The latest atrocity affecting the Christian community in Baghdad is a further reminder of the precarious position of Christians in the Middle East - something I posted about last Saturday.
There are some trenchant comments from Fr Hunwicke here about Western attitudes to the situation. There is also sorrowful and prayerful counsel from Fr Blake here.
The need to maintain awareness of our fellow Christians in the homeland of the faith in the face of relative disinterest is important. So is practical aid and the need to pray for people and places, Churches and Christians. I feel I ought to be doing something about the situation, and those are all ways, but somehow I feelmore should be done. That is not to discount the power of prayer, but its very invisibility makes it so often appear not to yield results.
In temporal terms I suppose I'm saying "Someone ought to do something." But who, and what?
Rome Pilgrimage for Christ the King: No Mass in St. Peter's this year
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The final program of the "Summorum Pontificum" Peregrinatio ad Petri Sedem
(Rome) was made public today.What is noteworthy is that, unlike last year,
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