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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Jesus came to the world not just to teach, but to radically change human hearts that have hardened from sin, the preacher of the papal household said during a service commemorating Christ's death on the cross."A heart of stone is a heart that is closed to God's will and to the suffering of brothers and sisters," but God, through the son, offers the world "a heart of flesh," Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa said in the homily.Pope Francis presided over the Good Friday Liturgy of the Lord's Passion April 14 in St. Peter's Basilica, which began with a silent procession down the central nave under dim lighting to emphasize the solemnity of the ceremony. The pope then lay prostrate on the floor before the main altar of the basilica, his head resting upon his clasped hands on a red pillow, in silent prayer, in a sign of adoration and penance. As is customary, the papal household's preacher gave the homily.Father Cantalamessa s...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Margie LegowskBy Rhina GuidosSANSALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) -- Far from the Easter baskets and dresses, thepastel-colored candy and the White House Easter egg roll, Washington resident MargieLegowski found herself anticipating her second Easter season surrounded by someof the most impoverished masses of El Salvador. She decided to spend Holy Week 2017in a section of San Salvador considered so violent by locals that it'sdifficult to find a taxi to take you in or out. Legowski,a parishioner at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington's tony neighborhoodof Georgetown, said she has found that the place known as La Chacra is one ofthe top places she'd rather spend the holiest of days in Christianity. There'snothing like it, said Legowski, who mingled about with the locals of MariaMadre de los Pobres, or Mary Mother of the Poor Catholic Church, participating with themin religious processions with life-size statues of the saints through thestreets of La Chacra,...
BEIRUT (AP) -- Thousands of Syrians were bused out of their towns on Friday in the first stage of a widely criticized population transfer that reflects the relentless segregation of Syrian society along political and sectarian lines....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- What's wrong with being flexible? He's only human. All presidents change their minds....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Paul Manafort says he's registering with the Justice Department as a foreign agent. Michael Flynn already has. In both cases, the decisions to register by these associates of President Donald Trump came late - after the lobbying has already taken place - and accompanied by an admission that they violated federal law....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis, wearing a plain, long white coat, is presiding over the traditional Way of the Cross procession at Rome's Colosseum to mark Good Friday....
BOSTON (AP) -- Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez, who is already serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder, was acquitted Friday in a 2012 double slaying prosecutors said was fueled by his anger over a spilled drink....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The biggest non-nuclear bomb ever dropped in combat by the U.S. military killed 36 militants in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Friday, and villagers in the remote, mountainous area described being terrified by the "earsplitting blast."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration has settled on its North Korea strategy after a two-month review: "Maximum pressure and engagement."...
IMAGE: CNS/Bob RollerBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Catholicsand other Christians have grown up believing in the Resurrection, but theApostles themselves were among the first who were skeptical that Jesus arose from the dead.They didn'tbelieve it at first when they were told by the women who had come to anoint thecrucified Jesus' body but instead found an empty tomb."Tobe fair, you can say the men didn't believe the women, but who could believethat story? Let's be fair to the men. They would have to see for themselves,"said James Papandrea, a Catholic who is associate professor of church historyat Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in the Chicago suburb of Evanston,Illinois."Ithink anyone would want to see for themselves. We believe what we see, we believeour senses, and it's only natural that if somebody says the Lord is alive andyou knew he was dead, you'd say, 'Show me.' The disciples, even after all ofJesus' teachings and all his hints about death and resurrection, th...
