Pope Benedict XVI: closeness to suffering in Middle East
Pope Benedict XVI addressed the participants in the current session of the Reunion of Aid Agencies for the Oriental Churches (ROACO) Friday morning here at the Vatican. Founded in 1968 by the Congregation for Eastern Churches, R.O.A.C.O. is a committee that brings together funding agencies from various countries around the world for the sake of providing assistance of several different kinds and in many different areas: from worship buildings to scholarships, from houses of study and formation to social and health care facilities.Main focal points of this week’s session – the 84 since the founding of ROACO, were the challenges facing the Christian faithful and the regional role and future of Christianity in light of the series of popular uprisings that continue to sweep across the whole Mideast-North African region – a phenomenon that early on began to be referred to by actors and observers alike as the “Arab Spring”.
I thank you for your reflections on the changes that are taking place in the countries of North Africa and the Middle East, which are a source of anxiety throughout the world. Through the communications received at this time from the Coptic-Catholic Cardinal-Patriarch and from the Maronite Patriarch, as well as the Pontifical Representative in Jerusalem and the Franciscan Custos of the Holy Land, the Congregation and the agencies will be able to assess the situation on the ground for the Church and the peoples of that region, which is so important for world peace and stability.
The Pope went on to express his closeness to those who are suffering and to those who are trying to escape.
I pray that the necessary emergency assistance will be forthcoming, but above all I pray that every possible form of mediation will be explored, so that violence may cease and social harmony and peaceful coexistence may everywhere be restored, with respect for the rights of individuals as well as communities. Fervent prayer and reflection will help us at the same time to read the signs emerging from the present season of toil and tears: may the Lord of history always turn them to the common good.
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Pope Benedict XVI addressed the participants in the current session of the Reunion of Aid Agencies for the Oriental Churches (ROACO) Friday morning here at the Vatican. Founded in 1968 by the Congregation for Eastern Churches, ROACO is a committee that
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When I started Mary Meets Dolly nearly 6 years ago, I was one of the uneducated masses that unconsciously believed the stereotype that my Church was stuck in the past; that the Catholic Church was behind the times. In the months of research that it took me to get up to speed on biotechnology and the Church's teaching, I discovered something that changed my life. I discovered that my Church was not backward at all. In fact it was more forward thinking that any another institution I had ever encountered. (And having performed DNA sequencing for Nobel Prize winning labs, that is saying something.) The writings of Pope Paul VI's Humane Vitae back in 1968 spoke directly to the moral conundrums we face today with stem cell research and cloning. If society had listened, we would not have nearly half a million frozen human embryos that researchers cannot wait to rip apart. If society had listened, we wouldn't be cloning embryos with cow, rabbit and mouse eggs in a vain effort to live forever. If society had listened, those with genetic abnormalities would not be seen as second class citizens and promptly killed in the womb or tossed in the fertility clinic trash. If society had listened, 163 million girls would not have been killed in sex selective abortion. With crystal ball-like clarity, the Church warned us of the evils of separating the natural pairing of procreation and sex. If only we had listened. While I was elbow deep in books from non-Catholic scientists, reporters, and lawyers, I found the wisdom of my Church and was overcome with joy that the Church was still here to guide us.
That is why this news saddens me so. A survey done by researchers at the University of Reno have found that Catholics are not listening to their Church when it comes to stem cell research and cloning. From Nevada Today (warning this article says the therapeutic cloning is banned in the U.S. when it is not):
The vast majority, over two-thirds, said that in deciding whether it is right to allow these treatments, they would follow their own judgment, she said. Only 4 percent gave greater moral weight to the Catholic Church than to themselves, and even among committed church-going Catholics, only about one in five defer to the church on these matters.I have no doubt that most Catholics polled had no idea what their Church's teaching is on stem cell research and that the polling questions were written to evoke a particular answer. But the fact that 1 in 5 Catholics would not look to their Church for guidance on such complex issues is heartbreaking. Catholic teaching on issues of biotechnology is consistent, wise and will allow us to control technology instead of it controlling us. Without Church teaching on things like genetic engineering, I fear the human race is doomed to be slaves to the technology it creates. The hard part it getting our fellow Catholics, and the rest of society, to understand the forwarding-thinking wisdom of the Church.
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