Gloria TV News on the Feast of Dedication of St. Peter and Paul. Boycott Supporters of Abortion USA “Life Decisions International” - a Planned Parenthood watchdog - has released an updated list of …More
Gloria TV News on the Feast of Dedication of St. Peter and Paul.
Boycott Supporters of Abortion
USA
“Life Decisions International” - a Planned Parenthood watchdog - has released an updated list of the companies that provide money for the abortion business. “Life Decisions” considers these companies to be boycott targets. The group's chairman, Thomas Strobhar, told LifeNews.com that boycotts work as at least 231 corporations have stopped funding Planned Parenthood as a result of the watchdog’s boycott project. It is estimated that the boycott has cost Planned Parenthood more than $40 million since “Life Decisions International” started its campaign nearly 17 years ago. New boycott targets, appearing on the pre-Christmas 2009 edition of the Planned Parenthood boycott list include restaurant-company “Buffalo Wild Wings”, cosmetic products of Estée Lauder, the information technology-company “Computer Sciences Corporation”, and United Parcel Service.
Encouragement for Chinese Priests
Vatican
In commemoration of the Year for Priests, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has written a letter to Chinese priests urging them to evangelize and seek holiness. In the letter, dated November 10 and released November 16, the Vatican Secretary of State frequently quoted from St. John Vianney and called for “reconciliation within the Catholic community and a respectful and constructive dialogue with the civil authorities, without renouncing the principles of the Catholic faith.
Vatican Brokered Peace
Argentina
The bishops of Argentina have released a message commemorating the 25th anniversary of the peace treaty between Argentina and Chile. The peace treaty was brokered by Vatican mediation. It ended the Beagle Conflict, which had threatened to erupt into a full-scale war. “Argentineans and Chileans do not thank God enough for having avoided the folly of war and kept the gift of peace,” the bishops wrote. Pope John Paul II “had recently been elected to the ministry of Supreme Pontiff of the Church and had the audacity to take on the difficult task of mediator in this matter, through his appointing of Cardinal Antonio Samoré.”
Cardinal Tomko Sent By the Pope to Taiwan
Taiwan
Pope Benedict has appointed 85-year-old Cardinal Jozef Tomko, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and president emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses, as his special envoy for the celebration of the sesquicentenary of the evangelization of Taiwan, the democratic island nation 100 miles off the coast of the Communist People’s Republic of China. Cardinal Tomko will be principal celebrant of a solemn Mass on November 22.
Boycott Supporters of Abortion
USA
“Life Decisions International” - a Planned Parenthood watchdog - has released an updated list of the companies that provide money for the abortion business. “Life Decisions” considers these companies to be boycott targets. The group's chairman, Thomas Strobhar, told LifeNews.com that boycotts work as at least 231 corporations have stopped funding Planned Parenthood as a result of the watchdog’s boycott project. It is estimated that the boycott has cost Planned Parenthood more than $40 million since “Life Decisions International” started its campaign nearly 17 years ago. New boycott targets, appearing on the pre-Christmas 2009 edition of the Planned Parenthood boycott list include restaurant-company “Buffalo Wild Wings”, cosmetic products of Estée Lauder, the information technology-company “Computer Sciences Corporation”, and United Parcel Service.
Encouragement for Chinese Priests
Vatican
In commemoration of the Year for Priests, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has written a letter to Chinese priests urging them to evangelize and seek holiness. In the letter, dated November 10 and released November 16, the Vatican Secretary of State frequently quoted from St. John Vianney and called for “reconciliation within the Catholic community and a respectful and constructive dialogue with the civil authorities, without renouncing the principles of the Catholic faith.
Vatican Brokered Peace
Argentina
The bishops of Argentina have released a message commemorating the 25th anniversary of the peace treaty between Argentina and Chile. The peace treaty was brokered by Vatican mediation. It ended the Beagle Conflict, which had threatened to erupt into a full-scale war. “Argentineans and Chileans do not thank God enough for having avoided the folly of war and kept the gift of peace,” the bishops wrote. Pope John Paul II “had recently been elected to the ministry of Supreme Pontiff of the Church and had the audacity to take on the difficult task of mediator in this matter, through his appointing of Cardinal Antonio Samoré.”
Cardinal Tomko Sent By the Pope to Taiwan
Taiwan
Pope Benedict has appointed 85-year-old Cardinal Jozef Tomko, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and president emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses, as his special envoy for the celebration of the sesquicentenary of the evangelization of Taiwan, the democratic island nation 100 miles off the coast of the Communist People’s Republic of China. Cardinal Tomko will be principal celebrant of a solemn Mass on November 22.