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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis urged Christians to always tell the truth to avoid succumbing to hypocrisy which he described as a kind of spiritual schizophrenia that makes us say many things but without putting them into practice. He was speaking at his Mass on Friday morning celebrated in the chapel of the Santa Marta residence.Good and bad Leaven: my grandmother's Carnival pastriesIn his homily at the Mass, the Pope took his cue from the day’s readings to reflect on the dangers of hypocrisy by warning Christians against the leaven of the Pharisees. Noting that there’s a good leaven and a bad leaven, he said the former builds the kingdom of God whereas the latter only creates the appearance of the Kingdom of God.Good leaven, said Pope Francis, always rises and grows in a consistent and substantial manner and becomes a good bread, a good pastry. But as he went on to warn, bad leaven does not grow well and he used an anecdote from his own childhood to explain the con...
(Vatican Radio) Venezuelan Jesuit Father Arturo Sosa has been elected as the new head of the Jesuits who are meeting in Rome this month for their 36th General Congregation.The announcement was made on Friday morning following four days of prayer and discernment. Fr Sosa was chosen by the 212 electors who represent almost 17.000 Jesuits working in countries around the world. He succeeds the 80 year old Fr Adolfo Nicolas who announced his resignation in 2014.The new superior general of the Society of Jesus was born in Caracas on November 12th 1948. He obtained a doctorate in political sciences before entering the Jesuits and being ordained to the priesthood in 1977.While the Jesuits are using a new electronic voting system on tablets for most of the proposals that they are discussing during their General Congregation, the election of the father general continues to be held with the traditional method of paper ballots, as first prescribed by the founder of the order, St Ignatius of L...
Washington D.C., Oct 14, 2016 / 03:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A recent federal rule has come under fire for denying doctors the ability to exercise discretion in deciding whether to perform gender transition surgeries in particular cases.The regulation requires doctors to perform the surgeries when asked to do so – including on children – even if it is their medical opinion that the procedure could end up harming the patient.Dozens of lawmakers voiced their objections to the mandate, saying that it could end up harming the “most vulnerable.”“Children are some of the most vulnerable in our population, and this rule strips doctors of their ability to counsel and advise the best course of medical care in their professional judgment if they believe gender transition procedures to be harmful,” an Oct. 7 letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell from 47 members of Congress stated.Over the summer, the Department of Health and Human Ser...
Vatican City, Oct 14, 2016 / 05:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After several weeks of discussion and discernment, the Jesuit order has elected Fr. Arturo Sosa as their new Superior General, who will be taking over after the resignation of their former leader, Fr. Adolfo Nicolás.Former head of the Venezuelan Jesuit province, Fr. Sosa entered the Society of Jesus in 1966 and was ordained a priest in 1977.He has obtained degrees in philosophy, theology and political science, and was a member of the Social Center of the Venezuelan province from 1977-1996, when he was appointed as Superior of the Jesuits in Venezuela, guiding through the stormy waters of Hugo Chavez’s dictatorship.In 2004, he was named General Counselor of the Society of Jesus, a position he held until 2011. He has until now served as president of the University in the State of Táchira, a role he has also held since 2004.Fr. Sosa’s election as the 31st General Superior of the Jesuits marks the first ti...
AWEIL, South Sudan (AP) -- The mother faced an anguished decision: choosing which of her children to save....
MELILLI, Sicily (AP) -- Body No. 421, bagged in midnight blue, is heaved from a refrigerated truck onto a metal stretcher and wheeled into the tent that serves as a morgue. It joins other putrefying corpses that fill the air with a pungent scent that clings to the clothing and hair of the living....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Residents of opposition-held eastern Aleppo woke up to a fresh wave of airstrikes Friday amid clashes between government forces and rebels, part of a devastating military campaign by Syria and Russia that opposition activists say killed dozens of people in the past week....
BANGKOK (AP) -- A royal convoy led by a van carrying the remains of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej drove to the Grand Palace in Bangkok's historic center on Friday where the body will remain for people to pay respects to the monarch revered by many Thais as their father and a demigod....
London, England, Oct 14, 2016 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Mother Marie Adele Garnier led no ordinary life.Marked with spiritual and physical suffering, visions of Christ, political upheaval, and a dramatically thwarted engagement early in her life, she eventually became the foundress of an order of sisters based in London that has now spread throughout the world.Due to her remarkable life and virtue, Mother Marie Adele Garnier, founder of the Benedictine Tyburn Convent in London, has now been given the title “Servant of God” by the Congregation for the Cause of Saints, the title given to individuals whose cause has officially opened – the first step to canonization.Her sisters have been trying to open her cause for 20 years, but lack of funds prevented them – vow of poverty, and all.“But, in more recent times, on account of the increasing widespread fame of her holiness and her powerful intercession in obtaining both spiritual and temporal favours in r...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A little past midnight in Game 5 of the NL Division Series, Clayton Kershaw emerged from the bullpen to pitch in relief for the first time in seven years....
