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Vatican City, May 25, 2016 / 06:56 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For Pope Francis, prayer is neither a “magic wand” used to get what we want nor something casual we do only when we feel like it, but is rather the strength that sustains our faith in difficult moments.“Jesus says that we need ‘to pray always, without growing tired,’” the Pope said May 25. What that means is that “it’s not just praying sometimes, when I feel like it. No.”“Everyone experiences moments of fatigue and discouragement, especially when it seems like our prayer seems ineffective,” he said, but assured that “God answers his children promptly, even if it means he does it in times and ways other than what we would like.”Francis spoke to pilgrims gathered in a sunny St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday general audience. He continued his catechesis on mercy as understood in scripture, focusing on the parable of the unjust judge from the Gos...
By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Prayer is not a magic wand thatfulfills your desires, but it is what helps you keep the faith when you don'tunderstand God's will, Pope Francis said.Prayer is meant to be "our daily bread, our powerfulweapon and the staff for our journey," he said May 25 during his weeklygeneral audience in St. Peter's Square.In his catechesis, the pope talked about the Gospelparable of the persistent widow, who incessantly appealed to a corrupt judgefor justice.Judges at the time were supposed to be filled with thefear of God as they impartially and faithfully upheld the laws of Moses, thepope said. But the judge in this parable was dishonest and only cared abouthimself. He had no interest in protecting the rights of the weakest and easilyexploited members of society, which included widows, orphans and foreigners, hesaid."Faced with the judge's indifference, the widowresorted to her only weapon -- to keep incessantly pestering him, presentinghim with her appeal ...
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) -- President Barack Obama's parting shot before leaving communist Vietnam: let people express themselves....
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Russia freed Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko on Wednesday after holding her for nearly two years, with President Vladimir Putin pardoning her as part of a swap for two Russian servicemen jailed in Ukraine....
BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. (AP) -- Jennifer Dumas sits on a sofa, her smiling 6-month-old girl on her lap. The room is full of bright toys and children's books. A rainbow-colored activity mat is on the floor, and Winnie the Pooh is painted on the walls....
For the second year in a row, female CEOs earned more than their male counterparts and received bigger raises. But only a small sliver of the largest companies are run by women, and experts say gender parity at the top remains way off....
SHIMA, Japan (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday he plans to use his historic visit to Hiroshima with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to reflect on the suffering of war and the need to take steps to prevent it. Abe said he had no plans to reciprocate Obama's gesture by paying his own visit to Pearl Harbor....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton disregarded various State Department guidelines for avoiding cybersecurity risks, an internal audit found Wednesday, faulting her and past secretaries of state for weak information management....
(Vatican Radio) On Tuesday, the Vatileaks trial for the appropriation and unlawful disclosure of confidential Vatican information entered its sixteenth hearing.The trial session heard the testimony of Emiliano Fittipaldi, one of the journalists – along with Gianluigi Nuzzi – to whom the documents were released.The court also heard from defendant Francesca Chaouqui, who opened her deposition claiming there is a “political will” by some people in the Holy See. A witness, referring to the 31 October signed transcript, testified that she had delivered a Word document about the Vatican’s assets management to Nuzzi.Other testimonies came from Deputy Commissioner of the Gendarmerie, Gianluca Gauzzi Broccoli, and Stefano de Santis, the gendarme who reconstructed the relationship between the accused after analyzing the messages, emails, and other verbal declarations made by them.Nuzzi was absent from the 24 May trial, while defendants Msgr. Lucio Ángel ...
(Vatican Radio) At the conclusion of his weekly General Audience, Pope Francis prayed for the victims of terrorist attacks that took place in Syria on Monday.“I exhort everyone to pray to the merciful Father, to pray to the Madonna, that [God] might give eternal rest to the victims, and consolation to their families,” the Pope said, “and might convert the hearts of those who sow death and destruction.” He then led the crowd in the Hail Mary More than 160 people were killed in the coordinated attacks on cities of Jableh and Tartus, government strongholds which had remained relatively untouched throughout the civil war, now in its sixth year.Funerals for the victims began on Tuesday in Syria.
