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IMAGE: CNS/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN LETTER (CNS) -- The CatholicChurch is not a "gerontocracy" ruled by old men, 80-year-old PopeFrancis said; "we aren't old men, we are grandfathers.""We are grandfathers called todream and to give our dreams to the young people of today. They need it so thatfrom our dreams, they can draw the strength to prophesy and carry out theirtask," the pope told about 50 members of the College of Cardinals.Celebrating the 25th anniversary ofhis ordination as a bishop June 27, Pope Francis concelebrated Mass in thePauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace.Most of the cardinals present wereofficials of the Roman Curia or retired curial officials living in Rome. Manyof them needed assistance up and down the small steps to the altar at Communiontime.The Mass was celebrated the daybefore Pope Francis was to create five new cardinals: Archbishop Jean Zerbo ofBamako, Mali, 73; Archbishop Juan Jose Omella of Barcelona, Spain, 71; BishopAnders Arboreli...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Workers have installed a Ten Commandments monument outside Arkansas' Capitol, two years after lawmakers approved a measure permitting the statue on state grounds....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A subway train derailed near a station in Harlem on Tuesday, frightening passengers and resulting in a power outage as people were evacuated from trains along the subway line....
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- One by one, Denver Simmons recalled, he and his partner lured inmates into his cell. William Scruggs was promised cookies in exchange for doing some laundry; Jimmy Ham thought he was coming to snort some crushed pills....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- After a seven-year legal battle, European authorities came down hard on Google on Tuesday for taking advantage of its dominance in online searches to direct customers to its own businesses, fining the tech giant a record 2.42 billion euros ($2.72 billion) and raising the prospect of more....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Utah's Mike Lee became the fifth Republican senator Tuesday to oppose even beginning debate on the GOP's foundering health care bill, tossing another hurdle in the path of party leaders who've hoped the Senate would approve the measure this week....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon on Tuesday said it detected "active preparations" by Syria for a chemical weapons attack, giving weight to a White House statement hours earlier that the Syrian government would "pay a heavy price" if it carried out such an attack....
PARIS (AP) -- A new and highly virulent outbreak of malicious data-scrambling software appears to be causing mass disruption across Europe, hitting Ukraine especially hard....
2 KGS 4: 8-11, 14-16; ROM 6: 3-4, 8-11; MT. 10: 37-42Anecdote: Catholic Worker Houses of Hospitality. The eighth of November marks the 111th anniversary of the birth of Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980), the uncanonized saint of the homeless, the American journalist turned social activist and devout member of the Catholic Church. She was also an outspoken advocate for the poor. For most of her life she agitated for better treatment of the disadvantaged. The Catholic Worker Movement, which she started in May 1933, was a further extension of her interest in the poor. With the help of her friend Peter Maurin she revived the idea of hospitality once fostered by monasteries. All were welcome: the poor, the downtrodden and losers. She also started the first House of Hospitality where she could care for the poor. Dorothy and Peter suggested that every Catholic parish should have such a...
(Vatican Radio) Myanmar’s prominent Catholic Church leader has appealed to the government to probe allegations of ‘ethnic cleansing’, war crimes and crimes against humanity in a truly independent way that results in justice and accountability. In a statement on Monday, Cardinal Charles Bo said he was raising his voice “at a great personal risk”, to speak out for the rights and dignity of every people against “religious extremism.” “Even when many voices were muted, I have raised my voices against religious extremism, the plight of IDPs [internally displaced persons] and treatment of minorities,” he wrote in the 26 June statement.The cardinal who is archbishop of Yangon, spoke against the peresecution of minorities and described the “horrific persecution” of the Rohingya Muslims of Rakhine state as “an appalling scar on the conscience” of his country. The “de...
