May 5, Saturday, Fourth Week of Easter
ST. HILAIRE D'ARLES [France, 403-449), Bishop and Confessor
Not to be confused with the more famous Hilaire of Poitiers, Doctor of the Church,
this Hilaire followed the example of a relative who became a monk and then bishop
of Arles. He himself became bishop at age 29 and was an exemplary one in most
respects - he did manual labor to help the poor, sold Church vessels to ransom
Christian captives, became a 'magnificent' orator. But having episcopal primacy
over southern Gaul, he made arbitrary decisions about the bishops under him that
he forced Pope Leo the Great to intervene, stripping him of the power to consecrate
bishops and to call synods.
Readings for today's Mass: usccb.org/bible/readings/050512.cfm
AT THE VATICAN TODAY
The Holy Father met with
- H.E. Bamir Topi, President of the Republic of Albania, with his wife and delegation
- US bishops from Regions X-XIII who have been meeting in separate groups with the Holy Father during
their ad-limina visit. Address in English.
- Mons. Santo Gangemi, Apostolic Nuncio to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, with his family.
And in the afternoon with
- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops (weekly meeting).
-
The following entries from the running summary of Papacy/Vatican news headlines compiled by Yahoo shows what the UK and Irish media are exercised about these days:
The Daily Mail is deliberately misrepresenting the Holy Father's donation to help the Ordinariate in England and Wales (something reported earlier in the week) to make it appear that the donation is specifically to enable 'disaffected' Anglicans to convert - whent he donation is for those who have already converted.
And the Irish media are feverishly fueling a new campaign to get Cardinal Sean Brady to resign as Arcbbishop of Armagh, using the recent mendacious BBC documentary to 'indict' him for supposed dereliction of duty. This had to do with an episode of child abuse into whose inquiry Brady had limited participation when he was a 36-year-old priest back in 1975 (See Cardinal Brady's full response to the BBC lies and misrrepresentations posted in the preceding page of this thread.) Such a campaign failed when they first tried it in late 2010-early 2011, but the BBC has given them a new 'pretext' to revive it, regardless of the facts. One must ask whether nthe Irish reading public is so 'mindless' in general that it will let the media do the thinking for them and ignore documented facts?
- The other papal news that the Anglopohone MSM played up earlier this week was that Benedict XVI will attend a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at La Scala Opera House in Milan when he visits that city for the World Encounter of Families - as if they were learning about it for the first time. It is a detail that was reported by all the media that were interested when the Pope's full program for his three-day visit to Milan June 1-June 3 was announced last month.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 05/05/2012 21:54]