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Munich, Germany, Oct 28, 2016 / 05:07 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a recent article for a German journal, Cardinal Walter Kasper – a protagonist for the admission of the divorced-and-remarried to Holy Communion – has written that Amoris laetitia marks a “paradigm shift” that allows for a “changed pastoral practice.”“There is leeway in the concrete elaboration of the dogmatic principles’ practical pastoral consequences,” the president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity wrote in his article for the November 2016 edition of Stimmen der Zeit, a monthly journal on Christian culture.Cardinal Kasper began by examining the range of interpretations of the apostolic exhortation issued by Pope Francis in March. He dismissed Cardinal Raymond Burke's denial that it is magisterially binding, saying this “formally contradicts the character of an apostolic exhortation as well as its content.”The cardinal ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Builders, churchleaders, choir members and journalists gathered atop eight floors ofscaffolding -- 159 feet high -- in the Basilica of the National Shrine of theImmaculate Conception Oct. 28 for the blessing of the workspace where a new mosaicwill be installed on the shrine's Trinity Dome."Itwill be a wonder to behold," said Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl ofthe dome, which is expected to be completed by the end of next year. The mosaic will depictthe Trinity, Mary and 13 saints associated with the United States or thenational shrine, the four evangelists and words from the Nicene Creed.Thefinished dome also will mark the completion of the national shrine, according to theoriginal architectural plans for the church set to mark its centennial in 2020-- the 100th anniversary of the placement of its foundational stone.Duringthe blessing, Cardinal Wuerl offered prayers for the success of the project andthe safety ...
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- A standoff between Dakota Access pipeline opponents and law enforcement over a highway roadblock diminished Friday without incident, a marked contrast to the forced removal a day earlier of protesters occupying private property....
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- When Deborah Giannecchini was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer four years ago, it didn't make sense. She had no family history, nor did she seem a high risk....
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The acquittal of seven people who occupied a federal wildlife sanctuary in Oregon was a rejection of the prosecution's conspiracy case, not an endorsement of the defendants' actions in the armed protest, a juror said Friday, a day after the stunning verdict that government officials feared could embolden other groups....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Bob Dylan says he "absolutely" wants to attend the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony "if it's at all possible" in December, finally breaking his silence about earning the prestigious honor....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI is investigating whether there is classified information in new emails uncovered during the sexting investigation of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of one of Hillary Clinton's closest aides....
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A new shock hit Hillary Clinton's campaign Friday in the unpredictable and often unbelievable presidential race: The FBI is looking into whether there was classified information on a device belonging to the estranged husband of one of her closest aides....
Washington D.C., Oct 28, 2016 / 09:28 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In an exclusive interview on the Eternal Word Television Network, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appealed to Catholic voters and other voters of faith, saying that his rival Hillary Clinton will be hostile to them.The interview, conducted by Raymond Arroyo, host of EWTN’s The World Over, aired Oct. 27, in the final days of a contentious election cycle.During the discussion, Trump said that Clinton is ultimately responsible for recently leaked emails from one of her leading staff members calling for a “revolution” in the Catholic Church. He pledged his commitment to religious freedom and said that Clinton’s remarks towards people of faith have been “terrible,” to the point that if he were Catholic, he would stop talking to other Catholics who voted for her.Trump also mentioned an experience in his life that he says led to a major pro-life conversion, and touched on his praye...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- His toes curl in pain, his veins bulgefrom exertion, his bony chest heaves in the last throes of death.Thenewly restored 14th-century wooden crucified Christ "has beenresurrected" from obscurity -- once caked over with dark paint and leftforgotten behind an elevator shaft, said Cardinal Angelo Comastri, archpriestof St. Peter's Basilica."We have discovered a hidden treasure under the dustof many centuries," he told reporters at a Vatican news conference Oct.28.The oldest crucifix in the basilica's possession, it wasmade by an unknown sculptor of "exceptional artistic talent" andtechnical skill sometime in the early 1300s, and hung in the originalfourth-century basilica of St. Peter, built by the Emperor Constantine, saidBishop Vittorio Lanzani, secretary of the Fabbrica di San Pietro, the officeresponsible for physical care and maintenance of St. Peter's Basilica.The 7-foot-longtorso and legs weremade in one piece from asoli...
