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Florence, Italy, Jun 2, 2017 / 04:15 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Sister Candida Bellotti, thought to be the oldest nun in the world, died Saturday at the age of 110.Sister Bellotti had celebrated her 110th birthday on Feb. 20, 2017 and received a special birthday greeting from Pope Francis.“To the Reverend Sister Candida Bellotti, Sister Minister of the Sick, who with gratitude to God is celebrating her 110th birthday, the Holy Father Francis spiritually participates in the joy we all share for this happy occasion and sends warm congratulations and heartfelt wishes,” said the pontiff in his message at the time.The Italian nun was 30 years older than Pope Francis. Her life spanned ten pontiffs: Pius X (1903-1914), Benedict XV (1914-1922), Pius XI (1922-1939), Pius XII (1939-1958), John XXIII (1958-1963), Paul VI (1963-1978), John Paul I (1978), John Paul II (1978-2005), Benedict XVI (2005-2013), and Pope Francis (2013- ).Sister Bellotti was born in 1907 in the province of Verona...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Rhina GuidosBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- In his youth, Jesuit Father Patrick J. Conroypictured himself as a lawyer and a senator, working in the deep recesses ofWashington's U.S. Capitol building. In a way, he's doing just that but not inthe way he imagined."I'm not in the Senate, I'm in the House," he said insidethe Capitol, where his law degree from St. Louis University is perched onthe wall of his spacious office, along with a lifetime of memories that includea photo of him blessing Pope Francis during his visit to Congress, and one of him nextto the Dalai Lama, as well as souvenirs from the American Indian reservation inWashington state where he once offered his legal services. Photos with studentsfrom his 10-year campus ministry stint at Georgetown University also are sprinkledthroughout.While the dreams of his youth, becoming a lawyer and working atthe Capitol, have been fulfilled, he didn't initially expect them to come true whilewearing an all-black o...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The special counsel investigating possible ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia's government has taken over a separate criminal probe involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and may expand his inquiry to investigate the roles of the attorney general and deputy attorney general in the firing of FBI Director James Comey, The Associated Press has learned....
(Vatican Radio) The Archbishop of Canterbury’s new representative to the Holy See, Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi of Burundi, says his appointment will help Anglicans and Catholics to work more closely together on key issues of reconciliation, poverty and human trafficking.The Archbishop, who will also serve as director of Rome’s Anglican Centre, says his experience in jail, following a military coup in Burundi, taught him humility and other valuable lessons about the responsibility of religious leaders.Ntahoturi served as chief of staff to Burundi’s former President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza from 1979 to 1986. Following the overthrow of the government in 1987, he spent almost four years in prison.After being consecrated bishop of the Diocese of Matana, and later serving as leader of the Anglican Church of Burundi for over a decade, Ntahoturi has played a key role in local and regional peace building efforts. He’s also well-known on the international scene f...
Washington D.C., Jun 2, 2017 / 11:02 am (CNA).- Vatican experts on human development and social issues challenged Catholics around the world this week to respond with openness and a willingness to confront global issues in a truly Catholic manner.In a meeting with reporters at Georgetown University, Cardinal Peter Turkson warned that when Catholics focus on national or regional identities first “and make that qualify Catholicism or Catholic teaching, there’s a mighty good chance that we may be going in parallel lines and never meet.”The cardinal warned that Catholics from various regions of the world might lose sight of what’s more important when placing these identities at the forefront, rather than the faith. “The thing that binds us, that makes us common is the fact of belonging to the Catholic faith,” he stressed.Cardinal Turkson, who serves as prefect for the Dicastery of Integral Human Development, was joined by Archbishop Silvano Maria Toma...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz MuthBy Colleen DulleWESTMINSTER,Md. (CNS) -- For Father Mark Bialek, being a priest means enabling hisparishioners to evangelize in new ways."Wecan't just sit comfortably anymore in our parishes and our chanceries and inour homes, but we have to actually go to where the sheep are," Father Bialeksaid, comparing the church to a flock.FatherBialek will attend the "Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospelin America," a national gathering in Orlando, Florida, from July 1-4, to learnabout evangelization and share ideas with other Catholic leaders.Theinvitation-only convocation aims to equip attendees with strategies and bestpractices for preaching the Gospel in a way that reaches today's culture. It isbased on Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation "Evangelii Gaudium" ("The Joy ofthe Gospel.")FatherBialek told Catholic News Service he has high hopes for the convocation."Ithink it's going to be a time of renewal where we go from maintenance tomission," Fath...
By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Members of the U.S. Senate "have agrave obligation" to make sure their health care reform bill respectslife, provides access to adequate health care "for all" and is"truly affordable," the chairmen of four U.S. bishops' committeessaid in a letter to senators released June 2.As theSenate takes up health care reform, it "must act decisively to remove theharmful proposals from the House bill that will affect low-income people --including immigrants -- as well as add vital conscience protections, or beginreform efforts anew," the chairmen said, reiterating key moral principlesthey urged be in the U.S. House bill to replace the Affordable Care Act.By afour-vote margin May 4, the House passed the American Health Care Act toreplace the Obama administration's health care law.SenateRepublicans have been urged to pass health care legislation before the congressionalrecess at the end of July. AfterHouse passage of its measure, the U.S. bishops "noted the positiveaspects"...
