Today’s Agony in the Garden
Posted by Edward Pentin
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:43 PM
Benedict celebrates Mass today. (CNS/Reuters)
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Fouad Twal, gave a tough assessment today of the plight facing Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land.
Speaking in the Josaphat Valley, a short distance from the Garden of Gethsemane, during the second public Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI on his Holy Land pilgrimage, Patriarch Twal compared the present situation to Jesus’ own agony... READ MORE
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‘A Great Need for Peace!’
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, December 29, 2008 11:38 AM
A Christian Palestinian girl holds a candle during a Christmas Eve service at the Latin Catholic Church in Gaza City. (AFP)
The Christmas spirit of peace on earth is sadly absent from much of the Holy Land this year.
As hostilities intensify between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, it’s worth recalling the words of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem during this year’s Midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, on Christmas Eve.
In his homily, Patriarch Fouad Twal affirmed that the message of the birth of... READ MORE
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