Ad Maoirem De Gloriam

2012-08-24 L'Osservatore Romano On Wednesday afternoon, 22 August, the Jesuit Chinese Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Bishop emeritus of Kaohsiung, died in Taiwan. He was born on 3 December 1923 in Puyang, China, in the Diocese of Daming [Taming] and was ordained a priest on 18 March 1955. He was ordained Bishop of Hwalien on 14 February 1980, subsequent to his appointment on 15 November 1979. Then on 4 March 1991 he was appointed Bishop of Kaohsiung. At the Consistory on 21 February 1998, John Paul II created him a cardinal with the Title of San Crisogono. On 5 January 2006 he resigned from the pastoral governance of the diocese. His funeral will be celebrated on 1 September at St Dominic's High School, in Kaohsiung. Cardinal Shan Kuo-hsi's last act was celebrating mass, only a few hours before his death, on the liturgical feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the hospital where he was a patient for a serious condition. A short time later he died to the s...

Seven women who attended Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., recently took their final vows in Illinois as Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George. Although not all of them graduated from the school, "they are all Ravens," said vocations director Sister M. Consolata. On Aug. 15, the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, thirteen women made their final profession as religious sisters, surrounded by family and friends at St. Mary's Parish in Alton, Ill. In addition, three sisters made their first profession of vows and two women were received into the novitiate. The event took place at a Mass presided over by Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., who urged the sisters in his homily to pursue sainthood. The ceremony was concelebrated by Cardinal Justin F. Rigali, and four bishops, as well as several dozen priests. "It was a beautiful way to share the consecration and covenant with my family and friends present and to show them how much it m...

By:  Lito Atienza, former mayor of Manila August 25, 2012 1:21 PM "Population control and the size of the family are not the problems. Good governance is the challenge. Spending so much time and effort to cause a reduction, and to intrude in the life of families will merely destroy the values – primary of which is the valuing of life – which will merely serve as a band-aid solution. They say an RH bill is needed to stem the rise of maternal mortality, but do not wonder why the numbers are increasing, with all the billions thrown in past years for artificial contraception and not enough for healthcenters, training and hiring of qualified midwives and birthing attendants. Focusing the solution on just reducing the number of people will result in long-term damage in the minds of our young, which will, in turn, destroy our nation's future. Haven't we learned enough from the examples of those who sought the easy resort to population control as a means for e...