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IMAGE: CNS photo/Fabio Frustaci, EPABy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- All Christians are called to bemissionaries, concerned more with sharing the Gospel than with earning money oreven with being successful at winning converts, Pope Francis said."A baptized person who does not feel the need toproclaim the Gospel, to announce Christ, is not a good Christian," thepope said July 15before reciting the Angelus prayer with an estimated 15,000 people gathered inSt. Peter's Square.Pope Francis was commenting on the day's Gospel reading,which told about how Jesus sent the disciples out two-by-two to preach and toheal in his name."It was a kind of apprenticeship for what they would becalled to do with the power of the Holy Spirit after the resurrection of theLord," the pope explained.Speaking only in the name of Jesus, he said, "theapostles had nothing of their own to proclaim and none of their own abilitiesto demonstrate, but they spoke and acted as emissaries, as messengers ofJesus.""Th...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Michael Brown, Catholic OutlookBy Michael BrownNOGALES, Mexico (CNS) -- DominicanSister Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, grewemotional talking about the harrowing stories she heard from immigrants aboutthe life they left behind to seek refuge in the United States."The suffering they are goingthrough is unimaginable," she said after listening to stories from familieswaiting to apply for asylum at the international border at Nogales in the Mexicanstate of Sonora.Sister Markham, who recentlycompleted a tour of a detention facility for children in McAllen, Texas, saidshe wanted to visit Nogales to get the whole story behind the current publicdebate over immigration."Their stories," she said, pausingto compose herself. "They are running for their lives. Literally, they left atgunpoint."She was joined July 11 at theNogales Port of Entry by Jesuit Father Sean Carroll, executive director of theKino Border Initiative, an organization that assists m...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- World War I and its aftermath changedthe map of Europe, but also dismantled the notion of the "statechurch" in a way that forced the Catholic Church to discover again theauthentic meaning of mission, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin.After the war, Pope Benedict XV "was prompt in indicatinghow the missionary world must change paths, abandoning the colonial ideology inwhich it had been lulled and promoting autonomy, independence and ecclesial self-governancein all the areas outside Europe," said the Vatican secretary of state.Speaking at a conference July 12 anticipating the 100thanniversary of the end of World War I, Cardinal Parolin looked at the wide-rangingimpact of the war and its aftermath on the political map of Europe, and howthat affected the fates of peoples in the Middle East and in the countries ofwhat would become the Soviet Union.But he also spoke about Pope Benedict's 1919 apostolicletter "Maximum Illud" on t...
