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Feast of Saint Peter Claver
| THURSDAY vol. 10, no. 171 September 9, 1999 |
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Today we bring you the 66th person selected out of the TOP 100 CATHOLICS OF THE CENTURY. The voters chose Father Nicholas Gruner, the embattled founder of the Fatima Crusader Apostolate who, by his own admission, is the Church's most controversial priest. His inclusion came from a block of his followers who take the Fatima Messages literally. This philosophy and his aggressiveness have garnered for him many followers but also many enemies within the Church, especially inside the Vatican and at Fatima itself. For over the past twenty years this Montreal-born priest has been making waves around the world becoming the self-appointed expert on Fatima. For more on the 66th selection, click on |
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 WORLDWIDENEWS & VIEWS  
Pope will visit former U.S.S.R. Republic of Georgia this November on return from India  
Though the Holy See has not made it official yet, the Russian Tass Agency announced the Holy Father will include Georgia on his papal itinerary to Asia this fall. The tentative date is Monday, November 8, when he will land in Tbilisi, Georgia - a republic of the former Soviet Union located on the Black Sea with Russia to the north, Turkey and Armenia to the south. Catholicism was brought to Georgia by Saint Nino and Saint Christiana in the early centuries. Only two percent of the total population today is Catholic and they will be greatly buoyed by the Pope's visit. There are only 30 total parishes in the country, but the Pope feels he needs to let them know he has not forgotten the Latin-rite Catholics of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. For more, click on Georgia Papal Visit.
Archbishop of Calcutta assures all local process of Mother Teresa's beatification process will be completed by November 
Doing all he can to expedite the process for Mother Teresa's beatification in 2000, Calcutta's Archbishop Henry D'Souza, in a brief interview with FIDES news agency, assured all that the Diocesan stage will be completed by November. While not revealing the content of many interviews, he did say that the fruits of Mother's life-work are overwhelming wherever he goes and whoever he speaks to. While he would like her beatification to take place during the Jubilee Year he realizes it is out of his hands and in the hands of Rome and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints who present the findings to the Pope. For more, click on Mother Teresa's cause.
Hong Kong prelate greatly concerned with repercussions of Papal visit snub by China   Coadjutor Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun of Hong Kong is greatly concerned for Catholics in China in the aftermath of the Red Chinese government's rejection of the Holy Father visiting Hong Kong during his Asian leg of his trip this fall which will take him to India and Georgia so far. The bishop was not surprised by the snub, but fears Chinese authorities will retaliate against Catholics in Hong Kong, long a safe-haven because of English rule. For more, click on Storm warnings in Hong Kong.
Efforts underway to save Peace Accord in Northern Ireland and prevent more violence    
113 and counting, this weekend:
"When an egotist begins to see that he is to blame for his condition, there is apt to be a moment which exasperates him into open rebellion; at this stage, the egotist is not immoral in action; he is anti-moral and anti-religious in his attitudes, words and thoughts."
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In his column today, 
Appreciation of the Bishop of Rome
The clarion sounds as a wake-up call to Catholics as we provide a review of all past articles on the Church today 
Rebellion in remorse 
On this date 1560 years ago in 439, Saint Isaac the Great passed on to his Heavenly reward. The holy monk Isaac was a bishop who founded the Armenian Church which returned to union with Rome through the efforts of Pope John Paul II and the late Patriarch Catholicos Karekin I in March this year. The Holy Father had wanted to visit Armenia this past summer but his health and the health of Karekin, who died in late June. For other pertinent events throughout the centuries that are memorable in Church history today, click on 
Dear children! Also today I call you to give glory to God the Creator in the colors of nature. He speaks to you also through the smallest flower about His beauty and the depth of love with which He has created you. Little children, may prayer flow from your hearts like fresh water from a spring. May the wheat fields speak to you about the mercy of God towards every creature. That is why, renew prayer of
thanksgiving for everything He gives you. Thank you for having responded to my call.
