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 Controversial
film removed from festival honoring
Mother Teresa
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India (CNS) – Organizers of the film festival planned to celebrate the
beatification of Mother Teresa have withdrawn a film critical of the
Nobel-laureate nun. The film, "Hell's Angel: Mother Teresa of
Calcutta," produced by the British television company Channel 4 and
directed by U.S.-based British author Christopher Hitchens, criticized
the nun for accepting donations from people who gained the money
illegally or unethically, reported UCA News, an Asian church news
agency based in Thailand. The film festival is among events the
Calcutta Archdiocese is organizing around the scheduled Oct. 19
beatification of Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of
Charity. Bishop Salvadore Lobo of Baruipur, Episcopal delegate for the
cause of Mother Teresa, objected to "Hell's Angel" and another film,
"In The Name of God's Poor," by Dominique Lapierre. "Hell's Angel"
stirred controversy with its criticism of Mother Teresa for accepting
money from and lending respectability to people such as Haitian
dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and Charles Keating, a U.S. financier
convicted of embezzlement and fraud. It was based on Hitchens' book,
"The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice."
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Indonesian Christian, Muslim leaders condemn bomb attack
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JAKARTA,
Indonesia (CNS) -- Christian and Muslim leaders condemned the bomb
attack that killed at least 10 people and injured about 150 others
outside a Jakarta hotel. "The church strongly condemns the violent
action," Carmelite Father Petrus Go Twan An, head of the Indonesian
Bishops' Office of Documentation and Information, told UCA News, an
Asian church news agency based in Thailand. The moral theologian said
the church "cannot justify any violent act, for whatever reason, that
sacrifices the lives of innocent people." He conveyed the church's
condolences to families of those who died in the August 5 blast and
expressed hope that the government would take immediate action to
prevent such violence from recurring. The Rev. Andreas Yewangoe, vice
chairman of the Communion of Protestant Churches in Indonesia,
deplored the attack in offering his group's "sympathy to families of
the dead and to those who were injured by the blast." He said all
people in the country "must be always on alert" and the government and
security apparatus "must immediately probe the bombing to find out the
perpetrators and take legal action against them."
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Vatican newspaper says all forms of human cloning should be banned
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VATICAN CITY
(CNS) -- Every form of cloning an individual human being should be
banned internationally, whether the cloning aims at producing a child
or simply producing an embryo for the harvesting of cells, tissues or
organs for therapeutic uses, the Vatican newspaper said. In a
front-page article in August 6, L'Osservatore Romano announced it
would begin a series of articles explaining the Catholic Church's
opposition to human cloning. It said the articles would provide
explanations and background information before the U.N. General
Assembly's scheduled September discussion of a possible International
Convention Against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings. The
Vatican newspaper said the Catholic Church's position is based first
of all on its opposition to any form of "human procreation that
foresees the substitution or exclusion of the conjugal act between a
man and a woman." The article said that no matter what type of process
is used to obtain a clone, "every form of cloning human individuals
must be prohibited." The distinction some researchers have made
between reproductive and therapeutic cloning is not valid, the article
said.
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Gifts from the heart for the pope:
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Humble items that speak volumes
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VATICAN CITY
(CNS) -- For 25 years Pope John Paul II has been holding audiences,
greeting heads of state, traveling the world and receiving gifts on
each occasion.
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More than 400
objects given to the Pope -- most from his fellow Poles -- are part of
an exhibit that opened in Poland in late July in preparation for the
Pope's silver jubilee in October.
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thousands more gifts are on display at the Dom Polski Jana Pawla II, a
sprawling hostel for Polish pilgrims on the outskirts of Rome.
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"These things
illustrate an exchange of gifts," Father Glowczyk said. "The Holy
Father offers his presence, traveling, praying, talking and listening,
and people give him these things in return."
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The gifts, he
said, "often are humble materially, but they speak volumes."
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