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NEW YORK (AP) -- Even Mr. Met is frustrated with the team's disappointing start....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The man responsible for a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University last year left behind a torn-up note in which he urged his family to stop being "moderate" Muslims and said he was upset by fellow Muslims being oppressed in Myanmar, The Associated Press has learned....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghans mourned the loss of family members, friends and colleagues on Thursday, a day after a massive truck bomb exploded in the capital, killing at least 90 people and wounding more than 450 in one of the worst extremist attacks since the drawdown of foreign forces from the country in 2014....
PARIS (AP) -- Cyberspace faces an approaching risk of "permanent war" between states and criminal or extremist organizations because of increasingly destructive hacking attacks, the head of the French government's cybersecurity agency warned Thursday....
ST.PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin insisted Thursday that the Russian state has never engaged in hacking and said Moscow will wait out the current political storm in the U.S. to forge constructive relations with President Donald Trump, whom he praised as a straightforward person with a "fresh set of eyes."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump may abandon U.S. pledges to reduce carbon emissions that contribute to global warming, but that step seems unlikely to stall the push to adopt cleaner forms of energy....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stepping back from a campaign promise, President Donald Trump on Thursday decided not to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, at least for the next six months. The White House described Trump's waiver as a move to improve chances for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, but the relocation also risked igniting tensions across the Middle East....
(Vatican Radio) His Beatitude, Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine, and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, has died following a serious illness. He was 84.Biography of LUBOMYR Cardinal HUSARH.B. Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, of the Ukrainian Studite Monks, Major Archbishop emeritus of Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine, was born on 26 February 1933 in Lviv. Due to the war, his family fled to Austria and then to the USA. He was ordained for the Eparchy of Stamford for Ukrainians, USA, on 30 March 1958.He taught in the seminary and was parish priest in Kehonkson, New York. After earning a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Urbanian University, Rome, he joined the Studite Monks and was superior of the Studion in Grottaferrata, Italy. On 2 April 1977 he was ordained a Bishop by Cardinal Josyf Slipyj and on 23 July 1978 was named Archimandrite of Studite Monks residing outside Ukraine.In 1994 he organized a new Studite monastery in Ternopil, Ukraine. On 22 Febru...
(Vatican Radio) His Beatitude, Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine, and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, has died following a serious illness. He was 84.
Biography of LUBOMYR Cardinal HUSAR
H.B. Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, of the Ukrainian Studite Monks, Major Archbishop emeritus of Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine, was born on 26 February 1933 in Lviv. Due to the war, his family fled to Austria and then to the USA. He was ordained for the Eparchy of Stamford for Ukrainians, USA, on 30 March 1958.
He taught in the seminary and was parish priest in Kehonkson, New York. After earning a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Urbanian University, Rome, he joined the Studite Monks and was superior of the Studion in Grottaferrata, Italy. On 2 April 1977 he was ordained a Bishop by Cardinal Josyf Slipyj and on 23 July 1978 was named Archimandrite of Studite Monks residing outside Ukraine.
In 1994 he organized a new Studite monastery in Ternopil, Ukraine. On 22 February 1996 he was confirmed bishop and nominated to the titular church of Nisa di Licia. On 2 April of the same year, he was elected Exarch of Kyiv-Vyshhorod.
On 14 October 1996, the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church elected him as Auxiliary of the Major Archbishop of Lviv. Following the death of Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky, on 25 January 2001 the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Church elected him Major Archbishop of Lviv for Ukrainians. The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, confirmed the election the next day. He was created and proclaimed Cardinal by the same Pope just one month later, in the consistory of 21 February 2001.
In June of 2001, Cardinal Husar welcomed Pope John Paul II to Ukraine, on the Polish Pope’s first visit to a former Soviet republic.
On 6 December 2004, the Major Archbishopric of Lviv changed its name to Kyiv-Halyc, and was transferred to Ukraine’s capital city. In April 2005, Cardinal Husar took part in the conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI.
Cardinal Husar served as Major Archbishop until 10 February 2011, when his resignation was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI. He served at the same time (2001-2011) as President of the Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church .
Memory eternal.
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received in audience on Thursday members of the European Federation of Catholic Family Associations or (FAFCE).The federation was meeting the Pope on the occasion of its 20th Anniversary.FAFCE represents Catholic family associations from 14 European countries and has participatory status with the Council of Europe.Listen to Lydia O’Kane’s interview with the President of the European Federation of Catholic Family Associations, Antoine Renard who spoke earlier this week about this important anniversary and the challenges facing the family today. In his prepared words to those gathered for this anniversary, Pope Francis said that the family was Europe’s most precious treasure.He continued by saying that families were not “museum pieces, but through them, the gift is made concrete in mutual commitment and generous openness to children, but also in service to society.” Families, the Pope added, “are thus a kind of le...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received in audience on Thursday members of the European Federation of Catholic Family Associations or (FAFCE).
The federation was meeting the Pope on the occasion of its 20th Anniversary.
FAFCE represents Catholic family associations from 14 European countries and has participatory status with the Council of Europe.
Listen to Lydia O’Kane’s interview with the President of the European Federation of Catholic Family Associations, Antoine Renard who spoke earlier this week about this important anniversary and the challenges facing the family today.
In his prepared words to those gathered for this anniversary, Pope Francis said that the family was Europe’s most precious treasure.
He continued by saying that families were not “museum pieces, but through them, the gift is made concrete in mutual commitment and generous openness to children, but also in service to society.”
Families, the Pope added, “are thus a kind of leaven that helps to make the world more humane and more fraternal, where no one feels rejected or abandoned.”
Crises in the family
During his speech Pope Francis noted that, “crises of different types are presently springing up in Europe, not least in the institution of the family.” But, he said, “crises are incentives to work harder and better, with trust and hope.”
The Holy Father noted four crises in particular that are affecting Europe at the present time, highlighting demographics, migration, employment and education.
He stressed that “these crises might find positive outcomes precisely in the culture of encounter, if different social, economic and political actors were to join in shaping policies supportive of families.”
In conclusion, the Holy Father said that families had much to learn from the wisdom of their elders.
With this wisdom he underlined, “your service to the sacredness of life takes concrete form in the covenant between generations and in service to all, especially those most in need,... in defending the right to life of the unborn who have no voice, and in ensuring dignified living conditions for the elderly."
(Vatican Radio) The life of St Paul, characterised by preaching, persecutions and prayer, can be a model for all Christians today. That was the theme of Pope Francis’ homily at his Santa Marta Mass on Thursday morning.Philippa Hitchen reports: Reflecting on the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles, Pope Francis described St Paul as the ultimate action man. It’s hard to imagine him, relaxing under a beach umbrella, he said, because he was always on the go and rarely to be found sat in front of a desk.Passion for preachingInstead, the Pope said, St Paul was driven by a passion for preaching and was always on the move, announcing Jesus Christ to the world.This passion for preaching led to a second characteristic of the apostle’s life which was the persecutions he suffered at the hands of the religious leaders of his day. But the Pope noted how Paul was inspired by the Spirit and was able to sow divisions between the Sadducees, who didn’t believe in the ...
(Vatican Radio) The life of St Paul, characterised by preaching, persecutions and prayer, can be a model for all Christians today. That was the theme of Pope Francis’ homily at his Santa Marta Mass on Thursday morning.
Philippa Hitchen reports:
Reflecting on the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles, Pope Francis described St Paul as the ultimate action man. It’s hard to imagine him, relaxing under a beach umbrella, he said, because he was always on the go and rarely to be found sat in front of a desk.
Passion for preaching
Instead, the Pope said, St Paul was driven by a passion for preaching and was always on the move, announcing Jesus Christ to the world.
This passion for preaching led to a second characteristic of the apostle’s life which was the persecutions he suffered at the hands of the religious leaders of his day. But the Pope noted how Paul was inspired by the Spirit and was able to sow divisions between the Sadducees, who didn’t believe in the Resurrection and the Pharisees, who did.
Resisting persecution
Speaking in front of the Sanhedrin, Paul said: "My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; I am on trial for hope in the resurrection of the dead." Immediately an argument broke out, the Pope noted, because these custodians of the Law were all divided in their beliefs. They had lost their faith, he said, because they had transformed their laws and doctrine into ideologies.
Man of prayer
The third aspect of Paul’s life, which Pope Francis spoke about was that of prayer, of his intimate relationship with the Lord. Alongside this tireless mission of preaching to the ends of the earth and struggling against his persecutors, Paul displays a mystic dimension of his encounter with the Risen Christ, whom he first met on the road to Damascus.
Paul’s strength, the Pope said, comes from being a man of prayer who constantly seeks and encounters the Lord.
Pope Francis concluded with a wish that we too may be given the grace to learn these three attitudes of preaching, of resisting persecution and of encountering Christ through prayer.
