ECOLOGICAL CONVERSION -When degradation of the environment
in Africa is linked to exploitation of natural resources the Church stimulates
"ecological conversion" . The Bishop of Umahia in Nigeria, Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji
explains... VATICAN CENTURIES PART 21 - In Episode 21 of "The
Vatican Centuries ", we hear how the popes move to Avignon and how the Black Death
rages in Rome . VEN I, COME LORD - Every day from the 17th to the
23rd December there's a beautiful plainchant antiphon to sing at Vespers . Monsignor
Philip Whitmore ... TIME OF HOPE - Connecting Advent tide with
Pope Benedict's November 2007 encyclical "Spe Salvi ". Well known author Jesuit Father
Gerald O'Collins ...