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Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Catherine of Genoa. Flight Back in El Al Vatican The Israeli airline El Al will carry Pope Benedict XVI when he returns to Rome after his May visit to the Holy Land.…More
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Flight Back in El Al

Vatican

The Israeli airline El Al will carry Pope Benedict XVI when he returns to Rome after his May visit to the Holy Land. Usually the Pope travels on planes of Alitalia. The organizers of the papal itinerary may have special reasons for patronizing El Al. Because the airline is inaugurating regular flights for pilgrims visiting the Holy Land, as part of a joint effort by Church leaders and Israeli tourism officials to stimulate such visits.

End of Death Penalty

USA

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has abolished the death penalty in his state. Richardson is a past proponent of capital punishment. "Regardless of my personal opinion about the death penalty, I do not have confidence in the criminal justice system as it currently operates to be the final arbiter when it comes to who lives and who dies for their crime," Richardson said. The US-Bishops’ Conference has hailed the Governor’s decision.

Photographer of John Paul II Has Died

Italia

Gianni Giansanti, a photographer who covered the pontificate of John Paul II, has died of cancer at the age of 52. Giansanti was in St. Peter's Square when the new Pontiff was introduced in October 1978. He captured thousands of photos of Pope John Paul II. Many of his memorable shots became enduring images of the papacy. One of them was the late Pope visiting his would-be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca, in prison.

Publicity for a Movie

Vatican

The Vatican refused to cooperate with the production of a new film that brings together director Ron Howard with controversial author Dan Brown, the team that produced the film “The Da Vinci Code” which is furiously anti-catholic. Still, Italian newspapers this week have ran stories about Church criticism against the new film. The news agency Reuters suspected that that these stories are prompted not by any statements from Church officials, but by publicists for the movie.
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“Do on Earth the will of our Heavenly Father. For I saw eyes that asked, even though hey never said a thing."

Father Airton Freire, founder of the Earth Foundation, in the community known as Trash Street in Arcoverde, state of Pernambuco, Brazil.
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“Do on Earth the will of our Heavenly Father. For I saw eyes that asked, even though hey never said a thing."


Father Airton Freire, founder of the Earth Foundation, in the community known as Trash Street in Arcoverde, state of Pernambuco, Brazil.

The social work carried out by Father Airton started two years after his ordination, when he met the community of Trash Street and was profoundly touched by what was happening in that community at the time, where extreme poverty reigned everywhere. People were left to fend for themselves, feeding on leftover food found in trashcans or from alms given by passerbys; "living" in cardboard, tin or mud shanties; no sanitation of any kind, no electric lights, no pavement on the streets, no school, no medical assistance... People kept apart from the values and progress of Christian society. He felt the need to go live in that community, with those who lived without hope of a better future.

On a certain day, during Mass, at the time of Holy Communion, he heard the crying of children that hungrily asked "I want a cookie", and that moment never left his heart. His unrest and his wish to do something for these people made Father Airton join forces with the mothers who begged for alms to feed their children. He then started to identify the works needed to be done by people of Trash Street, dividing the functions according the possibilities of each person. "Find your talents and do the will of God". Simple as that, serving using the things one knows how to do.

In this simplicity Father Airton lives still, urging every person to put himself or herself to service, like he says himself: "There is no mistery, it is plain and simple, just like Jesus showed us in the house ofEmaus, in the simplicity of parting bread, everything is extraordinarily simple." A profound lover of God's Mercy, Father Airton invites us to live this sharing of talents to help one another. Give of yourself is to love truly. Today the foundation gives assistance to over 680 children, giving everything from cultural upbringing to medical assistance to the children and their families. Technical centers were created, where children and yougsters learn computing, painting, dance, and sports.

Just watching the serenity and meekness of Father Airton makes us ponder on our own values. Simply dressed and using simple slippers on his feet, he declares he has everything he needs and lacks nothing. What about us, do we share the gifts we received from God with others, or do we create obstacles to anything we can do to join the construction of God's Work? Saint Augustine used to say that Love has hands to help others, has feet to rush towards the poor and needy, Love has eyes to see misery and deprivation, has ears to listen to he moans and laments of Man. So is love. May we live that in a concrete way, putting ourselves at the disposal to serve, seeing the great and merciful love of God one in the other.