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Thousands of Knights of Columbus North Luzon Jurisdiction members and their families march through the streets in Quezon City during the nationwide simultaneous Walk for Life to promote the dignity of human life from conception to natural death,
March 18, 2017 (Related story on page A8). ROY LAGARDE
Vatican Briefing
Catholic leaders tell Trump Pope Francis to visit Egypt April 28-29
In what will be his first international trip of the
year, Pope Francis will be traveling to Cairo, Egypt,
WASHINGTON D.C. The United April 28-29, showing that interfaith dialogue is a
States mustnt cut foreign aid while priority. He will visit the country in response to an
conflicts, famines, and a worldwide invitation from His Holiness Pope Tawadros II and
refugee crisis rage, Catholic leaders are
the Grand Imam of the Mosque of al Azhar, Sheikh
insisting.
Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayyib, as well as Egypts
Amid a huge, unprecedented refugee
president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the bishops
situation around the globe and four
of the local Catholic Church, a March 18 Vatican
countries with famines or on the
cusp of famine were just extremely
communiqu announced. While the full program
concerned that the resources wont be for the Popes the trip will be published shortly,
there to respond to those really critical he will almost certainly visit Al-Azhar University
humanitarian needs, Bill OKeefe, vice in Cairo, which has recently partnered with the
president for government relations and Vatican to discuss combating religious justification
advocacy at Catholic Relief Services, for violence in a warming of relations between the
told CNA on Friday of President Donald two. (CNA)
Trumps proposed budget that cuts
some foreign assistance. Pope Francis and Lebanese president talk
President Trumps skinny proposed Syrian war
America First budget for FY 2018 a With the 6th anniversary of the start of the Syrian
more detailed plan will be released war as backdrop recently, Pope Francis met March
laterincreases defense spending and 16with the President of Lebanon, Michel Aoun.
immigration enforcement, and makes Their discussion centered on the large number of
Children at CRS' Food for Education program in Senegal. LANE HARTILL/CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES
significant cuts to the Environmental Syrian refugees now in Lebanon and the efforts
Protection Agency and the State And while the number of persons in support for the International Affairs to find a solution to the conflict. According to
Department, among other agencies displaced from their homes is at its Budget that every day brings hope to a statement by the Vatican, in the 20-minute
and programs, to offset those increases. highest ever recorded at over 65 million, poor, hungry, vulnerable and displaced meeting, the Pope and President Aoun discussed
This includes deep cuts to foreign aid. with over 21 million of those refugees, men, women and children around the Syria with special attention to international efforts
It is time to prioritize the security and the U.S. should not be cutting its foreign world. to find a political solution to the conflict.The
well-being of Americans, and to ask the aid to vulnerable populations, CRS Signers of the letter included Cardinal Pope expressed appreciation for the many Syrian
rest of the world to step up and pay its insisted. Timothy Dolan of New York, Bishop refugees Lebanon has welcomed during the years of
fair share, President Trump stated in With huge movements of people Gregory J. Mansour of the Eparchy of the Civil War. The two leaders also exchanged views
the proposal. comes instability, OKeefe said. If we Saint Maron of Brooklyn and chairman on the greater regional context and other ongoing
The proposal trims almost a third29 dont meet the humanitarian needs of the board of Catholic Relief Services, conflicts, particularly the situation for Christians in
percentof the International Affairs of vulnerable populations, people will Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San the Middle East. (CNA)
Budget, David Beckmann, president move and that will be destabilizing. Francisco, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz
of the group Bread for the World, told 106 faith leaders signed a letter sent of Louisville, and Archbishop Jerome Conversion is a journey of action, Pope says
CNA. to congressional leaders on Thursday Listecki of Milwaukee. (CNA) Pope Francis urged Catholics on March 14 in
homily not only to avoid evil, but to pursue good
Chaput: Everyone whos a legal citizen in concrete actions, likening the Lenten conversion
to a journey.Avoiding evil and learning to do
good: this is the rule of conversion. Because being
Attempts to overturn
drugs and devices that have
been re-certified by FDA
-despite Opposition filed
The Filipino priest who served 2 popes
TRO by ALFI with FDA- have MANILA Fifteen years
According to the lawyer, abortifacient character. ago, Pope John Paul II
population control lobby ALFI presented vo-luminous created the archbishop of
groups backing Republic Act supporting documents which Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario
No. 10354 have focused on FDA totally ignored. FDA Bergoglio a cardinal. For a
contraception and access re-certified those drugs in Filipino priest, witnessing
to modern family planning secrecy without informing the consistory first hand, up
methods which are just one ALFI about the proceedings close and personal, was both
aspect of the RH Law. and basis of re-certification. a gift and mystery.
The Filipino people need As a consequence, these Fr. Rey Anthony Navidad
to know the truth billions of contraceptives continued to of the Diocese of Borongan
tax-payers money is squan- be sold to the public. was a third year theology
dered on contraceptives that All the 77 contraceptive student in Rome when he
ruin life and health! stressed drugs and devices in the FDA was chosen to be among
Noche, noting several lobby website exhibit a mechanism the acolytes of the largest
groups repeated attempts to of action that causes abortion, consistory elevation of
overturn the SCs TRO. as proven by pharmacological cardinals in the Churchs
In November 2016, the and scientific evidence which history, with a total of 42.
Department of Health ALFI submitted to the SC. For me it was a gift from
(DOH), the Commission on The SC could not close its God, strengthening my
Population (POPCOM), and eyes to the foregoing; hence, vocation, as if saying to me
the Philippine Legislators the TRO was issued on June 17, do not be afraid and be like Fr. Rey Anthony Navidad of the Diocese of Borongan is flanked by Pope John Paull II and then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Committee on Population 2015. In the second SC Decision them brave servants of God. during the 2001 consistory at the Vatican. SCREEN GRAB FROM ROME REPORTS
and Development (PLCPD) on August 24, 2016 (on ALFIs Its a mystery because I still
launched a signature 2nd Petition), the TRO was cant under-stand why me, the middle of the night when for the consisto-ry. class municipality located
campaign aimed to gather 1 affirmed and maintained, Navidad said. Pope Fran-cis appeared around 116-kms south of
million signatures to push Noche pointed out. Who would have thought, before thriving crowds on At the start, he recalled the capital city of Borongan
the RH Law. The SC has said the RH he said, that Pope Francis the balcony of St. Peters asking Archbishop Piero in Eastern Samar province.
On March 9, a petition Law is a population control would come from the Basilica. Marini, chief liturgist to A priest for 14 years,
urging the SC to lift the TRO measure, not a reproductive consistory which he served The moment it was Pope John Paul II, not to he is also the current
claimed to be signed by health measure, stressed on Feb. 21, 2001. And not to announced that the new assign him as Missal book superintendent of the
143,000 individuals was the lawyer. (Fr. Mickey mention, Pope John Paul II pope came from Buenos bearer because it was too Catholic schools in the
presented in an RH Law forum Cardenas/CBCPNews) becoming a saint someday. Aires, I immediate-ly said to heavy. diocese.
It was the same ceremony myself this was the cardinal With a smile in his face, In his Facebook page, the
After performing 6,000 exorcisms, this when the late Saigon from the 2001 consistory, Navidad said, But he priest has been using his
Archbishop Nguyen Van he recalled. refused and it turned out picture during the historic
priest says the devil fears him Thuan received his red Then a student at the that I was the most blessed consistory as his cover photo.
hat, and whose cause for Pontifical University of the of all the altar servers. The picture inspires
MEXICO CITY, Mexico Fr. do so. canonization opened in Holy Cross, Navidad was Fast foward to present day, me although it remains a
Francisco Lopez Sedano is an He cant enter us if we Rome in October 2010. the only Asian among the Navidad is serving as parish mystery for me until now.
80-year-old Mexican exor- do not open doors, the The priest said he was altar servers from different priest at the Sto. Nio Parish Its a continu-ous why?
cist. In the past 40 years of priest said. Because of this, watching on television in seminaries in Rome chosen Church in Lawaan, a fifth he said.
service, he has conducted at God prohib-its the practice