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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump likes to boast that he hires only the best people. But his personnel choices keep coming back to haunt him....
BEIRUT (AP) -- A misdirected airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition earlier this week killed 18 allied fighters battling the Islamic State group in northern Syria, the U.S. military said Thursday....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis heads to a maximum security prison on Holy Thursday to wash the feet of a dozen inmates, stressing in a pre-Easter ritual that a pope must serve society's marginalized and give them hope....
TOKYO (AP) -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned Thursday that North Korea may be capable of firing a missile loaded with sarin nerve gas toward Japan, as international concern mounted that a missile or nuclear test by the authoritarian state could be imminent....
CHICAGO (AP) -- A passenger dragged from a United Express flight suffered a "significant" concussion and broken nose, and he lost two front teeth, one of his lawyers said Thursday....
Vatican Weekend for April 15th, 2017 features a reflection on the Easter Vigil by Mons. Fleetwood, our popular Latin lover Father Foster focuses on the image of light, a reflection for this Easter season by Mons. Millea from the Vatican’s Secretariat of State and a musical meditation that looks ahead to the Resurrection.Listen to this program produced and presented by Veronica Scarisbrick:
Young Adult Section of Youth Ministry of Seoul Archdiocese held the prayer rally titled "Way of Cross for youth with Cardinal Yeom" at Myeongdong Cathedral on April 7.Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung of Seoul led a special prayer service for young people bringing home to them the visceral passion of Jesus and the meaning of Lent.Cardinal Yeom read out the Holy Father's message to young people in preparation for the 32nd World Youth Day 2017 and then said, "I wish you to follow the model of our Blessed Virgin Mary who passed the earthly pilgrimage with firm belief. Also, I wish the Way of Cross that we will take today be the first step of God's work fulfilled through us." His message reflects the theme of Pope’s World Youth Day message this year which is ‘The Mighty One has done great things for me’ (Lk1:49).Attendees did not only get to see Cardinal Yeom but also his auxiliaries including Bishops Benedict Son Hee-song, Timothy Yu Gy...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday presided over the Chrism Mass, during which the sacred oils used for the Sacraments and Ordinations were blessed.In his homily for the Mass, the Holy Father spoke about the “joy of the Gospel”.He explored three “icons” of the good news: the stone water jars at the wedding feast of Cana, the jug with its wooden ladle that the Samaritan woman carried on her head in the midday sun, and the fathomless vessel of the Lord’s pierced Heart.Please find below the official English translation of the Pope’s homily:Homily of His Holiness Pope FrancisHoly Thursday Chrism Mass13 April 2017“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed” (Lk 4:18). Jesus, anointed by the Spirit, brings good news to the poor. E...
Vatican Weekend for April 16th, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Easter Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” plus a timely musical meditation and a couple of spiritual reflections.Listen to this program produced and presented by Veronica Scarisbrick:
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated the Chrism Mass of the Rome diocese on the morning of Holy Thursday in St. Peter’s Basilica.The liturgy is held every year in every diocese, and is typically celebrated on the morning of Holy Thursday, with the clergy gathered around the bishop in a sign of unity.It is called the “Chrism Mass” because it is during the liturgy that the sacred oils to be used in the Sacraments are blessed: the Oil of the Infirm, the Oil of the Catechumens, and the Sacred Chrism – which is used to anoint the newly baptized and in conferring Confirmation, and to consecrate priests and bishops to their special and peculiar divine service.Click below to hear our report In his homily, Pope Francis spoke of the truth, mercy, and joy of the Gospel, which each priest is called to witness with his whole life: embodying and personifying each of the three characteristics.“The truth of the good news can never be merely abstract, incapable of ...
