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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....
Civil rights groups reacted with alarm Tuesday, while law enforcement organizations expressed relief, after the Trump administration signaled it may back out of federal agreements reached with police departments around the U.S. to curb racial bias and excessive force....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Susan Rice, the top national security adviser to former President Barack Obama, says it is "absolutely false" that she and other Obama administration officials used intelligence reports to spy on Trump associates for political purposes....
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The Asian Youth Day (AYD), a major event of Asia’s Catholic Church, is taking centre stage in less than 4 months in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Some 3000 young people from 29 Asian countries are expected to gather in the central Javanese city, July 30th - August 9th, 2017, for the 7th edition of the AYD on the theme, “Joyful Asian Youth: Living the Gospel in Multicultural Asia!”The Youth Desk under the Office of Laity and Family (OLF) of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) and the host country are organizing the meet. AYD is an outcome of the World Youth Day that was instituted by Pope St. John Paul II in 1985. The first AYD was held in Hua Hin, Thailand in 1999. Since then the continent-level event has been held in intervals of 2, 3 and ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis’ prayer intention for April is dedicated to Youth: 'For young people, that they might know how to respond generously to the vocation God has given them, and immerse themselves in the great causes of the world.'The Apostleship of Prayer has produced the Pope’s Video on this prayer intention.The full text of the Pope’s Video is below:I know that you, young people, don’t want to be duped by a false freedom, always at the beck and call of momentary fashions and fads. I know that you aim high. Is that true, or am I wrong?Don’t leave it to others to be the protagonists of change.You, young people, are the ones who hold the future! I ask you to be builders of the world, to work for a better world. It is a challenge, yes it is a challenge. Do you accept it?Pray with me that young people may respond generously to their own vocation and mobilize for the great causes of the world.
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, celebrated Mass at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica for the 50th anniversary of the encyclical ‘Populorum Progressio’.During his homily for the Mass on Monday, Cardinal Parolin thanked the members and consultors of the Pontifical Councils for Justice and Peace, for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, for Health Pastoral Care, and Cor Unum for their collaboration and service as the Councils were merged into the new Dicastery for Integral Human Development.“The celebration of this Eucharist, with you and for you, is a fitting occasion to give thanks to the Lord for the establishment of this Office that serves the Holy Father in the exercise of his Petrine ministry. The particular characteristic of this service is a commitment to the integral development of every person.”Cardinal Parolin said the new Dicastery “will carry out its mandate only to...
Vatican City, Apr 4, 2017 / 05:53 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday Pope Francis approved a way for priests of the Society of St. Pius X to witness marriages validly, which had not been the case previously because they lacked the faculties to do so.Through a letter dated March 27 and published April 4, the Pope has given diocesan bishops or other local ordinaries the authorization to grant priests of the SSPX the ability to celebrate licitly and validly the marriages of the faithful who follow the Society's pastoral activity.The letter, signed by Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and president of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, indicates that "insofar as possible" a diocesan or other fully regular priest is to "receive the consent of the parties during the marriage rite, followed, in keeping with the liturgy of the Vetus ordo, by the celebration of Mass, which may be celebrated by a priest of the So...
Washington D.C., Apr 4, 2017 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Jaime Maldonado-Aviles thought that he would be spending his life behind microscopes at Yale as a neuroscientist. But his life has taken a dramatic turn, and he is now discerning the priesthood at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.“I have to seriously explore these questions,” Maldonado-Aviles said of a constant nagging he felt towards the priesthood.“At different times, the question would come back: If I see myself at 90 years old, close to death, would I say to myself, ‘I should have entered seminary?’” he told the Washington Post.Maldonado-Aviles was 34 and working at Yale as a neuroscientist in a post-doctoral position when he seriously began to explore the pull towards priesthood that he had felt his whole life.He grew up in Puerto Rico and attended the National Institutes of Health, earning his doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh. He has studied everything fr...
