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A US Coast Guard officer who refused to be injected with a vaccine derived from the remains of an aborted child has won an exemption from the required vaccination.
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Based on a 2004 Thai film of the same name, Shutter is an American/Japanese production. If you can take the shocks and violence of this genre, this film is worth the admission price for the cinematography alone. - Fr Richard Leonard, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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Beyond knowledge to wisdomI believe this is one of the crisis points for contemporary Christianity. Put bluntly, its representatives do not seem wise. Yes, those representatives can give you any amount of information, some of them can even speak knowledgeably of Christian teachings. Wisdom is another thing altogether. - Fr Michael Whelan [More] - Aquinas Academy
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Connected across bordersIt is time for leaders of nations to see their national interests as connected with the interests of people on the other side of the globe. We have reached the point where human existence is at stake and our destiny is inextricably linked. If we are to overcome this crisis of climate change we need to think beyond the confines of national states. - Just Comment [More] - Edmund Rice Centre
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Prefect says Church needs fresh Vatican II translations
The present translations of the documents of the Second Vatican Council are "imprecise", according to Archbishop William Levada, the new prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. 
Zenit reports that he suggested that the problem should be resolved by a careful, official, re-translation of the Council documents, perhaps in ten years time, to mark the Council's 50th anniversary.
To date, no translation of Vatican II documents has been presented as official.
Archbishop Levada - former Archbishop of San Francisco - spoke on Monday at the opening of the academic year of the Athenaeum of St. Anselm on Vatican II's dogmatic constitution on divine Revelation, "Dei Verbum."
In his address, Archbishop Levada explained that ambiguous translations had been made of the Council's texts, in particular of "Dei Verbum," suggesting the urgency of a total revision of the texts to correct the various interpretations and translations, which, he believes, do not reflect the authentic meaning of what the conciliar fathers wished to transmit.
Levada pointed out that "Dei Verbum" shows "the close relationship between Revelation, the Word of God, Scripture, Tradition and the magisterium" and clarified that "the magisterium is not above the Word of God but serves it faithfully."
Regarding the historical-critical reading of the Bible, Archbishop Levada said: "It cannot be denied that 'Dei Verbum' has contributed a certain peace to the world of Catholic exegesis because of the importance of the literary genres for the interpretation of Scripture."
The archbishop pointed out that the biblical, liturgical and ecumenical movement made Scripture "better known and utilized in the life of the Council."
SOURCE
New Translations of Vatican II Texts Needed, Says Prefect (Zenit 11/10/05)
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