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New York City, N.Y., Oct 21, 2016 / 01:17 pm (CNA).- While presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton traded verbal jabs at the Al Smith Dinner and showed some icy awkwardness, Cardinal Timothy Dolan thought a moment of prayer was the best part of the evening.The cardinal had asked both politicians to pray with him, and the result showed “the evening at its best,” he recounted Oct. 21.“After the little prayer, Mr. Trump turned to Secretary Clinton and said, ‘You are one tough and talented woman’,” Cardinal Dolan told the news site TODAY. “He said, ‘This has been a good experience, this whole campaign, as tough as it’s been’.”“She said to him, ‘Donald, whatever happens, we need to work together afterward’,” the cardinal reported.The dinner takes its name from former New York Gov. Al Smith, the first Catholic to be nominated for U.S. president. Smith’s great-grandson, Al Smith...
South Bend, Ind., Oct 21, 2016 / 03:50 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholics should look to Mary to be part of a religion that fights for truth, rather than assimilating to the popular culture, said Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia. “If we want to reclaim who we are as a Church, if we want to renew the Catholic imagination, we need to begin, in ourselves and in our local parishes, by unplugging our hearts from the assumptions of a culture that still seems familiar but is no longer really ‘ours,’” Archbishop Chaput said.“This is why Mary – the young Jewish virgin, the loving mother, and the woman who punches the devil in the nose – was, is, and always will be the great defender of the Church,” he added.Archbishop Chaput addressed the 2016 Bishops’ Symposium at the University of Notre Dame on Wednesday. He spoke on “Remembering Who We Are and the Story We Belong To.”He began his talk referencing an illustration,...
Vatican City, Oct 21, 2016 / 03:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- When it comes to promoting vocations in the Church, Pope Francis said it all begins with an encounter with God – and that pastoral ministry in the area should focus on listening to youth and being there to answer their questions. Pointing to his own papal motto “Miserando atque eligendo,” meaning “he sees by having mercy and choosing,” the Pope said Oct. 21 that he chose the motto “in memory of my youthful years in which I strongly felt the call of the Lord.” The call, he said, “didn't occur as a result of a conference or a beautiful theory, but by having experienced the merciful gaze of Jesus on me.” Francis confessed that when he hears words used in common Church-speak such as “vocational ministry,” he is always “a little afraid,” because the phrase “could make one think of one of the many sectors of ecclesial action, of a c...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Gregory A. ShemitzBy Beth GriffinNEWYORK (CNS) -- When Donald J. Trump stepped over yet another invisible line of thecontentious presidential race Oct. 20, many of the 1,500 peopleat 71st annual dinner of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation broke historicprecedent to boo him.CandidatesTrump and Hillary Clinton flanked the host, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, onthe five-tiered dais of the Grand Ballroom at the heavily secured WaldorfAstoria hotel for the charitable gala.Theevent has been a traditional opportunity for speakers to poke good-natured funat themselves, one another, and prominent guests from the worlds of politics,business and philanthropy without inflicting wounds.In 1928, AlfredE. Smith, former governor of New York who was raised in poverty, was the firstCatholic nominated by a major political party to run for president of theUnited States.Despitean introductory warning delivered as a humor-coated reminder of the evening's groundrules by emce...
LONDON (AP) -- The NFL placed Josh Brown on paid leave Friday hours after coach Ben McAdoo struggled to answer questions about how the New York Giants might discipline the kicker for abusing his wife....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hacked emails show Hillary Clinton's campaign wrestled with how to announce her opposition to construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline without losing the support of labor unions that supported to project....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Hillary Clinton ramped up her pressure on Donald Trump in the election's most competitive states Friday with an emotional TV ad targeting his criticism of a Muslim-American family. Trump vowed to go all-out in the final three weeks so he'll have no regrets - even if he loses....
(Vatican Radio) The Papal residence at Castel Gandolfo has long been known as the summer retreat of Popes. But now in an historic first the Papal apartments will be open to the public from October 22nd.Lydia O’Kane went along to see the private living quarters of the Pontiffs.Listen: The Papal residence at Castel Gandolfo in the Roman hills has been offering Pope’s down through the centuries rest and relaxation during the summer months from the official duties of office.The last Pope to reside here was Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, but now Pope Francis has given permission for the papal apartments themselves to be open to the public. This follows the success of visits to the Villa Barberini Gardens and the Portrait Gallery of the Popes.For tourists and those passionate about Church art and history, it’s a chance to walk in the footsteps of Pontiffs. There is the Swiss Hall, and the Throne Room with their impressive lakeside view. But it's the Pope’s...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesCASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) -- Pope Francis is throwingopen the doors to the papal apartment -- including the bedroom where popes haveslept -- in the Apostolic Palace at Castel Gandolfo.The palace was for centuries the summer residence of theRoman pontiffs, but Pope Francis has decided not to use it. Instead in 2014, heopened the palace gardens to the public and last year opened a portion of theApostolic Palace as a portrait gallery.Pope Francis "wanted this place -- so rich in historyand so significant -- to be a gift for the people," Antonio Paolucci,director of the Vatican Museums, said Oct. 20 at the grand opening of the papalapartment. "Whoever passes through the gate of the ApostolicPalace of Castel Gandolfo will find pure beauty," Paolucci said. Among the rooms open now to the public are the Room of the Throne,the Consistory Room, the pope's bedroom and private study. Unlike his predecessors, Pope Francis spends his summers inRom...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When a choir director and parish priestdiffer over liturgical music, the choir should follow in good faith the wishesof the priest for the sake of unity, said the papal liturgist.When it comes to celebrating the liturgy, "we shouldnever fight," Msgr. Guido Marini told choir members, directors and priests."Otherwise, we distort the very nature" of what the people of God shouldbe doing during the Mass, which is seeking to be "one body before theLord."The papal master of liturgical ceremonies spoke Oct. 21 at a conference openinga three-day jubilee for choirs. Hundreds of people involved in providingmusic for the liturgical celebrations in Italian dioceses and parishes -- suchas singers, organists and musicians -- attended, as did directors of diocesan liturgy offices andschools of sacred music.During a brief question-and-answer period after his talk on the role of thechoir, a participant asked Msgr. Marini what she termed "an ...
