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People I love are in Philippines. Please pray for my niece who joined the Peace Corps [sigh] and is in Philippines, Fr. Pfeiffer, this poor priest and all the others. This scares me.

Catholics are being attacked all over the world, for their beliefs and what they represent -- Christ. Philippines, Spain, Iraq, Russia, South America, Cuba, China, etc., etc. We need to pray for those who are in peril, especially those who put themselves forward on behalf of the Faith, including good priests such as the priest just kidnapped, and Fr. Pfeiffer and those who they lead.

We live in a time that dying on behalf of our Faith is more and more commonplace. The priest and three sub-deacons were murdered in Iraq are but recent examples of what could be termed "the new martyrdom."

From Rorate Caeli:

Catholic Martyrs of the "New Iraq"
With “a heart full of bitterness and mourning”, the Chaldean Church is today lamenting its martyrs. This is how, in a joint statement the Chaldean Patriarch and his bishops remember Fr Ragheed Ganni and his three sub-deacons - Basman Yousef Daud, Wahid Hanna Isho, Gassan Isam Bidawed – murdered in cold blood yesterday, as they left the Parish Church of the Holy Spirit in Mosul after Sunday Mass. This afternoon at 1500 (local time) their funerals will be held in Karamles, Fr. Ragheed’s home town, celebrated by Msgr. Faraj Rahho, bishop of Mosul.

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/

Scary times murph.