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Vatican City, Mar 14, 2017 / 04:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Rather than a weakness, Pope Francis' humanity – and his acknowledgment of it – has been a source of strength and impact during the four years of his pontificate, said Vatican's press office director.“The Pope says something which is very impressive, which is: 'I am a sinner,'” Greg Burke told EWTN News Nightly. “And I think he says that in every interview he does, that none of us is without fault. I think that's been part of his strength: how human he is.”“Yes, he is the Vicar of Christ and yet at the same time he's a human being like the rest of us.”Burke reflected on one small moment from Francis’ pontificate that stands out in particular as hugely impactful: which was “when the Pope got down on his knees to go to Confession himself, in front of the cameras.”The way that Pope Francis leads by example “has done a great service to a...
Washington D.C., Mar 14, 2017 / 04:28 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A recent analysis of 50 studies found that pornography was negatively associated with sexual and relational satisfaction among men. The paper, entitled Pornography Consumption and Satisfaction: A Meta-Analysis, concluded that “Pornography consumption was associated with lower interpersonal satisfaction outcomes in cross-sectional surveys, longitudinal surveys, and experiments.” Specifically, pornography was linked to significant “lower sexual and relational satisfaction” among male viewers. The analysis included a combined 50,000 participants across 10 countries, and contradicts another recent study that claimed that pornography has a positive impact on its consumers. “Pornography is sex-negative,” Dawn Hawkins, Executive Director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), said in a statement about the new analysis. According to their website, the NCOSE is a...
Santa Fe, NM, Mar 14, 2017 / 05:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- New Mexico Bishops released a statement last week discouraging public advocacy from Catholic legislators for abortions and assisted suicide on behalf of their Catholic faith.“We are concerned by public statements by some legislators that seem to say that a faithful Catholic can support abortion or doctor-assisted suicide,” New Mexico's bishops stated March 6.“Support for abortion or doctor-assisted suicide is not in accord with the teachings of the Church. These represent the direct taking of human life, and are always wrong.”State Representative Patricia Roybal Caballero invoked her Catholic faith earlier this month as a factor in her decision to oppose a bill that would have banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.And last month State Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino, also Catholic, introduced a bill which would force religious hospitals and individuals to act against their conscious and perform abor...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The White House and its allies are stepping up their attacks on a foe typically associated with fragile democracies, military coups and spy thrillers....
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Texas executed on Tuesday a man convicted of the 1987 killings of a father and his infant son and who three years later at his capital murder trial grabbed a loaded gun from a drawer in the courtroom and tried to attack the judge....
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- More than 250 skulls have been found over the last several months in what appears to be a drug cartel mass burial ground on the outskirts of the city of Veracruz, prosecutors said Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the Organization of American States wants regional governments to suspend Venezuela from the Washington-based group unless general elections are held soon to break a political impasse that he said Tuesday is destroying the country's democracy....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Undaunted by fellow Republicans' defiance, GOP leaders and the White House redoubled their efforts Tuesday to muscle legislation overhauling America's health care system through Congress following a sobering report about millions being shoved off insurance coverage....
(Vatican Radio) The prime minister of the Netherlands has condemned comments by Turkey's president holding Dutch U.N. peacekeepers responsible for the massacre by Serb forces of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995. Relations between Turkey and the Netherlands have rapidly deteriorated in recent days after the Dutch government blocked two Turkish ministers from campaigning in a referendum.The diplomatic standoff comes hours before polls open in Dutch elections that could see an anti-Islam party win most seats in Parliament. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has now accused the Netherlands of the worst massacre since World War Two after the mayor of Rotterdam said police had permission to shoot at guards of the Turkish family minister who was blocked in the port city of Rotterdam on Saturday. "We know the Netherlands and the Dutch from the Srebrenica massacre. We know how rotten their character is from their massac...
(Vatican Radio) Anglicans and Catholics must not simply recall the legacy of great saints from the past, but must pass on to others “what we have received ourselves in the hope of a reunited Christendom.”That was the message from English Archbishop Arthur Roche, Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, to a historic celebration of Anglican Choral Evensong in St Peter’s Basilica.Archbishop David Moxon, director of the Anglican Centre in Rome, presided at the March 13th liturgy. The choir of Merton College, Oxford, sang motets by the English Renaissance composer William Byrd, as well as more contemporary works and some well-loved Anglican hymns.The celebration took place the day after the Church traditionally marked the feast of St Gregory the Great, who has become an unofficial patron of relations between the Anglican and Catholic Churches. St Gregory was the pope who sent Augustine, the prior of a Benedictine monaster...
