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IMAGE: CNS photo/Octavio DuranBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- As El Salvador's first cardinal receiveshis red hat June 28 at the Vatican, he will have the eyes of his flock at home butalso of the Washington area, home to approximately 260,000 Salvadorans -- oneof the largest communities of Salvadorans outside of the Central American nation.Cardinal-designate Gregorio Rosa Chavez has been a pastor,not just inside El Salvador, said Capuchin Franciscan Father Moises Villalta.For years, he has frequently visited Salvadorans abroad, includingmany who were forced to flee their native country during its civil conflict fromthe late 1970s until the early 1990s, said Father Villalta, a native of ElSalvador and pastor at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington. He hastried to learn about the diaspora and even spent time teaching someexpats and their children El Salvador's national popular spiritual hymn, whichis an ode to Christ as "savior of the world." "He has come (to the United St...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Cardinals are not called to be"princes" of the church, but to serve the people of God and tacklethe sins of the world, Pope Francis told five new cardinals.Jesus "calls you to serve like him and with him, toserve the father and your brothers and sisters," the pope said as hecreated five new cardinals from five nations June 28.The new cardinals created during the prayer service inSt. Peter's Basilica were: Cardinals Jean Zerbo of Bamako, Mali, 73; Juan JoseOmella of Barcelona, Spain, 71; Anders Arborelius of Stockholm, 67;Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, apostolic vicar of Pakse, Laos, 73; andGregorio Rosa Chavez, 74, auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.After reciting the Creed and taking an oath of fidelityto Pope Francis and his successors, each cardinal -- in his new red robes --went up to Pope Francis and knelt before him. The pope gave them each acardinal's ring, a red skullcap and a red three-cornered re...
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LONDON (AP) -- Prosecutors charged a former senior police commander with manslaughter on Wednesday in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster that left 96 people dead - long-awaited vindication for the families of the victims after authorities spent years blaming fans for the catastrophe....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senior officials from the departments of State, Justice and Homeland Security labored Wednesday to finalize rules for visitors from six mostly Muslim nations who hope to avoid the Trump administration's revived travel ban and come to the United States....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate GOP leaders scrambled Wednesday for a deal to revive their health care legislation, but encountered new obstacles as recalcitrant senators doubled down on their opposition to the bill sought by President Donald Trump....
(Vatican Radio) How to be engaging on social media. How to build relationships beyond our own virtual world. How to rebuild trust through an authentic online presence. Those questions were at the heart of a seminar on Wednesday at Rome’s Pontifical Holy Cross university, focused on the theme ‘Communicating in the Digital Culture’.Organised by the British embassy to the Holy See, the encounter featured presentations by two well-known speakers, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of the Civiltà Cattolica journal, and the former British ambassador to Lebanon, Tom Fletcher, now a professor of international relations at New York University.Listen to Philippa Hitchen’s report: Love them or hate them, social media sites are an important part of daily life for a large part of the global population. So much so, that Fr Spadaro insists it’s no longer possible to talk about pastoral work without understanding what goes on in the digital world.Pope Franc...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has urged companies and businesses to bring more young people into the workplace saying it is both “foolish and short-sighted” to force workers to carry on working in old-age.The Pope’s words came as he addressed representatives and members of Italy’s CISL - Confederation of Trade Unions - whom he received in the Vatican.Francis described work as a “form of civil love” that allows men and women not only to earn their livings and flourish as persons, but also to keep the world going. But, he pointed out that work is not everything and no one must work all the time. He also said that there are people who must not work – like children - who must be safeguarded from child labour – sick people whose right it is not to work, and elderly people who have a right to a “just pension”.And on the topic of pensions, the Pope denounced both the ``golden retirements'' given to some pe...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday made appointments in the Asia and Pacific regions, with a bishop in Indonesia, a coadjutor bishop and an auxiliary bishop in South Korea and a prefect apostolic in the Marshal Islands. INDONESIA - PANGKALPINANGIn Indonesia he appointed Franciscan Father Adrianus Sunarko the Bishop of Pangkalpinang. The 50-year old priest is the Franciscan provincial superior of Indonesia as well as the president of the Conference of Men Major Superiors of Indonesia (KOPTARI). He takes over from Bishop Hilarius Moa Nurak SVD, who passed away on 29 April, 2016. Bishop Yohanes Harun Yuwono of Tanjungkarang was serving as its Apostolic Administrator.Born on 7 December, 1966 in Merauke, Papua, Fr. Sunarko attended the minor seminary of Mertoyudan. He did his philosophical studies at the Driyarkara High School of Philosophy in Jakarta and his theology at the Wedhabhakti Pontifical Faculty in Yogyakarta. He...
