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What to remember from Christian news this Thursday, October 17, 2024

Faced with this cultural proposal, the Archbishop of wanted to propose an alternative. By consecrating the diocese and the city to the Sacred Heart, Mgr de Kerimel wants to take the opposite view of a “ atmosphere of despair » and a “ fascination with darkness », in Toulouse, , and around the world.

Composer Hans Zimmer expected in Rome in December

On December 7, he will present his greatest pieces at the Vatican. Nearly 3,000 people supported by the Dicastery for Charity will attend this new Concert with the Poor, created in 2015. A dinner and basic necessities will be offered to them.

The Virgin of Rocamadour has arrived in Les Sables-d’Olonne

Having left the sanctuary on August 15, she arrived in Vendée on October 12, after a journey of more than 400 kilometers on land and sea. The protector of sailors will be present at the start of the 10th Vendée Globe, on November 10, to bless the skippers and their boats. Everyone will be able to take a statuette of Notre-Dame on board.

In Great Britain, voices are raised against a bill on assisted suicide

Among them that of the church. The bill entitled “ Terminally ill adults » was presented yesterday to the House of Commons. It aims to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. Cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols, primate of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, has asked his followers to write to their MP to oppose the bill. The Archbishop of Westminster also recalls that, for believers, “ our life does not belong to us ”, because it is a gift from God. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury shares his concerns. In an article published yesterday in the Daily Mail, the primate of the Church of England said he feared that ” the right to end one’s life does not transform too easily – too accidentally – into a duty to do so ».

The first ever national farmers’ pilgrimage

It will take place in Lourdes on December 7 and 8. An event which delighted the bishop of the Marian sanctuary.

« I will be happy to welcome farmers from our dioceses of France, belonging to Church movements or not. », Specified Mgr Jean-Marc Micas, Bishop of and Lourdes.

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