Cesar Fernandez-Stoll

Canada News Centre - Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada in Beijing, China Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada in Beijing, China “Our Government is pleased with the progress achieved today, and we look forward to continuing to strengthen our strategic partnership with China, while maintaining a frank and respectful dialogue on issues of human rights and the rule of law.” Really?! They told you that? Why is the media making so much fuss when someone is in business with a child-molester or an spouse-abuser, or for that matter a criminal of any kind and when the nation is taking to do official business with the devil, we take it as progress achieved? How? I guess for Stephen Harper it is not 'debatable' either the disastrous one-child policy of the Chinese regime. After all if in Canada a human being is not one, why would it be one in China? God has created us to His image and likeness and as such we are all equal under Him and that is the way needs to be under the law...

Gospel text ( Mark 8,1-10): A great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them, «I feel sorry for these people because they have been with me for three days and now have nothing to eat. If I send them to their homes hungry, they will faint on the way; some of them have come a long way». His disciples replied, «Where in a deserted place like this could we get enough bread to feed these people?». He asked them, «How many loaves have you?». And they answered, «Seven». Then He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves and giving thanks, he broke them and handed them to his disciples to distribute. And they distributed them among the people. They also had some small fish, so Jesus said a blessing and asked that these be shared as well. The people ate and were satisfied. The broken pieces were collected, seven wicker baskets full of leftovers. Now there had been about four thousand people. Jesus sent them...

Gospel text ( Mark 7,31-37): Again Jesus set out; from the country of Tyre, passed through Sidon and, skirting the sea of Galilee, he came to the territory of Decapolis. There a deaf man who also had difficulty in speaking was brought to him. They asked Jesus to lay his hand upon him. Jesus took him apart from the crowd, put his fingers into the man's ears and touched his tongue with spittle. Then, looking up to heaven, he groaned and said to him, «Epheta», that is, be opened. And his ears were opened, his tongue was loosened, and he began to speak clearly. Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone, but the more he insisted on this, the more they proclaimed it. The people were completely astonished and said, «He has done all things well; he makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak».