Rome Cardinal Camillo Ruini said Saturday he had been informed that completion of work by the diocese on the cause for beatification and sainthood will be marked with a ceremony in St. John's Lateran Basilica on April 2 in the capital. The date is the second anniversary of John Paul's death.
O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved...
From the desire of being extolled...
From the desire of being honored...
From the desire of being praised...
From the desire of being preferred to others...
From the desire of being consulted...
From the desire of being approved...
From the fear of being humiliated...
From the fear of being despised...
From the fear of suffering rebukes...
From the fear of being calumniated...
From the fear of being forgotten...
From the fear of being ridiculed...
From the fear of being wronged...
From the fear of being suspected...
That others may be loved more than I, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be esteemed more than I...
That, in the opinion of the world,others may increase and I may decrease...
That others may be chosen and I set aside...
That others may be praised and I unnoticed...
That others may be preferred to me in everything...
That others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should…
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val (1865-1930), Secretary of State for Pope Saint Pius X
ess: What are your thoughts on when there is no priest for celebrating the mass? Can a lay person conduct a communion/paraliturgical service?
Cardinal Mahony: It is really hard to substitute any Rite or Service for the full celebration of the Eucharist. Sadly, in some places people don't have a choice.James: I've read that Pope Benedict is concerned about the liturgy and is about to issue a decree that encourages a more generous use of Latin in the liturgy including the use of the Tridentine rite. Do you support this and will you encourage the use of more traditional forms of worship in the archdiocese if he issues the decree?
Cardinal Mahony: James: of our 5 million Catholics, only a handful are interested in the Latin Mass. I must focus upon the 99% who need a vibrant Mass that includes them in its celebration.
Leonel Martinez: Cardinal Mahony, thank you for providing this forum for discussion. Some have suggested that the American bishops have not followed the wishes of Pope Benedict XVI because they have opted not to uniformly deny communion to Catholic elected officials who support abortion rights. How would you answer them?
Cardinal Mahony: That is not what our Holy Father is asking. Rather, he is asking that everyone who approaches Holy Communion should make sure he/she is living a life worthy of Jesus in this Sacrament. The burden is on the recipient, not on the minister.
Moderator: From Denny: Why can only men become priests, and not women?CardinalMahony: We need to attend Eucharist because we are all members of the Body of Christ, and that Body is incomplete unless we are all there.
Cardinal Mahony: The moderator has better answers than I do to that question!!!Mary Kennedy: As a lifelong Catholic, whenever I see the media look for commentary on Church issues, they seem to call on Mr. Donohue of the Catholic League. Invariably, Mr. Donohue does far more to engender contempt for the Church than anything that the League purports to protect the Church from. Why doesn't the USCCB publicly disavow this and make sure that the news outlets, when looking for the Church's position, actually call upon those who have authority to speak for the Church, such as the public affairs office of the USCCB?
Cardinal Mahony: Denny: we are following the tradition of the early Church and Jesus' actions. That has become our Tradition for a long time. Cardinal Mahony: Actually, our best spokespersons are knowledgeable Catholics at the local levels of the Church, not national figures. We have excellent such folks here in LA.
Moderator: From Fran at Congress: I've been asked this and I don't know -- Can
Catholics' burial ashes be scattered?
Cardinal Mahony: Fran: normally, we encourage that all of the ashes be in one place for the sake of the family and future generations, but if someone wants to spread their ashes over the sea or forest, well, they do return to their origins. Just don't spread them over Disneyland.
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the Health IT Summit sponsored by the eHealth Initiative.
This is the tip of the iceberg! Your medical information will be treated just like a credit report and will determine if you can or will receive medical care.Authorities are investigating a security breach of Westerly Hospital records after learning that patients’ confidential information was posted on a public Web site, raising concerns of possible identity theft.
No cases of identity theft have been reported so far. The security breach affects 2,242 Westerly Hospital patients whose accounts had some activity — medical, financial, or otherwise — “over a period of a couple of days in January,” said Charles S. Kinney, the hospital’s president and chief executive officer.
“It appears to be a snapshot in time,” he said.
Details of how or when the breach happened were not available yesterday.
“We have our suspicions,” Kinney said.
“But until we know, we are not going to release anything.”It is not known how many of the affected patients are from Rhode Island. Westerly Hospital admits an estimated 5,000 patients per year, and has between 25,000 and 30,000 visits to its emergency room.
The hospital has hired a computer forensics expert, Global Digital Forensics of Dunedin, Fla., to investigate the breach.“I can’t tell you how that information was accessed, whether it was accessed through a subcontractor that we have, because everything we send is encrypted,” Kinney said yesterday afternoon.
As a precaution, Kinney said, the hospital has “cut off access” temporarily to its contractors, such as collection agencies and reference laboratories.
