Vatican Radio Podcast
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Vatican Radio is the broadcasting station of the Holy See, legally recognised by the international bodies. It is a means of communication and evangelisation created to serve the Pope's ministry. Vatican Radio has a legal status and is located in Vatican City. Its main task is to proclaim the Christian message, freely, faithfully and efficiently, and keep in contact the centre of Catholicism with the rest of the world. It was inaugurated by Pius XI (Radio message Qui arcano Dei) on February 12th 1931, and is an active member and founder of the EBU (European Broadcasting Union, in Geneva) of the URTI (International Radio and Television University, in Paris) and member of the URTNA (Union of African National Radio and Television in Dakar). Vatican Radio represents the Holy See at the ITU (International Telecommunication Union, in Geneva) and at the CEPT (European Conferences of Post and Telecommunication Administrations). Vatican Radio however is not an official body of the Holy See and therefore takes full responsibility for the contents of its programmes.
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Vatican Radio broadcasts Church and religious news, offering the kind of information which cannot be found in other media. Firstly it informs on events and activities of the Pope and the Holy See. Vatican Radio also covers political, social and economic affairs not only in the religious context, but also to help Christians to see in them the signs of the times and to encourage them to behave and take decisions in the light of their own faith. Through its liturgy programmes, Vatican Radio offers to its listeners, especially to those who are isolated or restricted in their religious freedom, a chance to follow spiritual events and worship. For a vaster audience, Vatican Radio broadcasts the celebrations presided over by the Holy Father in order to deepen the communion of the Church with the Successor of Peter. The programmes of Vatican Radio are for the most part dedicated to the various permanent aspects of the Christian Catechesis: the Word of the Lord, the Church and Patristic tradition, theology, Christian ethics, the Social Doctrine of the Church, Church history and Christian associations. A special attention is given to ecumenism and to inter-religious dialogue, especially in those programmes which are addressed to parts of the world where Christians are a small minority. A fair consideration is also given to human culture and arts, especially music, more suitable to the technical features of this means of communication, in accordance with a long Church tradition.
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The Vatican Radio is a 30-minute broadcast highlighting current events through the eyes of the Catholic Church. With actual broadcasts of the Pope, the listener can hear firsthand (with the help of an interpreter ) the views, prayers and pleas of the new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI.
Although I am not Catholic, I have great respect for the traditions and views of the Catholic Church. Therefore, I was very interested in listening to this podcast to simply gain an understanding of world events through their filter. I found the broadcast to be very well done with interesting ways of approaching the most up-to-date news such as the Muslim extremist London bombings. It is great resource for staying on top of current events and gaining a new perspective on the world.
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Somali forces retake town from al Shabab
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Sat, May 26, 2012
Local residents are confirming, African Union and Somali forces have succeeded in driving al Shabab, the Islamic militant group, from their town, Afgoye, north of Mogadishu. The recapture of the town is just the first step on the road to resolving a bigger issue - the region north of Mogadishu has the largest concentration of internally displaced persons in the world, according to the United Nations.
Andy Needham is UNHCR spokesperson in Nairobi, Kenya and he confirms that the military operations have forced more people from their homes for the time-being. Listen 00:00:58:32
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Political crisis in Papua New Guinea continues
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Fri, May 25, 2012
In Papua New Guinea, the government on Friday declared a state of emergency in three provinces. Earlier in the day, dozens of rogue police officers blocked the entrance to Parliament for a short time to try and keep the legislative body from forming a quorum, in the latest act of a political drama which is paralysing the country ahead of elections scheduled for next month.
Friday morning, Chief Justice Sir Salamo Injia was officially charged with sedition, in response to a Supreme Court ruling on Monday that his predecessor, Sir Michael Somare, is the rightful ruler of the country.
Parliament replaced Somare with O'Neill last August while Somare was getting medical treatment abroad, but Somare insists the move was illegal.
The crisis is threatening the running of elections due next month, when a new Parliament will be selected.
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Civilians majority of victims in Eastern Congo
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Fri, May 25, 2012
In the Congo, fighting between the military and various militias is continuing in the eastern Kivu provinces. The violence has forced the inhabitants of entire villages to flee, worsening an already precarious humanitarian situation. The International Committee for the Red Cross said on Friday it is concerned about the rising number of civilian victims, and is calling on all parties to spare the civilian population.
"Most of the victims are civilians, some of whom are very young children, elderly people or women. The fighting has forced the inhabitants of entire villages to flee, worsening an already precarious situation. It is essential that people not taking part in the hostilities be spared," said Laetitia Courtois, the head of the ICRC sub-delegation in Bukavu, South Kivu. "The fighting often takes place in very remote areas, making it difficult for us to reach the victims. Our dialogue with all parties to the conflict is continuing so that we will be able to bring aid to the people who need it."
Listen to the full interview by Charles Collins with ICRC Kinshasa spokesperson Krista Armstrong: 00:05:29:38
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Joan Knows
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Fri, May 25, 2012
Our regular guest Joan Lewis is back again to take us behind the scenes with details of papal and other activities of the Holy See over the past seven days.... 00:10:09:50
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May 27, 2012
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Fri, May 25, 2012
Sunday Gospel: Jill Bevilacqua presents readings and reflections for Pentecost in her weekly feature programme 'There's more in the Sunday Gospel than meets the eye...'
Joan Knows: Our regular Vatican watcher, Joan Lewis, takes us behind the scenes for details of papal and other activities of the Holy See over the past seven days.... 00:28:59:42
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The Venerable Bede
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Fri, May 25, 2012
Join our popular 'Latin Lover' Carmelite Father Reginald Foster as he gives us an assessment of the command of the Latin language of the Venerable Bede: ..."very very elegant probably the best of his time...".
All this and more in this feature to mark this English scholar monk's Feast day which falls on the 25th of May.
A programme presented and produced by Veronica Scarisbrick.
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Sunday Gospel
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Fri, May 25, 2012
In this week's edition of "There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye," Jill Bevilacqua and SeĂ n-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Feast of Pentecost.
Listen: 00:17:51:29
Gospel Jn 20:19-23
On the evening of that first day of the week,
when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,
for fear of the Jews,
Jesus came and stood in their midst
and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
“Receive the Holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,
and whose sins you retain are retained.”
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IEC2012 : Walking with God in Dublin
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Fri, May 25, 2012
“In our world today there is a great hunger for God” says Fr. Damien O’ Reilly, administrator of St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral Dublin. “And in our world of fragile peace, our world of many broken promises, is that hunger”. He speaks to Emer McCarthy Listen: 00:11:49:01
Fr. Damien is also one of the organisers behind a new city centre "Camino," or pilgrim walk, that has been launched in Ireland’s capital as part of the celebrations surrounding the International Eucharistic Congress set for June 10-17. Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral, the seat of Archdiocese, will be the final destination for pilgrims taking part in the walk, from across Ireland’s Christian traditions.
While the walk will mark a journey of spiritual preparation in the final days before the Congress it will also be a very visible witness of faith in the heart of the nation’s Metropolitan capital which has not been immune to the negative side effects of a spreading secularism, as often noted by Archbishop Martin. These include a steep decline in participation in the sacraments by faithful and in the words of Fr. Damien, a “pushing of God to the fringes of everyday life”. Fr Damien hopes that the Congress will encourage Christians to recognise that even in the most difficult stages of their life’s journey, God has been present every step of the way.
“The Eucharistic Congress … has Jesus at its’ very heart, Jesus present in the Eucharist, that’s what’s makes the Congress so very special. It gives us the opportunity to focus yet again on areas where people may have pushed the Lord out onto the very fringes of life, or in some cases out of life altogether. In the midst of the hustle and bustle of life, or the great strains that are on peoples lives because of the economic crisis and as well the very difficult times we face in the Church at the moment, the Eucharistic Congress is a great opportunity for us in the Church in Ireland to bring faith back into the public sphere”.
The walk, involving prayerful visits to seven of Dublin's most historic Catholic and Anglican churches, is partly inspired by the famous pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain and partly inspired by the traditional Dublin devotion of visiting seven churches on Holy Thursday.
Unlike the pilgrimage across Spain to the burial place of St. James, which takes weeks to complete, the Dublin walk can be completed in about four hours. In typical Irish fashion, the Dublin pilgrimage has no set route; visitors can make their own path to the churches in any order desired.
The pilgrim walk will operate June 2-16. Participants will be given a "Pilgrim Passport" that can be stamped at each church, which will be open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
Mass will be celebrated at 5:45 p.m. daily at St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, where people who have finished the walk can receive a certificate marking completion of the pilgrimage.
The seven churches involved -- St. James; Our Lady of Mount Carmel; John's Lane; St. Ann's, Dawson Street; St. Mary of the Angels; St. Michan's, Halston Street; and St Mary's Pro-Cathedral -- are each notable in their own right.
Opened in 1854, St. James' Church creates a link between the Dublin's Camino and Spain's El Camino de Santiago because it stands near the site of St. James's Gate, where Irish pilgrims departed to journey through France and Spain in the Middle Ages. The site today is occupied by the St James's Gate Brewery, home of Guinness, where a visitor center offers refreshment to thirsty pilgrims.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel on Whitefriar Street was founded in 1279, dispossessed during the Reformation and re-established in 1825. The mother house of Ireland's Carmelites and one of Dublin's largest churches, it contains relics of St. Valentine and the Shrine of Our Lady of Dublin, which features an oak statue of St. Mary dating to the 16th century.
The Church of St. Augustine and St. John the Baptist on Thomas Street is more commonly known as John's Lane Church and usually has a flow of people stopping to pray before the shrine of Our Mother of Good Counsel. The church opened in 1874, but an Augustine community was established in Norman times on the site at the end of the 12th century. The church is known for its stained-glass windows and the four different schools of art represented in their designs.
In keeping with the ecumenical nature of the congress, an Anglican church is included in the pilgrimage. St. Ann's, Dawson Street, is a favorite of Dubliners of all faiths because of its lunchtime recitals and evening concerts. Located next door to the Mansion House, St. Ann's once was a place of worship for Ireland's ruling class.
St. Mary of the Angels on Church Street and nearby St. Michan's on Halston Street are Capuchin Franciscan churches in the same parish, which is said to be the oldest in Dublin, dating to about 1095. St. Michan's, once the site of Dublin's cathedral, houses a plethora of coffins in its vault including several with the lids removed. One holds the mummified remains of a soldier returned from the Crusades.
St. Mary's, with its many fine mosaics, and St. Michan's have been included in the walk partly because of the notable pastoral work carried out by the Capuchins. The Capuchin Day Center feeds 480 homeless people breakfast and lunch six days a week.
Designed in the Decorative Gothic style, St. Mary's is considered one of the most beautiful churches in the city. St. Michan's also is known for its stained glass windows depicting the mysteries of the rosary and the seven sacraments. Notably, it was at St. Michan's where the first novena to St. Francis Xavier was prayed at a time when the Jesuits served the community.
The walk's last stop is St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, where construction began in 1815 in the midst of the Catholic emancipation movement. Hence its location off of a main street, albeit a few dozen yards from O'Connell Street, Europe's widest boulevard. A neoclassical building, the pro-cathedral has a Greek revival portico but a Romanesque interior. In addition to the fine high altar, there are two intricately designed altars dedicated to St. Mary and to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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"Our" Father...
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Fri, May 25, 2012
Monsignor Peter Fleetwood says he once got irritated by a priest, who when he celebrated Mass invited the faithful to pray the Lord's Prayer - the Our Father - by referring to it as " the prayer of all disciples".
In this reflection Father Peter explains why: ..."Well it isn't. It is not the prayer of the disciples of the Prophet Muhammad, or the disciples of hundreds of gurus in India , or the disciples od Sigmund Freud or anybody else who has a following of faithful students. It is the prayer of the disciples of Jesus Christ , who called himself the Son of God and told us to think of God as our father too. This is the reason He was reckoned to be blaspheming by people who could never imagine God as their father.
It is one of the problems Muslims have with Christianity. it must seem presumptuous to claim such relationship with the Creator of the world . And some people would see it as bringing God too far down from heaven to our level. This is not just being pedantic, though. On the one hand I am asking this priest not to be a Christian imperialist , or at least to sound like one, because that is not what he means. On the other hand, isn't it marvellous to be told that God is our father ? What a different sort of closeness to God when we realise what Jesus meant!"...
A programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick
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May 26, 2012
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Fri, May 25, 2012
Matteo Ricci - Getting to know this charismatic Jesuit with Father Emmanuel Lim SJ.
Pentecost - A reflection focusing on Pentecost with Father Jim Brand.
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