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Thursday, March 5, 2020
Washington state bishops
URGE ALL WORK TO HEAL U.S.
POLITICAL DIVISIONS
S EATTLE (CNS)
Washington state’s
Catholic bishops are
calling on all Washingtonians
“to engage respectfully with
others to improve civil dialogue
and our entire political system”
during this political year. “Our
country’s political discourse
has become much less civil
over the last several decades
to the point where there is a
near paralysis in our federal
government and too often at
the state and local levels,”
the bishops said in a two-
page pastoral letter released
Feb. 27. “There are many
contributing factors and we
do not want to point fingers
or make accusations. There is
enough blame to go around,”
they said. “Meanwhile, life and
dignity are attacked, injustice
and violence persist, and our
throwaway culture afflicts the
environment. We must reverse
these trends and heal our
political divisions,” the bishops
said. As Catholic Christians,
“we need to heed God’s call
to be missionary disciples of
Jesus,” they said. “We need to
follow his example in engaging
with those opposed to his
teaching. Jesus always offered
mercy and reconciliation.”
Professor: St. John Henry
Newman saw church,
UNIVERSITY AS ‘INSEPARABLE*
WASHINGTON (CNS)
I n 1830, John Henry
Newman, then a 29-year-
old tutor at the University
of Oxford, described himself
in a letter to his close friend,
John William Bowden, as “a
dull, staid Tory, unfit for these
smart times. Which way is the
world marching?” he added.
“And how we shall be left
behind when the movement
is ordered by the word of
command?” Long after his
death, now-St. John Henry
Newman’s ideas found the
world marching to them. At
the time of the letter, he was
an Anglican priest. He joined
the Catholic Church 15 years
after that letter and in 1847
became a Catholic priest.
He was named rector of the
Catholic University of Ireland
in 1854, was made a cardinal
in 1879, and in 1965, 75 years
after his death, was identified
Members of The Staff of St. Joseph Federation of North-American Explorers [FNE] Group from Atlanta traveled
to Fort King George in Darien and made a pilgrimage from there to Nativity of Our Lady Church in witness to the
cause for the venerable Friar Pedro de Corpa and his four Franciscan companions who gave their lives in witness
to the Christian faith. The pilgrimage was made up the Explorers,and members of Nativity of Our Lady Church -
Darien, St. Francis Xavier Church - Brunswick, and Our Lady Star of the Sea Church - St. Mary's. The Explores first
heard of the cause for sainthood when a parishioner form Our Lady of the Mountains in Jasper approached their
booth at the 2017 Eucharistic Congress and offered them prayer cards.
Photograph submitted by Liliana Garcia-Barkes
by St. Paul VI as having been
an influence on the Second
Vatican Council. He was
beatified by Pope Benedict
XVI in 2010, and made a saint
by Pope Francis Oct. 13, 2019.
He left a significant legacy
for a broad-based university
education and a substantial
Catholic education. While not
in the contemporary sense
a liberal, he did contribute
the “liberal” to learning that
challenged students rather
than forcing them into rote
learning from books. Speakers
at a Feb. 25 celebration of his
life and writings at Georgetown
University sometimes
struggled with applying St.
John Henry Newman’s 19th
century words to 21st-century
higher education.
Dominican brothers use
ULTRAMODERN MEANS TO
TEACH ORDER'S ANCIENT MUSIC
FRIBOURG, Switzerland
ominican Brothers
Stefan Ansinger and
Alexandre Frezzato
are teaching people to sing
800-year-old Gregorian chant
through free weekly lessons
on their YouTube channel
called OPChant. Internet
users around the world are
following Brothers Stefan
and Alexandre, and they are
getting positive feedback
on the project from all over
too. “The amount of positive
feedback from all sides is very
impressive, it shows that we
are responding to a current
need,” said Brother Alexandre
in a recent interview posted on
the website of the Dominicans’
Swiss province. Brother
Alexandre is from Valais,
Switzerland, and Brother
Stefan is from the Netherlands.
Both are seminarians studying
at the University of Fribourg.
They live in the Priory of
St-Hyacinthe. Launched last
November, OPChant is the
only channel on the internet
that teaches Latin chant in
the Dominican tradition in a
systematic way. This ancient
musical tradition of the Order
of St. Dominic being taught by
these young brothers through
ultramodern means is entirely
free. The brothers teach
anyone who is willing to learn,
and it’s as simple as going
to OPChant on YouTube and
clicking the red button marked
‘Subscribe.”
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