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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Warner Bros. Records says it is about to unveil two projects by the late megastar Prince that include previously unreleased material....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- The Venezuelan opposition's campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro has been thrown into disarray with elections officials' decision to suspend a recall drive against the socialist leader a week before it was to start....
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa on Friday reversed its early support for the International Criminal Court and said it will withdraw from it, raising concerns of a possible African exodus that would undermine a human rights tribunal accused by some leaders of unfairly targeting the continent....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Syrian government on Friday opened a new corridor for rebels and civilians who want to leave the besieged eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo, but the U.N. said planned medical evacuations haven't begun as planned because of a lack of security assurances from the warring sides....
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- The Latest on the developments in Iraq where Iraqi forces and their allies launched a major offensive this week to retake Mosul, the country's second-largest city from the Islamic State group (all times local):...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Oklahoma and two other states say they have denied a request by Russian officials to be present at polling stations during the Nov. 8 election....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sharply at odds over the Republican's assertions that he may not concede if he loses on Election Day, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton chose cutting jabs over lighthearted teasing as they came face-to-face at a fundraiser. Yet both showed flashes of willingness to see beyond their bitter election battle, the archbishop who sat between them said Friday....
Vatican Weekend for October 23, 2016 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading in Jill Bevilacqua’s series, “There’s More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye” and EWTN’s Rome Bureau chief, Joan Lewis takes a look back over the past week’s events in the Vatican.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Tracey McClure:
Vatican Weekend for October 23, 2016 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading in Jill Bevilacqua’s series, “There’s More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye” and EWTN’s Rome Bureau chief, Joan Lewis takes a look back over the past week’s events in the Vatican.
Listen to this programme produced and presented by Tracey McClure:
Vatican Weekend for October 22, 2016 features a report on Pope Francis’ message for the upcoming World Day for Migrants and Refugees – with the focus on children. This is followed by a look at the UN’s new Secretary General who’s an expert on refugees – we’ll tell you what he had to say after he met Pope Francis at the start of his pontificate. And, the Jesuits elect their new Superior General - we take a peek at him and get an insider’s view of the Jesuit archives in Rome.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Tracey McClure:
Vatican Weekend for October 22, 2016 features a report on Pope Francis’ message for the upcoming World Day for Migrants and Refugees – with the focus on children. This is followed by a look at the UN’s new Secretary General who’s an expert on refugees – we’ll tell you what he had to say after he met Pope Francis at the start of his pontificate. And, the Jesuits elect their new Superior General - we take a peek at him and get an insider’s view of the Jesuit archives in Rome.
Listen to this programme produced and presented by Tracey McClure:
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis said humility, gentleness and magnanimity are the three key attitudes to build unity within the Church and urged Christians to reject envy, jealousy and conflicts. He was speaking at his Mass celebrated on Friday in the chapel of the Santa Marta residence.Taking his inspiration from the greeting at Mass “peace be with you,” the Pope focused his homily on what is required to nurture peace and unity and avoid war and conflicts. He said our Lord’s greeting “creates a bond” of peace and unites us to create a unity of spirit and warned that if there’s no peace and if we aren’t able to greet each other in the widest sense of the word, there will never be unity. The Pope explained that this concept applies for unity in the world, unity in the town, in the district and in the family.The evil spirit sows wars, Christians must avoid conflicts“The evil spirit always sows wars. Jealousy, envy, conflicts, gossip&helli...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis said humility, gentleness and magnanimity are the three key attitudes to build unity within the Church and urged Christians to reject envy, jealousy and conflicts. He was speaking at his Mass celebrated on Friday in the chapel of the Santa Marta residence.
Taking his inspiration from the greeting at Mass “peace be with you,” the Pope focused his homily on what is required to nurture peace and unity and avoid war and conflicts. He said our Lord’s greeting “creates a bond” of peace and unites us to create a unity of spirit and warned that if there’s no peace and if we aren’t able to greet each other in the widest sense of the word, there will never be unity. The Pope explained that this concept applies for unity in the world, unity in the town, in the district and in the family.
The evil spirit sows wars, Christians must avoid conflicts
“The evil spirit always sows wars. Jealousy, envy, conflicts, gossip…. are things that destroy peace and therefore there cannot be unity. And how should a Christian behave to promote unity, to find this unity? Paul tells us clearly: ‘live in a manner worthy, with all humility, gentleness and magnanimity.’ These three attitudes: humility - we cannot sow peace without humility. Where there is arrogance, there is always war and the desire to defeat the other and believing one is superior. Without humility there is no peace and without peace there is no unity.”
Rediscover gentleness and practice mutual support
Pope Francis lamented how nowadays we have lost the ability to speak gently and instead tend to shout at each other or speak badly about other people. He urged Christians to rediscover gentleness, saying by so doing, we are able to put up with each other, give mutual support, “be patient and put up with the faults of others or the things we don’t like.”
Help build unity with the bond of peace
“First: humility, second: gentleness with this mutual support, and third: magnanimity: a big heart, a wide-open heart that can accommodate everybody and that does not condemn, that does not become smaller because of trifling things: ‘who said that,’ ‘I heard that,’ ‘who…’ no, a large heart, there is room for everybody. And this creates the bond of peace; this is the worthy manner in which to behave to create the bond of peace which is the creator of unity. The Holy Spirit is the creator of unity but this encourages and prepares the creation of unity.”
These three attitudes, said the Pope, are the right way to respond to that call to the mystery of the Church and of Christ.
“The mystery of the Church is the mystery of the Body of Christ: ‘one faith, one Baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all’ and who works ‘through all and in all:’ this is the unity that Jesus asked the Father to grant us and we must help create this unity with the bond of peace. And the bond of peace grows with humility, with gentleness and mutual support and with magnanimity.”
