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IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Carol ZimmermannORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) --Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl urged participants at the "Convocation ofCatholic Leaders: The Joy of The Gospel in America" to take a look at eachother in the hotel ballroom and realize that they, as lay leaders in thechurch, are responsible for spreading the Gospel message and they shouldn'twaste the moment."This is not something newthat we haven't heard before," he told the delegates in Orlando in a July 2 keynote address.The cardinal stressed the senseof urgency of evangelizing and inviting others to Christ, stressing thatCatholics have a perfect role model for this in Pope Francis, who hascontinually presented the church as inviting and open.Cardinal Wuerl also acknowledgedthat Catholics are not always comfortable with the idea of evangelizing butthey need to be willing to step out of themselves and talk with people abouttheir faith as part of an encounter often spoken of by Pope Francis.An encounter is no...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- The top commander of Colombia's largest rebel movement was hospitalized Sunday following a stroke and remains in intensive care, just days after his group handed over the last of its individual weapons as part of a historic peace deal....
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) -- In his latest jab at the media, President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted a mock video that shows him pummeling a man in a business suit - his face obscured by the CNN logo - outside a wrestling ring....
Vatican City, Jul 2, 2017 / 01:41 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Stepping into what has turned out to be a tumultuous legal battle involving a UK couple's push for a say in the treatment and death of their terminally ill son, Pope Francis has offered his prayers for the child, and asked that the parents' wishes be respected.“The Holy Father follows with affection and emotion the story of Charlie Gard and expresses his own closeness to his parents,” read a July 2 statement issued by Vatican spokesman Greg Burke.“He prays for them, wishing that their desire to accompany and care for their own child to the end will be respected.”The statement was made as the tense legal battle between Gard's parents and the UK officials regarding how and when he will die comes to an end.At just 11 months, Gard suffers from a rare degenerative brain disease called infantile onset encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, or MDDS.With only 16 known cases in the wo...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Dennis SadowskiORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- The U.S. Catholic Church's increasing diversity presents Catholics with the opportunity to accompany each other on the journey of faith Pope Francis envisions, a Boston College professor told delegates to the "Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America" in Orlando.Hosffman Ospino, associate professor of theology and religious education at Boston College, said the changes in the landscape are a sign of strength and present new opportunities to welcome newcomers into the church family."It's OK if we wrestle with diversity and pluralism," he told the 3,500 delegates assembled for the convocation's first plenary session July 2. "This where we need to exercise the pastoral practice of mutual accompaniment."Ospino suggested that Catholics of the first decades of the 21st century might begin to understand that they can set the course of a "new Catholic moment in the U.S." by embracing diversity.Citi...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- The summer air is sizzling as the Fourth of July approaches, yet 86-year-old Richard Perkins already worries about how he's going to stay warm this winter....
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- As many in the United States celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, some minorities have mixed feelings about the revelry of fireworks and parades in an atmosphere of tension on several fronts....
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) -- A Pennsylvania man was in custody Sunday for what a prosecutor called the "savage" and "senseless" death of a recent high school graduate shot in the head during a road-rage confrontation as the two tried to merge in a single lane....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A doctor who appears to have been the intended target of a former physician who started shooting at a New York hospital, killing one person and injuring six, said he has no idea why he would have been singled out....
