Archive for 'Fall 2008'
Spiritual Insights
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Angry With God Some people consider it wrong to get angry with God. I believe that if we do not get angry with God, then we have a constrained, artificial relationship with God. When the world disappoints you, go ahead and blame God. Vent your anger, and bemoan the inequity. Voicing unhappiness with life’s disappointments [...]
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Islam Information for Catholics and Jews
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by admin.
NOTE: Saudia Arabia’s King Abdullah in Madrid, Spain sponsored an Interfaith Conference for 200 religious leaders of many faiths including Catholicism and Judaism. The 35 Jewish leaders and 15 Catholic leaders seemed willing to test the waters regarding progress in Muslim – Jewish – Christian Relations. We live in hope. GENERAL IDEAS ABOUT ISLAM 1. [...]
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People
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Father James Bernauer, S.J. The New York Jesuit priest who is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College has been appointed the new director of the Center for Christian Jewish Learning at Boston College. He is internationally known for his Interfaith work and is an original member of the Jesuits in Jewish Christian Dialogue. Rabbi Jacob [...]
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The Late Pope Pius XII
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Books, conferences are the latest signs of effort to rehabilitate Pius XII. The left and right wings split over Pius’ legacy. Pope Benedict’s symposium in the Vatican with several Jewish Rabbis or their representatives from Europe and Israel and Catholic scholars has opened up the relationship of Pius XII and the Jews during the Second [...]
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The Biblical Tomb of Rachel
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Until recently visiting Rachel’s tomb was very dangerous for the Jewish faithful. According to the Book of Genesis(35: 16-21), she died during childbirth as she and her husband, the Patriarch Jacob were traveling. Rachel’s Tomb is considered by many Jews to be the third holiest place in Judaism after the Temple Mount/Western Wall and the [...]
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Anti-Semitism in New York
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by admin.
New York continues to be the Anti-Semitism capital of the United States, with a 23 percent jump in incidents of Jewish harassment and vandalism in 2007. New Jersey, California and Florida saw a decrease. The 2008 figures will be disclosed at the end of the year.
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Treating Jewish Intermarriages
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Abraham Unger of The Jewish Week newspaper says lets treat Intermarriages in a reasoned way. He says, “there was a time when a Jewish boy wouldn’t date a non-Jewish girl and she wouldn’t necessarily date him either. Now, all bets are off.” He further said, “the time has come to recognize that an open society [...]
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Berlin’s Holocaust Museum
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Vandals painted swastikas on Berlin’s Holocaust Museum. Eleven red and black swastikas were painted on seven of the 2,700 gray columns that make up the memorial. The memorial, located near the Brandenburg Gate, has been vandalized several times since it opened in 2005.
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Syria and Pope Benedict XVI
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by admin.
The grand mufti of Syria, Ahmad Bader Hassoun, said he invited the Pope to Damascus to celebrate the year of St. Paul, the apostle converted on the road to Damascus. The grand mufti is leader of Syria’s 18 million Muslims. Nations with most Catholics and seminarians: NATIONS WITH THE MOST CATHOLICS 1…………. Brazil………………………………. 155,628,000 2…………. [...]
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The Vatican Secret Archive
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by admin.
It is the Pope’s private archive which contains a thousand years of documents in eighty kilometers of shelving. Since September 18, thirty thousand new volumes of papers are available for consultation, for the period from 1922 to 1939, corresponding to the reign of Pope Pius XI. It also includes unpublished diaries of the then – [...]
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