The Pope dedicates message to children on the upcoming World

November 27, 2009.

For World Day of Migrants and Refugees the Pope is asking for aid institutions to cater to immigrant children in order to enable their proper physical, spiritual and moral well-being.

The World Day of Migrants and Refugees will be held on January 17th and will focus on the youngest immigrants and refugees. Benedict XVI lamented that when children have no real role models or family support, they suffer from distress and severe disorders.

Thats why, the Pope has called for special attention to both children born in foreign countries as those living in their native countries but who do not meet their parents until years later. The Pope says these children are part of two cultures and they people need to be help them integrate to society.

In fact, Benedict XVI cited the Convention on the Rights of the Child and recalls that the rights of minors should be protected to prevent them being abandoned and exploited.

Benedict XVI thanked the work of many individuals and institutions working for children and called on all Christians to become more aware of the situation of child migrants and refugees.

MC/PVB
LP
- BN --

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• romereports
• ROME
• REPORTS
• tv
• video
• Pope
• news
• Benedict
• XVI
• Ratzinger

[TheEnglishAthiest]

And the gaps have benn getting smaller and smaller, as science fills them in

You think it Not science VS Religion

It is and science is slowly kicking religion to death, and about time to

[TheEnglishAthiest]

you who follow the Cult of Christ, can belive all you want. it does not change the FACT you have no real tangable evidence for your superstions,

all you do is say our god did it. and that is what all the other religions claim as well

A scientific Knowledge has pushed the bounderys of where a god can be found ever smaller, so what the catholics are trying to do is to say, Yes science is right but it was our gods plan to do it that way,

In other words you believe in the god of the gaps

[ndw444]

Further, theistic evolution is not Darwinism. Darwinism specifically excludes the notion of a Creator and substitutes random mutation and natural (i.e. specifically not supernatural) selection as the mechanism of evolution.

The Churchs refusal to condemn a limited form of theistic evolutionism does not imply an endorsement of theistic evolutionism, nor does it even hint at any endorsement of deistic evolutionism, let alone Darwinian (i.e. atheistic) evolutionism.

[ndw444]

The Church does not condemn the notion of theistic evolution as long as it conforms to the revealed doctrine of Monogenism - but it does not necessarily endorse it either.

The Churchs position is that those holding to theistic evolutionism are not necessarily heretics. The Churchs position is not that theistic evolution is dogmatic truth.

[ndw444]

continued:

The Churchs interest in evolution thus focuses particularly on the conception of man who, as created in the image of God, cannot be subordinated as a pure means or instrument either to the species or to society. As a person created in the image of God, he is capable of forming relationships of communion with other persons and with the triune God, as well as of exercising sovereignty and stewardship in the created universe.

[ndw444]

continued:

Pope John Pauls message is specifically critical of materialistic theories of human origins and insists on the relevance of philosophy and theology for an adequate understanding of the ontological leap to the human which cannot be explained in purely scientific terms. "

[ndw444]

by the way, here's the qoute in it's entirety:

...acknowledges that there are several theories of evolution that are materialist, reductionist and spiritualist and thus incompatible with the Catholic faith. It follows that the message of Pope John Paul II cannot be read as a blanket approbation of all theories of evolution, including those of a neo-Darwinian provenance which explicitly deny to divine providence any truly causal role in the development of life in the universe...

[ndw444]

In essence, the debate isn't really "evolution vs. creationism" but rather, how does evolution, as it is observed, fit in with church teachings?

[ndw444]

Converesely, the ascent of humans as the dominant species of life on Earth illustrates both the evolutionary principle of "survival of the fittest" as well as the Biblical principle that God gave to humanity all of the resources of the Earth as explained in the Book of Genesis. In this regard, the two concepts reach the same conclusion, albeit through different means.

[ndw444]

It is indeed true that the Catholic Church and other churches have accepted evolution. However, there are many kinds of "apples and oranges" comparisons that crop up when dealing with this topic.

The main point of confusion starts with the origin of life. There is currently no scientific explantion for why life began. We as Christians believe that God originated all life.