In the debris bury + new president of the papal academy for the life + archbishop: The gospels are not reliable reports of the life Jesu + tobacco benefit. A sin? + 10-year old Lebensretterin

Bury in the debris

Indonesia. The apostolische Nuntius in Indonesia, archbishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith (57), spoke at the telephone with the intelligence service `Asianews', after it of a journey from the disaster area had returned. „The situation is tragic: Thousands died. Possibly still victims could show up up to 200.000. “In addition innumerable corpses were buried by the angespülten debris, so that it is impossible to find the bodies. The waves would ashore have carried by the ton material. Archbishop Ranjith saw also the will to find the way back to the life. Because of the budding trade with Waisenkindern the government prepared a special program. It gives special catching stations, in order to alleviate the material and mental emergency of the often strongly traumatized children. Likewise a new climate of co-operation between Christians and Muslims developed. The Nuntius expressed hope that the new spirit to the starting point, breaking open now, will, in order to arouse the country to new life.

New president of the papal academy for the life

Vatikan. According to a report of `radio Vatikan' appointed the holy father, Pope Johannes Paul II., the past vice-president, archbishop Elio Sgreccia (76) the president of the papal academy for the life. Archbishop Sgreccia is a professor for bio ethics and member in the national Bioethik Komission of the Italian state. Ignacio Carasco de Paulo, Mitglied of the Opus Dei and ethics professor at the catholic university of Milan (north Italy), appointed the holy father the secretary of the academy.

Archbishop: The gospels are not reliable reports of the life Jesu

The USA. „The narrations of the gospels were not written, in order to be reliable biographic reports of the life Jesu. They are rather the history of the faith of the first Christians over Jesus. Matthäus and Lukas were not interested in the historical actualness of their reports over the birth Jesu, but they wanted to describe substantial contents of this singular event. They gave the faith to that one against, which was closely connected with Jesus and its Jüngern. Which they wrote, it is true but not in the sense that each detail is historically proven, although there are also important historical details in told history. “(Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza)

Mons. Joseph Fiorenza was appointed last week by Pope Johannes Paul of IITH diocese of Galveston Houston, raised to the archbishop its to the Erzdiözese.

Tobacco benefit. A sin?

Vatikan. Smokers would not damage their own health and those the others „without moral responsibility “. This reported the magazine `La Civiltà Cattolica' in their recent expenditure. La Civiltà Cattolica' appears in Rome under the leadership of the Jesuiten and stands in the call to be an unofficial publication organ of the holy chair. Smoke is, so Pater Giuseppe de pink ones, the author it article to evaluate neither in more social nor in moral regard as neutral.

10-year old Lebensretterin

Thailand. An English pupil warned and saved according to a newspaper report approximately hundred holiday-makers in the Thai holidays place Phuket in time from the devastating tsunami. Shortly before the start of one family vacation in Thailand the ten-year one had participated at school in a project for the emergence of tsunami by enormous seaquakes - so-called „Zunamis “-. „I was at the beach, when the water began, strange things to make “, said the girl on weekend. First in the water vesicles would have formed, then it had decreased/gone back at one time. It closed then on approaching a tsunami and the mother alarmed. While many holiday-makers watched astonished, how the water withdrew itself and boats and left fish on the bottom of the sea, the small one interpreted the phenomenon correctly as a harbinger of an enormous wave. Together with officials of hotel the mother of the girl provided for the evacuation of the beach. Minutes later broke the Wassermassen in here. The area was one of the few beaches Phukets, at which there were no victims. „Tilly is a very intelligent and deliberated girl “, praised her English teacher the child: „It is an unbelievable coincidence that we through-took two weeks before Christmas Zunamis. “

MilesChristi: Archbishop

As this man became at all bishop, is me a mystery. But: if the bishops of the USA are congratulated by the Pope personally for „the good processing “of the scandals around abuse and the new chairmen of the US bishop conference to those belong, which the abuse accused of ministers for many years back and forth pushed (and thus bore the abuse instead of it to terminate)…

Miles of Christ

Catholicus: Protection gel

The small girl was probably led by the holy protection gel. It proved to civil courage at the same time, how it often goes off larger ones. Much can depend on the small decisions of particulars, also in the grace order.

Dolfus: @neuer archbishop

The new archbishop seems to have been an attentive and gelehriger theology student.
Isn't the Pope, by whose will all theology professors - not only the bishops - are world-wide in the office?

Dolfus: @10jährige Lebensretterin

That says to us nevertheless which.
A 10jährige knew to interpret the indications.
It inserts itself smoothly in the picture that knowing did not warn the people consciously.