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News Bytes for Your Parish Bulletin
- Post-Communism Makes for Unique New Evangelization
- Myanmar Bishops Restricting WYD Participation
- Caritas Reports 3 Slain in Colombia
- Pope Suggests Patience in Struggle With Evil
- South Kordofan Undermining South Sudan Peace
- Sant'Egidio Event Leads Up to Assisi
School of Psalms
Benedict XVI says the Book of Psalms are a school of prayer by which God gives us words to speak to him, just as a child learns words from his parents and surroundings. The Pope made this comparison at the general audience, when he continued his series of catechesis on prayer.
Since the Psalms are God's Word in the Bible, the Holy Father explained, "he who prays the Psalms speaks to God with the very words that God has given to us; he addresses him with the words that he himself gives us. Thus, in praying the Psalms we learn to pray."
Living With Dignity
The process of dying can be frightening, and a society can be judged on how it responds to these fears, according to a U.S. bishops' document on physician-assisted suicide. "When people are tempted to see their own lives as diminished in value or meaning, they most need the love and assistance of others to assure them of their inherent worth," states the document, To Live Each Day With Dignity. It adds that -- contrary to marketing strategies -- the drive to legalize assisted suicide does not enhance the freedom of those with serious health conditions.