Friday, April 26, 2013

PACIFIC DAILY NEWS: MARRIAGE IS NOT A "BASIC HUMAN RIGHT", by Tim Rohr


This op-ed was published in the Guam Pacific Daily News on April 26, 2013.

Former Guam resident, Bobbie Servino, is accusing the Catholic Church of promoting hatred and discrimination. In a letter to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the current president of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, Servino says that she is "outraged" that the Catholic Church spent "$2 million on anti-gay marriage ballot campaigns during last year's election."

Read more here or if the link no longer works go here.



Wednesday, April 24, 2013

APRIL 24 - FEAST OF ST. FIDELIS OF SGMARINGEN, PRIEST AND MARTYR

St Fidelis it the name of our local (Guam) Capuchin monastery. But probably few people here know much about him.

(From the breviary)
St. Fidelis was born in the town of Sigmaringen in Germany in 1578. He entered the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins and led an austere life of penance, vigils and prayer. Continuously engaged in preaching the word of God, he was commissioned by the Sacred Congregation for The Propagation of the Faith to preach in the canton of the Grisons. In 1633 he was attacked by a band of heretics, and suffered martyrdom at Seewis in Switzerland.

Prayer
Father, you filled Saint Fidelis with the fire of your love and gave him the privilege of dying that the faith might live. Let his prayers keep us firmly grounded in your love, and help us to come to know the power of Christ's resurrection. We ask this through our Lord jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

More at NewAdvent.org

Current St. Fidelis Friary, Guam


Old Friary of St. Fidelis, Guam. Destroyed in Typhoon 2002




Monday, April 22, 2013

EASY DIVORCE, CHILD ABUSE LINKED - GUAM PDN


This was printed in the Guam Pacific Sunday News, April 21, 2013, as an entry into the Sunday Forum relative to April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. 

In 2012, Guam Child Protective Services received 4,434 referrals of child maltreatment. According to the 2010 Census, Guam has a child population of 57,727. Notwithstanding the variance in population between 2010 and 2012, Guam's child maltreatment rate as of 2012 is 76.81 per 1,000 children. 

Read more here at the online version of the PDN or here if link no longer works.
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