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Vatican City, Feb 3, 2017 / 07:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- While divisions between the Vatican and the Society of St. Pius X still exist, representatives from both sides have said the proposal of a personal prelature appears to be the best option for manifesting unity, and steps are already being taken to study it.The SSPX believes “that the Roman authorities consider the personal prelature to be the canonical structure which best reflects our real situation,” Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the Society, said in an interview with Spanish magazine Vida Nueva published Feb. 3.And when it comes to the Society themselves, he said, “we also think that the personal prelature is the most appropriate regimen for the Society in the current circumstances.”A personal prelature, which is a Church jurisdiction without geographical boundaries designed to carry out particular pastoral initiatives, has been on the table for the SSPX for years. At present, the only per...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When religious orders focus onsurvival rather than on sharing the joy and hope of faith in Jesus, they end upbeing "professionals of the sacred, but not fathers and mothers,"Pope Francis said."The temptation of survival turns what the Lordpresents as an opportunity for mission into something dangerous, threatening,potentially disastrous," the pope told consecrated men and women whojoined him Feb. 2 for Mass on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord and theWorld Day for Consecrated Life.Speaking as a fellow member of a religious order, PopeFrancis urged religious to keep alive the faith, hope and audacity of the men andwomen who founded the orders to which they belong."We are heirs to those who have gone before us and hadthe courage to dream," he said during the Mass, which began with theblessing of candles celebrating the presentation of Christ as the light of theworld.The feast day Gospel reading from St. Luke tells the storyof Mary and Jose...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The Latest on the proposed four-state, $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline. (all times local):...
A top aide to President Donald Trump said Friday she misspoke when she cited a 2011 "massacre" in Kentucky that never happened....
SMYRNA, Del. (AP) -- Forced into a closet by inmates at Delaware's largest prison, Sgt. Steven Floyd called out to officers coming to his aid, warning them that inmates had set a trap - saving their lives with his final actions, the head of the state corrections officers' union said....
UTICA, N.Y. (AP) -- It's not unusual around Utica to see tables full of Bosnians sipping strong coffee in cafes, Muslim women in hijabs shopping at grocery stores and Somalis raised in equatorial heat heading to work in the blowing snow....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. employers stepped up hiring last month, adding a healthy 227,000 jobs, and more Americans began looking for work, a sign that President Donald Trump has inherited a robust job market....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Betsy DeVos's embattled nomination for education secretary cleared another hurdle in the Senate on Friday as Republicans overpowered fierce resistance from Democrats....
