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Vatican City, May 4, 2017 / 06:14 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis told the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications, which is holding their first plenary assembly this week, that given a growing digital culture throughout the world, new media must become a primary platform for spreading the Gospel.“Studying new ways and means to communicate the Gospel of mercy to all people, in the heart of different cultures, through the media that the new digital cultural context makes available to our contemporaries” is something that is “very much in my heart,” Pope Francis said May 4.He spoke to members of his Secretariat for Communications, which was formed in June 2015 as part of his ongoing reform of the Roman Curia, during their first plenary assembly.The assembly is taking place May 3-5 at the Vatican and gathers members of the secretariat, which is headed by Msgr. Dario Edoardo Vigano.In his audience with the plenary participants, Francis said the word &ldq...
Vatican City, May 4, 2017 / 09:47 am (CNA/EWTN News).- President Donald Trump will meet Pope Francis during a visit to the Vatican later this month.“His Holiness Pope Francis will receive the Hon. Donald Trump, President of the United States of America, on Wednesday, 24 May 2017, at 8:30 a.m. in the Apostolic Palace,” the Vatican announced Thursday.“President Trump will then meet with His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State, and Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States.”The president and the pope have sometimes been put at odds.During a Feb. 18, 2016 in-flight press conference, Reuters reporter Philip Pullella asked the Pope to respond to Donald Trump’s immigration stand.Pope Francis answered: “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.”The pontiff added he would “give the benefit of the doubt” t...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Shortly after Pope Francis metprivately with Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Holy See andMyanmar announced they were establishing full diplomatic relations.The Vatican announced May 4 that the pope would appoint anuncio to the southeast Asian nation and that Myanmar would name an ambassadorto the Vatican. The agreement brings to 183 the number of countries with whichthe Holy See has full diplomatic relations.Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in1991, had spent almost 15 years of the period between 1989 and 2010 under housearrest. Her party, the National League for Democracy, won the general electionin 2015 and she was named the de facto head of government in April 2016.Welcomed to the Vatican by Pope Francis, Suu Kyitook his hand and bowed her head. She and the pope met privately for more than20 minutes before her entourage entered the papal library.She gave Pope Francis a small bas relief of a ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via EPABy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis advanced the sainthoodcauses of Wisconsin-born Capuchin Father Solanus Casey, five religious, fourlaypeople and two cardinals, including Vietnamese Cardinal Francois Nguyen VanThuan.The pope approved the decrees during an audience May 4with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes.Father Casey (1870-1957) was known for his great faith,humility and compassion and for his ministry as spiritual counselor. He gaineda popular following during his lifetime, with healings attributed to hisintercession both before and after his death.He was the sixth of 16 children of Irish immigrantparents. He was born on a farm near Oak Grove, Wisconsin, and as a young manworked as a logger, a hospital orderly, a streetcar operator and a prison guardbefore entering the Capuchins at age 26.He was ordained in 1904 as a "simplex priest,"one who is unable to hear confessions or preach do...
By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- President Donald Trump will visitthe Vatican and meet with Pope Francis May 24 as part of his first foreign tripas president.White House officials said the visit will be part ofa trip that will include stops in Israel and Saudi Arabia before Trump attends aNATO meeting in Brussels May 25 and the G7 summit in Taormina on the island of Sicily May26-27.Thetrip was an attempt to unite three of the world's leading religious faiths in the common cause offighting terrorism, reining in Iran, and "unifying the world againstintolerance," White House officials said May 4.The information wasconfirmed by PalomaGarcia Ovejero, vice director of the Vatican press office.Thepope's meeting with Pope Francis was to take place in the Apostolic Palace andwill include Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, andArchbishop Paul Gallagher, secretary for relations with states.Pope Francis, on his return flight from Egypt April29, told reporters that he had not yet been inf...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican-led House is expected to vote overwhelmingly to impose new sanctions on North Korea aimed at its shipping industry and use of slave labor....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is in talks with the Trump administration to keep American troops in Iraq after the fight against the Islamic State group in the country is concluded, according to a U.S. official and an official from the Iraqi government....
