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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a telegram of condolences to the local archbishop after Tuesday’s deadly train collision in southern Italy. At least 25 people were killed and around 50 were wounded in the crash, some of them critically.Listen to Ann Schneible’s report: In Tuesday's telegram addressed to Archbishop Francesco Cacucci of Bari-Bitonto, and signed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Pope expressed “his warm and heartfelt participation in the suffering” of the families affected by the tragedy.The Pope assured them of his “fervent prayer of intercession for those tragically killed and,” and prayed for the “swift healing of the wounded.”Finally, Pope Francis bestowed his apostolic blessing, and entrusted all those affected by the tragedy to the “Maternal protection of the Virgin Mary.”The crash occurred at around 11:30 in Southern Italy’s Puglia region, tearing apart t...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a telegram of condolences to the local archbishop after Tuesday’s deadly train collision in southern Italy.
At least 25 people were killed and around 50 were wounded in the crash, some of them critically.
Listen to Ann Schneible’s report:
In Tuesday's telegram addressed to Archbishop Francesco Cacucci of Bari-Bitonto, and signed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Pope expressed “his warm and heartfelt participation in the suffering” of the families affected by the tragedy.
The Pope assured them of his “fervent prayer of intercession for those tragically killed and,” and prayed for the “swift healing of the wounded.”
Finally, Pope Francis bestowed his apostolic blessing, and entrusted all those affected by the tragedy to the “Maternal protection of the Virgin Mary.”
The crash occurred at around 11:30 in Southern Italy’s Puglia region, tearing apart three carriages and sending debris into the surrounding olive groves.
The two trains collided while on the same track connecting the small towns of Corato and Andria.
There was no immediate indication of the cause of the crash, but the government has promised a full and swift investigation.
Tuesday’s incident is Italy’s worst railway disaster in recent years.
The last major rail disaster in Italy was in 2009 when a freight train derailed the central Italian town Viareggio, killing more than 30 people living close to the tracks in the subsequent fire.
Washington D.C., Jul 13, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As the United States sends more troops to Iraq to help retake Mosul from the Islamic State, Catholics can view the action as just even while remaining vigilant about the long-term mission, one moral theologian said.“Political order is a good that the just war theory affirms, and our efforts to assist the Iraqi government in bringing increased stability to Iraq is part of our ongoing responsibility that traces all the way back to our original intervention in Iraq,” Dr. Joseph Capizzi, a professor of moral theology and ethics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., told CNA.The move should be seen as the U.S. trying “to remove ISIS from Iraq,” he said, noting that the terror group is “a threat to the stability of that entire region,” as well as that of Europe and the U.S., “and stability is a good,” he added.On Monday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the...
Washington D.C., Jul 13, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As the United States sends more troops to Iraq to help retake Mosul from the Islamic State, Catholics can view the action as just even while remaining vigilant about the long-term mission, one moral theologian said.
“Political order is a good that the just war theory affirms, and our efforts to assist the Iraqi government in bringing increased stability to Iraq is part of our ongoing responsibility that traces all the way back to our original intervention in Iraq,” Dr. Joseph Capizzi, a professor of moral theology and ethics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., told CNA.
The move should be seen as the U.S. trying “to remove ISIS from Iraq,” he said, noting that the terror group is “a threat to the stability of that entire region,” as well as that of Europe and the U.S., “and stability is a good,” he added.
On Monday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the U.S. would be sending 560 troops to Iraq to help the Iraqi Security Forces. Part of the mission would provide “infrastructure and logistical capabilities” at an airfield recently captured by Iraqi troops 40 miles south of Mosul, to help the Iraqis retake the country’s second-largest city from the Islamic State.
“So the idea is that these new U.S. forces would be used to secure the airfield and essentially get it up and running as a logistics hub that would support ongoing operations by Iraqi security forces,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said at the July 11 press briefing.
Some troops would also act as a “security envelope” for the Iraqi forces, Carter said.
Mosul, in the northern part of the country, has been in the hands of the Islamic State since the summer of 2014 when its forces displaced hundreds of thousands of residents, many of whom left with little to no possessions.
The 560 newly deployed U.S. troops will join the more than 4,000 already in Iraq.
Catholics should be wary about increases to the number of soldiers there and of any “mission creep” that results from the U.S. presence, Capizzi warned.
“There’s just a lack of forthcoming about how many troops are there, and what the nature of the commitment is,” he noted. “And that’s not a good thing. It sort of shadows how involved the U.S. military is or needs to be.”
“It’s something Americans should be vigilant about,” he added, saying citizens should be “tracking the nature of America’s involvement here” since “it’s not going away.”
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