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Pray for us! Iraqi Christians beg world’s believers for prayer after Archbishop’s kidnapping, murders of bodyguards Vatican describes kidnapping as Archbishop “despicable,” motive may have been endorses TV’s money rather than ideology. Catholic Guy ■ By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI appealed for peace and security in Iraq after kidnappers abducted Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, Iraq, and killed the three people who were travelling with him. “May those who hold in their hands the fate of the Iraqi people increase their efforts so that through the commitment and wisdom of everyone, Iraqis may regain peace and security and not be denied the future that Kidnapped: is rightfully theirs,” Archbishop Rahho of Mosul, Iraq. CNS the Pope said to people gathered for his noonday Angelus prayer in St Peter’s Square on March 2. Archbishop Rahho was kidnapped late on February 29 after he finished leading the Way of the Cross, Chaldean Bishop Rabban al Qas of Arbil told the Rome-based missionary news service AsiaNews. The Mosul archbishop had just left the Church of the Holy Spirit in Mosul and was in his car with his driver and two body Continued - Page 13
Perth broadcast a breakthrough on free to air television.
Grief: The daughter of a slain bodyguard is held by her mother, right, during his funeral in Mosul, Iraq, on March 1. The guard was among three men killed in the February 29 abduction of Mosul’s Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho. PHOTO: CNS /REUTERS
Archbishop Barry Hickey was among more than 550 people at the ballroom at Burswood last Wednesday night for the launch of “the Catholic Guy” television program which made its debut on Channel 9 at 6.30am on Sunday. Produced in Perth by Bruce Downes and the City Impact Catholic Ministry, the program has been televised around the world on pay tv, but the Channel 9 venture is its first break through on free to air television. Archbishop Hickey said he endorsed the program because it was a great initiative in telling the good news to the world. “We spend a lot of time talking to one another, writing, making videos and DVDs for one another. We need to spend more time talking to those beyond the Church’s doors. “It is wrong to keep the Good News to ourselves. Continued - Page 4
Vatican says baptisms using wrong words are invalid, will need to be redone By the book: A priest baptises an infant in this 2007 file photo. In the Catholic rite the minister uses the invocation “I baptise you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” The Vatican has declared other formulas are invalid and obscure the Church’s faith. PHOTO: CNS/MIKE CRUPI/CATHOLIC COURIER.
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Problem not male language but Trinitarian faith: experts ■ By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A baptism administered “in the name of the Creator, and of the Redeemer and
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of the Sanctifier” is not a baptism at all, said the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The congregation’s statement was published on February 29 as a brief response to questions regarding the validity of baptisms using that formula. Asked whether a baptism performed with that formula - or a
DO THE RIGHT THING: AND TELL THE MEDIA The former press secretary to the US Conference of Bishops talks about why, in the age of the media, Bishops should listen to their media advisers. Page 9
similar one referring to the “Creator, Liberator and Sustainer” - would be valid, the congregation answered “Negative.” Asked whether people who were initiated with a rite using these formulas would now need to be baptised “in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Continued - Page 13
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