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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- Survivors of an overnight attack that killed 61 people at a Pakistani police academy described chaotic scenes of gunfire and explosions, with militants shooting anyone they saw and cadets running for their lives and jumping from windows and rooftops....
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A data analysis firm hired by a voter registration group said on Tuesday that Indiana's voter database is riddled with errors, including thousands of people over the age of 110 who would likely be deceased but are still on the registration list....
DORAL, Florida (AP) -- Suddenly armed with fresh political ammunition, Donald Trump and anxious Republicans across the nation seized on spiking health care costs Tuesday in a final-days push to spark election momentum....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):...
The Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill have ended their 16th General Chapter with the new Superior General, Fr. Thulani Victor Mbuyisa, telling delegates that the Holy Father, Pope Francis told him: “Tell your confreres to be faithful to the spirituality of your founder (Abbot Francis Pfanner).” Fr. Thulani narrated this during the General Chapter’s closing Mass at the Mariannhill Generalate in Rome at the weekend. Fr. Thulani accompanied by the outgoing Superior General, Fr. Damian Weber, met Pope Francis last week on Wednesday in St. Peter’s. After passing on the message of the Holy Father to the delegates, Fr. Thulani then proceeded to officially send the delegates from the Chapter back to their regions. He encouraged them to share the experiences of the Chapter with other brothers who had sent them to Rome as representatives. During the same Mass, Fr. Thulani commissioned and gave the mission cross to Fr. Brian Nonde, a Zambi...
(Vatican Radio) The Vatican issued a statement on Tuesday announcing the work of the cataloguing and digitalizing of the archival material possessed by the Episcopal Conference of Argentina, the Apostolic Nunciature in Buenos Aires, and the Vatican’s Secretariat of State related to Argentina’s Military Dictatorship Period (1976-1983) has ended.The statement said the Executive Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, and Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Secretary for Relations with States, on Saturday, 15 October, to assess the project.The Executive Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina is composed of the President, Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, José María Arancedo; the First Vice President, Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Primate of Argentina, Cardinal Mario Aurelio Poli; the Second Deputy, Archbishop of Salta, Mario Antonio Cargnello; and the Secretary...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday November 4th at 11.30 am in memory of all the Cardinals and Bishops who have passed away during this year.
Lima, Peru, Oct 25, 2016 / 06:35 am (CNA/EWTN News).- At the National Prayer Breakfast in Lima, Peru on Friday, the nation’s president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, consecrated the country, his family and himself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.Taking part in the National Day of Prayer at the Swissôtel in Lima, Kuczynski in his capacity as president offered the prayer of consecration, written by the Mission for the Love of God in the Whole World.“By the authority vested in me, I make an act of consecration of myself, my family and the Republic of Peru, to the love and protection of Almighty God through the intercession of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,” the president said.Participating in the event were important business and political leaders in the country, including the President of Congress, Luz Salgado, who also offered a prayer asking God for his help and protection.Of the 21 prayer breakfasts that ha...
Vatican City, Oct 25, 2016 / 09:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released an instruction Tuesday regarding burial and cremation, reiterating the Church's teaching that cremation, while strongly discouraged, can be permissible under certain restrictions – and that scattering the ashes is forbidden.Ad resurgendum cum Christo, or “To rise with Christ”, published Oct. 25, states that while cremation “is not prohibited” the Church “continues to prefer the practice of burying the bodies of the deceased, because this shows a greater esteem towards the deceased.”The document explains that after “legitimate motives” for cremation have been ascertained, the “ashes of the faithful must be laid to rest in a sacred place,” such as in a cemetery or church. It goes on to state that is not permitted to keep the ashes in a home or to scatter them “in the air, on land, at sea or in some o...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICANCITY -- God's kingdom is not a well-organized structure where only strictadherents of the law can enter but a path that is walked upon every day withmeekness and docility, Pope Francis said. Christiansare called to walk that path of the kingdom and not fall victim to "abehavior of rigidity" that prevents the Holy Spirit from growing, the pope said in his homily Oct. 25 during his morning Mass inthe Domus Sanctae Marthae."The kingdom does not grow in this way and neither do we grow. Itis docility to the Holy Spirit that makes us grow and be transformed," hesaid. The pope reflected on the day's Gospel from St. Luke, in which Jesus comparesthe kingdom of God to a mustard seed that grows into a large bush and likeyeast that is mixed with flour "until the whole batch of dough isleavened."Jesus' comparison of the kingdom to a mustard seed and the yeast, thepope said, is a reminder that in order for the Holy Spirit to grow, it mustfirst "die" and transform in...
