{"id":31873,"date":"2015-01-15T18:23:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T22:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31873"},"modified":"2015-01-15T18:23:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T22:23:03","slug":"amel-shamon-nona-as-new-bishop-of-chaldeans-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/01\/amel-shamon-nona-as-new-bishop-of-chaldeans-in-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Amel Shamon Nona as new bishop of Chaldeans in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Amel<\/a><\/span>Today,\u00a0Pope Francis nominated\u00a0Archbishop Amel Shamon Nona, 46, as the new bishop of the Chaldean eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle in Sydney, Australia. Nona is now the former\u00a0Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, Iraq, he retains the dignity of archbishop and succeeds Msgr. Djibrail Kassab, whose resignation was accepted.<\/p>\n

We know the horror Christians have faced in Mosul as ISIS forced Catholics and other Christians to flee, including\u00a0the intrepid this archbishop. Nona famously said that the first time in history no Mass was offered in his diocese in about 1700 years: he lost his diocese.<\/span><\/p>\n

The diocese, until 2003, was home to 35,000 souls; Mosul is\u00a095 miles north of Baghdad.<\/p>\n

Archbishop Nona has been living in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan at the Chaldean seminary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in August, Jesuit Father James Schall wrote, quoting the archbishop:<\/p>\n

\u201cTry to understand us,\u201d Archbishop Nona pleads. \u201cYour liberal and democratic principles are worth nothing here.\u201d Indeed, we can even argue that these principles paralyze us and make us blind to the reality of persecution by and in Islamic spheres. \u201cYou must reconsider our reality in the Middle East because you are welcoming in your countries an ever growing number of Muslims.\u201d We think these immigrants are coming to find jobs or to escape violence. But in fact many are coming with missionary purposes, to convert in one way or another everyone to Islam. The Christians of Mosul were given the standard Muslim choice\u2014conversion or death. Some managed to flee. \u00a0The Islamic State means business.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso you are in danger. You must take strong and courageous decisions even at the cost of contradicting your principles.\u201d We wonder: What is the man saying? \u201cContradict our principles?\u201d Are these principles not what make us free? The Archbishop sees them as the avenues by which the Islam that is now destroying his diocese and city will destroy European and American cities. We find this preposterous. Hence, we will not consider that the Archbishop may well be right. This is just some religious aberration in some far-off place.<\/p>\n

Seems to me that this is coming true. No?<\/p>\n

God bless Archbishop Nona in his new assignment. May God prosper the work of his hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today,\u00a0Pope Francis nominated\u00a0Archbishop Amel Shamon Nona, 46, as the new bishop of the Chaldean eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle in Sydney, Australia. Nona is now the former\u00a0Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, Iraq, he retains the dignity of archbishop and succeeds Msgr. Djibrail Kassab, whose resignation was accepted. We know the horror Christians have faced in … Continue reading Amel Shamon Nona as new bishop of Chaldeans in Sydney<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3057,32032],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31875,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31873\/revisions\/31875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}