El jesuita argentino Guillermo Ortiz, responsable de la programación en español de Radio Vaticana y que conoce a Jorge Bergoglio desde hace más de 30 años, expresó que, en la nueva forma de comunicación que estableció el papa Francisco, los gestos son casi tan importantes como las palabras.
"El papa Francisco ha cambiado la forma de comunicación. Con los papas anteriores, nuestro trabajo consistía en la traducción de los mensajes, una cosa planificada, con mucha anticipación. Pero ahora no hay textos preparados y tenemos que estar también muy atentos a sus gestos, que no son cosas planeadas con antelación", cuenta Ortiz en una entrevista con Télam desde el Vaticano.
El sacerdote trabaja desde hace seis años junto a otros tres argentinos en Radio Vaticana, que emite en 39 lenguas y 12 alfabetos distintos, y prepara sus programas en 45 redacciones, cubriendo con su trasmisión la mayor parte del mundo para hacer llegar la voz y el mensaje del papa.
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La presidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recibió en la Casa Rosada al orfebre argentino Juan Carlos Pallarols, quien está confeccionando el cáliz que usará el Papa Francisco durante su Pontificado.
La jefa del Estado, en su despacho de Casa de Gobierno, dio el cincelado número 2 millones a la pieza, porque su autor quiso que en su confección participe el pueblo argentino, a través de una técnica que se llama martelé o martillado, informaron fuentes oficiales.
El cáliz tendrá como única figura la imagen de la Virgen Desatanudos en su patena o plato, mientras que la base será obra del cincel de los millones de argentinos, de diversas edades y confesiones religiosas, que están participando activamente en la obra.
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MADRID, 9 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -
El cardenal arzobispo de Madrid y presidente de la Conferencia Episcopal Española, Antonio María Rouco Varela, ha ensalzado la entrega de Joseph Ratzinger a su vocación sacerdotal en la época nazi, aun habiendo sido introducido en las juventudes hitlerianas y aun habiendo sido hecho prisionero por los americanos "pasando semanas durmiendo en el suelo de un campo de concentración".
"Un joven alemán de veintitantos años al final de los años cuarenta que nace para la vida de la segunda enseñanza de la universidad con el nacionalsocialismo implantado que tenía una pretensión no solo de monopolio político sino como le pasa al otro totalitarismo de la época, un monopolio cultural y humano completo, pues el nacionalsocialismo no se contentaba con que mandasen ellos en la economía, el Ejército, querían conformarlo, cambiar al hombre, querían una nueva raza incluso", ha recordado Rouco Varela.
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MADRID, 09 May. 13 / 04:38 pm (ACI/EWTN Noticias).- El martes 14 de mayo, con una gran pancarta que se colocará en su sede, la plataforma Derecho a Vivir presentará su campaña #BorraElAborto, con la que busca reforzar su pedido al gobierno de conseguir una norma de “Aborto cero” en España, tras la reforma ofrecida a la Ley Aído.
La campaña inundará las calles de España con vallas publicitarias pidiendo la desaparición del aborto en el país, y será reforzada también con anuncios en internet, radio y televisión.
La médico pediatra Gádor Joya, portavoz de Derecho a Vivir, pidió al gobierno español que la nueva ley sea una de “aborto cero”, y subrayó la importancia que la norma que trabaja el Ejecutivo, bajo la administración del Partido Popular, afecta al derecho que antecede a todos: el derecho a la vida.
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Archbishop Jairo Jaramillo Monsalve of Barranquilla, Colombia, presided Wednesday over the funeral of one of his priests, Father José Antonio Valle Bayona, killed violently at the age of 48. He was found in a ditch with 17 stab wounds, mostly on his face and neck.
Valle Bayona is the 19th priest to be killed in Colombia in five years. According to the Fides news agency, so far this year, four Colombian priests have been murdered. A priest was murdered in 2012. Six priests and a layman working for the Church were murdered in 2011; three priests and one religious were murdered in 2010; and five priests and another lay worker met a violent death in 2009.
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The Republican congressman Marlin Stutzman from Indiana has revealed in the Washington Times that in December 1975 he was almost aborted:
“Recently, after speaking on the House floor about the horrors of Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic in Philadelphia, I began wondering if my mother had ever thought about ending her unplanned pregnancy. My parents never gave any indication that it was ever a consideration, but was it?
I gave her a call. When she answered, I talked to her about my speech on the House floor and then asked gently, “Mom, did you ever think about .” There was a tense pause, and then, through tears she said, “Marlin, I’m so sorry!” As we cried together, I was no longer a congressman, but a son understanding for the first time the heartache and struggles my mom had gone through before I was born. As we talked about her fear of driving 40 miles alone, I had to think, «What if a ‘Gosnell‘ clinic was only four miles away instead of 40?»” – Stutzman writes.
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(May 9th, 2013) Sister Megan Rice, 64-year-old Vietnam War veteran Michael Walli, and Greg Boertje-Obed, a 57-year-old, all of them peace-activists, were found guilty Wednesday of intending to harm national security when they intruded in July onto the Y-12 National Security Complex, a nuclear-weapons production facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn. They cut through four chain-link fences and spray-painted biblical messages of nonviolence on a building that warehouses an estimated 400 tons of highly enriched uranium, the radioactive material used to fuel nuclear weaponry.
In its closing arguments, the defense contended that the activists intruded into Y-12 as a symbolic act in support of the peaceful transformation of nuclear-weapons programs to nonviolent initiatives.
Sentencing for Rice, Walli and Boertje-Obed is expected within four months. Together, the two felonies carry a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. Defense attorneys have filed a motion for acquittal on the “sabotage” charge …More

(May 8th, 2013) On May 17, the Jesuit University of San Francisco will hold the 2013 commencement exercises for their School of Nursing and Health Professions. The commencement speaker and recipient of an honorary degree will be Barbara Garcia, director of health at the San Francisco Department of Public Health. She is an open lesbian.
Garcia is well known to the wider public following national news coverage of a decision of the San Francisco board of supervisors that the city’s Healthy San Francisco program will, in addition to coverage for abortion and contraception, provide free “gender reassignment surgery.” As director, Garcia will be in charge of implementing this program.
On November 10, 2012 Gay Star News reported “San Francisco will now offer mastectomies (removal of the breasts), genital reconstructions and other surgeries recommended for some transgender people under the city’s 5-year-old universal health care plan.” Garcia justified the procedures.
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(May 9th, 2013) The Catholic Bishops in Kenya are taking a united stand against a series of advertisements by the pro-abortion lobbying group Catholics for a Free Choice promoting condom use in the country.
The advertisements read “Good Catholics use Condoms”, and have been seen on billboards across Kenya, as well as appearing in leading newspapers in the country. The US-based “ Catholics for a Free Choice” has repeatedly been condemned by the US Catholic Bishops as not being Catholic, and being an “arm of the abortion lobby.”
“Catholics for choice are not Catholics in the sense of the one, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. We want those adverts pulled out,” said Cardinal John Njue, the Archbishop of Nairobi, who serves as president of the Kenya Episcopal Conference.
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Boston College’s invitation to Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny to speak at commencement and receive an honorary degree is drawing opposition from pro-lifers who call the invitation “unconscionable” in light of the politician’s push for legal abortion.
Students for Life has launched the project “Not at BC” to oppose Kenny’s appearance at Boston College.
Kenny is making a strong push to legalize abortion in Ireland when the mother’s life is in danger, including when she threatens suicide. The law could force Catholic hospitals to comply with abortions and also lacks individual conscience protections for physicians, nurses and other health care workers.
Kenny has also suggested that pro-life members of parliament may be expelled from his party if they refuse to vote in favor of the abortion legislation.
Students for Life said it is “simply unconscionable” for any college, particularly a Catholic one, to “honor the man who would usher in the mass death of Irish preborn children.”
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The U.S. rate of gun homicides and other crimes fell after 1993, according to two studies released Tuesday. But a survey showed that only 12 percent of Americans said they felt gun homicides had fallen.
Since 1993, the United States has seen a drop in the rate of homicides and other violence involving guns, according to two new studies released Tuesday. Using government data, analysts saw a steep drop for violence in the 1990s, they saw more modest drops in crime rates since 2000.
"Firearm-related homicides dropped from 18,253 homicides in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011," according to a report by the federal , "and nonfatal firearm crimes dropped from 1.5 million victimizations in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011.
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În aceste ultime cinci duminici, dacă cineva a trecut prin Parcul Liniştii (Olosig) din Oradea, în orele după-amiezii, nu se poate să nu fi văzut sau auzit un grup de oameni veseli care cântau, vorbeau la microfon despre viaţa lor, dansau.
Practic, ce făceau aceste persoane? Pur şi simplu anunţau Iubirea lui Dumnezeu pentru toţi, chiar şi pentru cei îndepărtaţi care nu mai trec pragul Bisericii de multă vreme.Ce le-a împins pe aceste persoane (adulţi, tineri, vârstnici, copii) să iasă în aer liber şi să mărturisească întâlnirea lor personală cu Isus cel Înviat, întâlnire care le-a schimbat viaţa?
Ceea ce s-a petrecut aici, la Oradea, face parte dintr-un proiect amplu pe care Calea Neocatecumenală l-a iniţiat în pieţele din lumea întreagă.
Motivul îl reprezintă Anul Credinţei pe care Calea Neocatecumenală s-a oferit să-l concretizeze în pieţele din marile oraşe ale lumii, printr-o serie de cinci cateheze în duminicile din timpul pascal (pentru romano-catolici) sau de post (pentru greco-…More

08.05.2013, Vatican (Catholica) - Congregaţia pentru Doctrina Credinţei (CDC) şi Congregaţia pentru Institutele de Viaţă Consacrată şi Societăţile de Viaţă Apostolică au colaborat de ceva vreme pentru o viziune teologică înnoită asupra vieţii consacrate în Biserică. Preocuparea Sfântului Scaun, exprimată în parte de declaraţia doctrinală privind Conferinţa Persoanelor Consacrate din SUA (LCWR), este motivată de dorinţa de a sprijini vocaţia nobilă şi frumoasă a persoanelor consacrate, pentru ca elocvenţa mărturiei vieţii lor să prospere în Biserică pentru câştigul generaţiilor viitoare.
Conform materialului făcut public astăzi de serviciul de ştiri al Vaticanului, iniţiativele Sfântului Scaun în acest domeniu privesc în primul rând credinţa Bisericii şi exprimarea ei în viaţa consacrată. Credinţa Bisericii – în planul de iubire al Tatălui, care l-a trimis pe Fiul Său să fie Mântuitorul nostru, în inspirarea Sfintei Scripturi, în darul harurilor primite în Sacramente, în natura Bisericii …More

În a doua zi de Paşti, Prea Sfinţitul Alexandru s-a aflat în vizită pastorală la Deva în parohia „Imaculata”, fiind însoţit şi în acest an de mons. Angelo Pop, Vicarul General al Eparhiei de Lugoj.
De mai bine de zece ani a devenit o tradiție pentru Eparhia de Lugoj, ca episcopul eparhial să efectueze vizite pastorale anuale în marile centre şi capitale de judeţe ale Eparhiei (Deva, Reşiţa, Timişoara şi Arad).
Alături de Prea Sfinţia Sa, la Sfânta Liturghie s-au aflat: mons. Angelo Pop vicar general, pr. Micu Ceciliu Vasile – protopop al Devei, pr. Silviu-Lucian Bindea – protopop de Orăştie, pr. Didi Nicolae Adrian – paroh de Turdaş şi pr. Sabo Sorin, parohul locului.
„Iubiţi credincioşi” a spus P.S. Alexandru „învierea lui Cristos este sărbătoarea cea mai mare a întregului neam omenesc. Este sărbătoarea care uneşte pe toţi oamenii din toate timpurile; este triumful Vieţii asupra morţii, Binele a învins răul. Învierea lui Cristos ne dă speranţa că şi noi vom învia. Cristos-adevărul a …More