VOL. 80 NO. 36 GHANA’S NATIONAL CATHOLIC WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2018 – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2018 PRICE GH¢2.00 Involve Laity In Fighting Clericalism Be Good Wives -Vatican Official situations in the lives of in Your Marriages P r i e s t s , g e n e r a t e d b y loneliness, tiredness and misunderstandings, would not have degenerated or would have been addressed Archbishop Anokye in time if there had been listening, accompaniment Read story on pg 3 and sharing by Bishops and urges Women *Cardinal Stella t h e e n t i r e C h r i s t i a n community,” ardinal Beniamino Stella, Prefect of the Dedicating his talk to CCongregation for the Priestly ministry according Church Must Influence C l e r g y, h a s s t a t e d t h a t to Pope Francis's teachings, clericalism has led to a distorted the Cardinal said Priests must view of authority that has be “permanent disciples of contributed to the problems of the Lord” who are always on sexual abuse and the abuse of guard against the temptation Development Agenda power and conscience affecting of “feeling accomplished.” the Catholic Church. “To be and feel like a Delivering a talk recently disciple means avoiding the at Fatima in Portugal, Cardinal risk of habit, of being Stella said the crises facing the lukewarm, of routine and the -Msgr. Ntim Church would not have been so grave if the laity were more ' c o r p o r a t e e x e c u t i v e syndrome,' thus avoiding Write-up by involved in the formation of Damian Avevor current and future Priests. falling into what Pope Francis has defined as “Even the work of the ev. Msgr. Prof. Stephen Ntim, a Senior Dicastery attests that many contd. on pg 3 Lecturer at the Catholic University RCollege, Ghana at Fiapre near Sunyani, has stated that the Catholic Church in Ghana can decisively influence development agenda at the national and local government levels because the Archbishops Naameh, Church sees the primacy of the human person and his or her dignity as primordial. “The development agenda as far as the Church is concerned have no economic, ideological, and political considerations,” he said in a presentation at Kpiebaya Celebrate the recent four-day National Conference on Integral Human Development in Accra. It was organised by Caritas Ghana under the auspices of the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference. *Msgr. Ntim Birthdays Msgr. Ntim noted that the Church's Read story on page 14 continued on page 3 2 THE CATHOLIC STANDARD Sunday, September 16 – Saturday, September 22, 2018 CATHOLIC TH World News Seminar For New Bishops of 80 Anniversary 2018 Mission Territories Begins 1938 study Seminar for Bishops recently Aappointed in mission countries has been held in Rome, Italy. It is organised every two years by the Holy See's Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples. According to Agenzia Fides, 74 Bishops from 34 countries of the world's four continents are participating in the formation Seminar. There were Bishops from 17 African countries; eight from Asia, six from Oceania and three from Latin America. The Bishops *Some African Bishops with Pope Francis met at Rome's Pontifical College of Saint Paul the w e r e a u t h o r i t a t i v e Apostle. ecclesiastical personalities drawn mostly from the Roman Second Anniversary of Mother T h e S e m i n a r w a s Curia.” The Seminar placed intended to “offer all the great emphasis on Bishops Teresa's Sainthood Marked Bishops appointed recently in sharing their experiences. dmirers, devotees and beneficiaries Father wished the tireless worker of mercy help mission territories, a period of T h e B i s h o p s of Mother Teresa of Calcutta around us increasingly to understand that our only time, at the beginning of their concelebrated Mass with Pope Athe world have recalled the Saint, her criterion for action is gratuitous love, free from appointment, to reflect and Francis, and he, received them life and her works on the second anniversary every ideology and all obligations, offered freely deepen their life and episcopal in an audience on September 8, of her canonisation by Pope Francis in Rome. to everyone without distinction of language, ministry, dialogue and pray. feast of the Nativity of the The Pope officially declared her St. Teresa of culture, race or religion. Speakers at the Seminar Blessed Virgin Mary. Calcutta on September 4, 2016. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu of Albanian vaticannews.va The Pope had made Mother Teresa one of parents on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, in what is the major reference points of the Extraordinary Macedonia today, Mother Teresa came to eastern Discern True rest from False Rest-Pope Jubilee of Mercy that he declared from India's Kolkata city, formerly Calcutta, in 1929, December 8, 2015 to November 20, 2016. The as a missionary sister of Loreto. Later, in what day of her canonisation, September 4, was she described as a call within a call, she founded oining tourists and man has never experienced her Missionaries of Charity Congregation in faithful in St. Peter's as much emptiness as today.” designated as the Jubilee for Workers of Mercy and Volunteers. 1950. Square recently, Pope On the other hand, Mother Teresa, who became an Indian J After officially declaring Mother Teresa a explained Pope Francis, true citizen, earned 124 national as well as Francis during his General Saint at the canonisation Mass, the Pope Audience focused on the r e s t “ i s a m o m e n t o f international honours for her works of mercy, delivered a homily focusing where he focused on including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She C o m m a n d m e n t , contemplation, of praise.” It her works of mercy. “Remember to keep holy is a time to look at reality and died on September 5, 1997 at the age of 87 and Speaking in Italian, the Pope said that “her St. John Paul II declared her Blessed in the the Lord's Day." say: how beautiful life is. It is mission to the urban and existential peripheries the day, he continued, to say Vatican, on October 19, 2003. He told those gathered remains for us today an eloquent witness to God's The feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta is marked on that resting on Sunday was to God: thank you for your closeness to the poorest of the poor.” September 5, the day she died 19 years ago. not “a mere escape or life, for your mercy, for all “Today,” he said, “I pass on this Mother Teresa has many words of wisdom that diversion, but a command to your gifts.” Sunday, the emblematic figure of womanhood and of people even today draw inspiration from. One imitate God himself, who on Pontiff stressed, was not the consecrated life to the whole world of volunteers: such gem is “the Gospel in your hand”. the seventh day rested from day to cancel the other days may she be your model of holiness! The Holy According to Mother Teresa, we have the his works and contemplated but to recall them, bless them words of Jesus in the 5 t h e g o o d n e s s o f h i s and make peace with life fingers of our hand - creation.” because it is life is precious. “You did it to me”, He pointed out that Peace is chosen, he said, it which, she said, sum up there was “false rest and true “cannot be imposed and the entire Gospel. rest”. Society, he said, was cannot be found by chance.” I n h o n o u r o f thirsty for entertainment and The Pope concluded Mother Teresa, the by saying, “when, on our United Nations General holidays. The image-model, Assembly adopted a the Pope continued, was weekly day of rest, we resolution on December “that of a successful person contemplate our lives and the 17, 2012, to designate 5 who can afford different world around us, let us be September, the day of her kinds of pleasure. But this conscious of God's provident passing away, as the mentality, he noted, slips care and conform ourselves, International Day of towards the dissatisfaction of like Jesus, to the Father's Charity to focus on the an anesthetised existence of will, knowing that, in the role of charity and entertainment that is not rest, end, “all is grace”. For, as the charitable organizations Psalmist assures us, in God a n d i n d i v i d u a l s i n but alienation and escape a l l e v i a t i n g h u m a n alone do our souls find rest.” *St. Teresa of Calcutta from reality. Man has never s u f f e r i n g . rested as much as today, yet Vaticannews.va Vaticannews.va Sunday, September 16– Saturday, September 22, 2018 THE CATHOLIC STANDARD 3 80TH Anniversary 2018 1938 ‘Be Good Wives In Your Marriages’ ost Rev. Gabriel Justice we do not have time for the children, its mandate. Y a w A n o k y e , t h e you will be at Church while your sons The participants were enlightened on Metropolitan Archbishop M and daughters are at the wee base, environmental pollution.