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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Donald Trump warned on Thursday that a cloud of investigation would follow Hillary Clinton into the White House, evoking the bitter impeachment battle of the 1990s in a closing campaign argument meant to bring wayward Republicans home. Clinton and her allies, led by President Barack Obama, told voters to get serious about the dangers of Trump....
Pope Francis returned to Rome Tuesday evening after a 2-day visit to Malmo and Lund in southern Sweden, where he joined the Lutheran World Federation in kicking off a yearlong celebration of 500 years of the Protestant Reformation sparked by Martin Luther that brought about a major split in the Catholic Church. The Pope had two important events on Monday, Oct. 31. His first was a common ecumenical prayer service in the evening with the Lutheran World Federation at Lund Cathedral, where the group was founded in 1947. From there the Pope went to the indoor stadium of Malmo for an ecumenical event with several Christian Churches. Besides the signing of a Declaration of Intent, entitled “Together in Hope” by Caritas Internationalis and the Lutheran World Federation World Service, pledging to recommit themselves to working together in responding to the world’s humanitarian needs, the Malmo event also fea...
(Vatican Radio) The Press Office of the Holy See was the scene on Thursday morning for a conference featuring the President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, who presented the final major celebrations associated with the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy at the Vatican: the Jubilee for Prisoners on November 5th and 6th; and the Jubilee for the Socially Excluded from November 11th to 13th.Each particular Jubilee will culminate with Mass in St. Peter’s Square.The Jubilee for Prisoners will involve a contingent of persons currently serving penal sentences in Spain, along with persons of several different nationalities currently incarcerated in Italy, as well as hundreds of people either released on parole or who have served their sentences and are working to rejoin society. Over 1 thousand people either currently serving time or who have served time in prison are expected to take part in the Jubilee i...
The Maronite bishops have welcomed the election of General Aoun as 13th president of Lebanese Republic at a meeting held on Wednesday in Bkerkè.Michel Aoun 81, the former Lebanese army chief, has been elected president of Lebanon, ending more than two years of deadlock surrounding the vacancy.Now the goal, added the prelates, is the "quick" formation of an "efficient government" that is able to face and solve the old problems - economic crisis, institutional stalemate, domestic terrorism, border wars and reception of refugees - investing the Land of the Cedars.At their monthly assembly, which was held on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerké under the chairmanship of Cardinal Beshara Rai, the bishops stressed the joint efforts of all parties in Aoun’s election.The prelates appreciated the reference in the inaugural speech of the new head of state, to the need for political, economic, administrative and soc...
(Vatican Radio) With at least 239 migrants dying in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Thursday that the EU is “closing down all the avenues” for migrants to reach Europe and therefore there's a "very dangerous situation" with people "racing” to get across the sea before “the gate closes finally.”Leonard Doyle, the chief spokesperson for the IOM, predicted that as a result of these increased border patrols, more and more people in desperate situations are going “to throw caution to the winds” over the coming weeks in their attempt to get across the sea to Europe in “very unsafe conditions.” Doyle said there was "an absolute antipathy" right across Europe towards these people who are described as "irregular migrants" and whose application as asylum seekers is likely to be rejected. He was interviewed by Susy Hodges. Listen ...
London, England, Nov 3, 2016 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- You might have heard of Phil Mulryne, a Manchester United footballer who's shared the field with David Beckham and brought fame to Ireland with 27 caps – international appearances – in his athletic career.But now, Mulryne is setting aside his jersey to pursue the vocation of a Catholic Dominican priest.“This for me was one of the major reasons that attracted me to the religious life,” Mulryne said in a video interview posted by the Daily Mail.“To give oneself completely to God through the profession of the evangelical councils, to take him as our example and despite our weakness and our defects, trust in Him that he will transform us by his grace, and thus being transformed, communicate the joy in knowing him to everyone we meet – this for me is the ideal of Dominican life and one of the major reasons of what attracted me to the order.”Mulryne, a 38-year old Irishman, began his ca...
Vatican City, Nov 3, 2016 / 06:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis spoke to representatives of different religions Thursday, telling them that acts of terrorism and violence must be very clearly condemned, while love and mercy – the heart of authentic religion – must be promoted.“Sadly, not a day passes that we do not hear of acts of violence, conflict, kidnapping, terrorist attacks, killings and destruction,” Pope Francis said, adding that “it is horrible that at times, to justify such barbarism, the name of a religion or the name of God himself is invoked.”“May there be clear condemnation of these iniquitous attitudes that profane the name of God and sully the religious quest of mankind.”Instead, he asked that “the aimless paths of disagreement and closed-mindedness” be rejected, and replaced with the path of a “peaceful encounter” among believers.As part of the Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis met with around ...
Vatican City, Nov 3, 2016 / 07:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Nov. 6, a special Jubilee for Prisoners will be celebrated at the Vatican, drawing detainees and their families from around Italy and beyond to St. Peter’s Basilica for Mass with Pope Francis and a special reception after. “For the first time it will be possible for a large number of detainees from different parts of Italy and other countries to be present in St. Peter's Basilica to live the Jubilee with Pope Francis,” Archbishop Rino Fisichella said Nov. 3.“We know that the Pope takes great care of detained persons,” he said, noting how in each of his trips abroad, Francis “has repeatedly wanted to visit prisoners and leave the detained a message of closeness and hope.”Archbishop Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, spoke to journalists at the presentation of the Jubilee for Prisoners, as well as that of the Nov. 13 Jub...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul JeffreyBy Paul JeffreyKIDAPAWAN,Philippines (CNS) -- Justice is slow in the Philippines, but Father Peter Geremiais running out of patience as he awaits justice for the killers of a fellowpriest.Father Geremiais hoping that the country's new president, Rodrigo Duterte, cancut through the impunity and corruption that the priest says have preventedbringing to justice the killers of Father Fausto Tentorio. The Italianmissionary was shot to death on Oct. 17, 2011, just outside his parishoffice in the rural town of Arakan on the southern island of Mindanao, where hehad helped indigenous communities organize to resist the theft of their landsby foreign mining companies, loggers, and large agro-export plantations.Father Geremia,who was born in Italy but became a U.S. citizen in 1971 after living in theUnited States for more than a decade, is a member of the Pontifical Institutefor Foreign Missions, as were Father Tentorio and two other priests assassinatedin Mindanao...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Remo Casilli, ReutersBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When the Benedictine monks inNorcia led residents in prayer before the ruins of their medieval city, theyshowed one way the church steps into action in times of crisis.First responders encouraged the religious, recognizingthey could do their job better when the distraught receive emotional orspiritual rescue, too. SOS, after all, means "save our souls."In fact, the one disaster that cameras don't easily capture isthe shattering of people's resolve and the collapse of courage when everythingthey have is gone."Certainly the crumbled walls and the missingroofs" are a problem, Archbishop Renato Boccardo of Spoleto-Norcia said,but the most serious concern is the people -- "people who have been livingfor two months in a state of continual fear and worry and are underconsiderable psychological stress and losing hope."He told Vatican Radio the day after the Oct. 30 tremorsthat the people he talks to are tired of star...
