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IMAGE: CNS photo/Luke Michael Davies, courtesy Buckfast Abbey Media StudiosBy Simon CaldwellBUCKFAST, England (CNS) -- The hairshirt worn by St. Thomas More as he contemplated a martyr's death in the Towerof London has been enshrined for public veneration. The folded garment made fromgoat's hair was encased above an altar in Buckfast Abbey, a Benedictinemonastery in southwest England.St. Thomas, a former lord chancellorof England, wore the shirt while he was incarcerated in the Bell Tower of the Towerof London while awaiting execution for opposing the Protestant reforms of KingHenry VIII.He was beheaded July 6, 1535,after telling a crowd gathered on London's Tower Hill that he was "alwaysthe king's good servant, but God's first."Benedictine Abbot DavidCharlesworth told Catholic News Service Nov. 21 that the shirt had not beenshown in public before.He said that although the shirtwas a secondary relic, he believed it was of greater significance than a bodypart, or primary relic, becau...
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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Acknowledging and sharing God'smercy is a permanent part of the Christian life, so initiatives undertakenduring the special Year of Mercy must continue, Pope Francis said."Mercy cannot become a mere parenthesis in the lifeof the church," the pope wrote in an apostolic letter, "Misericordiaet Misera," ("Mercy and Misery"), which he signed Nov. 20 at theend of the Year of Mercy. The Vatican released the text the next day.The Catholic Church's focus on God's mercy must continuewith individual acts of kindness, assistance to the poor and, particularly,with encouraging Catholics to participate in the sacrament of reconciliationand making it easier for them to do so, the pope wrote.In his letter, Pope Francis said he formally was givingall priests permanent permission to grant absolution to those who confess tohaving procured an abortion. While many bishops around the world, and almostall bishops in the United States, routinely g...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Joyce DurigaROME(CNS) -- The day after Pope Francis inducted him into the College of Cardinals,Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago took possession of his titular church inRome, the Basilica of St. Bartholomew on Tiber Island.Cardinalsare symbolically priests of the Diocese of Rome, so they are given titular churchesin the city. St. Bartholomew also had been the titular church of Cardinal FrancisE. George of Chicago, who died in 2015.Inaddition to taking possession of the church, Cardinal Cupich presided over vespers,which began with the reading of the papal document -- in Latin, Italian andEnglish -- granting the cardinal "possession" of the church. The English translation was readby retired Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco.Duringhis homily, which he read in both English and Italian, Cardinal Cupich notedthe history of the basilica, which dates back to the 10th century. It is theonly church in Rome located on an island."Theimage of an island is a ve...
