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September 18 - 24, 2005
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The following articles were posted at www.understandthetimes.org this past week:

Rick Warren Speaks about Purpose at United Nations
Pope Says Eucharist Is Secret to Holiness
Starbucks cup promotes homosexuality?
Evangelical bookstores open to Catholic materials: Ecumenical outlook lowers traditional barriers
Closeness of God with Old Testament Israel points to coming Christ, His presence to the world, says Pope
Scientists implant human chromosome in mice
Images of Mary reported worldwide

Article: One World Religion

September 14, 2005 - Rick Warren Speaks about Purpose at United Nations

NEW YORK - After weeks of bitter debate shed many of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's most ambitious goals to tackle poverty and reform the United Nations, reactions to the hard fought compromise text for the U.N. World summit declaration ranged from measured satisfaction to downright disappointment.

Amid thick tensions present earlier yesterday, "Purpose-Driven" Pastor Rick Warren told U.N. dignitaries and delegates to lay aside their worries for a moment and focus on the meaning of existence. At an interfaith prayer breakfast on the morning of Sept. 13, Warren made no claims to know everything but comforted the delegates by telling them to trust God.

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Article: Roman Catholic Church and Last Days

September 18, 2005 - Pope Says Eucharist Is Secret to Holiness

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, SEPT. 18 (ZENIT.org).- The Eucharist is the secret to holiness, particularly for priests, says Benedict XVI.

Benedict XIV directed his address in particular to priests "in order to underline that in the Eucharist is precisely the secret to their sanctification."

"In his hands this great miracle of love is renewed, from which he is called to convert himself into witness and herald, every day more faithful," the Holy Father said. "For this reason, the priest must be, before all else, one who adores and contemplates the Eucharist, from the moment he celebrates the sacrament."

The Pope prayed to Mary for "all priests of the world so that they take from this Year of the Eucharist the fruit of renewed love for the sacrament that they celebrate."

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Article: Perilous Times

September 20, 2005 - Starbucks cup promotes homosexuality?

Baylor University orders removal from campus store

Officials at Baylor University told the Starbucks store on its Waco, Texas, campus to remove a cup said to promote homosexuality. The offending cup, part of a series with quotes from various American thinkers called "The Way I See It," features the words of homosexual novelist Armistead Maupin.

It reads:

"My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short."

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Article: Ecumenical Movement - Protestants Uniting with Roman Catholics

August 29, 2005 - Evangelical bookstores open to Catholic materials: Ecumenical outlook lowers traditional barriers

Christian bookstores, often run by evangelicals who see their business as a ministry, are becoming increasingly open to selling Catholic books and products.

"We still have some customers who won't sell rosaries, or medals or statues, but it's changing," Sone said, noting that rosaries are sold inside First Communion sets in some of the stores that won't sell them separately. "I think the Christian stores have finally seen the light, really, that they get Catholic customers in and they've been sending them away and throwing them to their competition," he said.

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Article: Roman Catholic Church and Last Days

September 21, 2005 - Closeness of God with Old Testament Israel points to coming Christ, His presence to the world, says Pope

The following statement by Pope Benedict XVI is one that we have been expecting for some time:

Vatican City, Sep. 21, 2005 (CNA) - Speaking to some 26,000 pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square for today's general audience, Pope Benedict demonstrated how God's closeness to the people of Israel through the Old Testament Ark of the Covenant paved the way to the Messiah who was to come and "dwell among us."...

This announcement is of paramount importance. For the uninformed, it would appear the pope is announcing the soon return of Jesus - the second coming, that many evangelical Christians accept.

However, this is not the case. What the pope is announcing is the "Eucharistic Reign of Christ" - based on the Roman Catholic belief that "Jesus" is present in the Euchrarist and that a Eucharistic Reign of Jesus will establish the Kingdom of God on earth through the Roman Catholic Church.

In our book, "Another Jesus: The Eucharistic Christ and the New Evangelization," we have documented what is meant by the Eucharisitic Reign of Jesus. For those who are interested in knowing about this and warning others, I have decided to include this entire chapter with this e-mail alert. You may forward this to others to spread this information.

The entire book and DVD presentation can be obtained from our online store at www.understandthetimes.org

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Article: Cloning and Genetic Engineering

September 23, 2005 - Scientists implant human chromosome in mice

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have transplanted a nearly entire human chromosome in mice in a medical and technical breakthrough that could reveal new insights into Down's syndrome and other disorders.

The genetically engineered mice carry a copy of the human chromosome 21. It is the smallest of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes with about 225 genes.

Children suffering from Down's syndrome, which is one of the most common genetic disorders, inherit three copies of the chromosome instead of two.

The achievement caps 13 years of research by scientists at the National Institute for Medical Health in London and the Institute of Neurology.

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Article: Roman Catholic Church and Last Days

September 24 - Images of Mary reported worldwide

The Virgin Mary has long been a source of comfort to millions of believers. Pilgrims stream to shrines built where the Blessed Mother has appeared -- Guadalupe, Mexico; Lourdes, France; and Fatima, Portugal. They also journey to more modern sites such as the one in Zeitoun, Egypt, where cloudlike images of Mary hovering above the Coptic Church were broadcast on television. Or to Medjugorje, located in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is well-known to the devout for the Marian messages received there that call the faithful back to prayer and the Eucharist.

Some experts say such individuals are shunning common sense. According to them, these people might choose to distrust church authority or political leaders, but accept the moral pronouncements of channeled apparitions without reservation. Other professionals see the situation differently. Local psychologist Beth Lawton says that people who believe the claims of even the most tenuous Marian apparitions are still "accessing a personal connection to God."

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