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(Vatican Radio) The Vatican has announced the titles and diaconates of the Cardinals who were created by Pope Francis on Saturday.The cardinalate historically is related to the senior clergy of the Church of Rome, and even now all Cardinals are assigned a parish church in Rome as their titular church. All Cardinals created before their 80th birthday are required to be Bishops, and all Cardinals, of whatever age, are currently priests; however, when being assigned their titular churches, new Cardinals are placed in the respective orders of Cardinal Bishop, Cardinal Priest, or Cardinal Deacon.At Saturday’s consistory, the newly-created Cardinals were assigned the following Roman churches: Card. Mario ZENARI Deaconry of Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri Card. Dieudonné NZAPALAINGA, C.S.Sp. Title of Sant’Andrea della Valle Card. Carlos OSORO SIERRA Title of Santa Maria in Trastevere Card. Sérgio DA ROCHA Title of Santa Croce in vi...
(Vatican Radio) The Jubilee of Mercy has been a year that has been celebrated not just in Rome but around the world. As it draws to a close Vatican Radio's Lydia O'Kane looks back at the voices from this Extraordinary Year.Listen:
Vatican City, Nov 19, 2016 / 03:59 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Saturday Pope Francis handed a red hat to 17 new cardinals, warning them against the danger of falling into polemics and animosity and encouraging them to be close to their people, imitating God’s mercy.“Ours is an age of grave global problems and issues. We live at a time in which polarization and exclusion are burgeoning and considered the only way to resolve conflicts,” the Pope said Nov. 19.Using the current global migration crisis as an example, he noted how easy it is to view those considered to be “strangers” to be seen as a threat, and to “take on the status of an enemy.”Whether it’s because they have different customs, different colored skin, a different language, a lower social class or even because they have a different faith, these people are often marginalized and “without our realizing it, this way of thinking becomes part of the way we live and act.”&...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- The huge earthquake that hit New Zealand this past week, buckling roads, uplifting sections of coastline and killing two people, also exposed problems in how the country monitors its earthquake risk and prepares for tsunamis. And it raised questions about whether the city of Wellington put people at risk by reopening buildings too soon....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis on Saturday decried what he called a polarizing surge in much of the world to exclude people with different nationalities, races or beliefs as enemies, as he led a ceremony welcoming 17 new cardinals from six continents....
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan (AP) -- Marzia and her husband Qadeer thought themselves lucky when they moved into a 1,700-year-old Buddhist cave hand-carved into the side of a mountain in Afghanistan's central highlands - it was clean and dry, warm in the winter, cool in the summer, and there was plenty of work on the local farms. But now, even this bare-bones way of life is threatened....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea is seeing its biggest wave of street demonstrations in decades, but gone are the raised fists, flying rocks and police water cannons that had symbolized the intensity of the country's protest culture....
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi troops faced stiff resistance Saturday from Islamic State militants as they pushed deeper into eastern Mosul, backed by aerial support from the U.S.-led international coalition, a senior military commander said....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met on Friday with bishops from around the world who are attending a course at the Vatican tribunal of the Roman Rota to discuss recent developments regarding marriage annulments.In September 2015 Pope Francis issued two new documents introducing reforms to the legal structures of the Church, making marital nullity trials simpler, faster and less expensive.Listen to Ann Schneible’s report: In his words to participants at the three day Vatican training course, the Pope noted that bishops must be both “teachers of the faith” but also those who learn from the needs and questions of men and women today.Quoting from Scripture and from his predecessor Paul VI, Pope Francis said that the spiritual health of those entrusted to the bishops must be the goal of all pastoral activity.Pursuing this aim of the “salvation of souls”, he said, it is important to eliminate all financial and bureaucratic impediments which prevent the faithfu...
BOSTON (AP) -- It resembles the symbol for infinity: a sideways "S'' that Kara Goucher, Molly Huddle and other elite U.S. athletes suddenly are sporting on biceps, wrists and shins....
