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October 8 - Pope promotes rediscovering Rosary during Year of Faith
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Pope Benedict
XVI is suggesting that families
and parishes rediscover the prayer of the Rosary in the Year of
Faith, which begins later this week.
"With
the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of
faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and day after
day we are helped to assimilate the Gospel, so that it shapes
all our lives," the Pope said Oct. 7 in his
Sunday Angelus comments.
The Rosary,
which comes from the Latin for "garland of roses," is a
traditional Marian prayer that involves meditating on the
episodes of Christ's life, ranging from his incarnation and
birth to his death and resurrection.
"I invite you to pray the Rosary
personally, in the family and in the community, learning at the
school of Mary, which leads us to Christ, the living center of
our faith," Pope Benedict told pilgrims in
St. Peter's Square.
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October 4 - Japanese Stem Cell Discovery could lead to Human Cloning without the need for Humans
Article: Cloning And Genetic Engineering
A study by Japanese researchers
involving the use of stem cells to create eggs and
sperm, and fertilized eggs as a result, has been announced.
The scientific effort to achieve this result has been afoot
for many a year, and the Japanese researchers efforts have been attained
in mice for the time being.
The next step would be to try to attain these results in
humans.
The team of researchers from Kyoto
University, have established that the
eggs can be replicated from stem cells, and even the sperm as well.
If this
result can be achieved in humans, it may allow women the chance to
become pregnant later in life, without the inherent problems already
associated with advanced age proliferation reduced to some degree.
More to the
point, this new technology,
if attained in humans, opens up a world
of possibilities, and a whole other set of questions.
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October 5 - Retinal scans for banking?
Article: Technology For Global Monetary System
ANZ this week unveiled
research which showed a majority of people
would be comfortable using retina or fingerprint scanning technology at ATMs
instead of PIN numbers. Carried out by Newspoll for ANZ, the
research also revealed Australians were
increasingly embracing digital banking, but still wanted face-to-face
interaction for "big ticket" items like applying for a loan.
The release of the survey
coincided with ANZ unveiling plans to invest
$1.5 billion over the next five years in new technologies, including the rollout
of 800 "next generation" automatic teller machines and installing
video-conferencing in regional branches. The new ATMs would
allow customers to deposit coins, notes and cheques that would immediately be
credited to their accounts.
While the Newspoll study
found people would be comfortable with some form of biometric identification,
futurist Ross Dawson went one step further. He
suggested this type of technology could replace cash entirely.
"Cash and coins could be on the way out
and it's realistic to imagine a world in which we carry no notes or coins, or
even credit or debit cards," Mr Dawson said.
"Before long we may use our fingerprints or
even retina scans to make payments. Australians have shown they are comfortable
with biometric identification, because it combines convenience with security."
More than a third of people surveyed said they would prefer to live in a
cashless society.
THE SURVEY
- 88%
of people aged 18-34 prefer to use digital technology over a bank branch
for day-to-day transactions, but their mums and dads weren't far behind
at 75%.
- 38%
would prefer to live in a world where they didn't need to carry cash.
- 40%
even accepted the idea of one day outsourcing their finances to a
digital personal assistant - an intelligent computer program which makes
financial decisions and moves money between accounts on your behalf.
- 67%
would be comfortable using a machine that scans your eye to verify
identification in place of a pin.
- 79%
would be comfortable using fingerprint technology in place of a pin.
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October 8 - New financial system needed to curb greed, say theologians and economists
Article: One World Government
Theologians, anti-poverty advocates and economists meeting in Brazil to
develop principles for a new global economic system have issued a
declaration naming over-consumption and greed as key factors to be
addressed in seeking a more just distribution of the world's resources.
The
statement was issued Friday at the conclusion of
the "Global Ecumenical Conference on a New
Economic and Financial Architecture" in Guarulhos, a
suburb of São Paulo. Sixty delegates met from 29
September to 5 October at the conference organized by the World
Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) in partnership with the World
Council of Churches (WCC) and the Council for World Mission (CWM).
Social
inclusion, gender justice, care for the environment and concrete actions
to overcome greed are named as criteria for a new economic and financial
architecture.
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October 4 - International Symposium on Mary Commences in Rome
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
An international symposium, dedicated to the
study of Mary and her cultural and theological significance throughout
history, commenced today at the Centro Russia Ecumenica in Rome.
The objective of the two-day event, entitled
"Mary, Sign of Faith (and Only Hope)", is
to explore the cult of Mary in order to explore her role in leading
Christians towards greater devotion to Christ.
Participants today had the opportunity to hear from a wide variety of
experts, such as author Leonie Caldecott on the history of Marian images
beginning with pre-Reformation England, as well as from historian Michael
Hesemann on the historical person of Mary.
Edmund Mazza, history professor at Azusa
Pacific University in Los Angeles, California, is the primary organizer for
this symposium event. "It is important to
look at Mary as a model, as a sign of faith," he said.
"We're on our way to God, we don't see the beatific vision yet,
so we need symbols, we need signs to take us on the road. And it's very
important that we turn to Mary because as Louis de Montfort, the great
doctor of the Church once said, it's through Mary that Jesus came into the
world, and it's through Mary that Jesus will reign in the world. She had a
role to play at the beginning when He first came, and she has a role to play
now as we approach the end times."
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October 4 - Joel Osteen and Rick Warren to Appear on 'Oprah's Lifeclass'
Article: Miscellaneous
Rick Warren and Joel Osteen, two of
America's most popular megachurch pastors, for a live
appearance on "Oprah's Lifeclass" program on the Oprah
Winfrey Network (OWN) to be broadcast
Friday, Oct. 5.
"Oprah's Lifeclass" episodes allow
viewers to interact with guests and ask important questions,
and have been some of the more ratings-successful segments
on OWN. Osteen is expected to comment on "positive thinking
and dreaming big" while Warren will address "winning the
hand you're dealt," according to
Oprah.com.
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We hope the Weekly News In Review has been a
blessing to you.
Sincerely,
Roger Oakland
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