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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 ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United Nations celebrated Wonder Woman's 75th birthday on Friday by naming the comic book character as its new Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Woman and Girls, despite frustration from both inside and outside the world organization that the spot should go to a real - and less sexualized - woman....
BEIRUT (AP) -- A cease-fire to allow wounded civilians and rebels to leave besieged parts of Aleppo has been extended into the weekend by Russia, but hoped-for medical evacuations didn't materialize by Friday evening because of a lack of security guarantees, officials and residents said....
BERLIN (AP) -- Europe's experimental Mars probe hit the right spot - but at the wrong speed - and may have ended up in a fiery ball of rocket fuel when it struck the surface, scientists said Friday....
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- Raeda Paulos could hardly conceal her joy when the television inside her cramped trailer showed Iraqi forces raising the national flag over a church in her hometown, a day after it was freed from Islamic State rule....
KIRKUK, Iraq (AP) -- Islamic State militants launched a wave of pre-dawn attacks in and around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Friday, killing at least 14 people and setting off fierce clashes with Kurdish security forces that were still raging after sundown....
LONDON (AP) -- Cyberattacks on a key internet firm repeatedly disrupted the availability of popular websites across the United States Friday, according to analysts and company officials. The White House described the disruption as malicious....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Every four years, the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner is meant to be a campaign cease-fire, when the presidential nominees share the stage a final time before Election Day and trade warm-hearted jokes....
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Hillary Clinton's campaign is increasingly preparing for the possibility that Donald Trump may never concede the presidential election should she win, a development that could enormously complicate the crucial early weeks of her preparations to take office....
