Given the confusion that this creates in the title Monsignor for certain dignitaries in the Catholic Church, we are reproducing here the article Published on January 7, 2014 at 7:54 p.m. By Anita Bourdin of Zenit.org. ROME, January 7, 2014 (Zenit.org).
Read More"Modern Martyrs, Victims of the Exploitation of Mineral Resources in Africa: Realities and Perspectives of the Church in Exit". This is the theme of a conference presented on October 12 in Rome by Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Kinshasa (DRC) and President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM). It was on the occasion of a hybrid webinar organized on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the canonization of the Martyrs of Uganda.
Read MoreWhen we are born, we discover nature. It is nature that welcomes us. And we ourselves are part of this nature while having authority over it. From the beginning, God said: "fill the earth and dominate it." cf. Gen 1:28. Despite the depth and the firmament that surround man, the latter remains responsible for what happens there because he has received a mandate from the Creator. This is why he tramples everywhere to prove his domination. Man, through his scientific curiosity, has gone underground, dived into deep waters, walked on the moon, explored wild forests, climbed high mountains. Nature, through his research, is no longer foreign to him.
Read MoreThe Pope responded with these words: “They are all lives. The king was courageous because, faced with a law of death, he did not sign and resigned. It takes courage! It takes a politician “in trousers” to do this, it takes courage… Women. Women have the right to life: to their life, to the life of their children. Let us not forget to say this: an abortion is murder. Science says that one month after conception, all the organs are already there. You kill a human being, you kill a human being. And the doctors who lend themselves to this are – let me say – they are hired killers.”
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