Francisc I

Lumea catolică are un Papă iezuit care aduce aminte de sensurile originare ale evaghelizării, de misiuni și de interesul pentru culturi și comunități.

Buenos Aires Cathedral hosted Krystallnacht Commemoration

On Monday, November 12, the Cathedral of Buenos Aires hosted hundreds of people who attended the B’nai B’rith Argentina commemoration of Krystallnacht. Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio lead the event, which was attended by high representatives of the Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian and Catholic Churches. Rabbi Alejandro Avruj from the Conservative Synagogue Emanu-El leaded the Jewish attendance and gave Cardinal Bergoglio a Sidur at the end of the commemoration.

DISCURSO EN LA Sinagoga Bnei Tikvá Slijot

Discurso de del cardenal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, arzobispo de Buenos Aires, en la Sinagoga Bnei Tikvá Slijot (8 de setiembre de 2007)

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Jesuits rescue efforts during the Holocaust

Twelve Jesuit priests have been formally recognized by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, for risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust of World War II: Roger Braun (1910–1981) of France; Pierre Chaillet (1900–1972) of France; Jean-Baptist De Coster (1896–1968) of Belgium; Jean Fleury (1905–1982) of France; Emile Gessler (1891–1958) of Belgium; Jean-Baptiste Janssens (1889–1964) of Belgium; Alphonse Lambrette (1884–1970) of Belgium; Emile Planckaert (b. 1906–2006) of France; Jacob Raile (1894–1949) of Hungary; Henri Revol (1904–1992) of France; Adam Sztark (1907–1942) of Poland; and Henri Van Oostayen (1906–1945) of Belgium.

Several other Jesuits are known to have rescued or given refuge to Jews during that period.^[64] A plaque commemorating the 152 Jesuit priests who gave of their lives during the Holocaust was installed at Rockhurst University, a Jesuit university, in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, in April 2007, the first such plaque in the world.

The Nazi regime considered the Jesuits one of their most dangerous enemies. According to John Pollard, the Jesuit’s „ethos represented the most intransigent opposition to the philosophy of Nazism.”^[65] A Jesuit college in the city of Innsbruck served as a center for anti-Nazi resistance and was closed down by the Nazis in 1938.^[66] Jesuits were a target for Gestapo prosecution and many Jesuit priests were deported to concentration camps.^[67]

Din aceste motive dar și altele, la care voi reveni cu altă ocazie, cred că noul Papă va intensifica prezența Bisericii Catolice în soluționarea unor probleme din Orientul Mijlociu.

Viitorul Pontif

 

Pentru cine urmărește acest subiect și mai ales bursa zvonurilor privind viitorul Papă  recomand și lectura

 

a unui studiu privind scenarii pentru Orientul Mijlociu, elaborat în 2005, studiu care ia în calcul un scenariu cu un Papă recent ales.

 

 

Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, (2005) „Three alternative Middle East peace scenarios”, foresight, Vol. 7 Iss: 2, pp.8 – 20 – See more at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1464986&show=abstract#sthash.UEToB3OK.dpuf

 

Articolul este doar pe abonament dar există și o variantă pe The Millennium Project. Citatul este cam lung dar sper să vă placă ce se discuta în anumite cercuri prin 2005.

 

 

Scenario 2. The Open City

The white smoke signaled the election of a new pope. He assumed the office with humility and fervor. His priority, he announced, was facilitating peace around the world, particularly in the Middle East. He began his mission by addressing the Jerusalem question. Although his advisors cautioned „you can only blunt your authority-it’s unsolvable,” he maintained that God had given him this mission and as far as he and the church were concerned this took priority over politics. „The fact that it is a difficult mission,” he said, „only raises the stakes of the test. Is it more difficult than the tests that God gave Jesus, Moses, or Abraham?” The cardinals were mute but whispered among themselves, „the church will be in chaos.”

He personally called the leaders of the Jewish orthodox and reformed sects in Israel and their counterparts in the Muslim world, as well as Buddhist and Hindu leaders. (The non-involved religious leaders were invited to provide added credibility to the proceedings.) The new US president and EU leaders gave secret and subtle signals that they endorsed such a meeting. Deft use of the media-particularly live interviews on CNN and „60 Minutes”-made it hard for the religious leaders who were invited by the pope to refuse to meet and talk.

When the plans were made public, Muslim hardliners called this a „new Christian crusade.” Jewish right-wingers were also not very interested in the views of the Catholic Church, recalling the expulsion of Jews from Jerusalem during the Crusades.

Yet the meeting plans continued and the religious leaders met on neutral ground, at an isolated ranch in New Zealand, and called their historic session Religious Leaders for Peace, or RLP. That the Chief Rabbi of Israel and the Grand Mufti met in the same room was viewed as a worthy accomplishment and a milestone in its own right on the way to peace, since attending the meeting carried the very real risk of being ostracized by conservatives in their own camps.

At the first meeting, the initial coolness worsened a bit after each member justified his or her position as God-given. Then the pope said, „Yes. God has blessed each of you as you have said, and he has also given us brains with which to reason, and that is what I pray we can do. This issue of Jerusalem pertains to religious law and custom; it should be above secular self-interests and politics and we can at least begin to discuss how to resolve it. It is too simple to say that Jerusalem can be a city-state like the Vatican; there are three religions involved here. We must ask God for guidance.”

Perhaps the meeting went ahead because Jews, Palestinians, and Arabs were war-weary; perhaps the governments realized that the possibility of progress without some help from outside was not good; perhaps it was the general belief that the issue had progressed to the point of being „much too important to be left to governments”; perhaps the rise of interest in religion around the world caused people to be open to considering „a higher way.”

The religious leaders began with points of agreement: free access to the holy sites should be guaranteed. How ludicrous it would be, they agreed, if one religion were to attempt to deny access to anyone of another religion who wanted to pay homage there. The plan must be beyond political, ideological, and economic interests. It grew from these seeds of agreement. Jerusalem should be an open city under no nation’s sole jurisdiction, but under religious protection and authority. They recognized that the problem of Jerusalem does not affect just Israel or a future state of Palestine but is of global concern.

Their proclamation recognized that Jews, Muslims, Christians, and other faiths have to work toward a sharing of God’s gifts.

 

The Next Pope

St. Peter’s Basilica at Early Morning (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Unii se gândeau de prin 2012

 

The ceremony won’t only be a rare insight into one of the oldest and most colorful traditions in the Catholic Church, which with 1.1 billion adherents worldwide, represents more than half of the world’s Christian population. It will also redefine the balance of power in the Catholic Church, and further increase the United States’ influence in the election of the next pope.

Among the six cardinal-elects is James Harvey, an archbishop from Milwaukee who will become the 11th cardinal elector from the U.S., strengthening the country’s position as the Vatican’s second-largest voting bloc after Italy.  Cardinal electors are the members of the College of Cardinals who have not reached their 80th birthdays on the day the pope dies and are thus able to vote for the new prelate.

But as American author and John Paul II biographer George Weigel explains, the fact that American cardinals will represent almost 10 percent of worldwide electors in the next Conclave (the election of the pope), does not necessarily mean one of them will become the next Holy Father.

The path to an American pope? Cardinal’s elevation gives US clout at Vatican NBC News

 

iar în 2013 alții pun punctul pe i

 

With 11 votes, the U.S. is now the second-largest bloc, behind only Italy, which has 28 electors, according to the Holy See press office at the Vatican. Germany is third, with six. The new pontiff is expected to be elected by the end of March, according to Vatican officials.

The archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, explains the „mixed emotions” he feels about the news that Pope Benedict XVI will resign on February 28, saying he feels a „special bond” with the pope.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York who was elevated to cardinal last year, is considered a longshot candidate to succeed the pope.

US will have unprecedented voice in electing new pope NBC News