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May 8 - 14, 2006
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The following articles were posted at
www.understandthetimes.org this past week:
Scientology nearly ready to unveil Super Power
Fatima statue in Rome on anniversary of papal-assassination
attempt
Cold War Talk Prompts Russian Call for 'World Government'
More People Turn To Guardian Angels For Help
Cheney attacks on Russia "incomprehensible": Kremlin
Cheney speech spurs new Cold War: Russian press
Vatican, churches work on conversion plan
Vatican Marks 25 Years since Papal Shooting
Pope Benedict chides Canadian Bishops: rediscover centrality of
the Eucharist
Pope: Immaculate Heart of Mary watches over journey of Church
and mankind
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Article: Cults
May 6, 2006 - Scientology nearly ready to unveil Super Power -
By ROBERT FARLEY, Times Staff Writer |
CLEARWATER - Matt Feshbach believes he has super powers. He
senses danger faster than most people. He appreciates beauty
more deeply than he used to. He says he outperforms his
peers in the money management industry.
He heightened his powers of perception in 1995 when he went
to Los Angeles and became the first and so far only "public"
Scientologist to take a highly classified Scientology
program called Super Power.
Where in L.A. did he do this?
"Just in Los Angeles," is all Feshbach will say. Super Power
is that secret.
Under wraps for decades, Super Power now is being prepped
for its eventual rollout in Scientology's massive building
in downtown Clearwater. That will be the only place
worldwide where the program, much anticipated by
Scientologists, will be offered.
A key aim of Super Power is to enhance one's perceptions -
and not just the five senses we all know - hearing, sight,
touch, taste and smell.
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard taught that people have
57 "perceptics." They include an ability to discern relative
sizes, blood circulation, balance, compass direction,
temperature, gravity and an "awareness of importance,
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Article: Roman Catholic Church and the Last Days
May 8, 2006 - Fatima statue in Rome on
anniversary of papal-assassination attempt |
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The statue of
Our Lady of Fatima will be brought to Rome on May 13, for
the 25th anniversary of the assassination attempt on Pope
John Paul II..
Under the auspices of L'Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi,
the
original statue of Our Lady of Fatima will be carried in
procession from Castel St. Angelo to St. Peter's basilica.
This will be the 3rd time the statue has been brought to
Rome. The previous visits were in March 1984, for the
consecration of the world to the Virgin Mary; and in October
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Article: One World Government
May 7, 2006 - Cold War Talk Prompts
Russian Call for 'World Government' |
Russian Foreign
Secretary Sergueii Lavrov called for the establishment of a
world government, bringing together the United States and
Russia. Lavrov's call comes at a time of a chilling of
relations between Moscow and Washington and amidst signs of
a new Cold War. Moscow is wary of the establishment by
America of a front of "New Democracies" in Eastern Europe,
Ukraine and Georgia to counter "the Russian Bear," which is
powerfully awakening.
In an interview granted to the magazine "Russia in Global
Politics," Lavrov said that bringing together a "chorus" of
major nations into a world government will eliminate the
jockeying for power that creates imbalances. Lavrov was
certain that "most countries will welcome such a grouping of
leadership." |
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Article: Rising Interest in the Supernatural
May 8, 2006 - More People Turn To
Guardian Angels For Help - Gallup Poll Finds 78 Percent Of Americans
Believe
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(CBS) CHICAGO
Are there or aren't there? In a world that seems to some
more and more perilous, a growing number of people believe
they can turn to their guardian angel for assistance.
CBS 2's Jon Duncanson reports that what some might call
luck, others call divine intervention of an angelic nature.
The evidence says we want to believe that angels do earn
their wings. According to a Gallup Poll, 78 percent of
Americans believe guardian angels exist.
...The popular notion of winged guardian angels dates back
at least 5,000 years.
Joan Wester Anderson of Prospect Heights has written seven
best-selling books of alleged angels encounters. She says
there are just too many stories not to believe.
"What we have to do to not believe is to disbelieve all
these good people," Anderson said. |
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Article: Wars and Rumors of Wars
May 5, 2006 - Cheney attacks on Russia
"incomprehensible": Kremlin |
MOSCOW (Reuters)
- The Kremlin on Thursday rejected as "completely
incomprehensible" remarks by Vice President Dick Cheney that
Russia was backsliding on democracy and using its vast
energy supplies to bully its neighbors.
"The speech of Mr. Cheney in our opinion is full of a
subjective evaluation of us and of the processes that are
going on in Russia. The remarks ... are completely
incomprehensible for us," said Kremlin deputy spokesman
Dmitry Peskov.
Cheney, in remarks that could cause tense moments when
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosts his first summit of
the G8 industrialized nations in July, earlier told Baltic
and Black Sea leaders in Vilnius that Moscow should return
to the path of democratic reform. |
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Article: Wars and Rumors of Wars
May 5, 2006 - Cheney speech spurs new
Cold War: Russian press |
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MOSCOW (Reuters)
- A speech by Vice President Dick Cheney strongly critical
of the Kremlin marks the start of a new Cold War that could
drive Moscow away from its new-found Western allies, the
Russian press said on Friday.
In shocked reaction to the harshest U.S. criticism of Moscow
for years, commentators said Washington had created an
anti-Russian cordon of Western-aligned states stretching
from the Baltic almost to the Caspian Sea.
The Kremlin, in a reaction within hours of Cheney's delivery
in Vilnius, said the speech, which was full of accusations
that Moscow was limiting human rights and using its energy
riches to blackmail the world, was "completely
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Article:
One World Governement
May 10, 2006 - Vatican, churches work on
conversion plan |
ATHENS, Greece
-- The Vatican and the world's largest alliance of Christian
churches plan to seek a common code for religious
conversions, a leader of the effort said Wednesday. The
groups also will open contacts with Islam and other faiths
to study ways to avoid conflicts.
Religious freedom and missionary outreach by Christian
groups have become increasingly sensitive topics as many
Muslims perceive their faith as under threat by the West and
nations such as China struggle to maintain state controls on
churches.
"How can we - anxious to maintain, develop and nurture good
relations with people of other faiths - deal with this
highly complex issue that sometimes threatens the fiber of
living together?" said the Rev. Hans Ucko, head of the
interreligious relations office for the World Council of
Churches.
Envoys from the Vatican's office on interreligious dialogue
and the Geneva-based WCC - which
includes more than 350
mainline Protestant, Orthodox and related churches - are
scheduled to open a four-day conference Friday near Rome to
sketch out the broad outlines toward an eventual "code of
conduct" on Christian conversions. The document could take
at least three years to research and draft.
Members of other faiths, including Hindus, Buddhists and
Muslims, also plan to attend the meeting in Velletri, about
25 miles southeast of Rome. |
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Article: Roman Catholic Church and the Last Days
May 13, 2006 - Vatican Marks 25 Years
since Papal Shooting |
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The statue of
Fatima, which is believed to have saved Pope John Paul II
after the assassination attempt, returned to the Vatican.
That was the highlight of events that marked the 25th
anniversary since the nearly fatal assassination attempt on
the pope John Paul II. The Vatican also laid a marble plaque
on the cobblestone floor of St. Peter's Square at the exact
spot where John Paul was shot.
Pope John Paul nurtured a deep devotion to Our Lady of
Fatima, frequently saying that it was her protection that
saved his life when he was shot by on May 13, in 1981.
In a gesture of gratitude the pope gave one of the bullets
that wounded him seriously to the Virgin of Fatima, which is
now enshrined in her crown. Experts say it is extraordinary
that that bullet perfectly set in the Virgin's crown, as if
it had been designed for it. |
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Article:
Roman Catholic Church and the Last Days
May 14, 2006 - Pope Benedict chides
Canadian Bishops: rediscover centrality of the Eucharist |
Vatican City,
May. 11, 2006 - In a meeting earlier today with a group of
prelates from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops,
Pope Benedict XVI had strong words regarding the state of
the Church in that country, stressing the need for increased
devotion to the Eucharist, stronger priestly formation and
greater outreach to young people.
The Holy Father began his address by chiding Canadian
society, calling it marked by "pluralism, subjectivism and
increasing secularization." In this light, he said he was
grateful for the visit as it allowed him the opportunity to
reflect on the Church's mission in that country. |
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Article: Roman Catholic Church and the Last Days
May 14 - Pope: Immaculate Heart of
Mary watches over journey of Church and mankind |
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Vatican City - (AsiaNews)
" The pope today once again talked about the apparitions in
Fatima and the prophecy uttered by the "Lady of White Light"
to the shepherds: "In the end, my Immaculate Heart will
triumph". He was speaking during the Regina Caeli prayer,
one day after the anniversary of the beginning of the
apparitions (13 May 1917) and 25 years after the
assassination attempt against Pope Wojtyla, in which the
"Servant of God, John Paul II, felt he had been miraculously
saved from death by the intervention of 'a maternal hand'",
as he himself used to say. His entire pontificate was marked
by what the Virgin pronounced at Fatima.
The pope called on one and all to invoke "the most Blessed
Mary, thanking her for her constant intercession and praying
to her so she may continue to watch over the journey of the
Church and of humanity, especially of families, mothers and
children." |
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