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Aboard the papal plane, Oct 2, 2016 / 06:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- During his flight from Baku, Azerbaijan to Rome on Sunday, Pope Francis gave a press conference to the journalists aboard the the papal plane. He reflected on his trip to Georgia and Azerbaijan, marriage and divorce, and homosexuality and gender identity.He also addressed the next consistory of cardinals, the Nobel Peace Prize, and St. John Paul II.Please find below the full text of the press conference, translated by Catholic News Agency:Pope Francis: Good evening and thank you very much for your work and your help. It’s true, it was a short trip, three days, but you have had a lot of work. I am at your disposition and I thank you very much for the work, and ask what you would like.Greg Burke, Holy See press officer: Thank you, Holy Father. The first question goes to Georgia, the television presenter Ketevan Kardava.Ketevan Kardava, Georgian Public Broadcaster: Thank you very much. Thank you, Holy Father, for yo...
CHASKA, Minn. (AP) -- Patrick Reed shook his fists with fury for every big putt he made. Phil Mickelson leaped higher than when he won his first Masters. Ryan Moore delivered the final point in this American masterpiece Sunday at the Ryder Cup....
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) -- Pope Francis says Jesus would never turn away transgender faithful and that priests today should accompany them spiritually, even if they undergo sex change operations, sin and repent....
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Vulnerable Haiti braced for flash floods and violent winds from the extremely dangerous Hurricane Matthew as the powerful storm kept on a path early Monday aiming at the hemisphere's poorest country....
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombians rejected a peace deal with leftist rebels by a razor-thin margin in a national referendum Sunday, scuttling years of painstaking negotiations and delivering a strunning setback to President Juan Manuel Santos, who vowed to keep a cease-fire in place and forge ahead with his efforts to end a half-century of war....
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct 2, 2016 / 02:29 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- At 101 years old, Doña Penha has seen quite a bit of life. But the centenarian experienced something new on September 28, as she received her First Communion during Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel nursing home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.For those who witnessed the occasion, it was a great testimony to the love of God.“It was a very beautiful moment that showed us that it is never too late to receive the Eucharist, which for someone seeking God, neither time nor shame can prevent,” said the administrative assistant of the nursing home, Josiane Ribeiro. She added that occasions like this help “reaffirm faith.”Ribeiro told CNA that Doña Penha arrived about a year ago at the nursing home, which is run by the Sisters of the Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima Association. There is a chapel on site where Mass is celebrated during the week.Doña Penha began to attend Mass with the othe...
Aboard the papal plane, Oct 2, 2016 / 03:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On his way back from Georgia and Azerbaijan Pope Francis criticized what he called the “wicked” push of gender theory in schools, but stressed that individuals who struggle with their sexual identity ought to be treated with mercy, as Jesus would do. “In my life as a priest and bishop, even as Pope, I have accompanied people with homosexual tendencies, I have also met homosexual persons, accompanied them, brought them closer to the Lord...and I have never abandoned them,” the Pope said Oct. 2.These people must be accompanied in the same way that Jesus would accompany them, he said, noting that Jesus would never tell a person “go away because you are homosexual.”However, while these people must be shown love, there is a “wickedness which today is done in the indoctrination of gender theory.”Gender theory or ideology is the idea that one's 'gender' is chose...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenTBILISI, Georgia (CNS) -- Pope Francis said a global waragainst marriage is underway and Catholics must respond by helping couples staystrong and by providing pastoral care to those experiencing difficulty."Today there is a global war to destroy marriage,"the pope said Oct. 1 during a meeting in Tbilisi with priests, religious,seminarians and laypeople active in parish life."Today you do not destroy with weapons, you destroywith ideas," the pope said. "It is ideological colonization thatdestroys."The only way to defend marriage against the onslaught, hesaid, is to help couples "make peace as soon as possible, before the dayends, and don't forget the three words: 'May I?' 'Thank you' and 'Forgiveme.'""Marriage is the most beautiful thing that God hascreated," Pope Francis said. In marriage, man and woman become one flesh, "the image of God.""When youdivorce one flesh you sully the God's image," he said.A woman named Irina, who with her husband, Z...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM AZERBAIJAN (CNS) -- Catholicswho are homosexual, confused about their sexuality or convinced they were bornin the wrong body deserve the same attentive pastoral care as anyone else,Pope Francis said.Flying back to Rome Oct. 2 after a visit to Georgia andAzerbaijan, the pope was asked, given his criticism Oct. 1 of "gendertheory" and of what he describes as "ideological colonization,"how he would provide pastoral care to a person who felt his or her sexualitydid not correspond to his or her biology.Pope Francis began responding to the reporter's question bysaying that as a priest, a bishop and even as pope he has "accompaniedpeople with homosexual tendencies and even homosexual activity. I accompaniedthem; I helped them draw closer to the Lord, although some couldn't. But I neverabandoned them.""People must be accompanied like Jesus would accompanythem," he said. "When a person who has this situation arrives beforeJes...
