Benedict XVI approves the election of Rev Emil Shimoun Nona by the Synod of Bishops of the Chaldean Church. The diocese had no leader since March 2008 when Mgr Rahho was abducted and murdered. Catholics in Mosul are full of “joy and renewed hope.”
"When, oh when, is the Holy Father going to stop this kind of thing, something that gives the whole world the impression that the one, true Church of Christ is now subject to Jewish opinion. Is there no one in the Vatican who can explain to Benedict that such talks and ..."