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SYDNEY (AP) -- Seven percent of priests in Australia's Catholic Church were accused of sexually abusing children over the past several decades, a lawyer said Monday as officials investigating institutional abuse across Australia revealed for the first time the extent of the crisis....
HOUSTON (AP) -- Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the rest of the New England Patriots have long been reluctant to rank their victories. They've refused to label any given season, or title, sweeter than another....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the lawsuit involving President Donald Trump's executive order restraining immigration (all times local):...
(Vatican Radio) The 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation offers Catholics and Lutherans an opportunity to take further steps towards reconciliation and full Christian unity. That was Pope Francis’ message on Monday to an ecumenical delegation from Germany, led by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, president of the German bishops conference, and top Protestant Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, chairman of the Evangelical Churches in Germany (EKD).Welcoming the delegation to the Vatican, Pope Francis praised the positive relationship between Catholics and Lutherans in Germany, urging them to be courageous and determined in their continuing journey together. “We share the same baptism”, he said, “we must walk together tirelessly!”Reflecting on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation , he said it’s an opportunity to put Christ back at the centre of their ecumenical relations. Just as the question of a merciful God was the driving force of Luther and ...
Zimbabwe’s Bishop-elect of Gokwe Diocese, Rudolf Nyandoro, has appealed for team spirit in the diocese.Pope Francis on 28 January 2017 appointed Monsignor Rudolf Nyandoro as the new Bishop of Gokwe Diocese in Zimbabwe. Monsignor Nyandoro takes over from Bishop Angel Floro who resigned from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Gokwe after reaching retirement age. A press release issued from Zimbabwe’s Apostolic Nunciature in Harare announced Monsignor Nyandoro’s appointment.“Today, 28 January 2017, His Holiness Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Gokwe presented by Right Reverend Bishop Angel M. Floro (according to can.401.1 of CIC). At the same time, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. Rudolf Nyandoro, Chancellor of the Diocese of Masvingo, as the new Bishop of Gokwe,” read the press statement.In an interview with Zimbabwe’s ‘Catholic Church News,’ the Bishop-elect who was unti...
Church in Kenya to launch a multi-media campaign aimed at the creation of a climate conducive to credible and peaceful national elections.The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) has tasked the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (CJPC), the Commission for Social Communications (Waumini Communications) and Caritas Kenya to work out a media campaign that will help towards the creation of a climate conducive to credible and peaceful national elections slated for August 2017.A communications team drawn from the two commissions, Caritas Kenya and Kenya’s Catholic Radio stations has been created. This week, the communications team met consultants in a three-days workshop to strategise on how to develop peace messages that would be relayed on television, radio, newspapers and digital media platforms across the country.The team which is to work in close collaboration with Bishops and priests in ensuring that political leaders and Kenyans embrace peace was informed that the...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis said Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta on Monday morning. In remarks to the faithful following the readings of the day, the Holy Father focused on the theme of Christian freedom, saying that the follower of Christ is a “slave” – but of love, not of duty, and urging the faithful not to hide in the “rigidity” of the Commandments.The Pope took the Responsorial Psalm, 103 (104) as his starting point: a “song of praise” to God for His wonders. “The Father,” said Pope Francis, “works to make this wonder of creation and with His Son to accomplish this wonder of re-creation.” Pope Francis also recalled an episode in which a child asked him what God was doing before He created the world: “He was loving,” was the response.Open your heart, do not take refuge in the rigidity of the CommandmentsWhy then did God create the world? “Simply to share His fullness,” Francis...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Messages about America, inclusiveness - and, yes, even "four years of awful hair" - kept bubbling up in Super Bowl 51 ads from Airbnb, the NFL and a line of personal care products. But there was still plenty of escapism and light humor for those who weren't into the politics....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawyers for Washington state and Minnesota have told a federal appellate court that restoring President Donald Trump's ban on refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries would "unleash chaos again."...
(Vatican Radio) Catholic bishops in the Philippines on Sunday called for resistance to a wave of apparent executions by police and vigilantes. In a pastoral letter read out in Mass, the bishops said not speaking out on the matter is tantamount to complicity.Listen to Alsatair Wanklyn's report In their pastoral letter, the Philippine bishops said while there is a drugs problem that needs to be faced, the enormous death toll is unacceptable.Many are killed not because of drugs, the bishops wrote. And those who kill them are not brought to account.The bishops added: An even greater concern is the "indifference" of many to what is going on."To keep stilent in front of evil is to be an accomplice," they said.There have been more than 7,000 recorded killings in only seven months, since Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte launched a campaign against drug pushers and users.There have been reports of bounties paid to police officers who kill, and last week human ri...
