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Vatican City, Jun 30, 2016 / 03:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- With the Eastern Orthodox wrapping up their “pan-Orthodox Council” this past weekend, it might be a good time to take a look at the factors that separate Catholics from their sister Churches in the east.The main issues of disagreement are the primacy of the Bishop of Rome and elements of Trinitarian teaching, although conflict also exists over the Immaculate Conception, purgatory and other doctrines.For 1,000 years after Christ, the Churches of east and west were in communion with one another, holding seven ecumenical councils between 325 and 787 to define Christian belief.But throughout this time, the cultures of the Latin-speaking west and Greek-speaking east grew more and more estranged, and there was increasing distrust and hostility between them. Occasional schisms occurred but were healed – such as the Acacian schism of the late fifth century and the Photian schism of the 860s.Primacy of the Bishop of Ro...
Vatican City, Jun 30, 2016 / 05:10 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his Jubilee general audience for the month of June, Pope Francis focused his speech on the works of mercy and how to put them into action. He also gave thanks for his recent visit to Armenia, and spoke of his coming trips to Georgia and Azerbaijan.“Mercy without works is dead,” the Pope said June 30, quoting St. James. What brings mercy to life, he said, is “it’s constant dynamism for going to meet the needy and the necessities of the many spiritually and materially disadvantaged.”He encouraged pilgrims to make “a serious examination of conscience,” telling them “not to ever forget that mercy is not an abstract word, but a style of life.”“It’s one thing to speak of mercy, but it’s another to live mercy,” he said, noting that a person can either be merciful or unmerciful, but either way “it’s a lifestyle I choose.”The Pope spoke to...
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli teenager to death in her bedroom in the West Bank early Thursday before he was shot dead, the Israeli army and a Jerusalem hospital said....
LONDON (AP) -- The race to become Britain's next prime minister took a dramatic last-minute turn with former London Mayor Boris Johnson - considered a front-runner - ruling himself out of the race after the defection of a key ally on Thursday....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- The three suicide bombers who attacked Istanbul airport were a Russian, an Uzbek and a Kyrgyz, a senior Turkish official said Thursday, hours after police carried out sweeping raids across the city looking for Islamic State suspects. Tuesday's gunfire and suicide bombing attack at Ataturk Airport killed 43 people and wounded more than 230 others....
(Vatican Radio) In this week's edition of There's More in the Sunday Gospel Than Meets the Eye, Jill Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Listen: GOSPEL Lk 10: 1 - 9At that time the Lord appointed seventy-two otherswhom he sent ahead of him in pairsto every town and place he intended to visit.He said to them,"The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;so ask the master of the harvestto send out laborers for his harvest.Go on your way;behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves.Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals;and greet no one along the way.Into whatever house you enter, first say,'Peace to this household.'If a peaceful person lives there,your peace will rest on him;but if not, it will return to you.Stay in the same house and eat and drink what is offered to you,for the laborer deserves his payment.Do not move abou...
(Vatican Radio) A Federal Judge in Mexico has temporarily halted the extradition of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the jailed drug lord who has already escaped custody twice and who had been cleared for extradition to the United States. Listen to James Blears' report from Mexico: Two Federal Judges and Mexico`s Foreign Ministry have already approved the extradition to the United States of thrice jailed and twice escaped Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who`s back under lock and key in Mexico. He`s been transferred to a maximum security penitentiary in the Border City of Juarez, right by El Paso Texas. But his highly paid and experienced lawyers who are well versed in the cumbersome Mexican legal system which is still mired under mountains of paperwork and written submissions, have fulfilled a promise to work up a veritable snowstorm of injunctions. They`re cogently arguing that there`s no direct evidence against the world`s most powerful alleged...
San Francisco, Calif., Jun 30, 2016 / 12:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholics and other groups that receive grants to care for immigrants are in the sights of the American Civil Liberties Union, which has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services.The legal group’s recent lawsuit says that social agencies that get federal money to care for refugees and undocumented migrants from Central America should be required to offer contraception and abortion, even if they have religious objections.Among the lawsuit’s claims: the federal government’s accommodation of religious beliefs violates the First Amendment’s prohibition on establishment of religion. It also claims a 1997 court settlement and later federal regulations oblige agencies with federal contracts to provide the coverage.Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor, told the New York Times that he thought the ACLU’s claim is weak due to precedents of federal agencies...
TOKYO (AP) -- The film world of Asia, known for producing Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Brillante Mendoza and other greats, is too busy making movies of its own to fret much about the debate slamming Hollywood - the casting of white people in roles written for Asians....
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A grizzly bear attacked and killed a 38-year-old mountain biker as he was riding along a trail just outside Glacier National Park, Montana authorities said....
