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IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz MuthBy Donis TracyBRIGHTON, Mass. (CNS) -- Rapid growthin the number of men entering St. John's Seminary in Brighton to study for thepriesthood has prompted the Boston Archdiocese to buy back space from BostonCollege to accommodate the increase.Msgr. James Moroney, seminary rector,signed a purchase and sale agreement with the Jesuit-run college Oct. 20 to buyback more than 13,000 square feet of space within the current seminarybuilding."I am so very happy to be ableto announce the purchase of the annex," Msgr. Moroney said. "Right after Ibecame rector of the seminary, one of the great dreams that both Cardinal (SeanP.) O'Malley and I began to articulate was the restoration of the seminary to acertain wholeness."By purchasing the annex, locatedabove the present kitchen and refectory space, the current St. John's Seminarybuildings will now be owned "free and clear, without any leases or encumbrancesof any kind" by the seminary, Msgr. Moroney said.Built in 1884 by...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis said he wanted his trip to Sweden to focus purely on promoting Christian unity, although in the end, he added a day to the visit so he could respond to the "fervent request" by the country's small Catholic community that he celebrate a Mass for them.Accepting his responsibility as "pastor of a flock" of Catholics, he decided to add the Mass Nov. 1, although he insisted it be celebrated in a location different from the ecumenical events, he told Jesuit Father Ulf Jonsson, director of the Swedish Jesuit magazine Signum.The interview was released in Italian and English Oct. 28 by the Italian Jesuit journal, La Civilta Cattolica. Pope Francis was scheduled to visit Sweden Oct. 31-Nov. 1. The first day, marked as Reformation Day by Lutherans and other Protestants, was to include an ecumenical prayer service and a larger event focused on Catholic-Lutheran cooperation in charity, justice and humanitarian work. All Saints' Day, Nov. 1, the ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk has raised his Democratic rival's immigrant background and mocked her claim that her family's military service dates back to the Revolution, saying he had forgotten the congresswoman's "parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington."...
ATLANTA (AP) -- Six months into a deepening drought, the weather is killing crops, threatening cattle and sinking lakes to their lowest levels in years across much of the South....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- The Latest on the protests at the Dakota Access oil pipeline construction site in North Dakota (all times local):...
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- Protesters who were ousted from a camp they established on private land in North Dakota to try to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline burned vehicles overnight, setting a highway blockade that remained in place Friday....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Every day that Dil Agha works at his backbreaking job at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Afghanistan's capital Kabul, from before sunrise to well after sunset, he digs himself deeper into debt....
QAYARA, Iraq (AP) -- Sabriya Hammad buried her son in a cemetery that was destroyed by the same people who killed him....
QAYARA AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) -- The Islamic State group appears to be using tens of thousands of people as "human shields" in and around Mosul, where Iraqi forces are waging a large-scale offensive aimed at retaking the country's second largest city, the U.N. human rights office said Friday....
(Vatican Radio) The NATO military alliance has finalized plans to deploy thousands of troops and military equipment to the Baltics and Poland in response to what it views as an increasingly aggressive and unpredictable Russia.After two days of talks, NATO defense ministers agreed to send as many as 4,000 troops and equipment into Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland near Russia's borders, despite warnings by experts that it could add to international tensions. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: The announcement came shortly after Russia moved battleships toward the Mediterranean and the Baltic Seas, shifted nuclear-capable missile-launchers into its Kaliningrad enclave neighboring Poland and continued flying bombers down the western European coast. It underscored the worst East-West tensions since the Cold War over Russia's role in the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg denied that the alliance is seeking a...
