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IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Carol ZimmermannORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- From July 1-4 the main floor of the HyattRegency Hotel in Orlando was transformed into a huge parish hall with placesfor worship, prayer, discussion, and even coffee and doughnuts during the "Convocationof Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America."At the convocation3,500 church leaders -- men and women religious, bishops and laypeople -- gathered to set a new course for the U.S. Catholic Church.Followinga retreat format, each day started and ended with group prayer. Masswas celebrated each day in the hotel ballroom, and there were plenty ofscheduled times for the sacrament of reconciliation and private prayer in alarge room turned into an adoration chapel.Many ofthe keynote sessions took the form of pep talks encouraging delegates to sharetheir faith boldly with the world at large and within their own families andparishes. The numerous breakout sessions provided the working aspect of thegathering: closel...
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's foreign secretary has backed U.K. court decisions preventing the parents of a terminally ill child from taking him abroad for experimental treatment, despite an offer of help from a Vatican hospital....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- As Israel's Labor Party prepares to choose its new leader, it already has taken a big step toward shedding its image as a bastion of liberal, upper-class Israelis of European descent....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Pro-government militias wielding wooden sticks and metal bars stormed congress on Wednesday and began attacking opposition lawmakers during a special session coinciding with Venezuela's independence day....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- North Korea's newly demonstrated missile muscle puts Alaska within range of potential attack and stresses the Pentagon's missile defenses like never before. Even more worrisome, it may be only a matter of time before North Korea mates an even longer-range ICBM with a nuclear warhead, putting all of the United States at risk....
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- President Donald Trump opens his two-nation European visit with what he expects to be a short but warm stop in Poland before he encounters what could be a frostier reception and thornier issues at an international summit in Germany. Trump's sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's first launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile threaten to put Trump's skills as a negotiator to the test....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The killer who strode up to a mobile police command post and put a bullet in an officer's head Wednesday had ranted in a Facebook video last September about law officers killing and abusing people and warned them to leave him alone or "we gonna do something."...
(Vatican Radio) The UN’s Food and Agriciulture Organisation is holding its 40th plenary conference in Rome this week, focusing on issues around “Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security”.In a message sent to the July 3rd to 8th meeting, Pope Francis highlighted the right of every individual to be free from poverty and hunger. He said there is an urgent need for solidarity to be the criterion inspiring all forms of cooperation in international relations.Among those attending the conference was Australia's deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce, who also serves as minister for agriculture and water resources. He told Philippa Hitchen more about the message he was bringing to this important international gathering…Listen: Barnaby Joyce says his message is “one of pragmatism and understanding the mathematics of the equation that we have to solve, that in the next 50 years the world will consume as much food as it has in human history to this ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a telegramme upon the death of Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop emeritus of Cologne, who died on Wednesday at the age of 83.“With profound emotion I learned that, suddenly and unexpectedly, Cardinal Joachim Meisner was called from this earth by the God of mercy,” the Pope wrote.The Pope addressed his telegramme to Cardinal Rainer Woelki, current Archbishop of Cologne.He said Cardinal Meisner was “dedicated to the proclamation of the Good News” with “profound faith and sincere love for the Church”.“May Christ the Lord reward him for his faithful and intrepid efforts in favour of the good of people of East and West.”Pope Francis closed the telegramme by imparting his Apostolic Blessing on all who “commemorate the late Pastor with prayers and sacrifices”.With the death of Cardinal Joachim Meisner, the College of Cardinals stands at 224, 121 of whom are Cardinal electors.
Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle urged his countrymen on Tuesday to be the signs of love, hope and light amid ongoing clashes between government forces and armed Islamist terrorists in the south of the country. The prelate who is Archbishop of Manila said attempts by Islamic State-inspired terrorists to make the conflict look like a war between religions, "will not succeed" because Muslims and Christians in Mindanao are helping each other. Cardinal Tagle was speaking on July 4 during a media briefing in preparation for the annual Philippine Conference on New Evangelization later this month."Whoever plans to divide Muslims and Christians will not triumph," said the cardinal, adding that "stories of hope" continue to emerge from the conflict zone. The prelate said he heard of stories about Muslims taking care of Christians whose lives are in danger or Christians helping suffering Muslims.Some 300,000 people, mostly Muslims, have ...
