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News Bytes for Your Parish Bulletin
- Mexico Bishops Meet in Violence-Struck Monterrey
- Symposium: Africa Needs African Businesses
- UK's Blogging Ambassador Baker
- Vatican to Participate in European Heritage Days
On Theology of the Body
A four-day symposium on John Paul II's theology of the body is planned in Rome this autumn. The Nov. 9-12 event at the Regina Apostolorum university will include sessions on the theological and philosophical aspects of TOB. Scheduled speakers include Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna, theologian Michael Waldstein, Christopher West, and Legionary of Christ Father Thomas D. Williams. Topics include "The Meaning of the Body in Married Love" and "Chastity and the Gift of Self." A pilgrimage tour includes visits to the four papal basilicas, the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel and the Colosseum.
Advice for Seminarians
Benedict XVI has made a special note about the importance of discernment in preparation for the priesthood. At a Mass with nearly 1,000 seminarians at World Youth Day in Spain, the Pope said in his homily, "Approach the priesthood only if you are firmly convinced that God is calling you to be his ministers, and if you are completely determined to exercise it in obedience to the Church's precepts." The Holy Father added, "We have to be saints so as not to create a contradiction between the sign that we are and the reality that we wish to signify."