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St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled "Lion King"
December 1, 2007 - Hanuman Hall, Mapusa
to fundraise for a false ceiling for the school hall
& upgrading the school playground
Headmistress Sr. Namika A.C. / Teacher Mrs. Sonia Noronha
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Mumbai archbishop Oswald Gracias now a cardinal
VATICAN CITY, November 25, 2007: Pope Benedict XVI created 23 new
cardinals during a solemn Ordinary Public Consistory held on Saturday, Nov. 24
in the Vatican.
Archbishop of Bombay Oswald Gracias was the only person from Asia to be made
cardinal this time.
Following a liturgical greeting, the Pope read the formula of creation, and
solemnly proclaimed the names of the new cardinals.
This was followed by the Liturgy of the Word, the Pope's homily, the
Profession of Faith and the taking of the oath by each cardinal.
Each new cardinal then approached the Holy Father and knelt before him to
receive the cardinal's biretta and to be assigned a title or deaconry.
The Pope placed the biretta on the cardinal's head saying, "(This is) red as
a sign of the dignity of the office of a cardinal, signifying that you are
ready to act with fortitude, even to the point of spilling your blood for the
increase of the Christian faith, for peace and harmony among the people of God,
for freedom and the spread of the Holy Roman Catholic Church".
Then Holy Father handed over the Bull of Creation as cardinal, assigned the
title or deaconry and exchanged a kiss of peace with the new members of the
College of Cardinals.
Thereafter, the cardinals also exchanged such a sign of peace among
themselves.
Work for peace and unity, Pope tells new cardinals
Pope Benedict on Sunday led a solemn ceremony in which he bestowed 23 new
cardinals with their rings of office and urged them to work for peace.
The Pope presided over the ceremony in St Peter's Basilica a day after he
elevated the prelates from around the world to the elite rank in the 1.1
billion-member Roman Catholic Church.
As each of the cardinals knelt before him, Benedict slid the ring of office
on their finger and, speaking in Latin, told them it should always be a symbol
of their love for the Church.
Earlier, in his sermon in front of the central altar of the flower-bedecked
basilica, he asked them to work and pray for peace and unity.
"Prayer for peace and unity constitutes your first and principal mission
...," he said.
The new cardinals come from Italy, Iraq, Ireland, Germany, the United States,
Spain, India, Argentina, Kenya, Mexico, Poland, Senegal, Brazil and France.
When he elevated them to the new rank on Saturday, he appealed for an end to
the war in Iraq and decried the plight of the country's Christian minority.
Archbishop Oswald Gracias of Bombay, India, receives the red three-cornered
biretta hat by Pope Benedict XVI during a consistory inside St. Peter's
Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday
One of the new cardinals is Emmanuel III Delly, the Baghdad-based Patriarch
of Babylon of the Chaldeans. The Chaldeans are Iraq's biggest Christian group
and the Chaldean rite is one of the most ancient of the Catholic Church.
Eighteen of the new cardinals are under 80 and eligible under Church rules to
enter a secret conclave to elect a new pope after Benedict's death. The other
five, including Delly, are over 80 and were given the honour for symbolic
reasons or to thank them for long service to the Church.
Cardinals are the Pope's closest aides. They lead major dioceses around the
world, head Vatican departments and advise him on matters affecting everything
from faith to finances.
>From left, Oswald Gracias from India, Francisco Robles Ortega from Mexico, and
>Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, U.S.A., wear their red three-cornered
>biretta after Pope Benedict XVI elevated them to the top rank of Cardinal
The new "electors" include Archbishop John Patrick Foley, a former Vatican
official from the United States, Daniel N. DiNardo, Archbishop of
Galveston-Houston, and Archbishop Paul Joseph Cordes, a German based in the
Vatican.
Archbishops Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris, Oswald Gracias of Bombay, Francisco
Robles Ortega of Monterrey, Mexico, John Njue of Nairobi and Sean Baptist Brady
-- Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland -- are also electors.
Church law sets a ceiling of 120 on the number of "cardinal electors". The
total number of cardinals, including those over 80, is now 201.
Vatican to accept Muslim dialogue call soon
The Vatican plans to respond positively and very soon to an appeal by Muslim
scholars for an unprecedented dialogue between Christianity and Islam, Roman
Catholic cardinals and Islam experts say.
The Catholic Church, representing more than half the world's two billion
Christians, has not yet officially answered the call made last month and hailed
by most other Christian leaders.
But cardinals in Rome and Vatican officials told Reuters many Catholic
leaders wanted a serious dialogue with Muslim leaders to help overcome
misunderstandings.
"The Vatican will respond positively, and quite soon," said Dakar Cardinal
Theodore-Adrien Sarr, whose homeland Senegal is 95 percent Muslim. "We will not
miss this opportunity."
"Watch out for this week," said a veteran cardinal, who asked not to be
named. The prelates were in Rome for a ceremony to install 23 new members of
the College of Cardinals.
Paris Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois said a serious and broad Christian-Muslim
dialogue would help inter-faith relations in France, which has Europe's largest
Muslim minority.
"This is a significant step," he said of the Muslim appeal. "I remember that
only a few years ago, we regretted there weren't any Muslim leaders who could
take a public stand, for example against terrorism."
"This is an opportunity the Lord has given us and put into the hearts of
people to work together," Mumbai Cardinal Oswald Gracias said. "All of us
(cardinals) are very happy."
VATICAN HESITATES
The appeal in October by 138 scholars representing a large majority of
Islamic views invited Christian leaders to a dialogue based on their common
belief that love of God and neighbour is the cornerstone of their religions.
It was unprecedented because Islam has no central authority to speak for all
believers, especially not the silent majority that does not agree with radicals
whose preaching of jihad and rejection of other faiths often dominates the
headlines.
Sarr said the Vatican planned to invite a small group of the scholars who
signed the appeal for exploratory talks on the way forward. "There will be a
meeting with them to clarify what they want to do," he said. "After that, we'll
see what we can do."
Many Christian leaders promptly gave positive responses, but the Vatican's
top official for relations with Islam - Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran -- had
expressed doubt both faiths could agree on such issues as God, love and how to
read sacred scripture.
In the meantime, leading Catholic experts on Islam lined up to welcome the
Muslim initiative, leaving Tauran - whose doubts echoed reservations about
Islam expressed in the past by Pope Benedict - looking increasingly isolated.
The Vatican can make or break this initiative. With 1.1 billion followers,
Catholicism alone has almost as many followers as Islam's 1.3 billion. A
dialogue between Muslims and only the other Christian churches would be
incomplete.
Aref Ali Nayed, a signatory of the appeal, said the Muslim scholars
understood the Vatican took time to respond and that a positive response "would
be a clear sign of hope for the world."
Nayed noted that 300 mostly Protestant leaders in the United States had
recently supported their call.
Catholic experts on Islam said the Vatican's reservations were complex
theological issues such as whether Christians and Muslims had the same vision
of God.
But they said there was so much misunderstanding between Christians and
Muslims about what each other believed that a serious dialogue about them would
help improve relations.
"There are differences and they will always be there," one said. "But now is
not the time to look for problems. It is important to respond to something so
positive with something equally positive."
CBCI/Reuters
(courtesy: www.mangalorean.com)
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