On the May 13, 2009 anniversary of the Marian apparition in Fatima, Portugal, the Vatican's Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga spoke today about the ongoing importance of the Fatima message...
Our Lady of Fatima's Antidote to the Crisis
Caritas President Reflects on Attitudes the Virgin Teaches
FATIMA, Portugal, MAY 13, 2009 (Zenit.org).- The Virgin Mary keeps alive attitudes that combat the economic crisis and the lack of values in the world, says the cardinal who directs Caritas Internationalis...
... At a Mass he celebrated with some 20 bishops and 360 priests, as well as thousands of faithful, the cardinal said, "Our world finds itself immersed in deep crises of faith, ethics and humanity, and it seems to have lost its moral orientation. The financial crisis that we are living is just one sign of that."
"With the example and the help of the Virgin, Christian communities continue the mission of bringing [people] to an encounter with Christ, and because of this, we invoke her again as the Star of the new evangelization," Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga said.
"...We are aware that only with dialogue is it possible to avoid reducing globalization to its economic aspect," the Honduran prelate continued. "A globalization that excludes is an evil for society."
Editor's note: The Cardinal's comment "A globalization that excludes is an evil for society" implies that a Gospel that presents exclusivity must also be an evil for society.
John 14:5-7
6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
See why the Mary of Rome, Queen of All is the The Anti-Coming of Christ.
Our Lady of Fatima's Antidote to the Crisis
Caritas President Reflects on Attitudes the Virgin Teaches
FATIMA, Portugal, MAY 13, 2009 (Zenit.org).- The Virgin Mary keeps alive attitudes that combat the economic crisis and the lack of values in the world, says the cardinal who directs Caritas Internationalis...
... At a Mass he celebrated with some 20 bishops and 360 priests, as well as thousands of faithful, the cardinal said, "Our world finds itself immersed in deep crises of faith, ethics and humanity, and it seems to have lost its moral orientation. The financial crisis that we are living is just one sign of that."
"With the example and the help of the Virgin, Christian communities continue the mission of bringing [people] to an encounter with Christ, and because of this, we invoke her again as the Star of the new evangelization," Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga said.
"...We are aware that only with dialogue is it possible to avoid reducing globalization to its economic aspect," the Honduran prelate continued. "A globalization that excludes is an evil for society."
Editor's note: The Cardinal's comment "A globalization that excludes is an evil for society" implies that a Gospel that presents exclusivity must also be an evil for society.
John 14:5-7
6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
See why the Mary of Rome, Queen of All is the The Anti-Coming of Christ.
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