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Vatican City, Nov 17, 2016 / 06:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Thursday Pope Francis warned Catholic business leaders against the danger of worshipping money, saying corruption is to follow the lies of the devil, whereas practices aimed for the common good are always built around principals of honesty and fraternity.“Corruption is the worst social plague. It’s the lie of seeking personal gain of that of the group itself under the guise of a service to society,” the Pope said Nov. 17.The attitude of corruption “is the crassest selfishness, hidden behind an apparent generosity,” he said, noting that corruption stems from the worship of money and comes back warp the worshipper, making them “a prisoner of that same worship.”Corruption, he said, “is a fraud to democracy” and opens the doors to “terrible evils” such as drugs, prostitution, human trafficking, slavery, the sale of organs and arms trafficking. Above all, “co...
Vatican City, Nov 17, 2016 / 08:37 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In a meeting with the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Thursday, Pope Francis criticized ongoing violence in Iraq and Syria, saying no motive can justify or allow the killing of innocent people, especially children.Asking the Lord for the “gift of peace,” the Pope said he was “dismayed by what continues to happen in the Middle East, especially in Iraq and Syria.”“There, upon hundreds of thousands of innocent children, women and men is poured the terrible violence of bloody conflicts, which no motive can justify or allow,” he said.In Iraq and Syria, he said, “our Christian brothers and sisters, as well as various religious and ethnic minorities, are unfortunately accustomed to suffer great trials every day.”“In the midst of so much pain, of which I implore the end, every day we see Christians who walk the way of the cross meekly following the footsteps of Jesus.&r...
By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Where there is no tenderness, thereis cruelty and what is unfolding in Syria is a veritable "workshop ofcruelty," Pope Francis told governing members of Caritas Internationalis."I believe the greatest illness of today is cardiacsclerosis," he said Nov. 17, implying a kind of hardening of the heartthat renders a person unable to feel compassion or be moved by another'ssuffering.An example of this, he said, is Syria and how so manyparties are involved in the conflict, each bent on seeking its own interestsand not the freedom and well-being of the people."Where there is no tenderness, there is alwayscruelty. And what is happening today in Syria is cruelty. There areintersecting interests, a workshop of cruelty," he said.At the meeting of the Caritas Internationalis' representativecouncil, Pope Francis also discussed the dangers of bureaucracies and his hopethat Caritas would not be one."I would like Caritas not to be an institution thatdepends on th...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Prosecutors say that when Philando Castile was pulled over in July, he calmly told the officer he had a gun and was licensed to carry it....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Airstrikes pounded rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Thursday, killing more than 20 people and hitting a water pumping station on the third day of a renewed air campaign on the besieged territory, Syrian activists and rescue workers said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal meteorologists say while last month merely tied for the world's third warmest October in history, 2016 is still on track to be the hottest year on record....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sally Buzbee, a veteran journalist with deep experience leading both international and U.S. news coverage, has been named executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press....
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Cloudy skies neutralized air power in Mosul on Thursday, Iraqi forces said, hampering their advance into the northern city, although they still faced deadly attacks by Islamic State militants that killed seven civilians and two soldiers....
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Layers of hastily erected barricades built from rubble and twisted metal trace Mosul's eastern frontline where Iraqi forces and Islamic State group fighters are facing off in the dense neighborhoods and narrow alleyways of the country's second largest city....
BERLIN (AP) -- Meeting one last time as peers on the world stage, President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday reaffirmed a message of solidarity and trans-Atlantic cooperation between top trading partners and key NATO allies as Donald Trump prepares to take office....
