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Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo dies at age 61
SHENYANG, China (AP) -- In what became one of his most famous essays, Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo wrote, "I have no enemies," in an ode to hope and a repudiation of hatred and fear....
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Servant of God Chiara Corbella Petrillo. / Credit: Christian Gennari/chiaracorbellapetrillo.itRome Newsroom, May 16, 2024 / 10:08 am (CNA).Servant of God Chiara Corbella Petrillo, the joyful young mother who died of cancer in 2012, will be one step closer next month to being declared a saint.The Diocese of Rome announced Wednesday that it will hold the closing session of the diocesan phase of her cause for beatification on Friday, June 21, at noon in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran.Since her death at the age of 28, Corbella has inspired many by her witness to faith and joy amid suffering and loss.Corbella met her husband, Enrico Petrillo, at the age of 18 while on a pilgrimage to Medugorje. They married six years later in Assisi on Sept. 21, 2008. Within the first two years of their marriage, Chiara and Enrico suffered the death of two children, both of whom died less than an hour after birth.Their first child, Maria Grazia Letizia, was diagnosed in utero with anencep...
Pope Francis meets with Italian actor Roberto Benigni on Dec. 7, 2022. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 16, 2024 / 11:49 am (CNA).Pope Francis will be joined by Italian actor Roberto Benigni and soccer star Gianluigi Buffon as the pontiff celebrates World Children's Day over the last weekend in May.The Vatican announced on Thursday that World Children's Day will "kick off" on Saturday, May 25, at 3:30 p.m. with a soccer match between kids and professional soccer players in Rome's Olympic Stadium led by Buffon, the goalie who helped Italy achieve victory in the 2006 World Cup.On the second day of the event, Benigni, best known for his Oscar-winning film "Life Is Beautiful," will give a short speech at the end of Pope Francis' Mass and Angelus address in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, May 26. World Children's Day is a new initiative by Pope Francis sponsored by the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education in collaboration with the Catholic community of Sant'Egid...
Outer details of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Chicago. / Credit: Eric Allix RogersCNA Staff, May 15, 2024 / 12:12 pm (CNA).Catholics and city preservationists in Chicago are scrambling to try to preserve a historic parish on the city's North Side, one that has survived a century of the city's development including being fully moved to a new location after it was first built. Our Lady of Lourdes Parish will hold its final Mass on Sunday, May 19, before the parish merges with nearby St. Mary of the Lake. The consolidation is part of the Archdiocese of Chicago's ongoing "Renew My Church" initiative that has closed and merged dozens of parishes in order to address shrinking budgets and priest shortages. The archdiocese announced the Lourdes parish merger in 2021. Katerina Garcia, the president of the Our Lady of Lourdes Church Preservation Society, told "EWTN News Nightly" anchor Tracy Sabol this week that parishioners at the parish dispute ...
