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Krakow, Poland, Aug 1, 2016 / 04:53 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After Pope Francis announced Panama as the host of the next World Youth Day, the country’s bishops said the decision is a reflection of his attention to the peripheries and voiced their hope to be a “bridge” for those who come from all continents.“I think that it will be an occasion a revitalization of the Church in general, and for the youth in particular … not just from Panama, but from Central America and all of Latin America,” Cardinal José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán of David told CNA July 31.Panama, he said, will be an opportunity for a demographically young Latin America to “charge their battery” in living the Christian life.He noted how the decision to hold the 2019 WYD in Panama comes just a year after he was named the country’s first cardinal, jesting that Pope Francis “made a lot of mischief, the first of which was appointing me cardinal. It was...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Agencja Gazeta, Jakub Porzycki, via ReutersBy Jonathan LuxmooreKRAKOW, Poland (CNS) -- Panama,which will host World Youth Day in 2019, is a small country, but the head of itsbishops' conference has no doubts the church will be able to organize theevent."Panama, with its canal, isa bridge between two continents, and we'll also make it a symbolic bridgebetween young people, especially in Latin America," said Cardinal Jose LacunzaMaestrojuan of David, Panama.At a news conference in KrakowJuly 31, the cardinal said Panama was well-placed for air, road and seacommunications with North and South America and would give the World Youth Daya distinctive character."We truly hope this will bea blessing for our country, placing it at the center of the whole world'sattention," Cardinal Lacunza said.Bishop Manuel Ochogavia Barahonaof Colon-Kuna Yala said Panama was "a multicultural country, incorporatingall the world's races," and would make World Youth Day a "fiesta Latina,"add...
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(Vatican Radio) St Lawrence Shrine at Attur, Karkala, the Diocese of Udupi, has been elevated to the status of a minor basilica on Monday, August, 1, 2016, making it the second Minor Basilica in the Southern Indian state of Karnataka and the 22nd Basilica in the country.The sacred Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, of the Vatican, declared the famous South Indian shrine of St. Lawrence, a minor Basilica, in the month of May this year.The solemn Eucharistic Celebration on Monday, was presided over by the Bombay Archbishop, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, who is the President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) and the Federation of the Asian Bishops Conferences (FABC).Archbishop Bernard Moras in his homily said that this was a historical event and expressed gratitude to God for making St Lawrence Shrine a Minor Basilica. "This event will be written in the golden annals of the history of the diocese of Udupi," he said.Explainin...
(Vatican Radio) After ten years as Director of the Holy See Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi SJ has been appointed Chairman of the “Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation”.Father Lombardi was appointed by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State.The Ratzinger Foundation was founded by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 with the aim to promote theology in the spirit of Joseph Ratzinger, which it achieves by funding scholarships and bursaries for students across the world.It also promotes formation activities, conferences, seminars and Theology training courses which are offered throughout the world thanks to the Foundation’s proceeds. These partly come from the royalties that derive from the sale of almost 100 volumes written by Joseph Ratzinger.In a statement the Foundation states that it places all its scientific and charity activities at the service of the Church and the Pope.The former Chairman is Msg. Giuseppe Scotti who co...
Eight people have been murdered in an around the Mexican International tourist resort of Acapulco over the weekend. James Blears reports a destination which was once famous for attracting movie stars and the ultra rich, is descending into a battleground between competing drug cartels. Listen: A bar fight left three men dead and another critically wounded. The bodies of two men and a woman found in a car, two more men shot dead in their cars. An anonymous tipoff led Police to dig up three corpses in a shallow grave. While in the near the City of Tixla, also in the State of Guerrero, gunmen assasinated Judge Juan Octavio Morales.International tourist organizations now list Acapulco as one of the ten most dangerous cities in the World. Last year The Mexican Government launched a coordinated campaign to promote and boost Acapulco. It was once the annual host for the Country`s Tourism Convention. Sadly due to rival drug cartels, who`ve included ...
