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Vatican City, Apr 29, 2017 / 09:37 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Order of Malta elected Fra Giacomo Dalla Torre as their new Grand Master as the latest move in the ongoing reform their leadership, which the bulk of his one-year mandate will focus on.Announced in an April 29 communique from the order, the election of Dalla Torre was the result of the Order of Malta’s daylong “Council Complete of State,” which fell shortly after the resignation of the Order’s former Grand Master, Matthew Festing, earlier this year.Dalla Torre will swear an official oath before Archbishop Giovanni Becciu, the Pope’s special delegate to the Order, and members of the “Council Complete of State” that elected him Sunday, April 30, at the church of Santa Maria in Aventino.Even though he's currently concluding a two-day trip to Egypt, Pope Francis was the first to be informed of Dalla Torre’s election through a letter. Notice was then given to other members and ...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzCAIRO(CNS) -- The only kind of fanaticism that is acceptable to God is beingfanatical about loving and helping others, Pope Francis said on his final dayin Egypt."Truefaith," he told Catholics, "makes us more charitable, more merciful,more honest and more humane. It moves our hearts to love everyone withoutcounting the cost."Thepope celebrated an open-air Mass April 29 in Cairo's Air Defense Stadium, builtby the anti-aircraft branch of the Egyptian armed forces. The popeconcelebrated with Coptic Catholic Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sedrak of Alexandriaand leaders of the other Catholic rites in Egypt.Afterspending the first day of his visit in meetings with Muslim leaders, governmentofficials, diplomats and members of the Coptic Orthodox Church, the popededicated the second day of his trip to Egypt's minority Catholic community. Arrivingat the stadium in a blue Fiat, the pope was slowly driven around the stadium'sred running track in a small and low g...
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis was the principal celebrant and homilist at Mass for Egyptian Catholics in the “Air Defense Stadium” in Cairo on Saturday. Below, please find the full text of the Holy Father’s prepared remarks, in their official English translation.***********************************Homily of His Holiness Pope FrancisHoly Mass, Cairo29 April 2017As-salamu alaykum! Peace be with you!Today’s Gospel of the third Sunday of Easter speaks to us of the journey to Emmaus of the two disciples who set out from Jerusalem. It can be summed up in three words: death, resurrection and life.Death. The two disciples are returning, full of despair and disappointment, to life as usual. The Master is dead and thus it is pointless to hope. They feel disappointment and despair. Theirs is a journey of return, as they leave behind the painful experience of Jesus’ crucifixion. The crisis of the cross, indeed the &ld...
