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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...
Sacramento, Calif., Apr 4, 2017 / 09:47 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A proposed California law has targeted faith-based employers’ codes of conduct in the name of reproductive health, the California Catholic Conference has said.“The bill impacts all employers, but seems to attack and diminish the conscience and religious liberty rights of faith-based organizations,” Sandra Palacios, associate director for governmental relations at the California Catholic Conference, told CNA April 3.“The bill targets and seeks to eliminate the ability of religious employers to enforce faith-based code of conduct standards,” she said. “As one of the most family-friendly religious employers in our state and across the nation, we welcome an opportunity for further dialogue on the bill with the author and her staff.”Assembly Bill 569 would bar requiring an employee to sign a waiver or other document that “purports to deny any employee the right to make his or her ...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Continuing initiatives aimed at a reconciliationwith the Priestly Societyof St. Pius X, Pope Francis hasmade it possible for bishops to ensure the validity of marriages celebrated inthe traditionalist communities.A letterpublished by the Vatican April 4 said the pope will allow Catholic bishops toappoint priests to assist at SSPX marriages and formally receive the consent ofthe couples. The nuptial Mass then would be celebrated by the SSPX priest.Inaddition, Pope Francis gave bishops the option of granting an SSPX priest thenecessary faculties to officiate validly over the marriage rite "if thereare no priests in the diocese" available to do so. Theprovisions are meant to ensure the validity of the sacrament and "allayany concerns on the part of the faithful," said the letterpublished by the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei," which is responsible forthe Vatican's ongoing talks with the Society of St. Pius X.The c...
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...
