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IMAGE: CNS photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic SpiritBy Matthew DavisMINNEAPOLIS(CNS) -- Hundreds filled the front steps of the Basilica of St. Mary inMinneapolis Nov. 20 following Mass to witness the closing of the church's HolyDoors, marking the end of the Catholic Church's Jubilee Year of Mercy.Amongthem were Jonathan Thompson and Julia Waletzko, who had held hands and grinnedas they passed through the doors a final time. The pair, who met at the basilicaat a Bible study on Valentine's Day, had gotten engaged just hours earlier."Theclosing of the Holy Doors was a big draw," Thompson said of the couple'sdecision to attend the closing Mass. "It was such a peaceful experience."ArchbishopBernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis presided at the evening Mass andthen invited the congregation to process out of the Holy Doors before heceremoniously closed them. With the Cathedral of St. Paul and St. Maron inMinneapolis, the basilica was one of three local churches with designated HolyDoo...
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- They came by the hundreds - men, women and children fleeing the battle for Mosul, some bloodied and crying out for help. So large was the crowd on the road that Iraqi troops initially ordered them back, worried that an Islamic State suicide bomber could be hiding among them....
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- The man who seven years ago ambushed and fatally shot one of the few U.S. doctors performing late-term abortions was given a more lenient sentence Wednesday of at least 25 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole....
NEW YORK (AP) -- This holiday season, elves and "joy" may be on the way out and "peace" and "hope" on the way in. A divisive election that left half the country deflated and the other half rejuvenated could reverberate through the holiday shopping season in the gifts people give or how they spend....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Elizabeth Thompson can't wait to leave the big city behind and decompress over the Thanksgiving holiday at her grandmother's house in rural south-central Indiana. But first she has to get there....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The revelation that President-elect Donald Trump does not intend to seek a new investigation into Hillary Clinton was startling not only because it seemed to reverse a campaign pledge....
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Gov. Nikki Haley has developed a national reputation as a racial conciliator who led the charge to bring down the Confederate flag at the Statehouse and guided South Carolina through one of its darkest moments, the massacre at a black church....
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump has chosen South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and prominent charter school advocate Betsy DeVos as his secretary of education, the first women selected for top-level administration posts in his new administration....
(Vatican Radio) The Ordinary Council of the Synod of Bishops held a two-day meeting in Rome on Monday and Tuesday of this week, to continue preparations for the next Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which is scheduled to take place in October, 2018.Participants will gather at the Vatican for three weeks to debate Youth, Faith and Vocational Discernment, in order to “accompany young people on their way of life towards maturity so that, through a process of discernment, they can discover their life project and realize it with joy, opening the encounter with God and with men, and actively participating in the building up of the Church and society.”A communiqué from the Synod Council explains that the two major areas of focus during the two-day meeting were a report on the progress of the preparatory document – including the questionnaire that will be distributed to bishops’ conferences, Eastern synods, and other competent leadership bodies &nd...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has given Patriarch Kirill of Moscow a relic of St. Francis of Assisi, to mark the Russian Orthodox leader’s 70th birthday.The President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Kurt Koch, conveyed the present to Patriarch Kirill at an audience granted him at the Patriarchal residence on Tuesday.A statement from the Moscow Patriarchate on the meeting is below ************************************On 22 November 2016, at the Patriarchal residence in St Daniel’s Monastery, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Kurt Cardinal Koch.The Russian Orthodox Church was also represented by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations; Archbishop Amvrosy of Peterhof, rector of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy; Archimandrite Philaret (Bulekov), DECR vice...
