Archive for 'Spring 2008'
Russia
Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Fifteen years ago the post Soviet government made restitution to the Jewish Orthodox community by giving them the historic Shul building on Bolshaya Bronaya street in the heart of Moscow. Thus began the Reform Judaism’s struggle for a Moscow home. Today, land has been purchased in the Moscow area for a permanent synagogue, staff offices [...]
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Jerusalem
Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Elan Ezrachi, director of the International School for Jerusalem Studies at Yad Ben-Zvi says, “the future of Jerusalem must be learned by facts and not shaped by sentimental or theological assertion … some believe Jerusalem’s future can not be determined through the ordinary democratic process of general elections … some believe the fate of Jerusalem [...]
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Manhattan’s Trinity School
Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Founded in 1987 a small group of families whose children attend this school has grown over the years. It is an Interfaith Community which teaches their children about both Judaism and Christianity. Children learn to be tolerant and respectful of other religious faiths.
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Tom Lantos
Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by admin.
U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D. Calif.), died of esophageal cancer at the age of 80. He was a Holocaust survivor, “A Voice for Human Rights,” according to his Democratic and Republican colleagues. He was noted for speaking out against oppression, against persecution, against racism. President Bush said, “As the only Holocaust survivor to serve in [...]
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Pope Pius XII
Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by admin.
The News Media say that Pope Benedict XVI is reluctant to move forward toward the beatification of Pope Pius XII. The Vatican has not commented on the Media’s report. However, the name of Pope Pius XII was conspicuously absent from a list of decrees issued in December by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
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Pope Benedict XVI
Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by admin.
The Pope has ordered a change in the Good Friday prayer of the Tridentine Mass concerning the Jews. The words blindness and darkness will be removed. The Anti-Defamation League has approved the changes.
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Ireland
Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by admin.
The face of Ireland is changing. The latest census figures show that 250,000 Polish immigrants now live in Ireland. Also there is a growing number of Muslim immigrants. The problem for Ireland is the public and Catholic education system. Both have to make language adjustments in their schools to accommodate the tens of thousands of [...]
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Sr. Lucia dos Santos
Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Sr. Lucia died at the age 97. She was the eldest of the three Portuguese children who in 1917 reported seeing apparitions of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Pope Benedict XVI will dispense the five year waiting period established by Canon Law to open the cause of beatification of Sister Lucia. It will begin shortly. [...]
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Fr. Walter J. Burghardt
Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by admin.
This prominent Catholic theologian, writer and spellbinding preacher died at the age 93 at the Jesuit retirement home in Merion Station, PA. He was cited as one of the nation’s 12 best preachers and thinkers. He spoke out about moral failures from poverty and hunger to capital punishment, environmental degradation, treatment of the elderly and [...]
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A Vatican-Muslim Meeting
Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by admin.
There will be the first seminar on the Love of God and Love of Neighbor between the Vatican and 138 Muslim scholars in Rome. This conference will take place on November 4th.
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