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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Federal officials investigating a fire that killed 36 people during a party at an Oakland warehouse plan to bring in engineers to examine the building's electrical system, as they try to pinpoint the cause of a blaze that has cast a spotlight on similar artists' colonies around the country that offer cheap housing but unsafe living conditions....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- For protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline, the messages from the Standing Rock Sioux reservation are confusing: The tribal chairman tells demonstrators that it's time to leave their camp and go home. Another leader implores them to stay through the bitter North Dakota winter....
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Dylann Roof's mother suffered a heart attack not long after prosecutors described how her son planned a cold and calculated killing of nine black church members in a racially motivated attack, the white man's attorney said in court documents Thursday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President-elect Donald Trump tapped Reince Priebus as his chief of staff, Republican leaders cheered the prospect of a close ally having a top White House job....
NEW YORK (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump is taking on a somber task Thursday that became all too familiar to his predecessor - supporting survivors after an outbreak of violence, this time families and victims from last week's attack at Ohio State University....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. The last survivor of the original Mercury 7 astronauts was 95....
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(Vatican Radio) The Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy has issued an updated instrument for the formation of priests.The document, entitled Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis or ‘The Gift of Priestly Vocation’, was promulgated on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, 8 Dec and published in the Osservatore Romano.“The gift of the priestly vocation, placed by God in the hearts of some men, obliges the Church to propose to them a serious journey of formation,” the opening line of the document reads.In an interview with the Osservatore Romano, Cardinal Beniamino Stella, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, says the updated Ratio Fundamentalis is meant to provide guidelines for the formation of priests, which “needed to be revamped, renewed, and restored to the centre”.Click here to read the full interview.Updated normsThe last Ratio was published in 1970 and updated in 1985. Cardinal Stella said the new norms ...
Vatican Weekend for December 10, 2016 features a report on the Wednesday General Audience plus a review of some of the highlights of Pope Francis’ activities during the past year as well as a look at two important anniversaries in the Pope’s own life with the help of a leading commentator on the papacy. We also take a visit to the Roman Church of Santa Maria in Via to admire a Christmas crib and end the programme with a conversation focusing on all things Christmas with our Latin scholar, Father Foster.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for December 11, 2016 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” a guided tour of St Peter’s famous Colonnade and a musical reflection for the Third Sunday of Advent.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
