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IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handoutBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Catholic approach to developmentaims at helping people achieve both physical and spiritual well-being andpromotes both individual responsibility and community ties, Pope Francis said.A development that is "fully human" recognizesthat being a person means being in relationship; it affirms "inclusion andnot exclusion," upholds the dignity of the person against any form ofexploitation, and struggles for freedom, the pope said April 4 at a Vaticanconference marking the 50th anniversary of Blessed Paul VI's encyclical onintegral human development, "Populorum Progressio."Holistic or integral development, Pope Francis said,involves "integrating" all people into one human family, integratingindividuals into communities, integrating the individual and communaldimensions of life and integrating body and soul."The duty of solidarity obliges us to seek proper waysof sharing so that there is no longer that dram...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Associated Press named its head of U.S. news to the new position of managing editor on Tuesday, appointing Brian Carovillano to take the No. 2 position in the newsroom of the global news cooperative....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- One potential bidder on President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico wanted to know if authorities would rush to help if workers came under "hostile attack." Another asked if employees can carry firearms in states with strict gun control laws and if the government would indemnify them for using deadly force....
DALLAS (AP) -- Tony Romo is retiring rather than trying to chase a Super Bowl with another team after losing his starting job with the Dallas Cowboys, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Tuesday....
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- The NCAA will consider North Carolina as a host for championship events again after the state rolled back a law that limited protections for LGBT people....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans entertained a fresh White House offer to revise the party's failed health care bill Tuesday as the GOP tried to resuscitate the measure that crashed spectacularly less than two weeks ago. But the proposal was getting mixed reviews from both conservative and moderate lawmakers, raising doubts about the rescue mission....
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- U.S.-based pro-democracy group Freedom House said Tuesday that a "spectacular breakdown of democracy" has been taking place in Poland and Hungary, two countries that stood as models of democratic change after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican and Democratic senators exchanged bitter accusations Tuesday as they headed toward an explosive confrontation over President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee that could change the Senate, and the court, for generations....
BEIRUT (AP) -- A suspected chemical attack in a town in Syria's rebel-held northern Idlib province killed dozens of people on Tuesday, opposition activists said, describing the attack as among the worst in the country's six-year civil war....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Tuesday received participants attending an International Conference marking the 50th anniversary of Blessed Paul VI social encyclical 'Populorum progressio', telling them that only the path of integration between peoples can bring about a future of peace and hope.Listen to our report: 50 years ago Blessed Paul VI promulgated his social encyclical 'Populorum progressio' on the development of peoples. In it the Pope calls for all nations to initiate dialogue and collaboration so developing countries no longer risk being overwhelmed by debt. It also expresses the principle of solidarity.To mark the milestone anniversary of this document an International Conference has been taking place this week aimed at studying the theological anthropological and pastoral perspectives of the encyclical and formulate guidelines for the activity of the new Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.And it was on this subject of Integral Human De...
