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Protection of minors
Guidelines of the Shalom Catholic Community regarding the Protection of Minors and vulnerable people Introduction 1. The Shalom Catholic Community is a private association of the faithful by Canon Law. Its Charism was born from an experience with the Risen One who passed through the Cross and communicates his Peace to the world (cf. Jo 20:19-29). The foundations of the Charism are contemplation, unity and evangelization. Contemplation generates a peaceful and compassionate heart, satisfied by God and open to mankind. It is from this reconciliation that the Community feels called to reflect the Unity of the Communion of Love of the Trinity. This life of contemplation and unity is the true lever of our evangelization. 2. All the life and ...

“When we give everything, God finds a way to lead us to deeper waters in spirituality”
My name is Gladys Nalvarte and I am originally from Peru. I am married to Carlos Eduardo and we have a daughter, Mariana, 10 years old. When I was 24, I went to Brazil to study for my master’s and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering. After finishing my studies, I started working for a Norwegian company in Rio de Janeiro. It was during this period I first contacted Shalom, almost 12 years ago. I went to my prayer group and was part of the Shalom Work, participating in the daily mass. It was in the Community that I had my personal encounter with the love of God. I experienced the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and my life gradually became ...

On Flight Back from Holy Land, Pope Announces Meeting With Sex Abuse Victims
Pope Francis announced Monday he would meet soon with a group of sex abuse victims at the Vatican and declared “zero tolerance” for any member of the clergy who would violate a child. Francis also revealed that three bishops are currently under investigation by the Vatican for abuse-related reasons, though it wasn’t clear if they were accused of committing abuse itself or of having covered it up. “There are no privileges,” he told reporters en route back to Rome from Jerusalem. The meeting with a half-dozen victims will mark the first such encounter for the pope, who has been criticized by victims for not expressing personal solidarity with them when he has reached out to other people who suffer. Francis ...

Editing our own genes?
Several serious diseases are known to occur because of defects or mutations in our DNA. Curing such diseases could, in principle, be carried out by rewriting the DNA to fix the mutated base pairs. Yet, until recently scientists have remained largely stymied in their attempts to directly modify genes in a living animal. Findings described in the March 30, 2014 issue of Nature Biotechnology, however, reveal that a novel gene-editing technique, known as CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), can be used successfully in mice to reverse disease symptoms for a liver defect known as type I tyrosinemia. In humans, this potentially fatal ailment affects about one in 100,000 people. CRISPR, which enables researchers to snip out the mutated ...

Boston Archdiocese condemns ‘black mass’ at Harvard
The Archdiocese of Boston announced opposition, May 7, to a planned so- called “black mass” scheduled to be reenacted on campus at Harvard University. “The Catholic community in the Archdiocese of Boston expresses its deep sadness and strong opposition to the plan to stage a ‘black mass’ on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge,” the archdiocese said in a statement. The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club will host the reenactment to be held May 12 at Queens Head Pub in Memorial Hall, on campus. The Satanic Temple, a group known for promoting controversy such as pushing to have a Satan statue built outside the Oklahoma Capitol, will perform what it called a reenactment — said to be an inverted ...