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Vatican City, May 22, 2017 / 03:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Only seven months after Pope Francis’ last consistory, he will create five new cardinals in June. He continues a pattern of finding cardinals at the peripheries of the world, from dioceses which have not traditionally had a cardinal.The next consistory will take place June 28.In this new batch Pope Francis has confirmed his preference for dioceses that are not traditional sees for a cardinal. For instance, this is the first time a bishop from El Salvador, Sweden, Mali, and Laos will receive a red hat.The Pope’s choice of Bishop Louis Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, Vicar Apostolic of Paksé, reveals his particular interest in Laos.Laos, a one-party communist republic averse to religion, is one of the few countries lacking full diplomatic relations with the Holy See. However, in recent years the Laotian government has been showing a greater openness to the international community, and also to the religious sent...
Mexico City, Mexico, May 22, 2017 / 03:22 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Mexican Bishops' Conference offered prayers for journalists as they face increased violence in their efforts to uncover truth.“The Mexican Bishop's Conference expresses its support and solidarity with journalists throughout Mexico, facing violence attacks in the exercise of their profession,” the bishops said in a May 21 statement.According to the international journalist advocacy group Reporters without Borders, an estimated 105 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since the year 2000. This makes Mexico the third most deadly country in the world for journalists, after Syria and Afghanistan, and ahead of Iraq.So far in 2017 alone, six journalists have been murdered in Mexico.The most recent was Javier Valdez, shot dead May 15 in Culiacan, Sinoloa. The journalist, a correspondent for “La Jornada” in Sinaloa, had done in-depth reporting on drug trafficking and organized crime in Mexi...
IMAGE: CNS/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) --Consecrated women are called to be prophets of hope and joy in the world andavoid putting on a superficial joy that withers the soul, Pope Francis said. In order to live out the joyof the Gospel, "it must be a true joy, not a counterfeit joy" thatbrings about "the cancer of resignation," the pope told a group from the Sister Disciples of the DivineMaster. "Please, sisters, no resignation.Only joy! The devilwill say, 'We are small, we don't have many vocations.' And your face will growlong -- down, down, down -- and you lose joy," he said. "No, youcannot live like that; the hope of Jesus is joy."Founded in 1924, the Sister Disciplesof the Divine Master are part of the nine institutes of consecrated lifethat form the Pauline Family established by Blessed James Alberione. The congregation was in Rome April 30-May 28 for their ninth general chapter onthe theme "New wine in newwineskins."After receiving a warmapp...
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Even before President Donald Trump began his trip to Israel, he had made history of sorts....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Protesters set late President Hugo Chavez's childhood home in western Venezuela on fire Monday, an opposition lawmaker said, as protests against the South American nation's socialist government grew increasingly hostile....
DEARBORN, Michigan (AP) -- The job of Ford's new CEO won't be easy: He will have to shore up the 114-year-old company's traditional auto business, but also invest in self-driving cars and other projects that could one day make that business obsolete....
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The panel that will decide Bill Cosby's fate in his sex assault trial began to take shape Monday with the selection of five jurors, three white men and two white women....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in rebuffing a subpoena Monday in the investigation into Russia's election meddling. Then a top House Democrat cited new evidence he said appeared to show Flynn lied on a security clearance background check....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- President Donald Trump solemnly placed a note in the ancient stones of Jerusalem's Western Wall on Monday, sending a signal of solidarity to an ally he's pushing to work harder toward peace with the Palestinians. But his historic gesture- and his enthusiastic embrace of Israel's leader - were shadowed even here by reminders of Trump's tumult back home...
LONDON (AP) -- Several people have died following an explosion Monday night at an Ariana Grande concert in northern England, police and witnesses said. The singer was not injured, according to a representative....
