NAIJA CONTENTS

  ENCYCLICAL LETTER LAUDATO SI’ OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME 1. “LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”. In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. “Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth,...

                                                ACT 1 SCENE 1 FR VICTOR: (SPEAKING IN REGRET) What value has this life been to me. My life is full of travails. The worst of all is that my secret life has been disclosed to my parishioners. Now everybody is looking on me with contempt. I have as well try my possible best to make meaning out of this life, but it dawns on me that I really followed the wrong path of life. I know I had series of conviction that I should not be a priest, but my parents would really not allow me to choose the best vocation of my life. It has cost me my happiness and my good name. What will I do? Should I continue to disgrace myself, my family or the entire church or should bow out? (still speaking) (Two of his parishioner...

1.0        INTRODUCTION Being taught a great lesson by the Italian Liberals using their superior military strength, Pope Pius IX (Pio Nono) turned to his spiritual weapons with the promulgation of Quanta Cura and Syllables of error on the 8 th day of December, 1864. With this, he condemned the whole ideology of liberalism found in his own age. He effectively squelched the liberal Catholics and hardened the Church in its long-standing state of siege with regards to modern liberal secular culture. This important papal document was sent to all the bishops of the Catholic world “in order that these same bishops may have before their eyes all the errors and pernicious doctrines which he [Pius IX] has reprobated and condemned.”

INTRODUCTION The 1993 directory for ecumenism reiterated the first sentence of Unitatis Redintegratio promulgated on 21 st November, 1964 with its own words although with similar content, “the search for Christian unity was one of the principal concerns of the Second Vatican Council”. The introductory part of this document gave a general reflection into the oneness of Christ’s instituted Church. It exposes also on how many Christian communions cause division posing as Christ true inheritors . Through the prayer of our Lord of Age , men are called to ultimate contrition, thus searching for unity. There was recognition of the effort of our separated to seek for unity in many conferences. Having said these, I will further go in depth in explicating more about the No. 1 of this document in the form of summary, thus applying the meaning to my intimate environmental cases found in my town.