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IMAGE: CNS photo/Ana Rodriguez-Soto, Florida CatholicBy Ana Rodriguez-SotoGRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK,Ariz. (CNS) -- Father Rafael Bercasio pastors perhaps the smallest parish inAmerica -- and the most uniquely situated.A short walk away from the southrim of the Grand Canyon sits El Cristo Rey Chapel, a small wooden building thatserves as the spiritual home of the Catholic families who work at the national park.El Cristo Rey, a parish of thePhoenix Diocese, has 26 registered families, who are "always outnumbered by thetourists," Father Bercasio said.The chapel is located within theboundaries of Grand Canyon Village, a residential neighborhood of around 1,500households that includes a school, a grocery store and a post office. Residentsare employed as park rangers and naturalists, maintenance workers, and hotel,restaurant and retail staff. Some live there only six months out of the year,although the park is open year-round."You cannot live here if you'renot working in the Grand Canyon...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Oprah Winfrey is headed to the supermarket aisle with her own line of refrigerated soups and side dishes....
CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. (AP) -- They have come from all over the United States, piling out of taxis, pushing strollers and pulling luggage, to the end of a country road in the north woods....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A British company hired to train Afghan intelligence officers billed the U.S. government for high-end cars, including Porsches and an Aston Martin, and paid the "significant others" of the firm's top executives six-figure salaries even though there's no proof they did any work, according to details of a Pentagon audit made public Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Ron Johnson suggested that fellow Republican Sen. John McCain's brain tumor and the after-midnight timing of the vote were factors in the Arizona lawmaker's decisive vote against the GOP health care bill....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Donald Trump's threat to unleash "fire and fury" on North Korea might have been written by Pyongyang's propaganda mavens, so perfectly does it fit the North's cherished claim that it is a victim of American aggression....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump scolded his own party's Senate leader on Wednesday for the crash of the Republican drive to repeal and rewrite the Obama health care law, using Twitter to demand of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, "Why not done?"...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump and his top national security aides delivered contrasting messages of alarm and reassurance over North Korea's expanding nuclear capabilities, with the commander-in-chief touting America's atomic supremacy a day after threatening "fire and fury" for the communist country....
The Catholic Bishops of Ibadan Archdiocese, Ilorin, Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo and Osogbo Dioceses have just ended their second meeting during which they discussed issues regarding the Church and their nation. Please find the final communique below.THE CHURCH AND THE TRAVAILS OF A GROWING NATIONCOMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF IBADAN PROVINCE FOR 2017 HELD AT SAINT KIZITO PASTORAL CENTRE, OKE GADA, EDE, OSUN STATE.PREAMBLE We, the Catholic Bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province, comprising Ibadan Archdiocese, Ilorin, Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo and Osogbo Dioceses, after our second meeting for the year 2017, having prayerfully deliberated over pertinent issues in the Church and the nation, hereby issue the following communique:1. The Ongoing Marian YearAs our Catholic faithful in the Province continue to celebrate the Marian year in prayer, spiritual activities and praise to Almighty God for the gift of faith, we call ...
Religious leaders met in Japan from Aug 3 to 4 to pray for peace in the world and as a response to Pope Francis’ wish to foster dialogue, friendship and peace.About 2,000 people, including 24 delegates from 18 countries of Buddhism, Shintoism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Zoroastrianism came together in Japan at an inter-faith "Interreligious Gathering of Prayer for World Peace". The event marked the 30th anniversary of the first ‘Religious Summit’ held on Mount Hiei in 1987. The religious summit was held in the temple city of Kyoto and at Mount Hiei, the most significant holy place for the Japanese Buddhist denomination Tendai.Pope Francis sent a letter to Koei Morikawa, the present supreme priest of Tendai, whom Pope Francis met privately in the Vatican on September 16, 2016. The letter was to be read at the annual Interreligious Gathering of Prayer for World Peace. The Pope’s letter was delivered and read to participant...
