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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Russian-American lobbyist who attended a meeting at Trump Tower last year is a former military officer long shadowed by allegations of connections to Russian intelligence....
Vatican Weekend for July 17th, 2017 features a program on the figure of St. Bonaventure, the 13th century theologian and mystic, to coincide with his feast day, a report on a course hosted by the Congregation for Clergy to discuss a revised handbook of best practices for priestly formation and we get an update on how starvation and drought are threatening millions of people in East Africa.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for July 16th, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” a guided tour of Rome’s Basilica of San Clemente, a unique three-tiered church, and Carmelite Father Reggie Foster talks about Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the Carmelite order to coincide with her feast day.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
The newly-elected president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has said he will promote "active dialogue" during his term as head of the collegial body over the next two years. Archbishop Romulo Valles of Davao, who was elected president at the CBCP plenary assembly on July 8, said it is the vision of the country's Church leaders to pursue dialogue. He takes over from Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan when he finishes his 2-term presidency in December.Arch. Valles regarded his election as "God's will". “I look at it with faith that even with all my limitations God must have allowed it, me to be elected as president," the 66-year old prelate told the church-run Radio Veritas. Archbishop Valles said that even through his "smallness" he would be able "to do my job and do the affairs of the conference in a way that could put the glory of God in his church."Arch....
(Vatican Radio) The Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life has a new way to interact with the world: a new website launched this week.Online at www.laityfamilylife.va, the new site offers news about the Dicastery’s activities, as well as social updates and videos.Explaining its mission, the Dicastery says, “The new website, in addition to telling about the Dicastery’s activities, wants to become a familiar place for lay people and families, where everyone will feel at ease and have [a] chance to be heard.”The portal also presents the Dicastery’s new logo, which represents “a hug that welcomes all the laity and all the families of the world.”Designed by Anna Formaggio, the logo represents the colonnade around St. Peter’s Square made up of lay people who embrace a group of families.“From the colonnade and the families within it life is born,” life which is represented by a flower sprouting from the colum...
(Vatican Radio) Respect, responsibility and relationship are the three themes highlighted by Pope Francis in a message addressed to the “Laudato Sì & Big Cities” conference taking place in Rio de Janeiro.The 3-day event is organized by the “Antoni Gaudí Foundation for Big Cities” that aims to contribute to the humanization of large urban centers in a world in which a growing 52% of the global population lives in highly populated urban centres.Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Sì” is being used as a focal point of discussion and reference regarding environmental, ethical and management issues pertaining to big cities.Respecting Creation is one of our "core tasks” Pope Francis writes in his strongly worded message to conference participants, and he reaffirms, as he did in his encyclical – to which the Rio conference is dedicated - that we “cannot just remain on the sidelines when we notic...
The archbishop of the Sri Lankan capital has called on his Catholics to observe a week of prayer and fasting, beginning on Saturday, to obtain God’s graces to help deal with deadly mosquito-borne dengue fever that has killed more than 230 in Sri Lanka this year. "Let's pray to the Blessed Mother and all the saints, that they may intercede for us at this time of need," said Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Archbishop of Colombo, asking his faithful to join a week of prayer and fasting, 15-23 July. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne infectious disease. Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health reported this week that more than 87,600 suspected cases of the infection have been reported in 2017. Dengue is endemic in Sri Lanka, but the number of infections this year is already about 38 per cent higher than 2016, when 55,150 people were diagnosed with dengue and 97 died. Experts say the virus is a particularly virulent strain that is new to Sri Lanka, and th...
Vatican City, Jul 14, 2017 / 07:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis Friday sent a message to an international congress on care for our common home in the context of large cities, reminding participants that caring for the environment ultimately means having responsibility for our fellow man.“We see an indifference to our common home and, unfortunately, to so many tragedies and needs that hit our brothers and sisters. This passivity demonstrates the ‘loss of that sense of responsibility for our fellow-men on which all civil society is founded’ (‘Laudato Si’ 25).”“Each territory and government should encourage responsible ways of acting in its citizens so that, with inventiveness, they can interact and favor the creation of a more habitable and healthier house,” the Pope said.“Placing on each one the little that corresponds to him in his responsibility, much will be achieved.”Pope Francis sent his letter, dated June 12, to p...
London, England, Jul 14, 2017 / 09:25 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The American doctor whose experimental treatment has been sought by the parents of Charlie Gard will travel to London on Monday, after a judge ruled that he could examine the baby and confer with the UK doctors.On Friday, the specialist in mitochondrial diseases and genetic myopathies agreed to travel to examine Charlie in-person at the Great Ormand Street Hospital in London.The neurologist testified via video July 13 that he believes the 11-month-old has at least a 10 percent chance of improving under his treatment, and possibly as high as a 56 percent chance.The doctor, Michio Hirano, whose name was revealed after a court order was lifted Friday, is a professor of neurology at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York. He is the doctor overseeing the therapy trial Charlie's parents had sought to join before being denied by the hospital and courts.Friday’s development comes one week after Great Ormond Str...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Liam Burke courtesy PrBy Sarah Mac DonaldLIMERICK, Ireland (CNS) -- TheCatholic Church is doing whatever it can to strengthen the family, includingfamilies often considered nontraditional, said Cardinal Christoph Schonborn ofVienna, the theologian who reviewed Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on thefamily."Favoring the family doesnot mean disfavoring other forms of life -- even those living in a same-sexpartnership need their families," the cardinal said during a visit toIreland, which next year hosts the World Meeting of Families.The family is "the survivalnetwork of the future" and "will remain forever the basis of everysociety," Cardinal Schonborn told journalists July 13 ahead of addressinga conference, "Let's Talk Family: Let's Be Family."The cardinal told the conferenceat Mary Immaculate College that people should not be discouraged about thefuture of the family, despite the many social and economic threats and policiesthat disregard it. "Today, everybody c...
