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Ex 34:4b-6, 8-9; II Cor 13:11-13; Jn 3:16-18Anecdote: Simplified explanations by Ss. Patrick, Cyril, John Maria Vianney and St. Spyridon: The shamrock, a kind of clover, is a leguminous herb that grows in marshy places. St. Patrick, the missionary patron saint of Ireland, used the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity. The story goes that one day his friends asked Patrick to explain the Mystery of the Trinity. He looked at the ground and saw shamrocks growing amid the grass at his feet. He picked one up one of its trifoliate leaves and asked if it were one leaf or three. Patrick's friends couldn't answer – the shamrock leaf looked like one but it clearly had three parts. Patrick explained to them: "The mystery of the Holy Trinity – one God in Three Persons: The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - is like this, but more complex and unintelligible.” St. Cyril, the tea...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis will receive the Presidential Council of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela in a private audience on Thursday.The meeting was announced on Tuesday in a statement by the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke.The statement reads, “The encounter was requested by the Episcopal Conference itself, which desires to speak to the Pope about the situation in Venezuela.”
Bishop Hinder calls for prayer and silent help for Christians and Muslims suffering in Yemen and says that the situation there is disastrous. As reported by AsiaNews Bishop Paul Hinder, apostolic vicar of southern Arabia (UAE, Oman and Yemen) notes that it is not possible at present to draw a full picture of the situation because it is difficult to go there and have credible information. None of the parties involved in the war can be said to be “innocent”, noted Mgr Hinder. “Violations” are perpetrated on both sides. In the end, it is the civilian population that pays the price, often forgotten and abandoned to itself, forced to face a “cholera emergency” as well.According to WHO he said, almost 74,000 cases of cholera have been reported with more than 600 dead (40 per cent children). Up to 300,000 people are at risk. Every ten minutes a child under five dies. Health facilities are on the verge of collapse he observed.UN humanitarian ...
(Vatican Radio) The heads of Catholic religious congregations of the Philippines have called for an “end to martial law" in the southern third of the country saying it is "not the proper response to terrorist attacks in just one city on a vast island.” "The declaration of martial law is an extreme measure, and based on the reports we have received ... is a reaction disproportionate to the situation," read a statement by the Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines (AMRSP) issued on June 6. The influential association voiced its criticism a day after opposition lawmakers petitioned the Supreme Court to review and nullify President Rodrigo Duterte's imposition of martial law in Mindanao, after terrorist gunmen claiming to have links with the so-called Islamic State laid siege to Marawi city on May 23. The petition filed by six House lawmakers led by Rep. Edcel Lagman said there was no revolution or invasion...
Vatican City, Jun 6, 2017 / 05:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- More than 130 imams and religious leaders throughout the UK have joined voices in strongly condemning recent terrorist attacks in London and Manchester, calling the acts “cold-blooded murders.”In a joint statement issued June 5, the imams and other religious leaders said they condemn the recent terror attacks in Manchester and London “in the strongest terms possible.”Coming from a range of backgrounds across the UK, the signatories said that in “feeling the pain the rest of the nation feels, we have come together to express our shock and utter disgust at these cold-blooded murders.”In an unprecedented move, the imams who signed the statement also declared that they will not perform the traditional Islamic funeral prayer for the attackers.Signatories urged fellow imams and religious authorities to withdraw the privilege of the prayer because of the “indefensible actions” of the perp...
Kyiv, Ukraine, Jun 6, 2017 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop Emeritus of Kyiv-Halych and former head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, died May 31 at the age of 84.Among his many accomplishments as priest, bishop, and cardinal, he is well remembered for welcoming St. John Paul II on his visit to Kyiv and Lviv in Ukraine in 2001, when he was the first Pope to visit the former Soviet republic.Cardinal Husar was born in 1933 in Lviv. He fled from the Soviets in Ukraine with his parents in 1944, first to Austria, and then to the United States in 1949. He studied at St. Basil’s College Seminary in Stamford, Conn. in the early 1950s, and continued his studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington and at Fordham University in New York.He was ordained a priest of the Ukrainian Eparchy of Stamford in March 1958 and taught at St. Basil’s College Seminary until 1969. From 1966 to 1969 he was the pastor of Holy Trinity Ukrainia...
BEIRUT (AP) -- A U.S.-backed Syrian force said Tuesday it has begun an offensive to capture the northern city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State group, after months of clearing operations....
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- It was an audacious plot sketched out in chilling detail with blue pens on the back of a paper calendar: Islamic militants in the Philippines, including one of the world's most-wanted militant leaders, would take over a key southern city in their boldest attack to date....
LONDON (AP) -- British police have named the third London Bridge attacker as 22-year-old Youssef Zaghba, and said that he is believed to be an Italian national of Moroccan descent....
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