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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met in the Vatican on Tuesday with the heir to the British throne Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.The meeting came on the fourth day of an Italian tour which has taken the prince to the northern city of Vicenza for a First World War commemoration, to the earthquake hit town of Amatrice in central Italy, and to Florence, where he visited a Caritas-run project for immigrants, the elderly and single mothers.The Duchess also spent a day in Naples meeting with trafficked women and youngsters with learning difficulties at a former Mafia villa which was confiscated by the State.Listen to Philippa Hitchen’s report: A press release from the British embassy to the Holy See said that during the papal audience in the Paul VI hall the pope and the prince talked about a number of topics of mutual interest.They also exchanged gifts: Pope Francis gave the royal couple a bronze representation of an olive branch, and copies of hi...
Vatican City, Apr 4, 2017 / 11:41 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday Pope Francis spoke about what an ‘integral human development’ looks like, saying that development must include the whole person, both physically and spiritually.“Development does not consist in having the regulation of more and more goods, for just a material well-being,” he said April 4. “Integrating body and soul also means that no development work can really achieve its purpose if it does not respect the place where God is present to us and speaks to our hearts.”In Christ “God and man are not divided and separated. God became man to make of human life, both personal and social, a concrete path to salvation,” he reflected.“So the manifestation of God in Christ – including his acts of healing, liberation, and reconciliation that we are called to propose to the many injured by the roadside – shows the way and the mode of service that the Church intends ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Georgetown University has chosen April 18as the date to rename two buildings on campus previously named for priests who sold272 women, children and men into slavery for financial gain in 1838.The Jesuit university based in Washington announced that theprocess will begin with a spiritual ceremony honoring the slaves prior to the dedication of buildings originally named after Jesuit Father Thomas Mulledy,the Georgetown president who authorized the transaction, and Jesuit FatherWilliam McSherry, who also was involved in the 1838 sale and in other slavesales. Mulledy Hall will be renamed after Isaac Hawkins, the first enslavedperson listed in the sale documents. McSherry Hall will be named after AnneMarie Becraft, a teacher and free woman of color who established one of thefirst schools for black girls in the District of Columbia. She later joined theOblate Sisters of Providence.The event is set to take place the day afte...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The work of the Rev. Martin LutherKing Jr. to promote the "integral human development" of all peoplesis a work that must continue today in the world and in the Catholic Church,Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Illinois, told participants at aVatican conference.Bishop Braxton moderated a panel discussion April 4 at theconference marking the 50th anniversary of Blessed Paul VI's encyclical ondevelopment, "Populorum Progressio."Closing the afternoon panel, the bishop remindedparticipants that it was the 49th anniversary of the assassination of Rev.King, "who was only 39 years old when he was cruelly slain in the midst oftrying to bring about a more integral human development for all people in theUnited States, especially people of color.""The racial divide in the United States and, sadly, inthe Catholic Church in the United States is not something of the past. It isvery much something of the present," the bishop said.Bishop Braxton told confe...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Most young Americans want any health care overhaul under President Donald Trump to look a lot like the Affordable Care Act signed into law by his predecessor, President Barack Obama....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Grilled by lawmakers, the Department of Veterans Affairs insisted Tuesday it was well on its way to fixing problems with its suicide hotline and largely brushed aside the worst criticisms in an internal watchdog report released two weeks ago....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Chemical weapons have killed hundreds of people since the start of Syria's civil war, with the U.N. blaming three attacks on the Syrian government and a fourth on the Islamic State group....
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -- Investigators searched for possible accomplices of a 22-year-old native of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan identified as the suicide bomber in the St. Petersburg subway, as residents came to grips Tuesday with the first major terrorist attack in Russia's second-largest city since the Soviet collapse....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A White House offensive to resurrect the moribund House Republican health care bill got an uneven reception Tuesday from GOP moderates and conservatives, leaving prospects shaky for the party's operation to salvage one of its leading priorities....
BEIRUT (AP) -- A suspected government chemical attack in an opposition-held town in northern Syria killed dozens of people on Tuesday, leaving residents gasping for breath and convulsing in the streets and overcrowded hospitals. If confirmed, it would be the deadliest chemical attack in four years....
