Vatican Astronomer: Liquid water on Mars is an exciting discovery

Vatican Astronomer: Liquid water on Mars is an exciting discovery

2015-09-29 Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) NASA scientists on Monday announced the planet Mars appears to have flowing rivulets of water, at least in the summer.

In 2008, it was confirmed frozen water exists on the planet, but this new discovery bolsters the chance that life might exist on Mars, since liquid water is essential to life on Earth.

“You can see the water flowing in real time,” said Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, the Director of the Vatican Observatory, who called the discovery exciting.

Listen to the interview by Ann Schneible with Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ: http://www.news.va/en/news/vatican-astronomer-liquid-water-on-mars-is-an-exci

“You can see the traces of the rivers changing over the course of a Martian year. So we are not talking about water that was there a long time ago or water that is frozen under the surface, but actual liquid water on the surface,” he told Vatican Radio. “Of course, the air is so thin that it will evaporate right away, but it is enough water in there long enough to move stuff around.”

NASA also said the possible rivulets appear to be made up of salty, wet soil.

“It’s brine,” explained Br. Consolmagno.

“Therefore, it tells us that this is actively interacting with the soil, and the kind of interactions and the kind of chemistry that goes on to make brine is not inconsistent with the possibility of some sort of microbial life underneath the surface,” he said. “It is by no means a proof of it, but it is certainly a step in the right direction.”

The Vatican astronomer said the search for life in the universe is fascinating, because we have only one example: Earth.

“We have no idea whether life is so rare that it never occurs anywhere, or so common that is occurs everywhere, and that’s why we have to look at places life could be to see just how rare or how common it actual is,” he said.

But Brother Consolmagno also said the possibility of life on Mars should not be a cause of a crisis of faith among Catholics on Earth. Quite the contrary, he said the determination of whether or not life exists on other planets would tell us something about God.

“The important thing is to recognize that the universe is created by God, and however God did it tells us something about God’s personality,” he said.

“If God chose to make a universe where we are the only creatures, that is interesting, that tells us something about God and us,” Br. Consolmagno said. “If God creates a universe where life is everywhere, that gives us a different picture of God, but in either way, we learn more about Who the Creator is.”(from Vatican Radio)

CREATION / Opinion: Why finding water on Mars matters

Tech / Sept. 29, 2015
OPINION: WHY FINDING WATER ON MARS MATTERS
Today's NASA announcement challenges our other assumptions about the universe.

BY JARED PETTY

Most of my life I’ve taken the hostility of outer space for granted. Textbooks and teachers taught me about an acidic atmosphere on Venus, bone-crushing gravity on Jupiter, frigid darkness on Pluto, and the arid, dead stone of the Martian wastes. I remember standing in the Smithsonian as a child staring at the lifeless landscapes photographed by the Viking missions, red rocky deserts stretching on to the edge of forever. That image cemented an idea which I accepted for a long time to be a matter of fact, that Mars was an inhospitable, empty rock spinning through space. But today I woke up into a universe where water, the most elemental of life-sustaining substances, flows across the surface of Mars.

The facts did not change, of course...water has long flowed on Mars whether we knew about it or not. But our understanding of the facts, the truth of the way things really are, was irrevocably altered today thanks to years of research by dedicated, underfunded agencies determined to discern a more perfect understanding of the universe. Today’s confirmation is a capstone on countless hours of hypothesis, research, and informed speculation by scientists, a vindication of their efforts reaping an incalculable reward. Today is a reminder that our assumptions about the fundamental nature of things deserve to be challenged.

The international scientific community has long embraced the possibility of interstellar life. Distant Earth-like worlds orbiting strange stars might harbor running water, alien creatures, and intelligent life. SETI radio telescopes scour deep space for evidence of civilization. But biospheres close to home have appeared a much more dubious prospect. Out beyond the asteroid field, Io, Europa, and Enceladus might have the right combination of moisture, warmth, and shelter to support organisms. But Mars is a next-door neighbor, one of the closest celestial bodies to our home world. She’s near enough that we’ve dropped multiple landers on her surface and similar enough in relation to the sun that we can anticipate human visitation and eventual colonization. And yet despite our proximity and long history of observation, it was only today that human beings truly understood such a simple, fundamental truth as the presence of liquid water moving across the planet’s surface.

Is there life on Mars? It’s an immense leap of logic from the presence of water to the likelihood of life. The magnetic and atmospheric conditions make familiar modes of life improbable on the surface, possible beneath it. Strange life could also dwell there, forms adapted to spectrums of exposure outside our terrestrial experience. But even if life is absent, the wonder of today’s discovery is in no way diminished.

Space travel is the impetus, the hope, for a broader-minded humanity conscious of its place in the galaxy. While the process of science often grants us advances in engineering, medicine, travel, and a host of other inventions, but discovery is not primarily a means to technical advancement. We confuse technology with science to our detriment. Science has given us technology, to be sure, but science’s great purpose represents so much more than light bulbs, airplanes, and a newer, thinner phone model every year. Ultimately, science is a quest for understanding, a way of answering questions. And the questions of our place in the vastness of the universe are the grandest, most wonderful, and most rewarding mysteries of all.

Water has existed on Mars through the lifetimes of every man and woman that has ever walked the planet Earth, and until today, we never knew. We only found out because we went looking. We developed the tools, spent the money, trained the people, and laid aside other needs for a greater purpose. Through that process of discovery, we learned that our collective assumptions about just how unique our world is in the cosmos demand reexamination. If water flows across the surface of a neighboring world, what else is possible? Is there alien life close enough that we can reach out and touch it? We’ll only know if we keep searching.

Today’s announcement reminds us that we should make a choice to become more dedicated searchers, laying aside some other expenses to fund the exploration of the planets. The costs are considerable but the potential rewards are tremendous. We all have tools for raising awareness and promoting grassroots advocacy. Every retweet of a legitimate, interesting space science story potentially helps a little. Letters to representatives and government officials about the importance of national science and space program funding may help more, and votes for candidates who advocate peaceful space research are even more powerful. For the teachers, siblings, and parents among us, educating children on the history and wonder of space exploration paves the way for a society more appreciate of science’s benefits. A career in astronomy, research, space advocacy, or even exploration is the ultimate investment, a chance to become a pioneer in humanity’s first steps from this tiny planet into the vast, great unknown of a boundless galaxy. Whatever your contribution, I hope we bump into each other on the way to building a better tomorrow.

Jared Petty is a Senior Editor at IGN. He once drove by Mars, Pennsylvania.

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Pope Pious: What Evangelicals Like About Francis

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Pope Pious: What Evangelicals Like About Francis
Disagreement over religious authority and salvation fades as piety trumps doctrine.
Chris Castaldo/ SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The office of the papacy is an enigma to most evangelical Protestants. The spectacle of medieval regalia, coats of arms, and the popemobile provoke curiosity, skepticism, and bewilderment. Add to these symbols the pope’s monarchial titles, infallibility, and a standing army, and the portrait gets even more perplexing.

Why then are some evangelicals flocking to Pope Francis?

For example, after visiting the Vatican, Rick Warren was impressed with the humble quality of Francis’ ministry, and subsequently described him as “our new pope.” Luis Palau, whose friendship with Francis reaches back to earlier years in Argentina, also points to the pope’s “personal lifestyle” as a reason why evangelicals hold him in such high regard.

In March of 2014, the Green family, who own the Oklahoma-based company Hobby Lobby, enjoyed a warm visit with Francis after collaborating on a Bible exhibit. Charismatic leaders—including Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, and John Arnott of Catch the Fire Toronto—have also enjoyed papal audiences.

Geoff Tunnicliffe, formerly head of the World Evangelical Alliance, returned from his visit to the Vatican announcing a “new era in evangelical and Catholic relations.” And Timothy George, Dean of Beeson Divinity School, has written a popular article calling the pope “Our Francis, Too.” Evangelicals, it seems, have buried the hatchet on the papacy. Why?

In his recent book Pope Francis’ Revolution of Tenderness and Love, Cardinal Walter Kasper contends that Francis is not a liberal (as some pundits would suggest) but rather a “radical” in the etymological sense of being rooted (radix) in the person of Jesus. Emerging from this root is a blossoming of Christian virtue that smells to many evangelicals like the aroma of Christ.

Accordingly, Protestants and Catholics alike see Francis as a transparent, down-to-earth kind of servant who prefers washing the feet of prison inmates to the traditional pomp and circumstance of the Vatican. Such qualities resonate with evangelicals who generally see themselves as egalitarian and pietistic.

Another feature of Pope Francis that commends him to many Protestants is his personal identification with charismatic renewal. As Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Francis often prayed with Pentecostal pastors and routinely sat down with them in dialogue.

Speaking about this orientation, Ralph Martin (himself a Catholic charismatic leader) expressedjubilation when the college of cardinals chose Jorge Mario Bergoglio to replace Pope Benedict XVI. Quoting a Pentecostal pastor from Argentina, he writes, “I’m overjoyed with the election of Bergoglio, a man filled with the Spirit and with a deep commitment to ecumenism.”

The veracity of the above claim concerning the pope’s charismatic spirituality was confirmed a few weeks ago in Mundelein, Illinois, where several Catholic and evangelical leaders met to discuss the ministry of Pope Francis. These pastors and theologians received a letter from the pope in which he expressed a personal greeting.

As a member of this gathering, I was fascinated to read the following statement:

The year 2017 marks the 50th year since the sovereign irruption of the Holy Spirit in the Catholic Church, known today as the Charismatic Renewal, which was birthed ecumenically. I have invited those who have been born again (John 3:3-4) in this river of Grace, to celebrate together in St. Peter’s Square on Pentecost this year, an invitation I extend to all Christians of all confessions, to worship our Lord and to pray for a new Pentecost for the Church and for the world.

The above statement provides a glimpse into the heartbeat of Pope Francis.

Unity in the Spirit among “those who have been born again” is a central impulse of his ecumenical engagement with evangelical Protestants. It is fascinating to note, however, that the pope’s letter says nothing about another event that will occur in 2017: the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses, which many regard as the start of the Protestant Reformation. Some would consider this omission to be the ecumenical elephant in the room, which leads to our final point.

Evangelicals are flocking to Pope Francis because they resonate with his approach to theology, which is more pietistic than doctrinal.

For example, during my three days of interaction with close friends of Francis, nearly all of them quoted a statement for which the pontiff is evidently famous: “Let us put theologians on an island to discuss among themselves and we’ll just get on with things.”

It is not that Francis dislikes theologians. But unlike John Paul II and Benedict XVI, the leading edge of his ecumenical engagement is not doctrinal. Among many evangelicals, for whom Reformation theology is insignificant, such an approach is refreshing.

When one cherishes piety over doctrine, disagreement over religious authority and salvation easily fades into the background.

So how should evangelical Protestants think about Pope Francis?

Perhaps Cardinal Kasper’s horticultural metaphor suggests an answer. In the ministry of Francis one observes a flowering of the Erasmian Reformation—Scripture in the vernacular, a pursuit of integrity, commitment to beatitude, a church for the people, virtues that are consonant with the Protestant Reformation.

This was the ecclesial fruit for which Desiderius Erasmus, the great Renaissance humanist of Rotterdam, called in the opening decades of the 16th century. Insofar as Francis embodies these virtues, evangelicals should give thanks.

But let’s be clear: Erasmus is not enough.

Chris Castaldo serves as lead pastor of New Covenant Church in Naperville, Illinois. He is the author of Talking with Catholics about the Gospel. Chris blogs at www.chriscastaldo.com.

From: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/september-web-only/evangelicals-flock-to-pope-francis-but-what-for.html?start=2

Muslim Migrants Find More Than Refuge in Europe’s Churches

Some Muslim Migrants Find More Than Refuge in Europe’s Churches
Germany sees rise in conversions to Christianity, a status that could help asylum claims

Pastor Gottfried Martens during a baptism for immigrants 

from Iran in the Evangelical-Lutheran Trinity Church in Berlin on Aug. 30. 

PHOTO: MARKUS SCHREIBER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
By
RUTH BENDERSept. 16, 2015 5:03 p.m. ET

HANNOVER, Germany—On a recent Saturday in a 19th-century Protestant church, Iranian and Afghan immigrants struggled to sing a hymn as the Rev. Hans-Jürgen Kutzner pointed to the German lyrics on a whiteboard.

Once a month, Mr. Kutzner gives a crash course in a neon-lit room adjacent to the church to prepare Muslims wishing to be baptized as Christians.

“What you are signing up to today isn’t just this seminar: Preparing yourself internally, going to Mass and integrating into your church, it’s all of that,” he told the 28 attendees as an Iranian woman clutching a rosary translated into Farsi.

Priests and researchers say they have witnessed a parallel trend to the surge in migrant numbers flocking to Germany in recent years: A rise in conversions from Islam to Christianity.

While most converts invoke spiritual reasons, people involved in the process point to another motivation: A conversion could make the difference between obtaining asylum or being deported.

Nariman Malkari, a recently baptized migrant from Iran, and 

his godmother, Marianne Bunyan, in front of his tent at the 

Trinity Church in Berlin, where he lives while his asylum 

application is reviewed. 

PHOTO: RUTH BENDER/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Up to a million migrants, many of them from Muslim countries, are expected to arrive this year in Germany alone. Those fleeing war or persecution could qualify for asylum; others seeking better economic prospects likely wouldn’t.

“We do get people that come here for reasons that aren’t just spiritual,” said Mr. Kutzner, adding that he believes they are in the minority. “We constantly fight against the suspicion that conversions are only motivated by hopes for asylum.”

One church official said the desire by some Christians to help can get out of hand. “There are middlemen who have started to develop a business out of connecting refugees with churches open to baptizing them,” this person said.

A spokeswoman for the main German Protestant church said she wasn’t aware of any such business taking place. The German Bishops’ Conference of Catholic dioceses declined to comment.

In many countries where classical Islamic law is a strong element of the legal system, such as Afghanistan and Iran, conversions by Muslims to another religion are prohibited and can be punished by death, said Ebrahim Afsah, associate professor of international law at the University of Copenhagen.

“Out of fear of being sent back, many refugees feel that converting is the safest route to getting their papers,” the church official said. “In most cases, such asylum requests are granted.”

German authorities can grant asylum if a conversion exposes the applicant to persecution at home, according to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. But a baptism certificate alone rarely suffices.

Europe is struggling to handle its largest flow of migrants since the aftermath of World War II. Why is the crisis happening now? The WSJ's Niki Blasina explains.

Decisions are sometimes lengthy and the type of proof authorities ask for when reviewing a case varies widely, officials familiar with the process say. Some officers probe applicants for their knowledge of their new religion, they say. Others demand detailed explanations about how people came to their new beliefs.

The immigration office doesn’t keep statistics on reasons for asylum requests.

Among the would-be converts in Mr. Kutzner’s class, most of whom declined to be identified, many said they had a spiritual revelation after a dream or reading the Bible. Others described embracing Christ as a protest against terror acts committed by Islamist extremists, or pointed to a desire to better integrate into their new home.

Nariman Malkari, a 25-year-old Kurd from Tehran, lives in temporary housing in the garden of the Evangelical-Lutheran Trinity Church in Berlin while he awaits a decision on his asylum application.

He moved here after Norway rejected his first asylum request. In May, the Rev. Gottfried Martens baptized the young computer engineer, who now goes by the biblical name of Silas and wears a silver cross necklace.

“I can never go back to Iran and I don’t want to,” said Mr. Malkari after Sunday Mass last week, which is held partly in German, partly in Farsi. “I live in a tent, but I have found Jesus.”

Roughly 600 of the 850 members of Trinity Church are from Iran and Afghanistan, Mr. Martens said. He said he has baptized roughly 400 Muslims, mostly from Iran and Afghanistan, since 2011, but refuses those who he feels just want to boost their asylum prospects.

“What I see is that 90% of the converts continue to come here even after they obtain asylum,” he said. “They wouldn’t do that if they had done it just for papers.”

The numbers of conversions remain tiny relative to Germany’s roughly four million Muslims, mostly from Turkey. In 2009, the Catholic Church in Germany counted 300 members who had converted from Islam, according to the secretariat of the German Bishops’ Conference, but neither it nor its Protestant counterpart keeps regular statistics of such conversions.

Aiman Mazyek, chairman of Germany’s Central Council of Muslims, said he hadn’t observed a rise in Muslims converting to Christianity, but noted there were “conspiracy theories” around that doing so could expedite an asylum request.

Jörn Thielmann, who heads the University of Erlangen’s Center for Islam and Law in Europe, said he has no doubt that conversions are on the rise. He has crafted expert opinions in asylum cases for the past decade, evaluating how big a risk a refugee would face if sent back home.

The Rev. Gerhard Triebe of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Düsseldorf has baptized some 30 Iranians since 2011. He said he devotes a lot of time to helping his converts in daily tasks, from asylum-related paperwork to finding an apartment.

“With more and more people arriving here, the word spreads. People also realize they get an enormous amount of support,” he said.

An Iranian asylum-seeker, Aref Movasaq Rodsari, at the 

Trinity Church in Berlin last month. 

PHOTO: GERO BRELOER/ASSOCIATED PRESS

In Mr. Kutzner’s class in Hannover, many aspiring Christians feverishly took notes as the pastor talked about the Bible and the Jesus’ resurrection. Others looked lost.

A man dressed in a shiny white suit and black tie brought his wife and young son from a small town in eastern Germany where they live. He said he fled Iran six months ago because “I wanted my family to be Christian.”

Mr. Kutzner said he doesn’t want to judge motives. “I am just a human, I can’t look people in the heart,” he said as he wrapped up his class with one-on-one consultations. “But if someone asks me for help, I help.”

Write to Ruth Bender at Ruth.Bender@wsj.com

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Le Pape encourage les jeunes consacrés

Le Pape encourage les jeunes consacrés


Cité du Vatican, 17 septembre (VIS). Le Saint-Père a reçu les participants à la Réunion mondiale de la jeunesse consacrée, qui a eu lieu dans le cadre de l'Année de la vie consacrée. Après avoir salué en particulier ceux venus de Syrie et d'Irak et évoqué les martyrs de ces pays, il a répondu à trois questions, notamment à une religieuse ayant soulevé la question de l'instabilité et de la médiocrité dans la cheminement vocationnel. Citant sainte Thérèse d'Avila pour qui une rigide observance détruisait la liberté, a dit à ses hôtes: ''Le Seigneur vous appelle...à vivre de manière prophétique la liberté, à savoir la liberté unie au témoignage et à la fidélité... La vie consacrée peut être stérile si elle est pas prophétique, si il n'est pas permis de rêver... Si l'observance se réduit à une rigidité formelle, elle se limite à un égoïsme personnel... Soyez donc toujours ouverts à ce que le Seigneur nous dit et...dialoguez sincèrement avec votre supérieur, avec votre maître spirituel, avec l'évêque, avec l'Eglise... Soyez ouverts au dialogue et en particulier au dialogue communautaire. Un des péchés courants dans la vie de la communauté est l'incapacité du pardon entre frères... Les ragots ferment la porte au pardon de la communauté... Ils sont le fléau de la vie communautaire, une bombe qui détruit l'autre qui ne peut pas se défendre.'' Pour ce qui est de l'instabilité, le Pape a dit qu'elle se manifeste dès le début de la vie consacrée... Parlant de sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus, il a dit qu'il faut prier pour les mourants parce le risque d'instabilité est plus grand... Culturellement nous vivons une période très instable, dans une culture du provisoire...qui a pénétré l'Eglise, les communautés religieuses, les familles et le mariage... Non, la culture doit être définitive car Dieu a envoyé Son fils pour toujours. Rien n'est à titre provisoire, une génération comme un pays. Tout le monde est pour toujours. Ceci est un critère de discernement spirituel".

Répondant ensuite à une autre question sur le désir d'évangéliser, le Pape a souligné que le zèle apostolique vient d'un sentiment qui enflamme le cœur. Evangéliser est pas la même chose que faire du prosélytisme. Ce n'est pas une équipe de football à la recherche de partenaires ou de supporters... Evangéliser c'est non seulement être convaincant, mais aussi de témoigner que Jésus est vivant... Or ce témoignage doit être donné avec tout son être...et je veux remercier les femmes consacrées pour leur témoignage... Vous avez toujours voulu être à la pointe...parce que vous êtes mères. Soyez l'image de la maternité de l'Eglise, des icônes de sa tendresse et de l'amour de l'Eglise, maternelle comme Marie... Il y a un autre mot-clé dans la vie consacrée, celui de mémoire. Jacques et Jean n'ont jamais oublié leur première rencontre avec Jésus... Dans les moments les plus sombres, dans les moments de tentation, dans les moments difficiles de notre vie consacrée, il faut se souvenir de l'émerveillement vécu lorsque le Seigneur nous a regardé". A une autre question sur la vocation au sacerdoce, il a confié que dans son cas cela était venu par hasard, dans le confessionnal d'une église: "Ma vie a soudain changé. A l'instant Jésus a changé ma vie... Le Seigneur ne m'a jamais laissé seul, même dans les moments les plus difficiles et les plus sombres... Le Seigneur nous trouve toujours de manière définitive car il ne fait pas partie de la culture du provisoire. Il nous aime et reste toujours avec nous". Parmi les pires risques pour un religieux, a conclu le Pape, il y a le narcissisme: regarder votre reflet dans le miroir, le narcissisme. Méfiez-vous de cela!... Nous prions tous, et demandons des faveurs à Dieu... Mais adorons-nous vraiment le Seigneur? La prière d'adoration doit être silencieuse et non narcissique: Soyez donc des hommes et des femmes d'adoration".

St Petroc of Cornwall - June 4

The son of a Welsh king who became a hermit by a stream
by The Catholic Herald
posted Monday, 4 Jun 2012

A stained-glass window in Truro Cathedral depicts St Petroc

The relics of St Petroc (June 4) have been stolen and returned twice

Petroc is the most celebrated of the patron saints of Cornwall. Yet, since he lived in the sixth century, and the earliest surviving account of his life dates from the 12th century, very little is known about him with any certainty.

Many stories, however, are attached to his name, and the eye of faith may countenance what it will.

Petroc is said to have been born in south Wales, the son of a king, and to have given up his inheritance in order to become a monk. Apparently he studied in Ireland and numbered St Kevin among his pupils.

More certainly, he is associated with Padstow in Cornwall, where he founded a monastery. The name Padstow is a conflation of Petroc’s Stow, meaning Petroc’s Place.

Some 30 years later he founded another monastery at Little Petherick, near Wadebridge. He is also credited with having undertaken a pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem, and with having lived as a hermit on an island in the Indian Ocean.

Latterly, though, Petroc lived on Bodmin Moor, where he built a cell for himself by a stream, and established a monastery in Bodmin for the 12 disciples who followed him. His death, at Treravel, occurred while he was on the way to re-visit his first monastery in Padstow. He was buried in that town.

Beyond Cornwall there are some 17 church dedications to Petroc in Devon, and another at Timberscombe just over the border in Somerset. His name was also invoked in Brittany and Wales.

Like other hermit saints, Petroc was associated with wild animals. Indeed, the stag became his emblem, on account of his having protected a deer from its hunters.

At some stage after 850 Petroc’s shrine and relics were moved to Bodmin, which replaced Padstow as the centre of his cult. The church at Bodmin became rich through the offerings of pilgrims. In 1177, however, one of the canons stole the relics and took them to Saint-Méen in Brittany.

This outrage eventually reached the ears of King Henry II who personally intervened to ensure that Petroc’s remains, with the exception of a rib, were returned to Bodmin.

Petroc’s cult remained strong throughout the Middle Ages and established itself not merely in the Sarum calendar but even in formularies as far afield as Italy.

When Henry II ordered the return of his relics to Bodmin Walter of Coutances, a powerful figure on both sides of the Channel, provided a magnificent ivory casket of Sicilian and Islamic workmanship as a reliquary for the saint’s head.

Hidden at the Reformation above the porch at Bodmin, the reliquary was rediscovered in the 19th century. In 1994 thieves broke into the church and stole it. After a national outcry, however, the treasure was found in a field in Yorkshire.

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