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IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican MuseumsBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- What do the Sistine Chapel, a used car with 186,000miles on the odometer and a statue of Our Lady of Lujanmade out of metal from an abandoned factory have in common?Besides being found in the Vatican Museums' collections,the 1984 Renault, the Renaissance frescoes and the recycled scrap all helpshowcase Pope Francis' concept of art, according to museum officials.Blessed Paul VI's close relationship and active outreachto artists is well-known, as is St. John Paul II's love of theater and poetryand retired Pope Benedict XVI's passion for music.But not many people know about Pope Francis' love offilm, literature, music and the role he believes art can play in evangelization,social change and spiritual transformation. A new documentary produced bythe Vatican Museums and Vatican City State aims to fill that void.Titled "My Idea of Art," the 45-minute film isbased on the book of the same name, authored by Pope Francis aft...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Arne Dedert, EPABy VATICANCITY (CNS) -- Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who spent 22 years as director of theVatican press office, died at home in Rome July 5 at age 80 following a battlewith pancreatic cancer. Thecurrent director of the Vatican press office, Greg Burke, announced his deathin a tweet.Ina statement to Catholic News Service, Burke said he did not always agree withNavarro-Valls, but his predecessor "always behaved like a Christiangentleman - and those can be hard to find these days.""JoaquinNavarro embodied what Ernest Hemingway defined as courage: grace underpressure. I got to know Navarro when I was working for Time, and the magazinenamed John Paul II Man of the Year. I expected to find a man of faith, but Ifound a man of faith who was also a first-class professional."Burkesaid he remembered watching Navarro-Valls closely during the 1994 U.N.International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, which Burkedescribed as "one of the best examples of w...
NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Defiant Ones," a new HBO docuseries about two giants in the entertainment world, takes its title from a 1958 film classic about two prison escapees, one black and one white, who are shackled together as they make a break for freedom....
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A financial showdown more than two years in the making is slated to play out in the Illinois House on Thursday as Democrats try to enact a $36 billion spending plan fueled by a $5 billion income tax increase over the Republican governor's objection....
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Authorities continued to search Thursday for an inmate who has made his second escape from a maximum-security South Carolina prison, offering a reward for information leading to his capture....
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Hobby Lobby Stores has agreed to pay a $3 million federal fine and forfeit thousands of ancient Iraqi religious artifacts smuggled from the Middle East that the government alleges were intentionally mislabeled for import, federal prosecutors said....
LOGANVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Police found four young children and their father apparently stabbed to death in a home outside Atlanta and took the mother into custody early Thursday....
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- On the eve of his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to confront "new forms of aggression" targeting the West and called for Moscow to stop fomenting unrest around the world. Yet he pointedly stopped short of condemning Russia for meddling in the U.S. election....
(Vatican Radio) The former Director of the Press Office of the Holy See, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, passed away on Wednesday, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 80 years old.Navarro trained as a medical doctor with a specialization in psychiatry, as well as in journalism, moving to Rome in the early 1970’s, becoming a foreign correspondent and eventually being elected president of the foreign press association in the city.In 1984, he accepted an offer from Pope St. John Paul II to become the new head of the Press Office of the Holy See, a position he held until 2006. A statement on the website of Opus Dei, of which Navarro was a member, informs that a vigil is scheduled for Thursday, July 6, starting at 4pm in the sacristy of the basilica of the church of St. Eugene (Viale delle Belle Arti 10, Rome), and that Msgr. Mariano Fazio, Vicar General of the Prelature of Opus Dei, will celebrate a funeral Mass for him on Friday, July 7 at 11am Rome Time.Click bel...
