７歳で亡くなったウォルター・フークさんが８２年に寄贈したとの記録が残る。ただその理由はわからないという。
Եկեղեցական կյանք 13.04.2018
Ապրիլի 13-ին Գարեգին Բ Ամենայն հայոց կաթողիկոսին է այցելել 2014 թվականին արցախաադրբեջանական շփման գծում ծանր վիրավորում ստացած մայոր Սարգիս Ստեփանյանը: Հնդկաստանի հայ համայնքը, անսալով Վեհափառ հայրապետի խնդրանքին, կազմակերպել էր հայ սպայի բուժումը:
Տարեսկզբին Վիրահայոց թեմը Վրաստանի դատարան է դիմել պետության կողմից անհիմն կերպով Վրաց պատրիարքարանին փոխանցված Թանդոյանց Սուրբ Աստվածածին եկեղեցու հարցով: Ի՞նչ ընթացքում է գործը և որքա՞ն է հավանականությունը, որ եկեղեցին կվերադարձվի իրական տիրոջը:
Մրգավետ, Դիմիտրով, Արաքսավան, Գետազատ գյուղերի բնակիչների միակ եկեղեցին Մխչյանի Սուրբ Հովհաննես Կարապետն է: Այս պահին ընթացքի մեջ են եկեղեցու երիցատան շինարարության աշխատանքները:
Գուգարաց թեմի հոգևորականները, Սեպուհ արքեպիսկոպոս Չուլջյանի գլխավորությամբ, այցելում են Վանաձորի պետական մանկավարժական համալսարան, կազմակերպում դասախոսություններ և գիտաժողովներ տարբեր թեմաներով:
Միջազգային լուրեր. Ճապոնիայի Նագասակի քաղաքում թանգարան է բացվել այդտեղ զոհված քրիստոնյա նահատակների հիշատակին: Ֆրանսիայի ազգային գրադարանը Լուվրի սրահներից մեկում ցուցադրում է կրոնածիսական ձեռագիր գրքեր: Նախագահ Մակրոնը հանդիպել է Ֆրանսիայի կաթոլիկ եկեղեցու առաջնորդների հետ: Հնդկաստանում չորս քրիստոնյայի մեղադրել են հինդուիստների կրոնական զգացումներին վնաս պատճառելու մեջ. Սուրբ Հարության տոնին մի խումբ քրիստոնյաներ զատկական շնորհավորանքներով թերթիկներ էինն բաժանել Հայդարաբադ քաղաքի թաղամասերից մեկում:
Չինաստանում իշխանություններն արգելել են Աստվածաշնչի վաճառքը համացանցային խանութներում՝ հիմնավորմամբ, թե հակասում է սոցիալիզմի արժեքներին:
Ecclesiastical life 13.04.2018
On April 13, Major Stepan Stepanyan, who was gravely wounded in 2014 on the Artsakh-Azeri contact line, visited Karekin II Catholicos of All Armenians. Armenian community of India organized the medical treatment of the Armenian officer upon the request of the Armenian Patriarch.
Early this year, the Armenian Diocese of Georgia filed a suit on the issue related to the Holy Mother of God Church. What is the status of the case and how likely is the Church to be returned to its real owner?
The only church of the residents of Mrgavet, Dimitrov, Getazat villages is St. Hovhannes Karapet Church in Mkhchyan. The construction of the manse of the Church is currently underway.
The clergy of Gugark Diocese visit Vanadzor State University quite often with the Primate of the Diocese Archbishop Sebouh Chouldjian attending different initiatives, organizing lectures and conferences on various topics.
International news feed A museum was opened in Nagasaki, Japan to commemorate the Christians martyred in Japan.. National Library of France displays religious ritual books in one of the halls in Louvre. President Emmanuel Macron had a meeting with the leaders of Catholic Church. Four Christians in India were blamed in hurting religious feelings of Hinduists. A group of Christians distributed leaflets with Easter message in one of had districts of Hyderabad.
Chinese authorities put a ban on sale of Bibles in on-line stores. It was deemed to be contradictory to the values of socialism.
Papal Mass in Bangkok: Family includes victims of human trafficking, drug addiction, migrants
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November 16, 2017 | On August 16, 1967, John Courtney Murray—Jesuit priest, theologian, and public intellectual—passed away less than a month before he would have turned 63. For the final three decades of his life, he taught at Woodstock College and edited the Jesuit journal Theological Studies. Celebrated on Time magazine’s cover (December 12, 1960) for contributions to American domestic and foreign policy debates and for sympathetic, if critical, understanding of religion in American public life, he later helped compose Vatican II’s “Declaration on Religious Liberty” (Dignitatis Humanae).
From Georgetown’s introductory theology course, The Problem of God—named after Murray’s 1962 Yale Lectures—to the mission of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Murray’s influence can be seen throughout the university’s programming. This year, Georgetown celebrated John Courtney Murray’s legacy in the fiftieth anniversary year of his passing with a day-long event examining Ignatian practice and Catholic and Jesuit identity.
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The Society of Mary, a Roman Catholic Marian Society, is a congregation of brothers and priests called The Marianists or Marianist Brothers and Priests. The Society was founded by Blessed William Joseph Chaminade, a priest who survived the anti-clerical persecution during the French Revolution. The Society is one of the four branches of the Marianist Family. Along with the other branches, the Marianist Brothers and Priests look to Mary as a model of faith and spirituality. They believe that the best ways to live a spiritual life are to share their faith with others, work with the poor, and educate and nourish the mind, the body, and the soul.
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Martin Scorsese’s nearly thirty-year passion project, Silence (2016), has finally been released. Silence had been in development with Scorsese since 1990 when he signed a written agreement to direct the adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 novel of the same name. Scorsese was given the book as a gift by Archbishop Paul Moore after a screening of The Last Temptation of Christ and Scorsese read it a year later in Japan while he was working on Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams. Join me as I take a look into the production of Silence. This is not a review; this is what Silence teaches us about filmmaking.
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00:01:18 1 Antiquity
00:01:27 1.1 In the New Testament
00:05:36 1.2 In the Roman Empire
00:05:46 1.2.1 Under Nero, 64–68 AD
00:08:01 1.2.2 From the 2nd century to Constantine
00:13:23 1.2.3 The Great Persecution
00:16:21 1.3 In the Sassanian Empire
00:23:09 1.4 By Jewish tribes in Yemen
00:24:53 1.5 Others
00:25:12 2 During the Middle Ages and Early Modern period
00:25:24 2.1 By Persians and Jews during the Roman-Persian Wars
00:28:54 2.2 Under Islamic rule
00:32:06 2.2.1 Tamerlane
00:32:54 2.2.2 Ottoman Albania and Kosovo
00:35:42 2.3 French Revolution
00:39:24 2.4 China
00:40:53 2.5 India
00:48:24 2.6 Japan
00:50:01 3 Modern era (1815 to 1989)
00:50:13 3.1 In the Ottoman Empire
00:57:53 3.2 Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact Countries
01:07:31 3.3 19th- and 20th-century Mexico
01:10:14 3.4 Anti-Mormonism
01:12:23 3.5 Madagascar
01:14:20 3.6 Spain
01:18:37 3.7 Nazi Germany
01:21:46 3.8 Jehovah's Witnesses
01:22:24 3.9 Communist Albania
01:24:32 4 Current situation (1989 to present)
01:26:10 4.1 In the Muslim world
01:28:46 4.1.1 Afghanistan
01:29:33 4.1.2 Algeria
01:30:53 4.1.3 Egypt
01:32:07 4.1.4 Indonesia
01:35:56 4.1.5 Iran
01:37:07 4.1.6 Iraq
01:43:23 4.1.7 Malaysia
01:45:36 4.1.8 Nigeria
01:46:38 4.1.9 Pakistan
01:52:29 4.1.10 Saudi Arabia
01:53:07 4.1.11 Somalia
01:53:37 4.1.12 Sudan
01:54:02 4.1.13 Syria
01:55:45 4.1.14 Turkey
01:58:00 4.1.15 Yemen
02:01:36 4.2 Bhutan
02:03:55 4.3 China
02:06:16 4.4 India
02:09:36 4.5 North Korea
02:10:59 4.6 Indochina region
02:11:41 5 See also
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The persecution of Christians can be historically traced from the first century of the Christian era to the present day. Early Christians were persecuted for their faith at the hands of both the Jews from whose religion Christianity arose and the Romans who controlled many of the lands across which early Christianity was spread. Early in the fourth century, a form of the religion was legalized by the Edict of Milan, and it eventually became the State church of the Roman Empire.
Christian missionaries as well as converts to Christianity have been the target of persecution ever since the emergence of Christianity, sometimes to the point of being martyred for their faith.
The schisms of the Middle Ages and especially the Protestant Reformation, sometimes provoked severe conflicts between Christian denominations to the point of persecuting each other.
In the 20th century, Christians were persecuted by various governments including the Islamic Ottoman Empire in the form of the Armenian Genocide, the Assyrian Genocide and the Greek Genocide, as well as by atheistic states such as the Soviet Union, Communist Albania and North Korea.
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Francis Xavier, S.J. (; born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; Latin Franciscus Xaverius; Basque: Frantzisko Xabierkoa; Spanish: Francisco Javier; 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552), was a Navarrese Basque Roman Catholic missionary, who was a co-founder of the Society of Jesus.
Born in Javier (Xavier in Navarro-Aragonese or Xabier in Basque), Kingdom of Navarre (in present day Spain), he was a companion of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and one of the first seven Jesuits who took vows of poverty and chastity at Montmartre, Paris, in 1534. He led an extensive mission into Asia, mainly in the Portuguese Empire of the time and was influential in evangelization work, most notably in India. The Goa Inquisition was proposed by St. Francis Xavier. He also was the first Christian missionary to venture into Japan, Borneo, the Maluku Islands, and other areas. In those areas, struggling to learn the local languages and in the face of opposition, he had less success than he had enjoyed in India. Xavier was about to extend his missionary preaching to China when he died on Shangchuan Island.
He was beatified by Pope Paul V on 25 October 1619 and canonized by Pope Gregory XV on 12 March 1622. In 1624 he was made co-patron of Navarre. Known as the Apostle of the Indies and Apostle of Japan, he is considered to be one of the greatest missionaries since Saint Paul. In 1927, Pope Pius XI published the decree Apostolicorum in Missionibus naming Saint Francis Xavier, along with Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, co-patron of all foreign missions. He is now co-patron saint of Navarre with San Fermin. The Day of Navarre (Día de Navarra) in Spain marks the anniversary of Saint Francis Xavier's death, on 3 December 1552.