Gloria TV News. The same human drama Vatican On Wednesday afternoon in the "Sala degli Svizzeri" of the Apostolic Palace at Castelgandolfo, Benedict XVI attended the screening of an abbreviated version …More
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The same human drama
Vatican
On Wednesday afternoon in the "Sala degli Svizzeri" of the Apostolic Palace at Castelgandolfo, Benedict XVI attended the screening of an abbreviated version of the film "St. Augustine", an Italian, German, Polish co-production directed by Christian Duguay. At the end of the screening, the Holy Father expressed his thanks to everyone involved in the project and pronounced some brief remarks. "I feel this film to be a spiritual journey in a spiritual continent, far distant from us yet at the same time very near because the human drama remains the same", he said.
“Avvenire” editor quits
Italy
Dino Boffo, the editor of the leading Italian Catholic newspaper ‘Avvenire’ quit on Thursday in a row that has seriously strained relations between the Vatican and the Italian government. His paper has criticized Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the past. Boffo resigned after another newspaper, owned by Berlusconi's family, attacked him over alleged gay scandals. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone along with many Church officials and party leaders across the political spectrum, expressed his solidarity with Boffo, accusing Il Giornale of mud-slinging and playing dirty tricks for political reasons.
Secular status too often invoked
Brasil
Cardinal Odilo P. Scherer of São Paulo has blasted a proposal to remove religious symbols in the nation’s largest city. “The state’s secular status is invoked too often and too easily, and in a mistaken way,” he said. “Surely it does not authorize the repression of ideas or religious manifestations, unless they are clearly criminal, as in the case of incitement to violence or the promotion of dishonest acts.” “Nor could it promote the discrimination of citizens who profess a religion, denying them free access to public functions or to its exercise”. Nearly 10% of Brazil’s 196 million people live in São Paulo, and an estimated 84% of the nation’s population is Catholic.
For the mother tongue
Slovakia
In an interview with Vatican Radio, Bishop László Kiss-Rigó of Szeged-Csanád Hungary, called for the repeal of a new law in Slovakia that enforces stiff fines on police and other civil servants who use languages other than the official Slovak language. Expressing gratitude to God that every human being has a mother tongue, the bishop expressed solidarity with those who face hardship for using their mother tongue.
The same human drama
Vatican
On Wednesday afternoon in the "Sala degli Svizzeri" of the Apostolic Palace at Castelgandolfo, Benedict XVI attended the screening of an abbreviated version of the film "St. Augustine", an Italian, German, Polish co-production directed by Christian Duguay. At the end of the screening, the Holy Father expressed his thanks to everyone involved in the project and pronounced some brief remarks. "I feel this film to be a spiritual journey in a spiritual continent, far distant from us yet at the same time very near because the human drama remains the same", he said.
“Avvenire” editor quits
Italy
Dino Boffo, the editor of the leading Italian Catholic newspaper ‘Avvenire’ quit on Thursday in a row that has seriously strained relations between the Vatican and the Italian government. His paper has criticized Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the past. Boffo resigned after another newspaper, owned by Berlusconi's family, attacked him over alleged gay scandals. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone along with many Church officials and party leaders across the political spectrum, expressed his solidarity with Boffo, accusing Il Giornale of mud-slinging and playing dirty tricks for political reasons.
Secular status too often invoked
Brasil
Cardinal Odilo P. Scherer of São Paulo has blasted a proposal to remove religious symbols in the nation’s largest city. “The state’s secular status is invoked too often and too easily, and in a mistaken way,” he said. “Surely it does not authorize the repression of ideas or religious manifestations, unless they are clearly criminal, as in the case of incitement to violence or the promotion of dishonest acts.” “Nor could it promote the discrimination of citizens who profess a religion, denying them free access to public functions or to its exercise”. Nearly 10% of Brazil’s 196 million people live in São Paulo, and an estimated 84% of the nation’s population is Catholic.
For the mother tongue
Slovakia
In an interview with Vatican Radio, Bishop László Kiss-Rigó of Szeged-Csanád Hungary, called for the repeal of a new law in Slovakia that enforces stiff fines on police and other civil servants who use languages other than the official Slovak language. Expressing gratitude to God that every human being has a mother tongue, the bishop expressed solidarity with those who face hardship for using their mother tongue.