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Vatican City, Sep 16, 2016 / 01:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Like the Good Samaritan in the parable, you have been called to show the mercy of God to the men and women God has placed in your path, Pope Francis said to a group of new bishops on Friday.“Be bishops with a heart wounded by such a mercy and so tireless in the humble task of accompanying the man who 'by chance' God has put in your way,” the Pope encouraged.The Roman Pontiff's Sept. 16 audience was with the participants in an annual training course for bishops held in Rome organized by the Congregation of Bishops and the Congregation of Eastern Churches.“Men have need of mercy,” the Pope said. The Good Samaritan is “interested in (the man's) recovery and his future … mercy, which had broken his heart, needs to pour and pour.”Just as Christ was close to his disciples, accompany your priests first “with patient care”, Pope Francis exhorted the new bishops. He ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Philip Laubner, CRSBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) ? A six-month search for a new president and CEOfor one of the largest humanitarian relief agencies in the world ended at itsdoorstep, with Catholic Relief Services announcing Sept. 16 that it is hiring aveteran employee -- the agency's No. 2 -- Sean Callahan, as its newpresident and CEO."We looked all across the nation and found that the best personfor the job was Sean, already working for us," said Bishop Richard J. Malone ofBuffalo, New York, head of the CRS Board Search Committee, in a statementannouncing Callahan's new position, which begins Jan. 1, 2017. He succeedsCarolyn Y. Woo, who ends her five-year term at the end of 2016.Callahan began his career with CRS 28 years ago and has servedas director of Human Resources, regional director for South Asia, head of itsNicaragua program and executive vice president for overseas operations. Four yearsago he was appointed as the agency's chief operating officer.Archb...
IMAGE: CNS/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis donned a green hospitalgown over his white cassock and entered the neonatal unit of a Rome hospital,peering in the incubators, making the sign of the cross and encouraging worriedparents.The trip to the babies' ward of Rome's San Giovanni Hospitaland then to a hospice Sept. 16 were part of a series of Mercy Friday activities Pope Francis has been doing once a monthduring the Year of Mercy.By visiting the ailing newborns and the dying on the sameday, the Vatican said, Pope Francis "wanted to give a strong sign of theimportance of life from its first moment to its natural end.""Welcoming life and guaranteeing its dignity at everymoment of its development is a teaching Pope Francis has underlined manytimes," the statement said. With the September visits he wanted to put"a concrete and tangible seal" on his teaching that living a life ofmercy means giving special attention to those in the most precarioussi...
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis addressed newly-appointed bishops in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall on Friday, reminding them of the thrill of being loved in advance by God and exhorting them to ‘make mercy pastoral’.The audience came at the end of formation course for new bishops organized by the Congregation for Bishops and the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.Make mercy pastoral, for you have experienced the thrill of being loved by God. That, according to Pope Francis, is the mission of bishops, especially those who are new Pastors of the Church.He said the bishops had been “fished, that is, caught by the love of God’s surprising mercy” and pointed them to the example of biblical figures like Moses and Nathaniel who were loved and known by God even before they realized it.The Holy Father called this “an admirable condescension”. He said, “How beautiful it is to let oneself be transfixed by the loving knowledge ...
