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Vatican City, Jun 15, 2016 / 04:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis said Wednesday that we must listen to the cries of the poor and needy, resisting the temptation to close our hearts because we are “bothered” by their constant pleas for help.Reflecting on the miracle in Chapter 18 of Luke’s Gospel in which Jesus heals a blind man who cries out to him on the side of the road, Francis noted how the man had “a strong voice,” but the people around “rebuke him to keep quiet, as if he didn’t have the right to speak.”“They don’t have compassion on him, but rather, they are bothered by his cries,” the Pope said, asking “how many times do we, when we see so many people in the street, needy people, sick and with nothing to eat, feel bothered?”“How many times do we, when we find ourselves before so many refugees and migrants, feel bothered?” he asked, sayings this is a temptation everyone has, “ev...
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Oscar Pistorius walked on his stumps in a South African courtroom on Wednesday as part of his defense team's argument that the double-amputee athlete, convicted of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, is a vulnerable man who deserves leniency when he is sentenced....
LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization's research arm has downgraded its classification of coffee as a possible carcinogen, declaring there isn't enough proof to show a link to cancer....
PARIS (AP) -- French police and anti-terrorism investigators have been alerted to the possibility that small groups of extremists have left Syria for France and Belgium with plans to stage attacks....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The Latest on the massacre at a gay Orlando nightclub (all times local):...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Shot in the leg and lying in a mix of blood and water on a bathroom floor, Patience Carter heard gunman Omar Mateen dial 911 from just a few feet away. The American-born son of an Afghan immigrant, Mateen told the person on the other end he wanted America to stop bombing his country, she recalled....
Some passages in Scripture are hard to grasp, the meanings of others seem apparent. This looks like one of the latter. Don't parade your charity before others to build yourself up in their eyes. However, like most...
(Vatican Radio) The First Secretary of the Holy See Mission to the UN in Geneva gave an intervention Tuesday in which he renewed the Holy See’s call for the international community to responsibly and adequately address the ongoing migrant crisis.The 15 June statement delivered in English by Mons Richard Gyhra to the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva was that of the Vatican’s representative to the UN in Geneva, Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic.Listen to the intervention delivered by Mons Gyhra, courtesy of UN correspondent Christian Peschken: “These movements are often the consequence of social and economic inequalities, violent conflicts, natural disasters and also religious persecutions,” the statement said.“While understanding the need for national policies to address large flows of migrants and refugees, my Delegation wishes&nb...
Vatican City, Jun 15, 2016 / 12:35 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has officially recognized 115 Catholics who were killed during the Spanish Civil War out of hatred of the faith.The newest martyrs are Servants of God José Álvarez Benavides y de la Torre, Spanish dean of the Cathedral Chapter of Almería, and his 114 companions. They were killed between 1936 and 1938 during Spain’s brutal civil war.The June 14 recognition means that they are considered “Blesseds” in the eyes of the Church, one grade below saints. The decree came from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.In addition, Pope Francis also recognized the heroic virtues of seven Catholics who will now be known by the title “Venerable.”These are Anton Cyril Stojan (1851-1923), the Archbishop of Olomuc in what is now the Czech Republic; Vicente Garrido Pastor (1896-1975), the Spanish diocesan priest who founded the Secular Institute of Workers of the Cross; Mexican pri...
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Numbers may not necessarily lie, though they can deceive....
