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The Catholic Standard, Sunday, October 18,2020 VOL. 82 NO. 41 GHANA’S NATIONAL CATHOLIC WEEKLY ESTD. IN 1938 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2020 – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2020 PRICE GH¢2.00 Africa Welcomes Positive Message Of Pope Francis: 'Fratelli Tutti' hilippe Cardinal Ouédraogo, the The Cardinal said the encyclical, Archbishop of Ouagadougou in Burkina Fratelli Tutti, demonstrates beyond doubt that PFaso who is also the President of the the current coronavirus pandemic is a reminder Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of that “no one can face life in isolation” and that Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), has said the world is actually “a single human family.” Africa welcomes Pope Francis' renewed push “Already in his second encyclical, for a world built on solidarity and fraternity. Laudato Sì, the Holy Father, Pope Francis had “The Church-Family of God in Africa and demonstrated our interconnectedness to the surrounding islands joyfully welcomes the new embrace the Earth, our Mother and Sister,” encyclical of our Holy Father, Pope Francis, recalled the Cardinal. He added, “St. John Paul Fratelli Tutti (FT) on human fraternity and social II had earlier said: It is in building the friendship, published on October 4, 2020, the feast communion of love that the Church appears as day of St. Francis of Assisi. It is a call on human a sacrament; as the sign and instrument of beings everywhere in the world for a renewed intimate union with God and of the unity of the commitment to universal brotherhood, friendship, human race,” the Cardinal said. solidarity and peaceful co-existence,” said Cardinal Ouédraogo. Continued on page 3 Cardinal Ouédraogo ‘End Gender-Based Discrimination’ Be Responsible, Read story on page 3 Act Properly Bishop Agyenta – Afari-Gyan Urges Religious Advices Youth Leaders To Help Read story Ensure Peaceful on page 3 See page 3 Elections Bishop Agyenta Welcome Mass Held for New Nuncio to Ghana Story on back page 2 THE CATHOLIC STANDARD Sunday, October 18 – Saturday, October 24, 2020 Beatified Teen Showed That Heaven Pope reiterates desire CATHOLIC that women participate more World News Is 'Attainable Goal,' Cardinal Says in Church responsibility For him, “the internet was not just ope Francis has reiterated his housands sang and applauded as a means of escape, prayer intention for the month of Italian teen Carlo Acutis was but a space for POctober, and expressed his desire Tbeatified in a town dear to him and d i a l o g u e , that lay people may participate more in to many Christians around the world - knowledge, sharing areas of responsibility in the Church. Assisi. and mutual respect “None of us was baptised a priest or that was to be used bishop: we were all baptised as lay people, During the October 10 beatification responsibly, without men and women. We are protagonists of the Mass, Italian Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the becoming slaves to Papal Legate for the Basilicas of St. Francis it and rejecting Church.” and St. Mary of the Angels in Assisi, read Pope digital bullying,” Pope Francis made the remark on last Francis' Apostolic Letter proclaiming Acutis' the Cardinal said. Sunday after the recitation of the Angelus “blessed,” the step before canonisation. People sit outside the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi as they prayer. attend the beatification Mass of Carlo Acutis C a r d i n a l “With our apostolic authority, we grant In his prayer intention for October, that the venerable servant of God, Carlo “providential design, (St.) Francis and Vallini said that Blessed Acutis was a the Pope said, “We pray that the laity, Acutis, layman, who, with the enthusiasm of (Blessed) Carlo are now inseparable.” model of virtue for young men and especially women, may participate more in youth, cultivated a friendship with our Lord women today, reminding them not to seek “Carlo's life — always united to Jesus areas of responsibility in the Church.” Jesus, placing the Eucharist and the witness of “gratification only in ephemeral — his love for the Eucharist, his devotion to the charity at the centre of his life, henceforth shall successes but in the perennial values that At the Angelus, Pope Francis Holy Virgin, his making friends with the poor, be called blessed,” the Pope decreed. Jesus proposes in the Gospel.” highlighted the contribution that lay women brought him closer to the spirituality of the Poor can make. After the reading of the apostolic letter, One,” St. Francis, Archbishop Sorrentino said “He gave witness that faith does the newly beatified teen's parents, Andrea at the end of Mass. “Both invite us to live not distance us from life but immerses us “Today we still need to make greater Acutis and Antonia Salzano, processed toward according to the Gospel.” more deeply in it and showed us the space for a more incisive feminine presence the altar carrying a reliquary containing their concrete way to live the joy of the The liturgy was held inside the Basilica in the Church – I mean a lay presence – but son's heart. Gospel,” the Cardinal said. “It is up to us of St. Francis, but measures to prevent the underlining the feminine aspect, because The reliquary was engraved with one to follow it, attracted by the fascinating women are often put to one side” said the spread of COVID-19 meant that most of those experience of Blessed Acutis, so that our of the teen's well-known quotes: “The Pope. attending sat outside on seats set three-feet lives may also shine with light and hope.” Eucharist is my highway to heaven.” vaticannews apart, watching on big screens. CNS Pilgrims flocked both to the Basilica of Many young men and women came to St. Francis for the beatification Mass as well as Assisi for the beatification. For many of them, to the Shrine of the Renunciation at the Church the fact that a normal teen could be beatified to be united to see how to renovate Senegal's Minister of Culture and of St. Mary Major, where the newly beatified was a source of hope and inspiration. these structures which are part of the Communication, Abdoulaye Diop, teen's remains were on display for veneration. history of Saint-Louis Diocese,” the expressed his appreciation for the “With his life, Carlo made me see that 72-year-old Senegalese Prelate dynamic cooperation between the Men and women, boys and girls passed despite the small or even great difficulties — by the tomb quietly, some stopping to pray the further said. government and the Catholic Church in like his illness — that we could live a full and Senegal that aided the renovation of the “Our Father.” A young toddler blew a kiss happy life if we keep our eyes looking up Consecrated and opened to the Saint-Louis Cathedral, which was goodbye to the young blessed as she passed by. toward heaven,” said 19-year-old Rosanna, p u b l i c i n 1 8 2 8 , S a i n t - L o u i s classified as a UNESCO World Heritage who was among those attending the Cathedral, which is a heritage of the Known as the site where a young St. Site in 2000. Francis renounced his father's inheritance and beatification. United Nations Educational, embraced poverty, the shrine — like the city of In a homily, Cardinal Vallini said that Scientific and Cultural Organization “The renovation of the Saint-Louis Assisi and St. Francis himself — held a special Acutis' beatification “in the land of Francis of (UNESCO) is known to be the oldest Cathedral is sufficient proof that Senegal place in Acutis' heart. Assisi is good news, a strong proclamation that church building in West Africa. With is a country of tolerance, where different the passage of time, the structure religions and beliefs coexist, a country The teen loved St. Francis “very a young man of our time, one like many, was weakened, posing a threat to where each individual can practice his or much,” his mother, Antonia Salzano, told conquered by Christ and became a beacon of worshippers and local residents. her religion as he or she wishes,” said Catholic News Service on October 9. St. light for those who want to know him and Francis “was a very Eucharistic soul who used follow his example.” The renovation works were Minister Diop. to attend Mass twice a day,” and her son Reflecting on the teen's life, Cardinal initiated in 2005 after the roof of the He added, “today, I am happy to sought to imitate that same Eucharistic Vallini said that like most young people his age, Cathedral caved in. The works hand over the keys of this historic devotion throughout his brief life. Carlo was a “normal, simple, spontaneous, however stalled and were only building very dear to UNESCO and the Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of friendly” teenager who used modern forms of resumed in 2018. 300-year-old city of Saint-Louis.” Assisi reflected on the link between the two communication to transmit the “values and The Diocese of Saint-Louis On his part, the Director-General saintly figures, and proclaimed that by beauty of the Gospel.” partnered with the Senegalese of Senegal's Agency for the Promotion of g o v e r n m e n t a n d t h e F r e n c h Investment and Public Works (APIX), Development Agency (AFD) to Mountaga Sy said, “the rehabilitation of renovate the Cathedral at a cost of Saint-Louis Cathedral has made it Renovation of West Africa's Oldest Cathedral a b o u t 1 b i l l i o n F C F A possible to restore the heritage, the socio- (US$1,799,135.00).
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