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He Took, Blessed, Broke And Gave Consecration of Nashik Archbishop Cricket For Peace Religious Leaders Bat For Harmony
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World Youth Day By Fr Anthony J Fernandes World Youth Day encompasses the events that take place in the week - long Catholic celebration of youth from around the world all gathered together in the selected host city. The events of World Youth Day officially began in 1986, but were preceded by other events inspired by Pope John Paul II. In its early years, World Youth Day really was a single day event. In the 1980s Catholic youth from around the world would gather in Rome on Palm Sunday at the invitation of Pope John Paul II. The enormous turn out disproved the idea that young people could not be depended on. Even today on Palm Sunday all over the world in a small way events are held for the youth. Why was Palm Sunday chosen then? Palm Sunday, tells us that the great “Yes” is precisely the Cross, that the Cross itself is the true tree of life. We do not find life by possessing it, but by giving it. Love is a gift of oneself, and for this reason it is the way of true life symbolised by the Cross. In his message to the youth at the last World Youth Day, Pope Benedict XVI said. “I thank the young people who will now carry this Cross, in which we can as it were touch the mystery of Jesus on the highways of the world. Let us pray that at the same time, it will touch us and open our hearts, so that by following his Cross we will become messengers of his love and his peace.”
Social effects of sin greater than ever, says Vatican official Fr John Thavis In today’s globalized culture, the social effects of sin are greater than ever before and deserve the church’s urgent attention, a Vatican official said. New forms of sin have arisen in the area of biotechnology, economics and ecology, and many involve questions of individual rights and wider social effects, said Bishop Gianfranco Girotti. Bishop Girotti is an official of the Apostolic Penitentiary, an office that deals with questions relating to penance and indulgences. He made the comments in an interview March 8 with the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. Bishop Girotti said the sense of sin in today’s world should be even more acute than before, since the effects of sin are often widespread. “If yesterday sin had a rather individualistic dimension, today it has an impact and resonance that is above all social, because of the great phenomenon of globalization,” he said. “In effect, attention to sin is a more urgent task today, precisely because its consequences are more abundant and more destructive,” he said.
Demand of the Dalit Christians delayed Dr. John Dayal (Member of AICU) A cruel joke has been played by the Government on India’s sixteen million Dalit Christians in referring to yet another commission their six decade long peaceful request to be restored Constitutional rights extended to Dalits of other religions. The Government admits that every single Constitutional authority in the country has upheld the legal and moral validity of the demand of the Dalit Christians. And yet on 3rd March 2008, Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Meira Kumar told Parliament that matter has been now referred to the National Commission for Backward Classes for consideration. The Dalit Christians moved the Supreme Court of India in a Public Interest Litigation, fir which the next hearing is later this month. After the court was moved, the Government first sent the issue to the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities, headed by former Chief Justice of India Mr. Rangnath Misra, to suggest if Dalit and Backward Christians and Muslims could be treated at par with other with Scheduled Castes for reservations in Government jobs and admission in educational institutions. Justice Misra said the Dalit Christians had a legitimate case for being treated at par with other scheduled castes. The Government then sent the issue the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, headed by former Union Home Minister Dr Buta Singh, who also ruled the commission had no objection to extending reservation to Dalit Christians and Muslims but the 15 per cent quota for Scheduled Castes should not be disturbed. Now Ms Meira Kumar says the issue has to be examined afresh in view of Supreme Court setting a 50 per cent ceiling for reservation to all castes. Since Dalit Christians and Muslims have in some states classified under other backward classes and the reservation issue was referred to the National Commission for Backward Classes.
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