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The ubiquitous "Spirit of Assisi"

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Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:43 pm (GMT -5)


All true religion rejects hatred, Pope repeats


CWNews.com
Naples, Oct. 22, 2007
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Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) repeated his insistence that religion must never be used to incite hatred or violence, during a day-long trip to Naples to participate in the 21st International Meeting for Peace.

The Naples meeting, organized by the St. Egidio community, was the annual renewal of the inter-faith assembly for peace inaugurated by Pope John Paul II (bio - news), which first met in Assisi in October 1986. Although then-Cardinal Ratzinger had expressed reservations about the Assisi meeting, Pope Benedict welcomed the 2007 renewal. He told the different religious leaders gathered there that they represented "different Pope in his address, "in a certain sense expresses the different worlds and religious heritages of humanity, to which the Catholic Church looks with sincere respect and cordial attention."

The spirit of Assisi, the Pope continued, calls attention to "the intrinsic link uniting authentic religious attitudes with the fundamental good for humanity." All of the faithful, of any religious tradition, should pray for preservation from violence and particularly from terrorism, he said.

True faith of any sort, the Pope said, "is opposed to all forms of violence and to all abuses of religion as a pretext for violence." He added that "violence is justified in the name of God, it is important to reiterate that religions can never become vehicles of hatred, that never by invoking the name of God can evil and violence be justified."

The meeting in Naples drew leaders from the Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, and Zoroastrian traditions. Among the prominent participants were the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I; the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams; and the head of the World Council of Churches, Rev. Samuel Kobia.

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Mel Gibson evacuated in CA fires

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Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:16 pm (GMT -5)
Mel Gibson, Kelsey Grammer among Malibu residents evacuated

Associated Press via San Jose Mercury News
October 22, 2007
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MALIBU - Mel Gibson, Kelsey Grammer and Victoria Principal are among the celebrity residents forced to flee their homes as wildfires burned through Malibu.
Publicist Alan Nierob says the homes of Gibson and Principal were still standing Monday after they were evacuated Sunday.

Publicist Stan Rosenfield says Grammer's home was not damaged and is no longer in danger.

About 200 Malibu homes have been evacuated. The courthouse was closed.

Five homes in Malibu were destroyed as well as two commercial buildings, including a church.

Ten homes were damaged, but no injuries were reported.

Suspended priest threatens to expose Vat. homosexual network

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Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:23 am (GMT -5)


Suspended priest threatens to expose Vatican homosexual network

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Rome, Oct. 22, 2007 (CWNews.com) - An Italian priest who was suspended from his post in the Roman Curia last week has claimed that he has a list of active homosexuals working at the Vatican.

Msgr. Tommaso Stenico was removed from his duties at the Congregation for Clergy after the Italian La7 television network showed a videotape in which he propositioned a young man. Although the priest's face was obscured in the video, Vatican officials were able to identify his voice and his office, in which the video was surreptitiously recorded.

Msgr. Stenico did not deny that he was the priest caught on the videotape. He offered the claim that he was investigating the influence of a homosexual network around the Vatican.

Now, in a conversation with Italy's Panorama magazine, the disgraced cleric has pushed his claim further, saying that he has a "dossier" on the homosexual network and the priests involved. That information, he said, should make the Vatican "tremble."
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