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Vatican City, Nov 3, 2016 / 07:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Nov. 6, a special Jubilee for Prisoners will be celebrated at the Vatican, drawing detainees and their families from around Italy and beyond to St. Peter’s Basilica for Mass with Pope Francis and a special reception after. “For the first time it will be possible for a large number of detainees from different parts of Italy and other countries to be present in St. Peter's Basilica to live the Jubilee with Pope Francis,” Archbishop Rino Fisichella said Nov. 3.“We know that the Pope takes great care of detained persons,” he said, noting how in each of his trips abroad, Francis “has repeatedly wanted to visit prisoners and leave the detained a message of closeness and hope.”Archbishop Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, spoke to journalists at the presentation of the Jubilee for Prisoners, as well as that of the Nov. 13 Jub...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul JeffreyBy Paul JeffreyKIDAPAWAN,Philippines (CNS) -- Justice is slow in the Philippines, but Father Peter Geremiais running out of patience as he awaits justice for the killers of a fellowpriest.Father Geremiais hoping that the country's new president, Rodrigo Duterte, cancut through the impunity and corruption that the priest says have preventedbringing to justice the killers of Father Fausto Tentorio. The Italianmissionary was shot to death on Oct. 17, 2011, just outside his parishoffice in the rural town of Arakan on the southern island of Mindanao, where hehad helped indigenous communities organize to resist the theft of their landsby foreign mining companies, loggers, and large agro-export plantations.Father Geremia,who was born in Italy but became a U.S. citizen in 1971 after living in theUnited States for more than a decade, is a member of the Pontifical Institutefor Foreign Missions, as were Father Tentorio and two other priests assassinatedin Mindanao...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Remo Casilli, ReutersBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When the Benedictine monks inNorcia led residents in prayer before the ruins of their medieval city, theyshowed one way the church steps into action in times of crisis.First responders encouraged the religious, recognizingthey could do their job better when the distraught receive emotional orspiritual rescue, too. SOS, after all, means "save our souls."In fact, the one disaster that cameras don't easily capture isthe shattering of people's resolve and the collapse of courage when everythingthey have is gone."Certainly the crumbled walls and the missingroofs" are a problem, Archbishop Renato Boccardo of Spoleto-Norcia said,but the most serious concern is the people -- "people who have been livingfor two months in a state of continual fear and worry and are underconsiderable psychological stress and losing hope."He told Vatican Radio the day after the Oct. 30 tremorsthat the people he talks to are tired of star...
Ronald De Feo has watched robots take factory jobs for years. Now he sees them threatening a new class of worker: People who drive for a living....
Millions of Americans are finding out this month that the price of their health insurance is going up next year - as it did this year, last year, and most of the years before that....
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's High Court has ruled that the prime minister cannot trigger the U.K.'s exit from the European Union without Parliament's approval - a decision that complicates an already confusing situation riddled with uncertainties....
MILAN (AP) -- Survivors say as many as 240 people have died in two shipwrecks off Libya, the U.N. refugee agency reported Thursday, bringing this year's toll to more than 4,220 migrants dead or missing in risky Mediterranean Sea crossings, the highest count on record....
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Latest on the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series for the first time in 108 years. (all times local):...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. and Afghan forces came under fire on Thursday while targeting senior Taliban commanders during a joint operation in northern Kunduz province, calling in airstrikes during an assault that killed 26 civilians, three local troops and two American service members, NATO and local officials said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Election Day in sight, Donald Trump tried anew for the discipline and restraint that has eluded him for months, hoping not to waste a burst of momentum that has him closing on Hillary Clinton. Clinton and her allies, meanwhile, are doing their best to trip up Trump....
