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| TUESDAY vol. 10, no. 212 November 9, 1999 |
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Today we bring you the 25th person selected out of the TOP 100 CATHOLICS OF THE CENTURY. The voters chose Ralph Martin, probably the most well-known charismatic Catholic leader today who's familiar to EWTN viewers for his 17-year run of his popular "The Choices We Make" show. He founded Renewal Ministries in 1980 and over the past twenty years has reached millions of souls throughout Africa, America and Eastern Europe. For more on the 25th selection, click on |
For additional news from other Catholic wire services, see HEADLINES immediately below on the left |
 WORLDWIDENEWS & VIEWS  
His Holiness John Paul II left the tension of India yesterday behind for a warmer reception in Georgia, a former province of the Soviet Union where Mikhail Gorbachev's former aide Eduoard Schevardnadze, now President of the Republic of Georgia welcomed the Holy Father along with the Orthodox Patriarch of Georgia Catholicos Ilia II. It was a meaningful day for the Pope who noted the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall which crumbled the iron curtain throughout Russia and Eastern Europe including Georgia. It is his second trip to a predominantly Orthodox country following his historic journey to Rumania earlier this year. For more, click on Georgia on his mind
Holy Father tabs the third millennium as the time for evangelization of Asia with release of his Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Asia  
On November 6th the Holy Father officially ended the year-long Asian Synod when he issued his traditional Apostolic Exhortation to signal the close of the Synod. In Ecclesia in Asia the Pope points to the fact that there is much work to do in this oldest of lands where the Faith is sorely lacking in many parts of the most populous lands in the world and the Church's faithful greatly persecuted. He marked the new millennium as the time when the emphasis would be placed on Asia. For more, click on Apostolic Exhortation
Catholic and Lutheran Church leaders earmark education of the meaning of the Doctrine of Justification to breakdown prejudices and misconceptions 
Separate Catholic churches avert terrible tragedies, miraculously no lives are lost  
On separate ends of the coast Sunday two Catholic churches avoided the loss of human lives miraculously. In Altamonte Springs, just north of Orlando a concrete roof gave in over a walkway collapsing with some caught underneath. Miraculously no one was killed, though several were hospitalized with bruises and broken limbs. Later that same night, in Stockton, California in the mid-northern part of the state suspicious circumstances pointed to arson and possible sabotage by radical Nazi groups for the swastika and other symbols were scrawled on the walls. Investigators are checking to make sure it did not come from the lit vigil candles in the church. For more, click on church casualties.
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hoping and praying...   Wednesday:
"It is part of our fallen nature to despise the trouble we do not understand. Not having the power to drive into the mystery, it seems to us a shallow thing. When the sufferers complain much, we are inclined to think that they are exaggerating or giving way to cowardly weakness, just as the rich are too often ready to regard the very poor as whining imposters. He who has never felt the pangs of conscience looks with contempt upon the penitent's tears."
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Ecclesia in Asia from India to close Asian Synod
Appreciation of the Existence of Purgatory
On this date 158 years ago in 1841 Sister Catherine McCauley died. In 1831 she founded the Sisters of Mercy, still the largest English-speaking teaching order of nuns in the world. She was declared venerable by Pope John Paul II in 1990. She was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1778 and in 1818 inherited a fortune and spent it all on helping the poor and impoverished children. For other pertinent events throughout the centuries that are memorable in Church history today, click on 
Today is the Feast of the Dedication of Saint John Lateran Basilica in Rome while tomorrow is the Feast of that great papal doctor of the Church, Pope Saint Leo the Great who saved Rome from the Huns in the fifth century. For the readings, liturgies, meditations, and vignettes on these feasts, click on 
Retroactive articles on Church history from 33 to 1515 A.D. for review 
Experience is the best lesson 
October 25th 
