“Awarding Liu the peace prize inspires those who fight for democracy in mainland China.” Patrick Poon of the Hong Kong-based Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, on the awarding of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo
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OCTOBER 18, 2010 18, the day after Pope Benedict XVI canonizes her as St. Mary of the Cross in Rome.
Miner gift from Chile
Sister Sheila McCreanor, secretary-general of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, which Blessed MacKillop co-founded in 1866, said the stamp is “entirely appropriate given she was such a great letter-writer.” Sister Sheila has edited three published volumes of Blessed MacKillop’s letters.
Eight years ago, an idea sparked five Hmong women to team up and translate hymns, psalms and other liturgical music from the Mass from English into their native language. The group is projecting the printing of tens of thousands of books with more Cathollic than 200 selections News Service of sacred music for distribution and use in Catholic liturgies by Hmong-speaking communities throughout the United States. Chong Ly, of St. Bernard Parish in Appleton, Wis.. said the group proposed the idea to the Hmong American National Catholic Association, based in St. Paul, “and they agreed to support it.” The association recruited a committee, including Chong and her sister Miva to ensure the contents of the music book were prepared in accordance with Catholic doctrine.
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Pope interview to be released Nov. 23 “Light of the World,” a book-length interview with Pope Benedict XVI will be released Nov. 23 in the world’s major languages, including English, the head of the Vatican publishing house said. The book is based on interviews on a variety of topics conducted in July by journalist Peter Seewald.
New York to close weakest schools
The Hmong American National Catholic Association’s website is http://hanca.us.
WYD prepares with Facebook, YouTube World Youth Day organizers, who are expecting more than 2 million participants, are preparing for the 2011 event in Madrid with Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and fundraisers using text messages. Social networking sites have been key outlets “for raising awareness, mobilizing, communicating and financing World Youth Day,” said Auxiliary Bishop Cesar Franco Martinez of Madrid, who is
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Pope Benedict XVI receives a Chilean flag at the Vatican Oct. 7. The flag was signed by each of the 33 miners who have been trapped underground for more than three weeks in a copper and gold mine near Copiapo, Chile. At left is Msgr. Georg Ganswein, the pope’s personal secretary.
the general coordinator of the Aug. 16-21 international event. Its official website is WWW.MADRID11.COM. As of Oct. 5, there were more than 165,000 fans of World Youth Day on Facebook, said Maria de Jaureguizar, vice director of communications for World Youth Day 2011. WYD organizers set up 19 separate Facebook accounts in different languages, including Chinese
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Australia’s first saint to get stamp Blessed Mary MacKillop, known as a prolific letter-writer, will be immortalized on an Australian stamp and limited-edition collector’s postcard to be issued Oct.
A strategic plan for the elementary schools of the Archdiocese of New York will close underperforming schools to reduce growing deficits, channel funds from the sale or rental of shuttered properties to an education fund and replace the traditional parish governance model with a regional structure. The three-year plan, named “Pathways to Excellence,” was released Oct. 5. The short-term target is to reduce by half the subsidies the archdiocese gives to struggling schools, said Timothy J. McNiff, archdiocesan superintendent of schools. In 2009, the archdiocese spent $30 million to support needy parishes and schools.
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