Good Friday Morning everyone.

 

Miranda Global is a great site to look up every now and then for articles relevant to what is happening in our world today from a more global perspective.  This piece by Marianne Cusimano Love (originally published in America this year), draws attention to Pope Benedict’s message for the World Day of Peace in 2011.  One of the key ideas that he presents is that religious freedom is a security issue, and that peace depends on it.   In light of recent events in North Africa and the Middle East it is worth noting again.

 

http://www.miradaglobal.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1629%3Afe-y-libertad&catid=52%3Areligion&Itemid=39&lang=en

 

If you have been following the sickening events in Philadelphia over the last few months, things got even worse on Monday of this week with the removal of twenty one men from ministry and a letter read in all churches in the archdiocese on Ash Wednesday.  How the good priests, who do their work with passion and enthusiasm got out of bed that morning to read that letter and lead the people of God into this “season of joy” is a testament to their faith.  Over at the America blog, Fr. James Martin S.J. tries to make sense of it all.  He asks a lot of questions but (unfortunately) the answers will come way too slow.

 

http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=4011

 

 

 If this is March break week for you, have a great week.

 

Con