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Highest German court: Sunday should be a day of rest

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Lord Monckton says Copenhagen will lead to global govt

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Aspirin kills 400% more people than Swine flu

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Kim Hill interviews expert who challenges official 9/11 story

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Signs of the Times



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This video clip is from an BBC debate on whether the
Catholic Church is a force for good in the world. Very interesting viewpoints. Make sure you watch the
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Tractor and material to Fiji




Tractor and material to Fiji

 

In September 2009, Hope International sent a Massey Fergusson tractor to Fiji to help with the work at the Nacilau 3 Angels Mission College. To fill up the container, we also packed many boxes full of clothing, material, and outreach literature. We hope these are a blessing to the brethren in Fiji. Another tractor has since been donated.

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 




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Obama Stresses Common Ground With Pope Benedict

 

By Dan Gilgoff , July 10, 2009 (US News & World Report)



 

 

President Obama met with Pope Benedict XVI for the first time today in Rome, and while they offered little in the way of public comment before or after their sit-down, Vatican and U.S. sources said the two engaged in a wide-ranging discussion that touched on immigration policy and the Middle East and that saw Benedict emphasizing the church's conservative position on abortion.

 

 Politically speaking, the pope and the president used the event to send separate messages from a global stage.

 

In one politically charged gesture, the pope handed Obama a Vatican booklet on bioethics that condemns embryonic stem cell research and abortion rights, both of which the president supports. "I'll have something to read on the plane," Obama, who flew to Ghana after the meeting, joked to the pope.

 

Obama used the forum to get his own messages out, stressing areas of common ground between his administration and the Roman Catholic Church. Even on the divisive issue of abortion, for instance, the pope's press secretary said Obama "reiterated his commitment to reducing the incidence of abortion" during the meeting.

 

The White House used the meeting to show the importance it places on the U.S.-Vatican relationship, with the private portion of the meeting between Obama and the pope running about twice as long as the scheduled 15 minutes. Obama then introduced his wife, Michelle, two daughters, and mother-in-law to the pope.

 

During a photo session following their meeting, Obama told the pope, "We look forward to a very strong relationship between our countries."

 

"I thank you for all your work," the pope responded. "I pray for you."

 

The Vatican, for its part, went out of its way to make the meeting happen, departing from its usual practice of hosting heads of state in the morning in order to accommodate Obama's schedule.

 

The pope gave Obama, in addition to the document on bioethics, an encyclical he issued this week dealing with the global economic crisis. Though the document reaffirmed the Vatican's opposition to abortion, it also showcased the church's more liberal positions, including support for labor unions, protecting the environment, and strengthening the United Nations.

 

"The encyclical ramped up the level of White House enthusiasm for this meeting because you can't read it without sensing that these two men are seeing economic questions the same way," says a Catholic adviser to the White House who spoke on background.

 

Though some U.S. Catholic bishops have been vocally critical of the Obama administration, the Vatican has taken a warmer tone. Pope Benedict phoned Obama last year to congratulate him on winning the election, as opposed to waiting until his inauguration, as is Vatican protocol.

 

While dozens of U.S. bishops criticized Obama's appearance at the University of Notre Dame in May, the official Vatican newspaper praised the president's commencement speech. "The search for a common ground: This seems to be the path chosen by the president . . . in facing the delicate question of abortion," the paper, L'Osservatore Romano, wrote in response to the address.

 






Pope calls for a new world order
Pope calls for a new world order


Sydney Morning Herald

By Barney Zwartz

July 9, 2009


POPE Benedict XVI has proposed a new world political authority "with real teeth", possibly in place of the United Nations, to enforce an ethical financial order and end the global financial crisis.

Calling for more aid, a bigger role for trade unions and an economic system aimed at the common good as well as profit, the Pope said only a moral market could end the crisis and solve world poverty.

The proposals were in his long-awaited encyclical - the second-highest level of papal teaching - released in Rome yesterday morning Australian time, before the G8 leaders gathered in Italy to discuss the global crisis.

The conviction that the economy must be autonomous and shielded from moral influences had led humanity to abuse the economic process in a destructive way, the Pope said in the encyclical Caritas in Veritate (Love in Truth).

Such convictions had led to economic, social and political systems that "trample upon personal and social freedom" and could not deliver justice.

His suggested political authority would manage globalisation, revive economies, stop the crisis deepening, protect the environment and regulate worldwide migration. It would need to be universally recognised and given power to ensure compliance from all countries.

"In terms of secular politics, there's something for both left and right to cheer, and something for them to be grumpy about," said the respected Vatican commentator John Allen, observing that in 30,000 words the Pope never mentioned the word "capitalism".

He said liberals would applaud the Pope's call for robust government intervention and support for unions, while conservatives would appreciate his unyielding opposition to abortion, birth control and gay marriage, on economic as well as moral grounds.

The Pope, 82, in his third encyclical, wrote that when profit became the exclusive goal, without the common good as its ultimate end, it risked destroying wealth and creating poverty.

The world's wealth was growing but so was inequality. Aid to developing countries also provided economic benefits to donors, he said.

The Pope said the Church did not have technical solutions, but he offered a large number of specific policy suggestions.

One was that people should be allowed to decide how to allocate a portion of their taxes that would help welfare and aid. Another was that trade unions should also work for non-members, particularly workers in developing countries.

"As society becomes ever more globalised, it makes us neighbours but does not make us brothers," he said.