By CISA
GOMA, JANUARY 29, 2021 (CISA)-A joint mission by the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC) and the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), has revealed that people in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are living in great suffering.
“What happens is great misery, it’s always war! The great misery of the population, who feels like they are abandoned. And then a lot of suffering is what we encountered,” Archbishop Marcel Madila Basanguka, Archbishop of Kananga said following the 12-day comfort mission to cities in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The delegation from ACEA and CENCO visited the cities of Butembo, Beni (North Kivu), Bunia, Ituri before return to North Kivu, Goma city. The mission began on January 14 to January 26.
Congolese bishop: Stop the chain of massacres
15 women and children were reported killed with machetes by Allied Democratic Forces fighters in a camp Catholic News Service Updated: January 16, 2021 06:44 AM GMT
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Bishop Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku of DR Congo s Butembo-Beni Diocese. (Photo: Radio Moto)
A Congolese bishop has urged international action to stem massacres in his diocese and accused the country s government and media of indifference to current sufferings. Only last year, at least a thousand people were killed here this has been going on for a decade, and the situation has deteriorated into a chain of massacres, said Bishop Melchisedech Sikuli Paluku of Butembo-Beni in Congo s North Kivu province.
Pope Francis had officially institutionalized Church law allowing women to read scripture and serve as acolytes during Mass, while maintaining that only men can be ordained as priests.
Cardinal Sarah’s signature absent from Vatican letter backing ban of Communion on tongue during COVID 12/11/2020 at 9:06 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
The Congregation for Divine Worship seems to have confirmed Bishop Richard Stika’s decision to suspend communion on the tongue – but the Congregation’s head, or prefect, did not lend his signature to the controversial document.
By Peter Baklinski, LifeSite News, December 11, 2020
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, December 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The signature of the Vatican’s liturgy chief is missing from a controversial letter signed by the secretary of the Vatican body that supervises worship and sacraments in the Church. The letter supports the decision of a U.S. bishop to ban reception of Holy Communion on the tongue in his diocese on account of the coronavirus outbreak.
Preface
The ministry entrusted to the bishop is a service of unity both within his diocese and of unity between the local church and the universal church. That ministry therefore has special significance in the search for the unity of all Christ’s followers. The bishop’s responsibility for promoting Christian unity is clearly affirmed in the Code of Canon Law of the Latin Church among the tasks of his pastoral office: “He is to act with humanity and charity toward the brothers and sisters who are not in full communion with the Catholic Church and is to foster ecumenism as it is understood by the Church” (Can 383 §3 CIC 1983). In this respect, the bishop cannot consider the promotion of the ecumenical cause as one more task in his varied ministry, one that could and should be deferred in view of other, apparently more important, priorities. The bishop’s ecumenical engagement is not an optional dimension of his ministry but a duty and obligation. This appears even more clea