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[Catholic Caucus] Permanent Synod: Francis Initiates Three Years of "Implementation Phase"Francis initiates a "new phase" of the Ex-Synod approving a three years "process of accompaniment" to implement the ex-synod's final document.It will culminate in an "ecclesial assembly" to be held at the Vatican in October 2028 [if by then the Vatican still has money to pay for such useless events].Cardinal Mario Grech, head of the synod secretariat, claimed in a March 15 letter that the "process of accompaniment" [= more meaningless meetings] will not be a new synod. He uses one buzzword after another to talk about "exchange and dialogue...

By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer LONDON - President Bush is sending his national security adviser to the Middle East next week to keep up pressure on Israel and the Palestinians to reach agreement on launching formal peace talks, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. The announcement came as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was encouraged by what she had heard from the two sides during four days of intense talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials and civic and business leaders in Jerusalem and Ramallah in the West Bank. But Rice also acknowledged tensions between the two...

                                               TO THE PEOPLE OF   In the middle of all the mayhem surrounding the Danish cartoons controversy, a group of Arab and Muslim youth have set up this website to express their honest opinion, as a small attempt to show the world that the images shown of Arab and Muslim anger around the world are not representative of the opinions of all Arabs.  We whole-heartedly apologize to the people of Denmark, Norway and all the European Union over the actions of a few, and we completely condemn all forms of vandalism and incitement to violence that the Arab...