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Saint for the Month
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 ST.PAUL
MIKI AND COMPANIONS
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Catholic Online
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Paul was the son of a Japanese military leader. He was born
at Tounucumada, Japan, educated at the Jesuit college of Anziquiama,
joined the Jesuits in 1580, and became known for his eloquent preaching.
He was crucified on February 5 with twenty-five other
Catholics during the persecution of Christians under the Taiko, Toyotomi
Hideyoshi, ruler of Japan in the name of the emperor.
Among the Japanese
laymen who suffered the same fate were: Francis, a carpenter who was
arrested while watching the executions and then crucified; Gabriel, the
nineteen year old son of the Franciscan's porter; Leo Kinuya, a
twenty-eight year old carpenter from Miyako; Diego Kisai (or Kizayemon),
temporal coadjutor of the Jesuits; Joachim Sakakibara, cook for the
Franciscans at Osaka; Peter Sukejiro, sent by a Jesuit priest to help the
prisoners, who was then arrested; Cosmas Takeya from Owari, who had
preached in Osaka; and Ventura from Miyako, who had been baptized by the
Jesuits, gave up his Catholicism on the death of his father, became a
bonze, and was brought back to the Church by the Franciscans. They were
all canonized as the Martyrs of Japan in 1862.
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Pope
asks officials to ensure priests understand chaste lifestyle
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) Feb.7 -- The best way
for the Catholic Church to deal with clerical sex abuse is to ensure
that its priests understand and embrace the chaste lifestyle the Church
requires of them, Pope John Paul II said. The Pope called on the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to work with other Vatican
offices to ensure seminary and post-ordination programs are effective in
guaranteeing that those who minister in the Church's name will not
sexually abuse anyone. The members of the doctrinal congregation, which
bears ultimate responsibility for investigating claims of clerical
sexual abuse against minors and punishing guilty priests, met the Pope
at the end of their Feb. 3-6 plenary meeting. Pope John Paul II said
that in the past two years, under stronger rules for dealing with "grave
crimes" against the sacraments, "a notable increase in the number of
disciplinary cases" has been referred to the Congregation.
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Nuns
in Italy take to streets to help women forced into prostitution
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ROME (CNS) Feb.6 -- Often dressed in
habits, religious women take to the streets at night offering
friendship, advice and hope to thousands of foreign women forced into
prostitution on the streets of Italy. As part of a wider effort to stop
the trafficking of human beings, the U.S. Embassy to the Vatican, the
U.N.-related International Organization for Migration and the Italian
Union of Major Superiors have designed a program to train workers
to help the women flee their controllers and get off the streets. A
pilot version of the program, funded by the U.S. government, was offered
Jan. 26-Feb. 6 in Rome to 27 religious women, most of whom already were
doing similar work. Jim Nicholson, U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, told
reporters Feb. 5, "Slavery was ended once before, and we can do it
again." The Ambassador said the problem must be attacked by educating
the public and politicians about the reality of human trafficking, by
designing prevention programs in the countries of origin and by training
people to help those who manage to escape their controllers.
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