This is the fourth episode of Michael Wood's story of one place through the whole of English history. That place is the Village of Kibworth, Leicestershire, in the heart of the English countryside. Episode 1 is here. Episode 2 is here, and Episode 3 is here.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
U.S. Term Limits Praises Michigan Senate Candidate Gary Glenn for Pledge
Term Limits (USTL), the leader in the national movement to limit terms for elected officials, praised Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Gary Glenn for promising to support and co-sponsor an amendment to the U.S. Constitution limiting congressional terms.Philip Blumel commented on Glenn’s pledge saying, “Gary Glenn is leading the way for the other candidates for the U.S. Senate by being an early signer of the term limits pledge.
Glenn’s commitment to returning to citizen government in Washington, D.C. is a beacon that should be followed by candidates across the nation.”
Purgatory: Marino Restrepo's Remarkable Testimony
Marino Restrepo is a Catholic lay missionary from Colombia who travels the world sharing his testimony.
Pope Condemns Massacre of Copts in Cairo
From the Catholic Herald (UK)
By Cindy Wooden
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| The Pope arrives in St Peter's Square (CNS photo/Paul Haring) |
Pope Benedict XVI has condemned the attack on unarmed Christians in Egypt, saying that during the transition to democracy all of the country’s citizens and institutions must work to guarantee the rights of minorities.
At the end of his weekly general audience, Pope Benedict said he was “profoundly saddened” by the deaths of at least 26 people, mostly Christians, after peaceful protesters were attacked by gangs, and then a speeding military vehicle ran into them and officers fired on the crowd. Hundreds of people were injured.
The Bishops' Immigration Obsession
The Catholic Church in America has suffered in recent decades from rapidly declining Mass attendance. Its higher education institutions have pushed Catholicism out of the curriculum and culture, with no real catechesis program for young adults. And efforts to attract more young people to the Church have looked more like a “cool” Dad trying to right a fumbled relationship with his children.
Francis Cardinal George, archbishop of Chicago and former president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, recently announced a new effort to “nurture the faith and intellectual and moral development of our youth.” Cardinal George says that young people “encourage us with their passion to learn and their desire to create a better world.”
Yet the particular way the cardinal is calling attention to the development of young people is for the Catholic community to “support and promote the passage of the DREAM Act and the eventual goal of the passage of compassionate comprehensive immigration reform legislation.”
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes: 'Christus Vincit! Christus Regnat! Christus Imperat!
This video is dedicated to and in solidarity with the martyred and persecuted Coptic Christians of Egypt.
This 11th century monastic chant is based on 8th century Carolingian Acclamations.
The Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes is a metaphor of the Christian life. Founded in 1010, it suffered considerably during the Hundred Years' War and was dissolved during the French Revolution. In 1833 it was reborn in response to a vision. By 1837 it had not only received Papal approval, it was elevated to the rank of abbey and made head of a restored French Benedictine Congregation. Between 1901 and 1922 it was closed several times and the monks were driven into exile in England by oppressive, secular French governments. Yet the community of monks endured those trials and the hardships of two World Wars. They have since spawned new monastic communities throughout the world. St. Peter's Abbey endures today where it began in 1010, as a Benedictine Abbey in Solesmes, France.
Where the cross is, there also is the Resurrection.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Egyptian Government Complicit in Church Burnings
The Egyptian government, complicit in the burning of Christian churches in that country, received over $1.5 billion from the Obama administration last year.
From Catholic World News
The spokesman for the Catholic Church has charged that Egyptian government officials have been complicit in the burning of churches.
“The governor gave the green light for the fundamentalists to burn the church near Aswan,” said Father Rafic Greiche. “It’s the fourth time in recent months that a church has been burnt in this way by Islamists.”
Referring to the recent violence against peaceful Coptic Christian protestors, Father Greiche said that “the army and the police … used vagabonds, a rabble force of street fighters, to attack the demonstrators.”
“The army and the police are confronting the Copts. This is the problem. It is not a Christian-Muslim problem anymore.”
“People, not just Christians but many Muslims, too, are frightened for the future of our country,” he added.
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