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St Padre Pio credited with parish’s conversion
A circle of life, tied with love...
Former Orthodox woman says Saint obtained cure for her ■ By Nieves San Martín
Love: This beautiful photograph of four generations of women in one family was taken by Gerard Overman on a family visit to his mother Lillian, at right, at that time a resident of the Catherine McAuley Nursing Home in Wembley. Lilian Mary Overman (nee Dawes) died approximately six weeks later on May 28 this year, aged 103 years and seven months. Beside her in this photo are her daughter-in-law Margaret Overman (wife of Gerard), and her grand daughter Nicole who is holding Lilian’s first great-grandchild, Lily Jacinta, who was born on February 11 this year. Son Gerard says it is one of the last photographs taken of his mother but for the family this one is treasured. “On this particular day it was really quite special because she really seemed to connect and she knew who was there, she knew who we were and she knew who the baby was. ...In ‘the circle of life’ my mother was going out as Lily was coming in,” he told The Record. Lilian was born on October 24, 1903 at Corrowa in New South Wales and had three children. PHOTO: COURTESY GERARD OVERMAN.
PESCEANA, Romania, NOV. 28 (Zenit.org) - The 71-year-old mother of a former Orthodox priest says she was cured of lung cancer through the intercession of Padre Pio. After the apparent miracle, the priest explained, he and his mother, and members of his parish, have become Catholics. Lucrecia Tudor was born into the Romanian Orthodox Church and her son, Victor, followed a vocation to the priesthood. In 2002, he was working in Pesceana, close to Valcea, in south central Romania. Another son, Mariano, dedicated himself to painting, especially iconography, and lives and works in Rome. The story of the family, and the church they are building dedicated to Saint Pio de Pietrelcina, was related to the ZENIT news agency by Italian journalist, Renzo Allegri. Lucrecia was diagnosed with a tumor in her left lung Continued - Page 7
Benedict issues new encyclical ‘Hope’ the theme of new papal teaching, raising speculation another will be on Faith
Finito: Pope Benedict XVI signs his encyclical, ‘Spe Salvi’ (on Christian hope), at the Vatican on November 30.
People need God to have hope, Pope says in new papal document ■ By John Thavis
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In an encyclical on Christian hope, Pope Benedict XVI said that, without faith in God, humanity lies at the mercy of ideologies that can lead to “the greatest forms
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of cruelty and violations of justice.” The Pope warned that the modern age has replaced belief in eternal salvation with faith in progress and technology, which offer opportunities for good but also open up “appalling possibilities for evil.” “Let us put it very simply: Man needs God, otherwise he remains without hope,” he said in the encyclical, “Spe Salvi” (on Christian hope), released on November 30.
Huge: Pilgrims pack St Peter’s Square for the Mass of canonisation of Italian Capuchin Padre Pio of Pietralcina in June 2002. The-then Pope, John Paul II, said the friar’s spirituality of suffering was a valuable model for modern times.
Continued, more reports - Pages 4-5
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CATHEDRALS AND PEOPLE
New South Wales Labor MP and Government Whip Greg Donnelly reflects for The Record on the culture of exploitation of girls and women.
Edith Cowan University Journalism student Joanna Lawson is setting up a special project in India this summer, and writing about it for The Record.
As the new St Mary’s begins to form, Perth Scalabrinian Priest Fr Anthony Paganoni CS reflects on cathedrals, art. architecture - and those they serve.
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