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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday met with Torsten Albig, the Minister President of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.“It was a very moving and powerful conversation with a very impressive personality,” Albig told German media after the meeting.According to a statement issued by the government of Schleswig-Holstein, concern was raised about the rise of racism and xenophobia in Europe. The statement also said the two men spoke about the Pope’s encyclical Laudato si’ and environment issues.The Minister President gave Pope Francis a faithful replica of a note from Blessed Eduard Müller, one of the “Lübeck Martyrs” – three Catholic priests and a Protestant pastor who were executed in 1943 for standing up to the Nazi regime. Müller and the two other Catholic priests were beatified in 2011.Albig is the second Minister President from Schleswig-Holstein to meet with a Pope in the Vatican. His predecessor Peter Harry Carste...
Rome, Italy, Oct 11, 2016 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As society becomes increasingly global, the question of how to spread the Gospel, particularly in the U.S., depends more and more on how effectively we engage with the varying cultures around us – just as the many missionaries to America did before, say Catholic leaders.“The whole point is, as the world globalizes, the Church becomes Christ himself, and the community of the Church become a center around which the world can find a certain kind of unity. And we need unity,” Dr. Jonathan Reyes told CNA.“I think of evangelization as (Pope) Paul VI emphasized – it's the evangelization of culture. And so you have to have sensitivity to cultures, as well as a shared sense of a common identity regionally, and in this case, in the Americas,” he said.Reyes, Executive Director of the USCCB Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development, was a presenter at the symposium, “Witnesses of ...
Washington D.C., Oct 11, 2016 / 06:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As states around the country consider legalizing physician-assisted suicide, “death with dignity” looks markedly different for patients under the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor.In her nearly 30 years with the order that cares for the “elderly poor,” Sister Constance Veit, L.S.P. says she has never seen or heard a patient asking for a lethal prescription.“I think that’s because they are surrounded with a caring human and spiritual presence in our homes,” she told an audience at the Heritage Foundation.Sister Constance was part of a 2015 panel in Washington, D.C., on caring respectfully for the elderly sick. The event was titled “Living Life to Its Fullest.”End-of-life care was placed in the national spotlight the previous year, when 29 year-old Brittany Maynard publically announced her decision to take a lethal prescription rather than suffer terminal cancer.In des...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- They piled on Joe Panik at home plate in celebration, and just as has been the case so many times before with everything on the line in October, San Francisco's season was extended another day....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Students and teachers in Chicago were heading back to the classroom after the Chicago Teachers Union and the nation's third-largest school district averted a threatened strike with a tentative contract agreement reached minutes before a Tuesday deadline....
LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) -- With helicopters overseeing the rescue operation from above, volunteer firefighters turned their military-surplus truck with 4-foot tires into the dark flood waters to cruise past a mortuary, grocery and homes in part of this city inundated by the swollen Lumber River....
RECIFE, Brazil (AP) -- Two weeks shy of his first birthday, doctors began feeding Jose Wesley Campos through a nose tube because swallowing problems had left him dangerously underweight....
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Women voters in swing states are expressing deep disgust about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's assertion that an old tape featuring him talking about groping women amounted to "locker room talk" and not sexual assault....
CHESTER SPRINGS, Pa. (AP) -- For Paul Ryan, October is now all about protecting the Republican majority of the House - and his own job as speaker....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's candidacy has long exposed divisions within the Republican Party. But GOP leaders had hoped to prevent an all-out civil war at least until after the election....
