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The Uganda Martyrs Day celebration has taken place at Uganda’s Namugongo shrine. According to Uganda’s Daily Monitor Newspaper, by 8 am all the pavilions where pilgrims sit were already full even though people were still trying to make the security clearances to get inside the shrine for the Mass. Some pilgrims arrived at the shrine six days ago in order to have an assured place at the arena.Uganda’s Bishop of Hoima Diocese, Vincent Kirabo whose Diocese is hosting this year's Martyrs’ day was the principal celebrant at the Holy Mass.Speaking during Mass, monitored on Uganda’s NTV Youtube live stream, the Bishop invited the faithful to be faithful witnesses to the message of Christ just as the martyrs were.“The Uganda Martyrs were ordinary people with admirable human qualities ... because of these qualities the were leaders at the Kabaka’s palace,” the Bishop said. He told the faithful that there is documented evidence that a...
Warsaw, Poland, Jun 3, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A son of the Polish prime minister has been ordained a Catholic priest, and he celebrated his first Mass this last Sunday.Father Tymoteusz Szydlo, 25, celebrated Mass at the church in the southern Polish town of Przecieszyn, where he was baptized as a child, the U.K. newspaper The Catholic Herald reported. He was ordained over the weekend.“Human words are unable to express the gratitude I owe You, my God,” said the newly ordained priest. “Therefore, I humbly ask You to keep me in Your holy service.”The priest is a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, which celebrates a Latin-language Mass in the Extraordinary Form. Fr. Szydlo's mother, Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, heads a government formed by the ruling Law and Justice party.She said she and her husband are “very happy and proud,” the Associated Press reports. On Pentecost, Fr. Szydlo will celebrate Mass in Krakow at the Pries...
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Now that a cannon that rested in waters off Rhode Island's shore for two centuries has been raised, U.S. Navy archaeologists are hoping to confirm that the ship that sank at the site was a schooner commanded by a War of 1812 hero....
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SINGAPORE (AP) -- North Korea is accelerating its push to acquire a nuclear-armed missile capable of threatening the United States and other nations, and the U.S. regards this as a "clear and present danger," U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday....
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged Friday that there is "a lot of skepticism about the rule of law" in the country but defended the United States judicial system as "a blessing" and "a remarkable gift" during a talk at Harvard University....
CHICAGO (AP) -- The city of Chicago and the U.S. Justice Department have negotiated a draft agreement that calls for an independent monitor to oversee police department reforms, though it is unclear if there will be court oversight at some stage in the future, an official in Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration told The Associated Press....
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan has frozen the accounts of 5,000 suspected terrorists, taking about $3 million out of their pockets, but Islamabad could still come under scrutiny at a crucial June meeting of an international watchdog that tracks terror financing....
