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CARDINAL LLUIS MARTINEz SISTACH
archbishop emeritus of Barcelona
I utterly condemn the bomb- ing of Barcelona with deaths and injuries, fills us with pain and solidarity with the victims and family.
A terrorist attack in Barcelona claimed the lives of 14 people, including a seven-year-old Catholic student from Parramatta diocese. People around the world have paid tribute to the victims.
Prayer List
THIS MONTH
POPE’S INTENTIONS
artists – That artists of our time, through their ingenuity, may help every- one discover the beauty of creation.
THIS wEEk
Spain –A 12-strong terror cell that car- ried out two deadly attacks in Spain had collected 120 gas canisters and was planning to use them in vehicle attacks, Spanish police say.
asia – The head of the Philippines Catho- lic Church has criticised the government’s bloody campaign against drugs.
Manila Cardinal Luis Tagle condemned “those who kill even the helpless”.
Finland – Police in Finland say a knife- man who killed two people in the south- western city of Turku appeared to choose women as targets. They are treating the attack as a terrorist incident.
Congo – The death toll from the land- slide in north-eastern Democratic Repub- lic of Congo is expected to rise above 200, officials say. Most of the dead are from a fishing community on Lake Albert.
POPE FRANCIS
I pray for all the victims of the attacks of these days. May the blind violence of terrorism no longer find room to exist in this world!
TAMSYN LEWIS MANOU
athlete and media commentator
So sad to wake up 2news of Julian Cadman passing away in Barcelona attacks. Poor young innocent boy. So much love to his family. #RIPJulian
MENNA RAWLINGS
British high Commissionar to australia
United with Australians in mourning the loss of Julian Cadman today, a terrible waste of a young life. Deep sympa- thies to his family.
Dunkirk viewing: “I cried quite a lot during the movie because my father did not talk about it much, but I still remember him well.”
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It’s an incidental argument
tional and Novus Ordo calendars is the celebra- tion of the Most Holy Name Of Mary.
We will be voting to keep Australia Christian and opposing all atheistic secular policies.
The secular argument of same-sex unions should be made legal is incidental.
Defence of the sacrament of marriage is our commitment to the Four Last Things when we vote no.
Their memory is held sacred
Countless numbers of those who went to war went with their God in their hearts and prayers on their lips.
They were wounded and they gave their lives. Families still suffer because of that.
The families of those ghting in the contem-
porary age, and those actually out there ghting, I feel, would not think they are ghting for American corporations, rather for safety and freedom.
To make statements in the name of Jesus just sometimes may be off the mark.
Please do not think you honour God by destroying memorials erected to the honour and memory of those who went to war. They fought believing they were doing the right thing.
They believed in peace and paid the ultimate price for it.
Their memory is sacred, please respect that.
Anything less is not Christian and certainly not Catholic.
Emotional viewing
boat, an of cer told him to go back to the beach because another of cer was there who could not swim, so my father did what he was told.
He eventually got home to my mother and nine months later I was born, so I was always called a Dunkirk baby.
I cried quite a lot during the movie because my father did not talk about it much, but I still remember him well.
Naturally I was born in England but came to Australia nearly 50 years later.
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Bernice Brady Crows Nest, Qld
REGARDING the recent letter on the Catholic work- ers and their vandalism (CL 10/8/17).
The cruci x is not used to justify war.
What would your answer have been to the cruel dictator
Ken Bayliss
Holland Park, Qld
MARRIAGE is a sacrament of the Church established by Jesus Christ himself.
All Catholics who have become too secular in their thinking need to remem- ber this when our postal vote is received on or after
Hitler?
Could his relentless march and his slaughter of
innocent people have been stopped by peaceful talk?
I think not.
The majority of those who went to war were probably Christian.
They went to ght for humanity and freedom.
It is easy to hide under a cloak of Christianity and allow others to do the dif cult thing.
THANK you for your story in recent edition of The Catholic Leader about the Dunkirk movie.
My father was among some of the last to come off the beach of Dunkirk.
When he got to the
September 12.
Incidentally September 12 in both the tradi-
V.A. Dagnall
Boondall, Qld
ank your teacher before gradua on.
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